I’m not sure if you use the term tankie correctly.

Quite right. I was using it this way because it is used often incorrectly on Lemmy and I figured it would get the point I was making across.

But I can never agree with a tankie claiming to share those values while supporting regimes that would make even marx and lenin vomit (or I hope so, even though I’m not their fan and don’t know that much about them).

Very easy to end up sharing those values and supporting regimes that don’t agree simply with the prevalence of misinformation, or sometimes when a difference in priorities is masquerading as a difference in values. As someone who is not a fan of nation states in general, I just try to sus out if people are in ironically on board with atrocities or just disagree about the history but would be horrified if they believed.