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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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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No communist thinks the Russian Federation is socialist, at most there is critical support in that the RF opposes the US Empire and the west as well as maintaining strong ties with socialist countries, but most communists do support the PRC and by extension the efforts of the CPC to develop a robust socialist system.

As for "tankies," many label themselves as such as more of a joke, or to disempower the term. The actual pejorative though is fairly meaningless.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah I think that when it comes down to it tankie is basically an insult to those that use it as a label and means whatever they want it to. So on the one side I will talk about how renting is not bad when the person who "owns" property lives there and get a lot of flak. I equally get flak when I talk about how property ownership is sorta an illusion given with taxes and such everyone rents from the government in some shape or form along with the fact that the government has to control an area and recognize the ownership for there to be ownership.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

So on the one side I will talk about how renting is not bad when the person who “owns” property lives there and get a lot of flak.

I’m a former owner-occupant of a multi-unit property. This is a textbook petit bourgeois assertion, the kind of thing that Bernie Sanders might say. He’ll rail against crony capitalism and über capitalism but not per se capitalism. Petit capitalism as a treat inevitably leads to the haute capitalism and oligarchy we suffer under today.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

If you're meandering around support for capitalism, you're not a communist, so I wouldn't think "tankie" would apply to you.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

I will talk about how renting is not bad when the person who “owns” property lives there and get a lot of flak.

nah it's great being treated like a second class citizen by a fucking parasite with a part time job