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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I hadn't experienced hexbear (literally) shitting up the place yet, has a way to block entire instances been implemented or do I gotta find a new one that isn't federated with them?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Just block a user that posted something that bothered you like a normal person.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you're incapable of seeing perspectives outside the mainstream I hear Reddit is nice this time of year

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I can tune out tankie nonsense (not accusing everyone at hexbear of being tankies, but you guys sure do hang out with a lot of them) pretty easily, it's the 20 full pages of literal pig shit I'm talking about

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hopefully they fix the emoji bug soon (or whenever they want to get around to it honestly), I find it hilarious but I can most definitely feel for those caught in the cross-fire.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We ought to be putting them behind spoiler tags in the meantime tbh.
If anything, the click-through just adds to the anticipation

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I think it's someone who does a lot of nitrous oxide at Phish concerts

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course I know a tankie it's me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

My personal definition would be "authoritarian communist (or """communist""") regime supporters/apologists". I think a good litmus test is, if the topic of the Tiananmen Square massacre comes up, and their first input is "Ok, but, how many zeroes did the number of dead civilians really have", they're probably too far gone to bother engaging much with

Too many anarchist/commune types consider the authoritarians to be their allies because they also hate the capitalists, right up until the point they're next on the list of undesirables destined for the wall

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok so a tankie is anyone who questions the baseless assertions of western regimes, the truth isn't actaully important to you, what matters is whether someone upholds obvious falsehoods and reinforces state propaganda but from the west

Got ya buddy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I forgot to add "struggles with reading comprehension", that's also a big indicator

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

"Reading comprehension" is when you accept everything you read at face value, I'm not really surprised that's something you believe

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • starts whining about Hexbear
  • starts calling people tankies
  • uses debunked western narrative about tiananmen as litmus test
  • gets pushback
  • 'you can't read'
  • continues whining about hexbear
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

👏 Then 👏 read 👏 the 👏 Wiki 👏 page 👏

Because that will tell you the answer is 1. One zero. Because the number of dead civilians in the Tiananmen Square Massacre is zero. No civilian deaths there. Nada. Read the wiki page, it will tell you no deaths. This information brought to you by such Commies as:

  • the US Government,
  • the Washington Post correspondent (who was there all night),
  • the CBS correspondent (same),
  • and more!

Were there a limited number of deaths in protests elsewhere that wasn't Tiananmen? Yep, about 2-3 hundred across a few hundred cities. And that's bad! But is also pretty dang small relative to the protest size, and happens in all major protests in all countries everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

My personal definition would be "authoritarian communist (or """communist""") regime supporters/apologists".

What does this actually mean? Is Nelson Mandela a "tankie" to you? You might think I'm being facetious, but I'm serious. I'll link some photographs and quotes from Mandela that a lot of the capitalists in charge want you to forget:

"I read works by and about Che Guevara, Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro. In Edgar Snow’s brilliant Red Star Over China I saw that it was Mao’s determination and non-traditional thinking that had led him to victory."

“The revolution in China was a masterpiece, a real masterpiece. If you read how they fought that revolution, you believe in the impossible. It’s just miraculous.”

"From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution."

"Within that international support for our struggle the Soviet Union and other socialist countries stood out. The governments and peoples of the socialist bloc gave material, moral and political support to our struggle in a manner and on a scale that we will never be able to repay."

So again, does this make Nelson Mandela a "tankie"? If so, what does it say about "tankies " and the west, in that the so called "tankies" supported Mandela in the fight against apartheid, while the west did not. In fact, the west often supported apartheid. Even Antony Blinken admitted to that recently.

"The Soviet Union was supportive of the freedom forces in South Africa, and of course unfortunately, more than unfortunately, the United States was much too sympathetic to the apartheid regime, so that history also doesn’t get erased, you know, overnight, it's a process," Blinken said.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The tianamen square protests were no actual witnesses saw anything happen and we're every alleged eyewitness have been proben to have lied? That.protest? The protest where "people were mushed up" but all fotos of the square show no such bodies (except for police officers that had been lynched by the protesters)? That protest?
The protest were the most famous video is of a guy blocking tanks who is then peacefully escorted away? https://streamable.com/unjnw9

Also define authoritarian

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes I'm a tankie and I'm coming to seize all your property and put you in a gulag for re-education until you accept that Liberalism is a disease

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Libs act like they live in a gulag archipelago, they're so worried about what "muh tankies" will do, despite the fact that they're all in the same picket line and a cop is gonna shoot them before they ever get close to any situation where such a philosophical disagreement would matter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I can tune out tankie nonsense.

Tankie nonsense is when you challenge obvious incorrect statements with proven facts and material reality, and the more lies you challenge the more Tankie you are.

Define Tankie without using Wikipedia or the word "authoritarian". (Tankies were people that supported the USSR intervention in Hungary in the 70's, being left-wing isn't being a Tankie)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Ask for the main Lemmy (lemmy.ML) to defederate from us.

bridget-smug

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Lemmy.world is the largest instance that defedded with us, so might be worth switching if you don’t want to wait for the instance blocking feature to come out.

We’ve also defedded from Lemmy.ca and blahaj, but I wouldn’t join those ones. If you’re Canadian, maybe Lemmy.ca is better than world? I don’t know a lot about blahaj, but it doesn’t seem like a space I’d want to be in seeing how recent interactions went.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Don't let the door hit you on the way out lib

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm using Connect and it provides an option to block an instance

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joined lemmy.ca from Lemmy.ml. no hexbear trolls here

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I was using lemm.ee but the hexbear spam in the threads was ridiculous. They were swarming the meta thread discussing defederating them too, and it seemed like the instance admin was determined to keep federating with them. Went on the hunt to join a popular instance that doesn't federate with them. There's a few out there that do block the annoying authoritarian/boot-licking trifecta of lemmygrad, explodingheads, and hexbear. Sopuli.xyz was the one I ended up joining.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just block the main communities that pop up. Most of their shit disappears of you block like five hexbear communities and lemmygrad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On Lemmy itself it hasn't been implemented, though there is an issue related to it on their github. There are clients that do it but it's client-side only at the moment.

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