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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People who are downvoting this dont like to have fun

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (15 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] 8 points 5 months ago

you must be one of them tankies /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 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] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unintended may be somewhat true, in that nobody explicitly had that as a conscious reason, but it was an obvious result that they could've known beforehand. So I don't think it's useful at all to call it unintended. Just an easily understood and expected side effect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

That's a fair enough critique. They definitely should have known what would happen, but this is more for the new users who came after defederation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And apparently discuss.tchncs.de

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

What's their history?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The fact that Hexbear polled more no than yes is so fuckin funny to me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

hexbear is officially anti tankie, I don't make the rules. RIP

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Fuck tankies, Khrushchev should have nuked Hungary

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

lemmy.dbzer0.com:

This instance currently allows new community creation, however the following subjects are explicitly not allowed as communities.

  • No Tankie shit.
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months 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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I'm doing my part im-doing-my-part

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months 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] 7 points 5 months ago

That's just sad, haha.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I've never seen a set of graphs with so few labels for everything it was showing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months 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] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

More pixels plz

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