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The Democratic People's Republic of Tankiejerk

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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.

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[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

...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".

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[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only way is to join instances that have tankie instances blocked.

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Downside as a Lemmy.world user:

For the last chunk of time I have had zero clue the fuck everyone is talking about. Whats a "hexbear" and whats all the hubbub about?

Hexbear is blocked but all the people complaining about hexbear sure isnt lol

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, when more instances block hexbear you won't hear any mention

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[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  • beehaw.org
  • sopuli.xyz
  • lemmy.blahaj.zone
  • feddit.de
  • feddit.uk
[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lemmy.ca as well.

And hopefully sh.itjust.works in the very near future.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kbin has the ability to block instances wholesale natively

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] notabot@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Some clients let you, 'connect for lemmy' lets you hide posts and comments from specific instances.

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[–] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Estiar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Bolshevists wanted to kill the Mensheviks, though they were both against the capitalists. It ain't all peace and kindness on the Left

[–] 5714 4 points 2 years ago

Left Unity until I say the revolution ends.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Ive seen dozens of hexbear and lemmygrad users post unironically that lefties that dont support Lenin and killing any and all capitalists also deserve to be murdered.

[–] Draedron 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hexbears users are all either trolls, pro russian and china fascism or both. They don't add any kind of value to the fediverse.

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[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Emotional labor" is a funny way to describe being a keyboard warrior.

[–] AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So weird how they're brigading ever other post mentioning them but remaining suspiciously quiet on this one.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Haha, nooo, not suspicious at all! Lemmy.world has hexbear defederated, they can't access this thread.

[–] AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago

Ahh gotcha, in that case I may never leave...

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I bet they have a bunch of alts on each instance.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

they do, yeah.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

The first rule of coup is 'dont talk about coup'.

I thought a tankie would know this.

[–] Tomassci@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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...

[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm still not convinced that a sizeable chunk of tankies aren't right wing false flag types trying to make anything other than the capitalism we're all dealing with seem reasonable in comparison to the authoritarianism they peddle

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Correct. Because that's exactly what they make people feel like and if we were actual idiots we would fall for it. Instead they're just insufferable trolls. Fuck them.

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

They don’t actually care about any ideology. They’re 100% trolls.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do non-hexbear people even post on hexbear? If so, why the hell do you torture yourself?

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[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I refuse to believe that people actually think like that. Hexbear is either filled with trolls, or it's a damn psyop.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, not a psyop. Just sad people.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is one brand of their typical users. The sooner everyone realizes they have nothing to offer, the better. Everyone needs to defed with hexbear.

What's really wild and astounding to me is any of them that might actually not be just trolls. Like, how do you not recognize you're the bad guys when everyone hates you for what you're doing to them?

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Have you never met a narcissist in real life before?

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