edit: this is now closed future comments won’t be counted

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

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    207·
    6 months ago

    Maybe?

    What the heck is a tankie, anyways? Every person I have asked has had a different answer, and the vast majority of these definitions don’t really fit any major communities on Lemmy, not even Hexbear or Lemmygrad.

    I have been called a tankie for numerous reasons, like saying that people should read Marx, to saying the US is a net negative on global stability.

    Is being a Marxist sufficient for being a tankie? What about a Marxist-Leninist? Are only Dengists tankies? Is Anarchism the only non-tankie leftist position? I’ve even seen Anarchists be called tankies over on Lemmy.world, which is currently undergoing Red Scare-era anti-leftist witch hunts (like return2ozma’s recent ban for “bad-faith spam”).

    I think this question needs a definition first. If you ask 10 different people what a “tankie” is, you’ll get 11 different answers.

    • MentalGymnastics
      1·
      6 months ago

      U.S. a net negative to global stability? That told us what we needed to know. Tankie. What about our foreign policy has your tracks in a bunch? That we aren’t cow tailing in South Asia sea? What about when we leveled iraq? How about how we are prepared to level dprk at a moments notice? No other country has the balls to have a impact on global stability that the u.s.a has brought.