Western govts and ngos do use lgbtqia+ issues as a wedge, the australian embassy in Iran got a lot of attention for hosting some pride month events in 2023, interestingly the australian embassy in PNG and other conservative christian countries do not do this kinda thing
so yes it sucks but i can see why it happens
Its only trans port if it's between ports, otherwise it's sparkling movement
I was thinking about this the other day, some kids were unironically listening to nickleback on the train, and i suddenly remembered people used to carry around boom boxes, and then I was thinking about all the times i've copped shit for singing amd whistling while I wasnt paying close enough attention to masking
another thing i think about is people trying to self sooth or keep their mental illness in check by listening to something at all times
Yeh this stuff can be annoying but sometimes its fun, rarely anyway. We all need to lighten up, listening to music isnt counterrevolutionary, joking about killing people for it has a pretty fascist undertone tbh
Get yourself some earplugs itll change your life
Everyone here is a Russian Bot except for you, you're so smart, you worked it out!
За Сталина!
Truely spoken like someone who's done no practical organising with leftist orgs, there's dogshit people everywhere I promise
This is literally nothing, everytime some child abuser is exposed there are dozens of people who come out to say 'he was a pillar of the community, i never would have suspected'
Its undated, and totally out of context as well
I don't even like chomsky, this is just nothing, Epstein was a modern socialite, he knew everyone who was anyone
Giving head is often enjoyable
sure, but that doesn't mean it wasn't child sexual exploitation and abuse
Biden did a lot of things worth criticising , it's wild us patriots latch onto like, biting a babies leg on halloween
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
thanks for playing, see you next time 😎
!asklemmy@lemmy.ml - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~
😱
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 !asklemmy@lemmy.ml 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
this story annoys the fuck out of me, women write graphic gay male lit erotica, they have some of their 'work' removed, and western media latches onto it as part of their 'china is murdering gay people' bit, these authors are petit bourgeois