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[email protected] - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~

😱A ridiculous question. β€œTankie” 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 β€œtankie” 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

full image text

ARE TANKIES TAKING CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML ??

HEXBEAR.NET

DOES THE WORK FOR YOU!!

WE ASKED [email protected] 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

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[–] theywilleatthestars 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tankies broke into my house and moved all my furniture half an inch to the left

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

okay Ivan; go back to the gulag before putin puts you there. lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago
[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "everyone's a tankie who disagrees with me" I'm convinced is a new meme.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what happens when you defederate from pro-Marxist instances. Zionists and anti-Communists start joining this anti-Marxist space and you have a whole new Red Scare on your hands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Shitlibs gonna shitlib

Tankies gonna tank

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People who are downvoting this dont like to have fun

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I downvoted because after staring at it for 15 seconds I still had no idea what data it tried to transmit or what the message was. It's just a bad infographic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

you must be one of them tankies /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sir, madam, or enby, this is a c/memes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sir, madam, or…

Ethical non binary yankee?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Close! Non-Binary β†’ N.B. β†’ enby

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks, TIL! (Also, while you explained it well I still took so long to understand. Guess I’m having a slow day πŸ˜…)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Some of these graphs are just very hard to read even with the explanation another user gave

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All in all, "Tankie" is just the modern version of "Pinko!" I've seen Anarchists called Tankies, every manner of Marxists, non-Marxist Socialists, and more. It truly lost all of its meaning and is just Lemmy's Red Scare.

A huge portion of that comes from Lemmy.world, which is the largest instance to defederate intentionally from Hexbear and Grad, which has the presumably unintended effect of making Zionists and other far-right wingers feel comfortable in an Anticommunist instance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

lemmy.world has comments in their community, where they call for the nuking of developing countries, when they read news of social injustice. By that logic, their 'civilized' country should be nuked thrice, because cartoonishly evil, rich scumbags like Jeffrey Epstein and their associates still have a free pass for raping minors in their creepy sex-dungeons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yep, it's disgusting to see.

[–] Rustmilian 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The fuck you talking about? Jeffrey Epstein is dead. He didn't get a free pass if he's dead from unnatural causes, he was going to be imprisoned, but "they" killed him instead or so some say, maybe he killed himself, who cares he's dead. Several of Jeffrey Epstein's high-profile associates have faced legal consequences and prosecution. Every single person on that flight list is under extreme scrutiny as well.
Use a different example, Jeffrey Epstein is not a good example, there are lots of cartoonishly evil rich people who've gotten a free pass that you could have used, Jeffrey Epstein is just not a good one, not under the constraints of your example at least.
I'll give you a few for free :
Ulf Mark Schneider; CEO of NestlΓ©; exploited water resources for profit without facing repercussions.
Ethan Couch; killed 4 people while drunk driving; severed no jail time.
Robert H. Richards IV; admitted to graping his toddler daughter; served no jail time.

[–] GeneralVincent 1 points 1 week ago

I'm starting to realize one of the biggest issues with the fediverse is how much tribalism is going to play a part in interactions between instances. It seems like every instance is going to have some absurd stereotypes that get repeated as fact.

Some people in .ml and hexbear were labeled tankies, accurately or not, and now you're all tankies. And this post seems to be in response to that, saying the word tankie isn't even a real thing. And now we have comments suggesting lemmy.world is also a unified group promoting certain ideologies. It's the largest instance, we're gonna have one-off crazies saying stupid stuff.

I know it does makes a small difference being on .world vs .ml/hexbear. But most people in both are leftists if what I've seen is accurate. We're just being stereotypical leftist splintering ourselves into separate groups over the smallest differences.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What is the top graph? It seems to be some combined thing, but I can't figure out what.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's a stacked/multi-level pie chart. If you read the single level, it highlights results for a single instance.

The first level is the overall 'tankie' and 'non-tankie' percentage across every instances.

The second level divides that between lemmy.ml and non-lemmy.ml instances, using color as an indication.

The third level divides that between hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml and other instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Oh, that makes more sense! Thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Sorry its a bit confusing, its not serious though so its not worth stressing over

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Spam or Abuse

Reporter is having a bad time on lemmy.ml, what more evidence do you need?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's just sad, haha.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Tankies keep on posting walls of texts in !memes about communism, or was it the liberals, anyway people i don't like are posting walls of text about communism in !memes... I love this post, for next time can you draw some conclusions about the survey so I don't have to think to hard about these numbers, I can't count past 10.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

More pixels plz

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've only ever seen people complain about them tangentially. Guess I'm not following the communities they usually pop up in

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy is going through an Anticommunist Red Scare right now, particularly on Lemmy.world.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Hexbear is how all communities should be in Lemmy .

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