• AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    You may laugh at them but these fine gentlepeople represent the current dominant economic system that managed to crush it’s opposition with sheer efficiency and might. Not so amused now, are you, fake tankies.

  • Red_Eclipse [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Middle one is how I started. Apparently lemmygrad was so “bad”, that two of the instances I joined defederated it by default before anything else. I was like “Tankies, huh? I wonder what kind of nonsense stuff they like to post.” So I lurked on the front page.

    1 week later

    Holy shit they’re right.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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      Neat! That’s why I’m not too worried that they spread these memes about us (it’s a meme in the original meaning, where they start believing what others tell them without checking for themselves) because people will still check us out. And there’s no risk of getting your instance taken down on Lemmy, not like Reddit where you always had to be super careful about what you said and walk on eggshells.

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          you know what I’m thinking btw? I was browsing lemmy servers on join-lemmy the other day and noticed there’s an instance for the r/blind subreddit, and they will federate with everyone except Lemmygrad lol, probably someone told them something they heard from someone else about us. Hexbear should federate with that community and start politely interacting with them.

          either that or they’re turbo libs because they’re even federated with exploding-heads, so maybe someone could just ask them why they specifically single out lemmygrad.

          edit: instance is simply rblind

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Hey that’s similar to me. Except for me it was reddit and I heard r/latestagecapitalism talking about “Chapos” and the “Dirt bag left” in hushed whispers but never saying why they were bad, so I checked them out and my first though was “Oh finally, some leftists that don’t want to play nice with the right”

      • raven [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Similar pipeline here. Hanging around in all the I suppose you could call them “utopian left” spaces and being patted on the head “you’ll wise up when you’re older” followed by a “refutation” of whatever I suggested that itself demonstrated that they hadn’t actually listened to a word I said. Even some ideas I explored by advocating for them and later decided were flawed, it still burns me that people who otherwise accepted me as a reasonably intelligent person would take an idea I shared with them so lightly as to not listen. That primed me for the “if you aren’t going to participate constructively in good faith then you can fuck off” space that was CTH

    • Melonius [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Same, I even told a friend when telling them about Lemmy that “Lemmy has lots of… something called tankies? No clue what it means but I hear they have bad beliefs.”

      The world didn’t make any sense to me. Browsing hexbear for a couple days was like finding the other half of the puzzle pieces inside dead-dove-1

  • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    hexbear is fascist, they’re pretending to be tankies

    but i thought libs believed tankies = fascists…? picard this is too confusing

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    This is nothing new, I knew people IRL who believed this about the subreddit.

    Including a friend who’d been one of the primary forces pulling me to the left. It was like watching them turn into a liberal in real time.

  • Magician [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    There’s solely using Umberto Eco’s work to understand fascism and then there’s this. The whole 2016 election didn’t ruin the definition of fascism, but it certainly ruined most spaces to have conversations about fascism.

    I know a lot of this shit is deliberate from fascists who have a lot to gain from muddying the water, but it’s still frustrating as hell.

    Like how are we supposed to have a conversation with people who think the conditions of the border camps are significantly better under Biden than Trump?

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I see some controversial, sus, or even downright wrecker shit on Hexbear sometimes, but I can’t recall a single time anyone stanned for Putin unless you count dunking on homophobic “lol Putler gay with Drumpf” takes as stanning.

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      Well you see calling out blatant lies, untruths and demanding journalistic rigor is actually just a dastardly kremlin propagandatrick where we sow discord and mistrust by pointing out when we’re being lied to.

    • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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      Support Putin, the liberal who applied to join NATO? The one who can’t control his own central bank in wartime because he believes in the “rule of law” and “separation of powers”? Lmao. We support the people of Donbass.

  • VHS [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    they will literally just say anything about us. like, if you go to the_donald or /pol/, you can tell they are bigoted because they are saying slurs or barely disguised slurs, calling people r***rded, gay, “low IQ”, groomer, etc., talking about defending The West or a future for white children.

    here, somehow, the bigotry apparently exists in some kind of mysterious non-corporeal state that cannot be pointed to.

  • Stoatmilk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Do not get fooled, Hexbear might seem like fascists pretending to be tankies, but it is actually all a ruse to hide that they are liberals