the_dunk_tank
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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I am begging you, Each of You, Any of You, who understand what events this references to please fill me in on them or tell me what to search to read this history.
I have mentioned before that I was confused by the attitude towards Beehaw around here and I mostly get it now, but this is the missing piece of the puzzle. I didn't know there was a whole Thing that happened, I thought it was just a vibes mismatch.
Please, Elder Posters: teach me!
short version: well it was in the early months of the ukraine war, and some terminal brained liberals who were there started getting really angry in the news articles. Every news post had 50 or so comments at least with Yogthos and the others (I was there yay im so cool im like the best and smartest) basically predicting how the ukraine war would turn out with lots of sources whos predictions were a mirror image of how the war is turning out now (marxist leninists stay winning). This got some folks really, really mad, so they decided to find and hide in a 'free speech' instance, beehaw. The biggest immigration to beehaw were people part of the massively pro-ukraine crowd. They had nazis and turbolibs joining hands and frolicking into the sunset. Beehaw and lemmygrad were basically enemies for a bit, vying for political dominance now that lemmy.ml couldn't ban them for whitewashing nazis and the like, but Lemmygrad has since grown far beyond such losers.
It was a collection of events over the course of twoish months, with like a one and a halfish month stalemate period.
@[email protected] @[email protected] know it better than me prob, i can remember them arguing with the libs
i remember predicting that them rushing kiev was a feint and i was right and i felt big brained 🤓
Thank you for helping me understand the basics and giving me the clues to dig further when I have time.
irl, I'm a Sweetie, the "let's make a nice place for nice people" stuff appeals to me because the world is so full of meanness and cruelty. And then the layers get peeled back, and oh look, this is also mean and cruel, just in a totally different way. 😑
and I'm autistic and a lot of stuff just flies over my head unless someone is kind enough to explain it to me - thank you. ❤️ I really do appreciate your time.
Considering Beehaw users were constantly, constantly stirring shit on lemmy and elsewhere about defederating with and opposing "tankies" and, iirc, pre-emptively defederated from us, I think the attitude is self-explanatory. They are shitlibs.
@[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], probably others, plus defederated instances (blahaj, world)
Ah, now it makes sense; I thought this felt familiar.