!asklemmy@lemmy.ml - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~ 2025
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This process was undertaken to determine if so-called "tankies" are conspiring to make you (yes, you) have a bad time on the internet!
vague or informal answers were interpreted by the central authority (me). Only top level comments were counted. I did not provide further instructions or clarifications.
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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.
^ wish I'd remembered to include that in the new "poll", there was a lot of confusion in the comments!
Image description: various pie charts and text, indicating the results of an informal poll from lemmy.ml, full results in spoiler
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@hexbear.net 4
@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1
@lemmy.ml 8
@lemmy.world 1
@lemmy.zip 1
@lemmygrad.ml 2
Total Yes 17 (38.6%)
@feddit.org 1
@feddit.uk 2
@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1
@lemmy.ca 1
@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1
@lemmy.ml 8
@lemmy.world 3
@lemmy.zip 2
@lemmygrad.ml 1
@pawb.social 1
@piefed.social 1
@sh.itjustworks 2
@thebrainbin.org 1
Total No 27 (61.4%)
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didn't think to actually include the year on year comparison, so it's below.
yes no total
2024 24 20 44
2025 17 27 44
whole website's gone to the dogs if you ask me 🐶
results from this thread
Archived
Link to previous results (very serious) hexbear / lemmy,ml
Link to previous "are you a tankie?" thread
link to this same post but on lemmy.ml, because they will typically not be very nice about it, so I'm posting it here as well - because yes this is all very silly, but also it took me a couple of hours.
thanks for playing, see you next time 😎
If you ask many people who don’t have an account on the tankie ~~triad~~ troika, every user on hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml is a tankie intent on spreading tankie propaganda to all of the poor non-tankie lemmyverse instances, ruining the lives of everyone else. As you’ve mentioned, the term is generally applied to anyone left of the Democratic Party in the USA, so things like believing in universal healthcare or other centrist ideas will get you labeled as a tankie.
Given that the term has basically no real meaning, some centrists and people further left than them have embraced the label, while others choose to push back against it as ridiculous and meaningless. The poll is purposefully vague as a result.
Oh thanks. I try to avoid most of the fediverse because I got sick of running into open fascists and ~~NATO liberals~~ fascists who think they're antifascists so I'm out of the loop on a lot