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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] 96 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"First they came for.." WHO???? WHO DID THEY FIRST COME FOR LMAO

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago

First they came for the Nazis and I mostly just laughed because fuck the Nazis

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago

It's amazing, meme community removes obvious troll comment and it's censorship

Politics community bans someone for posting negative Biden stories and gets applauded.

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

Ah yes the good old "join a social media site created by socialists and then get mad that it has socialists on it" move. Classic.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago

exactly. if they want a website just for liberals, then Hexbear was right there!

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why don't they just go back to Reddit? It has everything they want and zero tankies.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The white urge to colonize no doubt

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago

I also joined the fediverse during the Reddit blackout, which means that I and OOP are perfect examples of the difference between an immigrant and a colonizer

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They want to insert fascism into FOSS and fediverse spaces

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago

This is absolutely the most likely scenario. They don't want any part of the universe to be untainted by their hate

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

They are too terminally online to deal with a bag UI

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago

The vast majority of them are white Amerikans; their opinions don't matter on a global scale, and will soon be swept into the dustbin of history as de-dollarization accelerates. The rest of them wish they were crackers; and as such, can similarly be disregarded for minstrelry.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who the fuck do you think is going to develop anti-corporate media for you? Capitalists?

Your choice is between communists and people who will only make anything if they think they can later sell you out to corporations. Fucking choose morons.

Use your fucking brains. The reason you don't see people other than communists making this software is because it is people with an ideological desire to oppose corporate control that are motivated to make it. You're harming yourselves with this shit.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Too late, they are already asking for people to make forks of lemmy (which would fuck up federation if you delay updates like it happen to us) or just rewriting all of Lemmy code from rust to java and having everyone move there (they wont)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know whether it matters that much at this point. Possibilities:

  1. The liberal forks don't last when lib developers realise there is nothing in it for them except a lifetime of developing it.

  2. The liberal forks eventually corporatise in a way that makes them fundamentally incompatible with the original goal of Lemmy which was to escape corporate control of social media.

  3. The forks continue and it works out fine achieving the original goal.


If 1 or 2 happens, then the issue comes back to communists again.

If 3 happens, it doesn't matter whether it's communists in charge or not the intended goal is achieved.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Honestly i just see 3 not lasting for long and eventually becoming either 1 or 2 and then just bleed users and die, either way Lemmy would just out last them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

RUST TO JAVA? 💀💀💀💀💀💀

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

Dang Barsoap I almost forgot about that guy, he's definitely not a nazi just a german guy really into 'Homeland' and 'Germanic Tribes'. I remember way back arguing with this dolt about the war in ukraine and him going on unhinged rants, about like fighting to the last ukranian and tankies and shit. Glad to see this 'german green voter' has their priorities right and is concerned about the rising tide of tankism and still not about AfD, CDU/CSU and you know germany in general being complicit in a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

definitely not a nazi just a german guy really into 'Homeland' and 'Germanic Tribes'. I remember way back arguing with this dolt about the war in ukraine and him going on unhinged rants, about like fighting to the last ukranian and tankies and shit

That just sounds like he is a different type of german fascist to be honest, like a freikorp

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

No no no, he's really into the whole Völkisch Movement a thing that will never ever morph into fascism.

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

Do we have at least one Chinese user who can send the devs a penny to make this a reality?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Someone get a vpn/proxy in China and make a bunch of posts to scare the admins.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i'm so glad we don't get this brand of braindead liberal playing pretend leftist here

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

I feel like we did for a bit, then it died down, then renewed after federation and died down again. Basically any large influx of users has them float around for a bit.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Uncritical support for comrade Dessalines in this most Holy of Holy Wars, against these insufferable, cracker-ass libs.

kim-salute

Send all these motherfuckers back to reddit-logo

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

There’s also all of these communities on Reddit if you’re truly unhappy that the volunteer owned and run social media you signed up for isn’t being astroturfed with US-Israeli state press releases.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

I just want to tell them to shut up and go back to reddit

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The closests thing to a hexbear discord sever would not be "brigading" except to troll us, if it even still exists.

mystery-emote

cat-confused

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is funny. I am subbed to a bunch of .ml comms and frequently see weird anticommunist shit. Just like a week ago or something I saw this thread on [email protected]. I don't remember the specifics but the comments were complaining about how the devs are tankies and support mass murderers like lenin. And went on to equate the devs to some gross people. I did comment but deleted later cause I didn't want to argue with these annoying people. Shit there was some dumb meme post about tiananmen square and how heckin brave freedumb to post it.

The users on .ml do whine about tankies and whatever. And these other instances want to do the same thing but pretend that .ml is filled with tankies not similar crybabies. Like jesus do they have anything else going on than bravely proclaiming to avoid tankies.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

Wish these authoritarian tankie devs would send these people to the cybergulag.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Petition for lemmy.ml to preemptively defederate lemmy.world lol

remember when .world defeded hexbear? Oh no. Please. Stop. 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

I'm contemplating writing an effort post about the casus bellum for the Feddit user to wage war against .ml, which is a removed comment that was just a link to an Imgur album posted by a repost bot scraped from allthatsinteresting.com, a BuzzFeed clone. But they're not federated with Hexbear and liberals can't read, so...

Hint: one of the first paragraphs of the Imgur album claims 10,000 people died in Tianmen square, higher than even the US government's official figures by 9,100. The entire connotated album is unsourced.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

The comment section on this one seems like an improvement from the last few at least

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

liberals doing BDS against the platform they're posting on bcs they dont like the lemmy.ml devs but not against israel doing a genocide is really funny ngl

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

God, the more I wardrive that asinine fuckin thread (they are not worth making a lemmy.ml alt to go kick in the teeth by my reckoning), the more it stands out to me how absolutely puerile, idealistic, and frankly, utterly unreliable the western "left" is. These crackers have the WORST martyrdom fetish I've ever seen; and as usual, they harp on about "oh wahhhhh, China has billionaires, they're no AES, they're catering to the capitalists" when last I knew, the only people to catch death sentences in China have been... Absolutely cashed-up capitalists who got caught on some Amerikan-style skullduggery.

Part of me is convinced the only reason they want China to immediately liquidate all their billionaires, all their capitalists, or at least, as many as could be done away with before capital flight spooked the rest of 'em to the four corners of the world, is so that China's project could collapse in on itself. For right now, capital is the game that must be played until the entirety of the Settler Empire, from Amerika to Australia, falls in on itself-- and they either don't realize that, or refuse to see that. To them, if China collapses, they can go right on back to martyrishly (and insincerely) wringing their hands about "ohhhhh, no real AES exists, ohhhhh, wahhhhh" the whole time secure in the fact that the treat dispenser that the white capitalists grease in the blood of the dead stays running.

I spit on all of 'em.

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