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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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The comments are something else, too.

Did you know that calling out bootlicking makes you effeminate, bucko? up-yours-woke-moralists

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

Did you know that calling out bootlicking makes you effeminate, bucko?

I'm hereby gonna address everyone as "bootlicker" until it becomes an effective replacement for hormone therapy

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was tempted to make that joke but you beat me to it. bridget-smug

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, bootlicker, they say that great minds think alike, don't they, bootlicker?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The bootlickiest!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Maybe if you smear valerate on the boot or something lol

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

Lol the dunking outnumbers the libs by like 10:1

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. unlimited-power

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

uncorrupt

[smacks forehad] damn why didn't anyone think of this before, what a groundbreaking thinker

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This exchange... I can't even be mad, it's adorable.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just waiting for good one capitalists to set things right. galaxy-brain

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"cronies" and "cronyism" or "contacts" and "networking"? idk, i just find it funny when people lament "crony capitalism". as if capitalists don't also know people and form relationships, maybe people who aren't capitalists should also get to know people and form large networks of relationships. then again the capitalist class promote atomization and rugged individualism among the masses for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

michael-laugh They literally used the verbose meme format to suggest it was something other than capitalism data-laughing

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my comment there doesn't display on my profile this is clearly some kind of anti brigading measure

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same.

Don't matter. We know our comments will have 60-100 upbears and some comrade will show up and reply for us by morning.

duck-dance

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also can't drill down in comment threads on that post :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@[email protected]

I actually had this symptom too, and I was like, "that's weird". Then I noticed it's the memes comm on lemmy.ml, which I blocked with great prejudice the first day of federation, so I'm like "I wonder if that has anything to do with it". And yup! That's the answer! If you unblock the memes comm, suddenly you can see the whole of comment threads. I wouldn't be surprised if this is also the "solution" to replies not showing up in your inbox. (I put "solution" in quotes because unblocking the memes comm seems like a terrible plan and not at all worth it just to argue with some libs)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ohhhh you're spot on, I blocked all the meme comms lol

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

If I understand correctly, you can't see certain comments unless you unblock a community? If so, that sounds like a bug.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems to be the case, yes. Expanding comment threads in communities I've blocked doesn't seem to work.

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

Is this only affecting comments in the blocked commumity? Or is it affecting comments in non blocked communities?

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

Only blocked communities. It works fine if I unblock them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think I've had similar issues with not being able to expand when even one person in the thread was blocked.

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

Yup. I 100% blocked the meme comm. Lol

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

bugs-stalin I wish certain commentors a very pit

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

lol the person posting that posted it right after coming into Hexbear and saying shit like this

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

deng-smile A market regulated by an uncorrupt government, you say?