!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 😎
Personally, I just say "yes, I'm a communist. I believe a better world is possible, I study Marxist-Leninist theory, and support AES." That tends to get people either being generically anticommunist, or people calling you a "fake" or "bad" communist, at which point you can help steer them a bit into a better direction.
Nothing good comes from denying it.
Yeah that really is the best answer. If someone accuses me of being awesome why would I deny it?
I just tell them that I seek to revive Lenin's conciousness and then have him reign in a thousand year Marxist empire