Typically a communist who apologizes for authoritarian regimes like the Soviet Union or China because they got communist shit done.
In other words, they prefer communism even when it means the abject suffering and/or obliteration of everyone who gets in its way. Which seems to me to completely miss the whole point.
Fuck tankies. Seriously. I'd say fascist sympathizers and totalitarian apologists can eat shit, but they do that happily already; it's not an insult to them, they literally love eating shit.
I saw a truck yesterday with a bunch of confederate bumper stickers on it, and fantasized for the rest of the day about how I could vandalize that dumbfuck's truck and get away with it. I really think there's a niche needing filled. Does lemmy have an Iron Front community yet?