"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
throwing a pipe bomb into an art contest
incredibly good and based
This is what happens when you become consumed by hatred. The most insane statements seem entirely reasonable to them, because they are blinded by fear and hate.
Their love towards Islamic extremism is so strange.
"Leftism" is when a economically right wing authoritarian state opposes America.
this type of shit is part of what drove me away from hexbear (yeah I know it's embarrassing). many of them have the opinion that being a dick is worthy of corporal or capital punishment. is it dickish to intentionally trash on another culture's beliefs? probably yeah. but does it justify murder? fucking of course not!
you're not alone. There's quite a few users in this community who are former-hexbear and lemmygrad
That is psychotic. They recognize it is wrong, too. They would be screeching in apoplectic rage if a radical opposed to their speech were talking about pipe bombing some sort of IRL Hexbear meme reposting event.
They only say it because they're edgy. They are actually very, very passive, i mean they have to put trigger warnings for adult content--If they can't handle seeing violence, they aren't going to do any of it
not to shit on content warnings because I appreciate that different people have different things that can be very upsetting to them, but hexbear literally requires warnings on photos of ice cream. or cooked food that could possibly include an animal product even if you can't directly see it or tell the difference. I'm not joking or exaggerating, this caused quite a stir when the admins implemented that policy.
that's hilarious.
how do they expect to be guerillas or handle any revolution? also don't tell them about animal rights in china lmao
"Turnabouts fair play" eh? You heard him folks, time to bomb people who take the lord's name in vain inshallah.
Apparently drawing Mohammad is worse than a fucking pipe bomb. Thank God I have the self awareness to browse communities outside of my echo chamber. I wish they did too
"What does this have to do with communism anymore?"
@[email protected] I don't think your post worked out too well 🐔
also I want to point out the amazing differences between these communities. See, you're very much, unapologetically, a tankie, but you're fully allowed to comment and even engage in this community despite your farming and attempted framing that this community is extremist.
Now, if we were to do the same, we'd be defederated. Which we were!
Perhaps you should use the liberty this community has to actually ask for our opinions as opposed to fishing for responses. You'll find we're a very diverse community with many different opinions, some are even communists.
I wouldn't be fishing here if I wasn't getting bites, and I wouldn't have thought to dip my hook in the water if I hadn't seen abundant signs of good fishing.
You are free to create a Hexbear account and contribute however you like. I promise they will answer any questions you have civilly, so long as you don't provoke them. But they've not committed to civility like you've done here, so be careful not to let you mask slip.
I promise they will answer any questions you have civilly, so long as you don't provoke them.
You actually believe this?
Maybe? ~~You should go and try provoking them, see if they still treat you with civility.~~
edit: goat is right, I was using sarcasm and did not indicate that clearly. I do not support going there to cause trouble, but you are absolutely allowed to go there and behave.
I've seen how they behave on other instances, no way will they be polite and courteous when someone disagrees with them on home turf.
You just gotta know which things you disagree on, and why they might strongly disagree with you, and not just say "fuck it, imma blast off".
If you go in wanting to make a point then yea. They will not be courteous.
Ah, love this.
'They're fine if you supply evidence to back up your claims'
'Actually if you try to do that then you'll be booted'
Poor thing's got no idea how stupid they sound.
No brigading. Brigading is a headache for both admins
this community is an exception, although a rickety one
You are free to create a Hexbear account and contribute however you like. I promise they will answer any questions you have civilly, so long as you don’t provoke them. But they’ve not committed to civility like you’ve done here, so be careful not to let you mask slip.
I have, and I was, and no, I got perma'd. Four different users also attempted to dox me. I know since I was in their private chatrooms during the time. Seeing them get frustrated when they couldn't do it was very entertaining. They even tried image meta-data, the poor things
And my mask? I don't have a mask. I'm very honest with my views and am willing to share them with anyone who wishes to know.
Can people with views that differ my own have come to those views in an honest and reasoned fashion, even if I think they’re flawed?
Nah, they’re definitely just bad faith fascists hiding their “power level”.
Scary easy to see how easy you end up with thought police when people that think like this hold power.
Extremists tend to think everyone else is as extreme as they are. It's quite sad
I have, and I was, and no, I got perma’d.
Welp, i guess there we have it. I've so far managed to avoid provoking them myself, cross my fingers I don't get on their bad side.
why would you? you agree with them lol. try to say that stalin was a disaster for communism and his dictatorship killed it, then you'll be in trouble
i do like how you ignored mentioning the dox attempts
i do like how you ignored mentioning the dox attempts
I have no way of knowing if that's accurate, nor to i have any way of knowing what it was that got you perma'd.
try to say that stalin was a disaster for communism and his dictatorship killed it, then you’ll be in trouble
I probably wouldn't say that, because the US defeated communism (according to their own accounting). I would tread lightly around anything I may not agree with them on, but I do happen to agree with them on a lot. At least most of them. Half of them. Maybe slightly less than a majority of them.
What can I say, they aren't a monolith.
You can say that Stalin was bad, right?
What can I say, they aren’t a monolith.
But their hatred towards diversity and dissent is
Did you inherit a thousand years of piss-poor takes or are you just great at making shitty opinions?
This is disgusting! How is it legal for them to host this content?
Free speech and all.
you can try reporting them to authorities if you want