the_dunk_tank

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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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Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again

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The closest thing to a fedposter that I’ve found so far (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://sopuli.xyz/comment/8043368

@[email protected], if you aren't a paid shill for The Atlantic Council then you're leaving money on the table: https://feddit.de/u/0x815?sort=New&view=Posts

You seem to have a particular interest in the Uyghurs. Are you Rushan Abbas or Adrian Zenz?

Why did @[email protected] stop posting two months ago? Is that account yours as well, or did your coworker leave? Was it because the account got permanently banned from [email protected] for a pattern of sinophobia? https://beehaw.org/u/tardigrada?sort=New&view=Posts

These two accounts seem the least organic that I've seen, aside from spammers. Who besides you has four times as many posts as comments?

Currently the user tends to target these comms. Note that you won’t see their posts from hexbear because feddit.de is defederated from hexbear (or because the user blocks hexbear? I’m not really sure how it works):

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Thanks for letting us know, btw

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'd rather not fed-jacket, even someone that is deplorable or disreputable.

Even so, perhaps we can ban this user?

I suggest that the mod or admin team preemptively ban certain users if they are a serious disruptive force to other communities.

Not to be used lightly, but there you go.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'd rather not fed-jacket, even someone that is deplorable or disreputable.

Yeah, it's dangerous to have a community where calling users a fed is normalized, it's easy to turn that against said community and wreck it. It's a lot more constructive to call out the behavior in question and why it's bad, and problematic people should be banned or removed from irl orgs anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Precisely.

I know comrades who are a lot older than I am that have been targeted by the FBI well into the 2000s and 2010s... and been fed-jacketed at the same time (so they didn't always receive the love and support from other leftists).

I'm apart of CPUSA, btw.

We shouldn't normalize fed-jacketing. It can ruin lives. It's a form of psychological warfare done by the FBI and CIA during the 60s/70s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Agreed on that. I've been called CIA so often I wonder if I should submit an invoice to them for all the supposed work I do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Their instance is already defederated from hexbear.

For instance, you won’t see their posts here: https://hexbear.net/c/[email protected] but you will see them here: https://baraza.africa/c/africa

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for telling me. Maybe we can just IP ban 'em just in case they start shit here?

Eh, idk