The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
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You think cowbee is being paid by the kremlin?
In some way yes, and/or China.
You’d be astonished how many people went to Moscow just as “tourists”, especially before the 2022 full scale invasion of Ukraine. And got favours, got baited, and so on. Tim Pool (one example just on top of my head) got millions of dollars, we know because he got caught.
The kremlin can literally spread dissent by paying thousands of dollars which is insanely cheap, and that’s what they have always done so no “news” here.
They do it for the love of the game.
Or being paid by parties in the US who want to make “Communism” look bad.
I think that’s the real source for a lot of tankie bullshit.