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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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[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (22 children)

In that "tankie" is just a pejorative for a communist, yes. I'm a Marxist-Leninist, and I uphold AES as legitimate.

Workers of the world, unite! โ˜ญ

For those who don't know what a "tankie" is, it's essentially a pejorative for "communist." I recommend the Prolewiki article on "Tankies," as well as Nia Frome's essay "Tankies."

For those that want an introduction to Marxism-Leninism, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, check it out!

[โ€“] Diva@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh god oh fuck I'm the type of commie that isn't obsessed with millitary equipment I didn't study oh god oh fuck

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[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a moderate and believe in supporting the lesser of two evils, which means critical support for enemies of US imperialism. I'm also something of a centrist because I believe anarchists and Marxist-Leninists and other left tendencies all have good ideas.

So yeah, I'm a moderate centrist.

No. I do absolutely support Khrushchev sending tanks to Hungary (very rare Khrushchev W), but i'm not British.

[โ€“] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a liberal. I know the power that democracy bestows: vote.

Fighting fascism? Vote hard.

Fighting genocide? Vote harder.

Fighting cancer? You guessed it, just vote.

Vote solves everything, vote is beautiful.

[โ€“] Diva@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm an anarchist though I do get called a tankie quite a lot as a pejorative.

I'm opposed to all states. That said as someone who lives in the west I don't really care to spend a lot of energy being mad about what my governments state enemies are doing.

'democracy' in capitalist states is a cruel facsimile of actual democracy. If you don't have money for rent you might as well be unpersoned, corporations are people and money is free speech.

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[โ€“] redparadise@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes but do note that most people who call themselves a Tankie do it ironically to make fun of those who do not know its meaning if it even has one nowadays, It's commonly used by liberals and even leftists to simply refer to anyone to the left of their own politics, although not sure why I'm answering this since my instance and profile is practically wearing a red beret.

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[โ€“] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am in a superposition of being a tankie and not being a tankie at the same time.

Tankies consider me a lib because I dislike DPRK.

Libs consider me a tankie because I dislike "the west".

Oh well

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[โ€“] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

No, I'm a tankie's worst nightmare: The arctankie also known as the tan^-1^kie.

[โ€“] Oppopity@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago

"Tankies" don't exist.

People who unironically use the word "tankie" would say it's someone who uncritically supports communist governments, but if you ever look at someone using it, it's always because they are uncritically against all communist governments and so they interpret nuance or historical understanding as blind loyalty to communism.

[โ€“] redhilsha@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Tankie is when a third worlder socialist shares the most Milquetoast leftist opinion.

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