[email protected] - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~
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A ridiculous question. “Tankie” isn’t a term anyone self-identifies with, it’s mostly a term used by liberals to hurl at anyone to the left of them or anyone who agrees with western foreign policy. The survey results will be as meaningless as the term “tankie” itself.
Image description: A5 page, with various pie charts and text, indicating the results of an informal poll from lemmy.ml, full image text in spoiler
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ARE TANKIES TAKING CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML ??
HEXBEAR.NET
DOES THE WORK FOR YOU!!
WE ASKED [email protected] ARE YOU A TANKIE?
First stack of pie charts shows the yes / no split, highlights that the lemmy.ml yes responses made up less than half of the yes votes, hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml only made up a small portion, some hexbear-ians even vote no
second and third pie charts show the yes votes, and no votes by instance respectively
third stacked pie chart shows the yes / no split by instance, overlay-ed with the total yes / no votes
only top level comments were counted
tankies are closer than they appear
Deeply unserious
NDTS
full results / data
COUNTA of yes
@lemmy.ml = 10
@lemmygrad.ml = 5
@lemmy.world = 3
@lemmy.zip = 1
@hexbear.net = 3
@lemmy.sdf.org = 1
@lemmy.one = 1
Grand Total = 24
COUNTA of no
@lemmy.ml = 2
@lemm.ee = 2
@lemmy.world = 8
@lemmy.blahaj.zone = 1
@reddthat.com = 1
@ttrpg.network = 1
@hexbear.net = 4
@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl = 1
Grand Total = 20
taken from archived post https://archive.md/AAY1L
this was fun, thanks for the polling idea, Kristina (I spent too long on these charts because yours looked so spiffy, I hope you specifically are impressed lol), solidarity cleaning that data up, and general reminder people only half read anything before launching into a diatribe
tl:dr yes, tankies are totally conspiring to make sure you have a bad time on lemmy.ml
I wonder, was my vote counted? I said "maybe" purely to go on to talk about how "Tankie" is just a moving target and doesn't actually have a hard underlying meaning. Yes, I am a recovering debate pervert 🫠
Edit: Entirely unsurprising that Lemmy.world has such an anticommunist slant overall. When you censor Marxists and make friends with Anticommunists, you shouldn't be surprised that there are more Zionists and fascists among you.
The Hexbear results are surprising, though.
Plenty of anarchists there. And lots of anarchists despise "tankies", I've seen numerous profiles on fedi with "tankies fuck off" but none with "anarchists fuck off"
I've seen Anarchists called Tankies, lol. It's meaningless.
@[email protected] is our chief anarcho-tankie
Truly the modern "pinko!"
"Tankie" to these people just seems to mean "Rejects the mainstream western narrative on anything."
I'd say that the common underlying theme is "willing to use violence to advance left-wing ideals".
I have your comment as a 'yes', I wasnt being overly rigorous. Remember comrades, a maybe means no. Although considering the seriousness I think a maybe can be a yes here.
That's fine by me, just curious how it was counted. Thanks, comrade!
Thanks for playing :)
The hexbear users that voted no are likely to be joking
I wasn’t joking. I stand by my comment.