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!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.

spoilerA 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

spoiler

@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 😎

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmygrad saying they're not tankies lol

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 9 hours ago

moretankielemmygrad.ml

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 22 points 10 hours ago
[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 26 points 10 hours ago

tankies are conspiring against my good takes such as "China bad"

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So does this data mean that Lemmy.ml is more tankie now?

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago

Last year lemmy.ml had 10 people respond yes 😭

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I am very confused and don't know how to play.

  1. I've been called a tankie enough that some definition of the term probably applies, though it is not clear which because it seems to mean anything from as hyperspecific as "Stalinist" to as broad as "anyone who acknowledges that the US government's hands are stained red with the blood of millions of innocent people".

  2. So if I'm a tankie, am I conspiring yo make sure people are having a bad time on lemmy.ml? No, of course not, not unless some imperialist ghoul crosses my path, but what would the imperialists be doing on the Marxist Leninist instance anyway except looking for a bad time? In which case it is they who conspire to give themselves a bad time, not I! Yet if I respond " no" will that be interpreted as "the cuttlefish with the hammer and sickle in her profile pic is not a tankie"?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

If you put communist in your username, believe it or not, tankie.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago

shocked-dino Now the question is, what is to be done with this knowledge? Should I be a gaslighting girlboss and deny it when blue maga calls me a tankie, or just spam them with these emotes? soviet-chad chad-stalin fidel-si xigma-male

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

I really just weny off people's responses for the poll despite my desire to paint everyone pink!

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, watch out. I'm conspiring to tell bad jokes and ask for hugs. DEVIOUS. DISGUSTING.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

STRAIGHT TO JAIL

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The graphic has 2 hexbears saying no, but the results breakdown doesn’t include them. This must be tankie propaganda.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

i probably just fudged including the data, i ended up making this while i couldn't sleeo, the graphic is right tho