The tankies describe themselves as such.

To not be associated with them, more actual far-left adherents need to actively disavow the tankies.

Sorry, that doesn't play into the both-sides false-equivalency rhetoric. Please delete this comment.

Tankies:

Edit: actually i think i wouldn't put them exactly in that X axis position, i am sleepy so ain't gonna try to understand well their exact position so that's good enough

You can be left and authoritarian. At least outside of the US you can, in America all politics get squashed into a single binary choice, so it seems weird.

The left-right spectrum makes less sense to me by the day.

However, I personally define tankies as authoritians who do some mental gymnastics to think that a benevolent "socialist" dictatorship equates to control of society by the workers. (It obviously doesn't. A dictatorship by a minority is exactly that)

Anyone who defines North Korea as socialist needs to reconsider their political positions, in my opinion.

Just because they're in opposition to the capitalist South Korea and the worst imperialist nation in the world, the USA, doesn't mean you need to stand behind the North Korean regime...

All the cool socialists think campism is brainrot (my opinion)

Tankies are what happens when you go all the way left and all the way up into Authoritarianship