the_dunk_tank

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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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I gotta log off so my response was half-baked. Here's the link if you wanna dunk: https://hexbear.net/comment/3876915

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

I'm still new to lemmy. I'm a reddit migrant.

I joined in the first wave, and I was pleased to see a large leftist presence here. It was a bit refreshing, compared to the constant lib shit (or outright conservative takes) that was the norm on reddit.

Then the second wave of migrants hit and with it came ALL of the reactionaries. Suddenly Ukraine war news was hitting the front of my all page every day, with all of the usual, very liberal arguments in support of continuing the war indefinitely. Anyone to the left of bernie Sanders was being heavily downvoted, and all of the new libs were complaining about "Freedom of speech" not being enough here because of the early, big defederations that happened, while simultaneously demanding mods of their instances deliberately silence anyone to the left of their neolib brains.

It's kind of infuriating. The word "tankie" has been eroded just like the word "woke" was by the right. It used to mean authoritarian leftist, now it's being used to mean "anyone who doesn't support US imperialist dogma uncritically."

I liked lemmy more when it wasn't full of libs.