Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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Being Putin's bitch isn't the flex these idiots think it is.
...by dunking on their user bases
They don't really bother to hide the fact that their primary reason for existing is trollng and brigading, do they?
Edit: Here is proof that "dunking" is their term for organised brigading, where a hexbear member is posting a comment in another instance on hexbear "if you wanna dunk".
Arrogant and self-important. Not sure why they think people want a bunch of assholes around.
Obviously you haven't heard about the GLORIOUS ideology of Marxism-Leninism. Allow me to educate you, comrade! /s
Lemmy is already like, 80% anti-capitalist.
I would say they're preaching to the choir here, but this is far more obnoxious than preaching.
If only those MLs understood that by forcing themselves on the public square most people will reject them, and with them the concept of socialism as a whole...
They don’t actually care about any ideology. They’re 100% trolls.
Is there a way to just block hexbear? Tankie nonsense almost kept me from trying Lemmy at all, and for the longest time, it’s been good. But recently it’s just tankies everywhere and I’m so over them.
Bad take. If u block em nobody is pushing them back. We can't let them open the door of acceptability.
Kbin has the ability to block instances wholesale natively
Not yet. What kbin has is domain blocking, for hiding posts that link to a particular domain. It's also buggy right now, and will just hide random stuff from you.
How do I do this? For some reason I'm unable to block individual hex users, and I'm honestly done enough with them to risk accidentally missing out on something else..
So weird how they're brigading ever other post mentioning them but remaining suspiciously quiet on this one.
Haha, nooo, not suspicious at all! Lemmy.world has hexbear defederated, they can't access this thread.