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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.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to [email protected]

Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again

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[–] [email protected] 197 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Neoliberals have no comradery and see each other as competition. They look for opportunities to tear each other down instead of supporting each other, thus making their community weaker as a whole.

Whereas the communists support one another and seek to help build their community as a whole, thus leading to a stronger, more supportive community.

"The animal species, in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress."- Peter Kropotkin

TLDR- Sucks that you don't have our level of solidarity, libs.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Yeah, this is probably one of the best online communities I've ever participated in

Much better than ceaselessly arguing about which Fallout game was the best

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

The answer is New VEGAS meow-tableflip

And 2.

2 is also good

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We are united in spirit and purpose, comrade. We are one well-oiled shitposting machine. For every poster that falls, ten posters will take their place.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (7 children)

They say that Hexbear only has enough keyboards for half of its posters, so they send people into threads in pairs, and when the first poster is banned, the second picks up his keyboard and continues posting bugs-stalin

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is unironically the funniest post ever put here, I'm reporting you so the mods can read it

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I migrated from Lemmy.world just so I can upvote communists bullying liberals lmao

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (13 children)

this is praxis.

I'm thinking about making a alternate on another instance so I can go downvote libs.

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's because I upvote anyone with pronouns in their username on Lemmy shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn't fun at the time, but I'm glad we had the pronouns struggle session long before federation.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

it shouldnt have been a struggle session at all lol

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago

Damn, based

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mfw I get ratioed by an instance that disabled downvotes

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's simple, I see Hexbears that I have spent the last THREE YEARS posting with, and I upvote.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (9 children)

do lemmygrad users get your upvotes? 👉 👈

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

Like, we all know each other and have an ACTUAL COMMUNITY. Of course we do.

These liberals see each other as nothing, remember nobody, and build no unique culture of their own. They have no relationships with each other. They don't get it. We actually like each other. I care about people here you liberal losers.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

@[email protected] I want you to read this.

You need to understand that we've all been here 3 years already, we know each other, care about each other, have a real community with a real unique culture forged through bonds and laughs and drama and dumb shit. We have an actual community, not just a bunch of people that don't know each other who press updoot and downdoot and generally just see one another as faceless individuals. We trust each other and genuinely like each other.

I genuinely hope that you can create something like it and come to care about the other posters around you in time. You should try to. Build something more meaningful than a reddit clone where everyone treats everyone like a bunch of faceless anons, build a real community.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Liberals disputing vote counts when it doesn't go their way? I swear I've seen this before, but usually in the global south.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The OAS has determined there were upvote anomalies

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago

I welcome our new interim admin:

guaido

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (26 children)

i like how they think the fking Chinese or Russian Cyberinfluence division or whatever would spend any time or effort on a fking site that has 1000 active users at most

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Many years ago, before I had even discovered /r/chapotraphouse, I used to post on /r/geopolitics. Of course as you can imagine the self-important nerds there would accuse people left and right of being Chinese/Russian bots. I once asked why the fuck the MSS or FSB or whatever would spend their time shitposting on a sub with like a thousand users and they claimed that "real international relations experts post here regularly" and then I got banned.

Worth it.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

at least when we were on reddit it made at least a little sense, since you were connected to a larger site

the ironic thing was that user survey on reddit that found the most active city on reddit was some US Airforce base lol

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I upvote most comments, gotta share dat dopamine with my comrades

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel sad when i see a (good and not reactionary) post and it has no upbears based on also having posting anxiety and having experienced no interaction with a post, so if i'm browsing and not logged on, i go on a browser to give it a bear, though since federation i have to be a lot more selective, but ultimately I still upbear hex and lemmygrad posters' posts hexbear-non-binary

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plantifa! Always glad to see you perk your soft head up in threads

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah same, I upbear almost every hexbear comment I see unless it's a really ass take

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Its weird that people in a particualar environment might like what others in that specific ecosystem have to say"

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not supposed to talk, you're just meant to upvote memes.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago

Owning the libs by being a caring and supportive community.

heart-sickle

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Three Hexbear users preparing to upvote each other's posts, circa 2023 (recolourised)

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago

1.2k upvotes on a post with 3.5 comments: looks legit.

35 comments from 35 users with 35 upvotes on average: PROPAGANDA BOT FARM!!111

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have less upvotes and it's not fair angery

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we're only averaging ~10 up votes then more people need to sort active/all and join the protracted people's war.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

this

It's like we have a whole new side quest option now.

Mostly Normal Hexbear Time : Local Hot

Dunkerinos Extravaganza : All Active

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're conditioned to and glorify negativity, is what it is. I get downvoted for the most innocuous shit when I post or comment in self-proclaimed "liberal" instances.

I've been commenting frequently on y'alls posts since you federated. I've not received a single downvote here. Not one.

They find even-keeledness and agreeability sinister. That says a lot.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've not received a single downvote here. Not one.

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...we, uh, disabled downvotes a long time ago... Don't worry, downvotes are clearly expressed in words or images should that be needed lol. Welcome, though!

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's a terrible prank you've played on me.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago

We are extremely online, in the best and worst ways

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (9 children)

dont act like you’re morally superior

We are

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago

when we do it it’s because we’re popular

when they do it it’s totally because of bots, possibly linked to a coordinated cyber attack by insert enemy country

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we like each other on this site

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

It's because socialists know how to vote better.

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