the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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Reason why it was removed according to this guy:
Not all westerners are corporate shills, but all corporate shills are westerners. When you're able to afford media and a decent lifestyle, you start to look down upon those who can't, you berate them for being "parasites" at worst and for "not supporting the poor corporations" at best.
I remember a time when piracy was the norm, when they wanted to show us a movie in school, they would either bring a burned CD or go to a streaming site, now they have won the "cultural war" and those things would be considered on par with armed robbery. 15 years ago we had people selling pirated games on the streets, good times those were. For context I live on the poorer side of the westoid core and our school system is chronically underfunded, it's not rare for a school to literally fall into pieces.
They tried to argue with me in a post I made about the banning of my post but at this point I think I'm not even gonna argue with them, the only thing they can do is reinstate my post but they won't, having a cheap laugh at their expense is better. Having an infinite discussion with them is less productive than having it with my (fantastic, beautiful and far smarter than them) cat.
These people can't be argued with, if I have the time I can find another guy from lemmygrad talking about it1: you can always win the conversation with libs (as their arguments don't contain any substance) but they always want the last word on anything, if you take the bait, you're gonna be engaged with them till the end of time, and frankly I don't have too much time to spare rn.
1 here's the full exchange:
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/3894557
And a selected quote:
99.9% pure basedness concentrate
Oh dear, that’s probably it for now, this lib has reached the point that they will simply regurgitate the same circular statements again and again. A well-coordinated team of comrades can keep them going like this for hours, but it will just be repeats of their previous statements over and over again, so there’s nothing new to learn here.
I am not following their preferred script and it upsets them, they want me to play their games, and have run out of new ways to try to get me back on their preferred track. Here we see the real tragedy of liberal brainworms. They simply believe that insisting upon something enough will make it so, that just repeating the same things over and over give them more weight, make them more correct, as if simply stating something enough will make it true.
Unfortunately there is shitton of compradors and brainwormed temporarily embarassed billionaires outside west too. Hmm, "westoids" would be a good name for them.
Oh yeah I forgot about them, the US exporting it's rotten neoliberal culture to the world "finally" reached the ex-warsaw pact, sigh.
It reached Poland even before socialism was destroyed, since 90's its full blown cultural invasion.
I sure do love vibes based liberal politics
Bidet "uhhmmm we'll forgive 😴 $2 of student loans for every American, we'll put a mortgage on the white house and send the money to Ukraine! "
(lib crowd explodes into cheers of "heil 99% hitler, heil the lesser evil" )
Lib pundit: "sure Biden is a fossil, a weirdo, a genocide apologist and a warmonger, but at least he's not putler the baby eater! LESSER EVIL 99% HITLER"
Trumpet "folks, I'll personally manage interest rates, build a wall surrounding the Atlantic Ocean and 😴 make Atlantis pay for it! Yes folks we have the biggest walls we have the most handsome walls in the world"
(conservative crowd explode in cheers of "stop the Atlantidean caravan, build the Atlantic wall" )
Conservative pundit: "sure trump is a fossil, wears diapers, he's a warmonger, and has fascist militias on his side, but at least he's not a commie tyrant like Xi! DON'T YOU LIKE FREERUMB?
Since I started looking at amerikkkrakkker politics my brainworms rate has skyrocketed, it's at the same time the funniest and the saddest shit ever. At the same time I don't and I do get how Americans don't revolt immediately.
Brainwormed rant over
I love Hexbear because we always have random creative writing like this
I love hexbear because of the weird detailed emojis, I download every single one I find, i have like 7 by now.
Last two are my favorites.
I love
personally
How did I miss this banger
Added to my collection
What about this one?
A gem
BTW how do emojis work on hexbear? Like I doubt you have an emoji keyboard like on Android/iOS with your 5.000 emojis, must be unpractical. Do you telepathically communicate the emoji you want to insert to your device?
We have both an emoji button that lets us search through them all manually, and a shortcut that auto searches from keywords if we type something following a semicolon
Epic, wish we had a similar thing on lemmy.ml, even better yet federated emojis. :biden-our-savior: :99-percent-hitler: :tankie-adjacent:
Federated emojis would simply be too powerful.
I do want :saltine-headassery: and :debate-pervert: from lemmygrad tho...
emojis are actually built into base lemmy for the past year or two (contributed by a dev affiliated with hexbear, but still), but they don't federate seamlessly and most instances don't use them much, or at all, so app support also seems to be lacking last I saw.
If you're using lemmy.ml on the web not thru an app, you can still try out the emoji picker/autocomplete, it just only has standard unicode emojis. Try typing
:ainto the comment box or clicking on the little smiley face in the bar above the box!Oh yes, the denguin
I don't even know a context in which half of these emojis would be used but they're still funny I mean
behold, Angle-a Merkel
I need a beer
Ah yes, Unruffled.
One of the "anarchist" admins of the "anarchist" dbzer0. I remember this clown defending Nazis in Ukraine when he commented on a Hexbear post. I then went to check his profile, and had a good laugh when I saw that he claims to oppose apologists for authoritarian states. 
Oh that guy, he got owned by a bunch of hexbears on a thread about Ukraine news, he's probably just gonna find a reason to take that out on whatever hexbears he sees.
Lmao db0 (instance owner) literally confirmed it 💀
(Remember that many 🧠🪱ed libs like to equate lemmy.ml, hexbear and lemmygrad, so as far as he's concerned I'm a sovereign citizen of hexbear)
And
Tankies stay winning!
If he's anti-authoritarian, why ban people?
banning and censoring in the name of freespeech and anti-censorship!
🤔
The fuck is "Noopolitik?"
Noopolitik is a an academic word for Russiagate brain. Noopolitik refers to mass politics influenced by misinformation/the Internet
It's also still used if "misinformation" turns out to be 100% true.
Also, it's for some reason never applied if, say, Israel pushes the narrative that babies were beheaded, or if Zenz says there's a genocide in the middle of Urumuqi, Xinjiang.
Slav term scary, me need to trust respectable western neoliberal politician in suit, or else I get the barbaric dictator!
You can't make this up (although apparently you can)
Sounds like they needed a new word for realpolitik that they can say is bad and evil instead of smart and bastardly
The Dude profile pic. Guaranteed libertarian
I had to look that one up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik
I think he means Xi and/or Putler bots, because he suffers from BlueAnon conspiracy theories about social media.
I had to scroll back up, it literally just doesn't draw that equivalence?? Tankies on the brain I guess :rent-free:
First worlders aren't all corporate bootlickers waah waah has anyone thought of the first worlders 😭😭😭
At least McCarty was paid lol
That bio is basically "no fun allowed" smh literally 1986
Reading comprehension is not strong with this one.
liberal: SCRATCHED