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.

  • djmikeale@feddit.dk
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    1 month ago

    I’m still in doubt of what a tankie is, even though I’ve now seen it mentioned 1000 times. Also why is it called that?

    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      This is an oversimplification, but tldr…

      Tankies are Authoritarian communist, as opposed to democratic or liberal communism. It refers to when the soviet union put down rebellion in Hungry and Czechoslovakia by rolling in the tanks. It prioritizes order over individual freedoms.

        • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          30 days ago

          I think the confusing part is that liberal in there refers not to the ideology but to free in choice.

          Maybe a better wording would’ve been “free” or just “democratic”, leaving out the “liberal” entirely.