!asklemmy@lemmy.ml - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~
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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.
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
tl:dr yes, tankies are totally conspiring to make sure you have a bad time on lemmy.ml
„no” answers from hexbear
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no „no” answers from lemmygrad
tankies stay winning :doug-clap:
I considered listing them all as yes as per the lemmy.world standards haha
My answer was something like "yes according to you buuuuut" and then an essay. I wonder which instances had the most essays written?
I only have an .ml account because I want to be able to yell at libs on .world while also shitposting on the good instances when I'm bored of yelling at libs.
I'm on ml instead of hexbear because I like legend of Korra too much and fear what they'd do to me
As a tankie I can say that few things bring me more joy than ruining a lib's day, since they spend every waking moment trying to ruin my actual life. So yes I am definitely trying to make sure they have a bad time online
I wonder, was my vote counted? I said "maybe" purely to go on to talk about how "Tankie" is just a moving target and doesn't actually have a hard underlying meaning. Yes, I am a recovering debate pervert 🫠
Edit: Entirely unsurprising that Lemmy.world has such an anticommunist slant overall. When you censor Marxists and make friends with Anticommunists, you shouldn't be surprised that there are more Zionists and fascists among you.
The Hexbear results are surprising, though.
The Hexbear results are surprising, though.
Plenty of anarchists there. And lots of anarchists despise "tankies", I've seen numerous profiles on fedi with "tankies fuck off" but none with "anarchists fuck off"
"Tankie" to these people just seems to mean "Rejects the mainstream western narrative on anything."
I'd say that the common underlying theme is "willing to use violence to advance left-wing ideals".
I have your comment as a 'yes', I wasnt being overly rigorous. Remember comrades, a maybe means no. Although considering the seriousness I think a maybe can be a yes here.
That's fine by me, just curious how it was counted. Thanks, comrade!
The hexbear users that voted no are likely to be joking
LMAOOOOOOOOOO HEXBEAR HAD 3 YES VOTES AND 4 NOs
That would make libs heads fuckin explode if they actually understood the words they are using.
Now combine these graphs with our cishet and trans survey. The trans tankie queers are conspiring to bully me
This has incredible presentation to be honest I want you to make more shit like this.
Thank you! This took me the better part of an afternoon haha
I miss my data job
I'm not sure if my very ironic "no" on an .ml account was counted as a no or yes.
I think some .ml / .ee have
accounts and voted no. This is 
-land. /s but probably not /s but /s to be /safe.
This is what it feels like to be the greaser bullies in the leather jackets.
:order-of-lenin: brilliant investigative journalism here
