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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.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Lmao one of the top comments

(it takes 2 braincells to realize the CCP is 1984 incarnate).

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fuck these tankies man. I’m as leftist as they come and I HATE what these people are doing to the cause.

They did it, they did the meme unironically! farquaad-point

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

lol, the reply

1984 was based on the Soviet Union

galaxy-brain insight from lemmy.world as always

Read another book besides 1984, Animal Farm and Harry Potter, please

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except russians are russians and they eventualy somehow fuck up everything they touch. God forbid they go full on democracy.

From 0 to racist in 5 seconds

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

these people think nazi germany was only bad because they didn't speak english

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Who made that really good post about how 1984 was clearly based on England?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean "leftist as they come" maybe they're ultraleft?

Lmao no we know they're just bernie bros

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao no we know they're just bernie bros

More like "I voted for Pete Buttigieg".

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

The great Warren-Buttigege split of Hexbear has been a disaster for the posters

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Leftist as they come" always means "i'm a complete reactionary, but not as openly fascist as the people i hang out with." It's basically admitting you're the Tim Pool for your local chuds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

"and I'm gonna pissed off about that" - pim tool

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm ultraleft and i resent that

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

Imagine telling on yourself like this

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

This is where I learned the word tankies. It sounds like British slang honestly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

michael-laugh thats my favorite part too!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

oh 1 brain cell is enough for that

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

not wrong lol

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jesus, that thread

Their “anti-Orientalism” (read as pro-tankie) policy has been known for a good while.

kombucha-disgust

Lemmy.ml was always garbage and I blocked almost every community there because most of their posts are about capitalism or landlords

100% this person is a landlord

this really upsetting since they have c/technology and c/privacy communities. Someone might post something like high-tech surveillance of actvtists or Uyghurs

lmao this is from the thread's OP

Lemmy dot ml is like, one step away from becoming another Lemmygrad.

inshallah

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

Pro-tankie is when I'm not allowed to imply that Westerners are good-hearted and rational, but everyone else is a bunch of animals who need us to teach them how to be human

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"i'm as leftist as they come" means "i am very slightly to the left of the democrats/tories/cdu"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It generally means that they literally just want free shit without putting in any work. Actual Socialists want fair value for their labour.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Pro-market laissez faire capitalist anti-unionist (they just take your money) but I like weed and I don’t hate gay people

I’m far left.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i want free shit without putting in any work AC-AnarKitty

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Legal weed and free college, but none of that annoying woke stuff and nothing that threatens the treat flow for affluent tech workers. marx-joker

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It generally means that they literally just want free shit without putting in any work.

well things like health care, food and shelter should be free without any requirement of work.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yes but it won't be there if people in the society don't work.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2400166

Holy fuck, this person is evil. Implying the communists

CWused Gas chambers to kill Jews.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

Lmao they cited ziq from raddle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As pointed out in the linked comment chain, the person might just be old enough to be referring to the Nazis. Another indication of this is that the person is posting from a German domain, so probably born there, so probably referring to being born there but earlier.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Why do you think they mention Nazis and Gas chambers when the comment about it was about online communists? Cause they try to imply communists would act like Nazis.

They mention the Nazis in relation to communists tankies and hexbear though.

spoiler

It was always a tankie den. The Lemmy developers are very openly tankies.

Reading this really troubles me. I don’t like the implication that using lemmy is pushing authoritarian ideology.

If I was born 50 yrs earlier I would literally have been put in the gas chamber. I tick several qualifiers for it.

I have openly wondered if now, thanks to the wider adoption outside of the tankosphere, would be a good time for a cornerstone fork to put these concerns to bed. It would be nothing more than a signaling that the proverbial hands have changed, but it would certainly soothe these kinds of concerns.

I really enjoyed reading your explanation. Thank you very much.
This calms me down quite a bit. :) have a good day.

So what the person calms down is that lemmy might get a tankie free fork. So I stay with my reading of it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

In addition MinekPo1 [She/Her] who said not all SS troops out to be sentenced to death is using sources from the Black Book of communism (which she likely learned of after hexbear users did challenge her views).

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shoutout to @[email protected] for being based as always, even if he does allow filthy libs on his site.

Check out Dessalines' Marxism Study Plan

Edit: oh this post is about a different mod, but as an instance admin myself I was scrolling the modlog yesterday and saw Dessalines had removed some of those same articles themselves, putting "no sources" as the reason. I figured there'd be a post about it soon lmao.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

hexbear-specter hexbear-specter hexbear-specter a spectre is living rent free in lemmy

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I've been very lenient with libs. I generally let them say whatever they want as long as they say it in a respectable manner and don't break general rules. Don't really remove any pro Ukraine threads either rn.

Edit: It's just Dessalines removing stuff a lot. He is become authoritarian.

Here are my mod actions(I've been too much of a liberal here sadly)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dessalines is an evil tankie??? oooaaaaaaauhhh

Wait so you didnt even ban them? Lol they just single you out because you had marxist in your name

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Yeah I just banned a spam bot and another guy spamming random shit with alts. Dessalines told me to be chill with bans.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

We love our mods rat-salute-2

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Lol dorks. Get fucked libs