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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

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I keep seeing this instance is overrun with tankies so hey, lets do an informal survey like I've seen on hexbear

respond with YES or NO in the first line of your comment and i'll tally everything in a couple of days, lets say I'll try and collect everything on the sunday the 9th (10+gmt sorry)

not sure thisll work, be nice, have fun

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[โ€“] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago

I think it's just mostly teen drama from Lemmy.world users. :)

[โ€“] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

No, i'm not a tankie, i wasn't even born yet in 1956 not to mention i'm not British.

[โ€“] moon@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

No. I had no idea about this instance's reputation when I joined Lemmy but it's nothing like the other instance you mentioned.

It gets very tiring trying to have a conversation with contrarians who think everything Western is bad and anything Chinese/USSR is good. Or worse, that their highly suspicious news sources (some random blog usually) are telling you the real truth, while using any mainstream news media source makes you a deluded Lib

[โ€“] Grayox@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Yes. I get called one everytime i defend or advocate for anything left of Bernie Sanders. "

"Communism is the riddle of history solved, and knows itself to be the solution."

Is as true today as it was when Marx wrote it almost 200 years ago.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

NO

I've never even been called one erroneously.

[โ€“] juliebean@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

i may or may not have a tanksona, but that doesn't make me a tankie.

[โ€“] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I don't consider myself a tankie, because I'm an anarcho-syndicalist.

I've been called a tankie for suggesting that workers should organize tenant unions to kill the apartment bidding wars in NYC. I've been called a tankie for pointing out that their image of a tankie needs to almost have power to be any kind of threat worth warning against, and there are no tankies anywhere near power with the global rise of fascism. I've been called a tankie for asking someone to clarify what they meant by tankie. I've been told that scientific socialism both is and is not tankie behavior. The term is utterly meaningless. I've come to the conclusion that it's part of a 3rd red scare in an effort to sow division amongst the anticapitalist left.

[โ€“] Floey@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

YES

At least if we go off the Lemmy definition. I don't self identify.

[โ€“] megane_kun@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

NO

Neither do I self-identify as a tankie, I don't think anyone who'd identify themselves as tankies would think of me as one.

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[โ€“] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

NO. Communism is interesting, but I'm heavily anti-authoritarian.

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[โ€“] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

This is a dumb question. That's like asking TERFs if they self-identify as bigots. They're going to respond that no, of course they aren't, they're just gender realists (or gender critical, or whatever).

[โ€“] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

No, don't know what it is either

[โ€“] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

NO, Iโ€™m also not from this instance for similar reasons

[โ€“] Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 4 points 10 months ago

No.

Tankies are fascist that took the socialist part in national socialist serious.

[โ€“] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The fuck is a tankie? Outside of Lemmy, I've never seen nor H6eard the word. I assume it's Lemmy slang for some group of people.

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