Chinese state media made an AI-generated cartoon about the US-Iran conflict. Complete with fighting Persian Cats! Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!

uploaded to tankie.tube here - https://tankie.tube/w/nAx1xxpGRpBLDE9UfxWiyH

from youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As0rplNJTZI

5 minute AI animated explainer on the imperialist war against Iran, best use of AI I have seen.

Shamelessly stolen from a hexbear post from the 12 day war

Comic was in theage.com.au letters today, the artist shares comics here https://meganjherbert.substack.com/

No one's talking about it, so I'm going to, etc, whatever, OMG they were room mates

surely someone did make this comparison and I just missed it

A tombstone reads here lies a good western leftist, died waiting for the perfect revolution, vale

Is China a socialist or capitalist country? Will China become the next hegemon as its global influence continues to grow?

Renowned leftist historian and writer, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, shared his analysis in this talk.

Li Jingjing, is a CGTN reporter and YouTuber.

Vijay Prashad is an Indian-born American author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist.

![email protected] - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~ 2025

😱

This process was 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 were interpreted by the central authority (me). Only top level comments were counted. I did not provide further instructions or clarifications.

::: spoiler spoiler A ridiculous question. “Tankie” isn’t a term anyone self-identifies with, it’s mostly a term used by liberals to hurl at anyone to the left of them or anyone who agrees with western foreign policy. The survey results will be as meaningless as the term “tankie” itself.

^ wish I'd remembered to include that in the new "poll", there was a lot of confusion in the comments!

:::

Image description: various pie charts and text, indicating the results of an informal poll from lemmy.ml, full results in spoiler

::: spoiler spoiler

@hexbear.net	4
@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org	1
@lemmy.ml	8
@lemmy.world	1
@lemmy.zip	1
@lemmygrad.ml	2
	
Total Yes	17 (38.6%)
	
@feddit.org	1
@feddit.uk	2
@lemmy.blahaj.zone	1
@lemmy.ca	1
@lemmy.dbzer0.com	1
@lemmy.ml	8
@lemmy.world	3
@lemmy.zip	2
@lemmygrad.ml	1
@pawb.social	1
@piefed.social	1
@sh.itjustworks	2
@thebrainbin.org	1
	
Total No	27 (61.4%)

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didn't think to actually include the year on year comparison, so it's below.

	yes	no	total
2024	24	20	44
2025	17	27	44

whole website's gone to the dogs if you ask me 🐶

results from this thread Archived

Link to previous results (very serious) hexbear / lemmy,ml

Link to previous "are you a tankie?" thread :::

thanks for playing, see you next time 😎

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.

🤯

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.

![email protected] - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~

::: spoiler 😱 A ridiculous question. “Tankie” isn’t a term anyone self-identifies with, it’s mostly a term used by liberals to hurl at anyone to the left of them or anyone who agrees with western foreign policy. The survey results will be as meaningless as the term “tankie” itself. :::

Image description: A5 page, with various pie charts and text, indicating the results of an informal poll from lemmy.ml, full image text in spoiler

::: spoiler full image text

ARE TANKIES TAKING CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML ??

HEXBEAR.NET

DOES THE WORK FOR YOU!!

WE ASKED ![email protected] ARE YOU A TANKIE?

First stack of pie charts shows the yes / no split, highlights that the lemmy.ml yes responses made up less than half of the yes votes, hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml only made up a small portion, some hexbear-ians even vote no
second and third pie charts show the yes votes, and no votes by instance respectively
third stacked pie chart shows the yes / no split by instance, overlay-ed with the total yes / no votes

only top level comments were counted
tankies are closer than they appear
Deeply unserious
NDTS :::

::: spoiler full results / data

COUNTA of yes
@lemmy.ml = 10
@lemmygrad.ml = 5
@lemmy.world = 3
@lemmy.zip = 1
@hexbear.net = 3
@lemmy.sdf.org = 1
@lemmy.one = 1
Grand Total  = 24

COUNTA of no
@lemmy.ml = 2
@lemm.ee = 2
@lemmy.world = 8
@lemmy.blahaj.zone = 1
@reddthat.com = 1
@ttrpg.network = 1
@hexbear.net = 4
@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl = 1
Grand Total = 20

taken from archived post https://archive.md/AAY1L

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this was fun, thanks for the polling idea, Kristina (I spent too long on these charts because yours looked so spiffy, I hope you specifically are impressed lol), solidarity cleaning that data up, and general reminder people only half read anything before launching into a diatribe

tl:dr yes, tankies are totally conspiring to make sure you have a bad time on lemmy.ml

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