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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.

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Rule 3: No sectarianism.

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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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Everything I hate is now tankie. We must stop this by getting them to censor what we think is tankie

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those are all Rule 1 violations, which reads, "No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia." (and includes a link up the code of conduct).

These babies are repeating infantilizing orientalist memes and are surprised when the rules are applied to them, lol. Some of them probably don't even realize it because they're so used to playing pretend about the see see pee and the oppressed Chinese people in their imaginations that they actually think they are stating facts.

Deeply unserious people.

PS remember when lemmy.world preemptively defederated from hexbear (in the justification they say defend is "as a last resort" lol)?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Censorship is when an internet forum bans me for my image depicting Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Lemmy.world must be full of the biggest piss babies of the Lemmyverse. All of the most annoying elements of liberalism mixed together to form the ultimate clown show. clown

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Lemmy.world must be full of the biggest piss babies of the Lemmyverse

I mean those are the redditors who got so mad about slight decrease in availability of their treat that they left and immediately after their arrival they made their instance into reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

These people graduated from narcing to a teacher about the most inconsequential shit to whatever the fuck this is.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I’ve been banned from .ml for being a ‘racist’ for being anti-Xi, despite the fact that I am Chinese, and pointed out my ethnicity as such in the discussion. I guess antisemitic Jews aren’t the only weird accusation getting thrown about nowadays.

Lol, oh no. The poster immediately under this is going on some long winded rant that Japan should have been nuked harder, it was the only way to save more people

and also

Lemmy.ml is a cancer on the Fediverse. If we want it to survive, we need to cut it off.

Prime specimen of someone who needs to touch grass, the userbase at lemmy.ml is trash, but not for why they think

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

the userbase at lemmy.ml is trash, but not for why they think

It's because we don't have deluxe emojis, isn't it? :jokah:

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's because you're not tankie enough

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So funny how braindead liberals truly are in the age of the internet and 60+ years of historical analysis and declassified info we have now that wasn't available back then. What do you even call an ideology where you can determine that

Nuking civilians with atom bombs multiple times: Good

Banning me from a fringe forum because I'm ideologically opposed to you: Bad

You're right you're right, liberals I'm so fucking sorry. I don't know how in my warped little authoritarian mind I convinced myself that banning you specifically on the internet is morally superior to nuclear hellfire wiping out entire bloodlines. Please forgive me for the love of god

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess Candace Owens isn’t racist after all. She’s a black woman!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

Look I just have a sickness that makes me crave arguments with liberals, is that so wrong???

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They can’t engage with any topics or offer counter arguments. Every response is:

“I don’t know how to respond to your argument. You must be a _____________[insert ‘racist’ or ‘genocide defending’ or ‘fascist’ or my new favorite ‘zionist’]”

lmaooooooooo what a massive self report

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Funny self-report, but also clearly just a lie. Has any lib on Hexbear NOT received massive walls of text and sources as a response to their chuddery?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago

I looked up the OP in the modlog and saw:

reason: ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a4cb1d7c-d8f6-438d-a679-fbed9480d64a.jpeg)

Nice to see our mods aren't the only ones with a sense of humor

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Holy shit the lack of self awareness.

LemmyWorld did this EXACT thing to absolutely everyone posting a view left of the US State Dept. It's what got Hexbear defederated, it's what got me banned despite the fact I broke NO rules besides supporting Lenin/USSR and posting about those things.

They are ridiculous. They do this exact thing to everyone to their left and then they can't fucking take it if anyone else does it to them. Even when in this case it's just literally cracking down on the mindless misinformation and bullshit libs peddle about this event.

When they unban lenins2ndcat so I can go back to the massive amount of effective posting I was doing on their instance then they can start whining about censorship elsewhere. They do it themselves if a communist is effective enough to get upvotes there. There were a dozen subreddits ready to migrate too and they killed that shit stonedead and put the brakes on the entire movement to swap from reddit to lemmy with their bullshit. Literally everyone saw what lemmyworld was doing and said nahhhh fuck that in the backrooms at the peak of everyone being motivated to move.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Also the one I just quoted holy shit lmao.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago

Damn I wish it worked shut the fuck up

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If your libs only instances are too small to be worth interacting in, that sounds like a personal problem

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

skill issue

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago

They're used to being able to silence anyone to their left. Turns out they can't take what they were dishing out.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Tanks are actually pretty terrible in modern warfare

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That may be a statistical fluke, since most of the active tanks on the planet are US manufactured, haven't seen maintenance since the first Bush admin, and were only built to function in the desert as long as the wind isn't blowing too hard.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The post that got that user banned and mad enough to make a whole ass post about it :

The mod response:

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago

The supporting evidence is a cable from a British guy who heard all these terrible things from a random source. I wonder why that source's account differs from all the other contemporary reports of that day

A lot of the dead bodies in those pictures are specifically labeled PLA soldiers too

Idiots

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (3 children)

People are naive if they think the .ml admins and devs don’t intend to keep their thumb on the Lemmy scale. More instances need to take this threat seriously and defederate from .ml, and possibly even fork the Lemmy repos for when the devs inevitably decide they want to start building quiet exploits into the code. There are serious cyber security implications here that people are sleeping on

Honestly unhinged.

That’s the most frustrating part. These “leftists” are the stupid kind who seem to care more about relitigating idiotic cold war drama than evolving or pushing forward leftist philosophy. It’s straight up brain rot, mixed with obvious right wing agitprop disguised as leftist ideology.

What cold war drama? What right wing agitprop?

A hexbear in that thread is literally claiming that “the soldiers did everything they could to avoid hurting him” when there’s a photo of him lying dead on the street after the tanks have gone through. They don’t think it’s fine, they’re saying it didn’t happen (curious) [47]

Doesn't post the proof, unfortunately. Fortunately, a bunch of other people are correcting them.

The threat is bigger than that though. These people control the code base and can easily just start running modified code to fuck with various aspects of federation to generally keep their finger on the scale of any instance which federates with them. At best they have shown they have no shame and cannot be trusted. If there is any means of abusing their power, it must be assumed that they will embrace it.

Again literally no evidence that .ml has abused the federation algorithm or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also it's open source so if you want to see what's in the code base just go fuckin look?

And if you don't know how to read the code then shut the fuck up?

Libs are deeply unserious

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

Yup, it would be so easy to show if something malicious was in the code. But for all the fear mongering they do, I haven't seen anyone show even a snippet of code.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

feddit still doesn't seem like a real instance name.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

Slightly more subtle than the original name, COINTELPRO.lemmy.gov

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know, this makes me sad and I can't really nail down why. I think it's because their ignorance is so pointless. I want .ml to maintain its current position because it's the closest thing we have to a place where we can talk with them. I feel like, for many of them, their current position on what "tankies" (Marxists) are and what they think is holding on by the skin of its teeth, reliant completely on enculturation because it's wildly out of step with what the vast, vast majority of Marxists on any instance actually say.

I hope some of them come to understand and accept how they've been lied to.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sucks to see so many people hating on dessalines in the comments. They have made audiobooks on tons of theory and written study guides. Really just a stand up person that wants people to learn, and they are getting mischaracterized as some kind of crazy badmin.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dessalines: "Makes a free tool for everyone to enjoy and they use it and enjoy it, makes stuff to teach people about political theory."

People actively enjoying the tool (and dissenting via said tool): "They must be an evil pro-Kremlin CCP agent abusing their power to secretly exploit us all"

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (4 children)

to counter him we must make our own version in java

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

You really gotta understand how critical it is for these dweebs to carry water for the US state department by "criticising" the countries that have been designated as enemies. In today's tyrannical world it is one of the few acceptable outlets for going on racist screeds because they can veil their racism with nebulous concepts like democracy and freedom and authoritarianism etc.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

This is so obviously just going the same way as the British labour parties own purge of the tankies. Like they started with Corbyn and stuff and now they're kicking people out for liking a single tweet by Jon Stewart.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They incuded my satirical comment in the modlog screenshot. Also that comment got 20 upvotes, so I'm not entirely sure the lemmitors realised it was a joke.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago

i posted a decently sourced comment in the thread and had 16 downvotes from cowards too scared to comment

is this the tankie censorship that the libs constantly whine about?

i am very glad we got rid of that shit on logo

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago

The anti communist orthodoxy strikes again. If we let libs do whatever they want, it’s because we’re weak and cannot stand against their “ideological superiority”. If we engage with them and promptly ban them when they’re racist, it’s because we’re authoritarian and love censorship.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Literally only worldnews is properly moderated out of major communities on .ml, communities like memes are full of turbolibs. The cause of this malding is that they went way too fucking far even for usually hands off Dessalines in their latest Tiananmen post on memes and he removed some more orientalist posts and closed the thread.

EDIT: Lmao and they are at it again.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago

sees title

Oh wow, a lib is bothering to defend tankies and call out the times they've been "censored" on other instances?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

every one of those posters need to get rolled up in the dirtiest rugs you can find then get beaten until the rugs are clean.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

wants to remove anyone left of Hitler while complaining about Tankies removing racists and bad faith actors

Ah, liberals, they never change

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

lemmy.world is a joke instance. They do not address bigotry properly and are so boot-lickers for big companies that they blocked [email protected] . Any serious user should've close their account there the moment that happened.

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