!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
thanks for playing, see you next time 😎
we also can’t ignore that it’s being used as a pejorative by (some) liberals to mean anyone to the left of joe biden
like ffs ive seen anarchists be called tankies
But that’s Americans. Not exactly the smartest people, but definitely full of themselves.
There obviously are very smart Americans around but they are in the minority.
It’s also Europeans that do that, though. I’ve seen it happen, especially from nationalists from Europe.
I honestly don’t know many Europeans that have even heard of the term. But that’s mostly because Germans are completely oblivious to their surroundings. I also don’t hang out with nationalists and thank fucking God there aren’t too many of those in my area.
Technically, the term originated in the communist party of Great Britain, though it’s widely used by anti-communists everywhere in the english-speaking internet. It’s a very online term these days.
I use it to refer to those who call themselves “communist” but make excuses for regimes that go against democracy and human rights.
Assuming you’re referring to AES states, Marxists don’t generally “make excuses for” so much as we disagree with the western, Red Scare dominated narrative surrounding these states, and determine that they are unfairly judged compared to contemporary countries.
So you would use it to refer to communists who praise the Scandinavian countries?