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I keep thinking of bad things and then say "wow I bet Hexbear would like this thing" and then I smugly smile while shit leaks out of my pants. Both ends.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I called you a tankie on the internet therefore ipso fatso socialism is over.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So I used to spend a lot of time on R*ddit and I was an anarchist for a long time, so because of that you'd just get familiarised with the usernames of more active anarchists over time.

(This was to the point where one user, u/fuckeverythingever, who was a fairly prolific poster on that account [and prior ones that got banned but they had a distinct disposition and writing style so it was easy enough to recognise when one of his accounts would get banned and then a new account would spring up talking about the same things with the same mannerisms and I'd be like - oh hey, he's back!], went dark and then not long after news travelled around about the death of a young Portland anarchist named Sean Kealiher and while he never gave out his real name or his age online, it lined up well enough that I'm pretty well sure that was his account and that we knew each other online.)

It was a bitterly funny thing to me, when the term tankie started to enter mainstream discourse around the same time I became an ML, that I would see these slapfights break out in more mainstream subs and there'd be an anarchist account which I'd be able to recognise and some lib would be accusing them of being a tankie for being too far to the left of them.

Often I'd see it and be like "Hang on, I'm pretty sure I recognise that username..." so I'd check their posting history and sure enough it'd be yet-another instance of an anarchist being called "tankie" by a liberal.

The tankie-as-political-slur revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for human discourse.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I saw a tankie in real life I'd go right up to them and say "sir I like good things"

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

Make sure you bring your dad with you to help debate.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bring my dad with me everywhere I go.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Ah, always ready to debate the wild tankies. I like your style.

Whenever we win against a tankie, my dad takes me for ice cream

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One time a Hexbear said something mean to me and then I cammed myself. Sure showed that tankie!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

one time *sniff* one time i s-saw a hexbear user and i s-said "g-good things are good" and they said "actually good things are bad" and i jus- i just man im fuckign crying just thinking about it i cant stpo crying

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Counter point, Russia does capitalism just as bad as they did communism. If we did it in Murrica, we’d kick ass at it and be a shining beacon of socialism.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I want to congratulate you on the dumbest shit I've read all day before I ban you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it serious or not? The "Murrrica" makes me think it's deliberately ambiguous. We need to get more response to ascertain whether this kind of thing is a clever bit or not.

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

i promise its information and not a meme, idk how to unblur it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought it dipped tremendously when the Soviet Union was officially dismantled

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

It dipped significantly but this graph is at a scale that includes Tsarist Russia where people were serfs with no access to medicine in a pre-industrial society. Having some extremely basic stuff like food and vaccines makes it virtually impossible to get that low again (unless you're being invaded by Nazis).

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

this is a bit, right? anakin-padme-2

this is a bit, right? anakin-padme-4

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Radioactive levels of chauvinism, stick a burger in it shithead.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Even as a bit, this is cringe. cringe

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

you're a stupid asshole, shut the fuck up liberal

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

cringe
What is materialism?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Counter point, Russia does capitalism just as bad as they did communism. If we did it in Murrica, we’d kick ass at it and be a shining beacon of socialism.

yes all your socialists have so much work to show

until your daddies killed the good ones.

Unlimited genocide to america

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly I'm a little ashamed at how many people on this website took the bait on this one. This is a good post.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

If this is a joke it's phrased in such a way that it's totally ambiguous and I find that really funny in and of itself.

If this isn't a joke, please read Settlers.

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