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Are you a "tankie"? (2025 edition) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I forgot to set a reminder so I'm a little late getting to this, but here we are again:

Are you a "tankie"?

Respond "yes" or "no", I'll collate results later

This process is being 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 will be interpreted by the central authority (me). Only top level comments will be counted. I will not be providing further instructions or clarifications.

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Link to previous results (very serious) hexbear / lemmy,ml

Link to previous "are you a tankie?" thread

I'll likely check back in a week, my old pc died so itll take a little bit of time to prettify the results and write a report

Ciao, and of course, imperialism must be destroyed.

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[–] blobii@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you mean tankie in the sense of vanguard ism, then no.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Luxemburgists are still generally counted as "tankie," in that "tankie" is generally just a pejorative for communist akin to "commie" or "pinko."

[–] blobii@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno, I’ve never been called a tankie, but maybe that’s just because I inhabit far left spaces .

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I suppose if you spend your time denouncing AES you'd be spared, but if you're in far-left spaces you'd be called a lib instead for doing so.

[–] blobii@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don’t do the denouncing AES westcom thing tho… I just don’t talk about the more controversial topics I guess because here the answer is always yes and in non-far-left spaces the answer is always no. There’s no real need to debate things like the DPRK for me.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most liberals would likely call you a tankie regardless.

[–] blobii@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I cannot confirm nor deny this as I have no evidence of this happening nor the experience of constant interaction within liberal social media. I never used twitter and such.