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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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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What kind of Anarchist is pro-Israel? Lmao.

I'm so glad libs never DM me.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They were tired of getting their ass beat in the comments and are currently hate scrolling Catadora's profile. They're apparently opposed to Israel but automatically assumed that I would also condemn Hamas? I don't go into the posting mines very often anymore because this shit is exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Feel free to offload it to me any time comrade I have infinite patience for dunking on libs.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What kind of Anarchist is pro-Israel? Lmao.

nato-cool funny-clown-hammer

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm just assuming they're in the top funny-clown-hammer Patreon tier.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What kind of Anarchist is pro-Israel?

most online anarchists just loop back around to being LIB

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

What kind of Anarchist is pro-Israel? Lmao.

Antideutsche lol

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

Western liberals with a fetish for talking about property crime. They call themselves anarchist but don't read literally anything in the anarchist bibliography.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This whole saga is hilarious. I wonder what this person's motivation for doing this is? What are they thinking will happen? Do they expect all the "tankies" will just go "Yes, I never thought of it like that before, this link to the CIA's website is very compelling evidence that I am completely wrong and will change my mind posthaste!"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm 99% sure that person was a paid propagandist. I don't make that claim lightly because I think quite often libs do state department work for free, but this one, well, they set off every one of my "this person is being paid to try to make communists look bad on the internet" alarm bells.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If that kept going I'm sure it would go "WHO HURT YOU? HELP IS AVAILABLE BUDDY" smuglord

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

Maybe throw a "touch grass" in for good measure.

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

Seriously lol

"You can drop the debate bro persona" says the liberal throwing messages at an inbox like a man sending angry texts to a woman who rejected him

Just admit you got irrefutably owned in the open so hard you turned to privately harassing people

Loser

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I showed you my logic and reason please respond" kubrick-stare

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Debatebro calling you a debatebro

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

toxic ex-trying-to-get-back-together vibes

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love when people don't get the hint that a)I don't like them and b) I do not wish to continue the conversation

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Debate me bro! Stop being such a debatebro about it though, debate me, I'm just asking questions, why are you scared to respond? Why are you afraid of the truth? Stop being such a debatebro nazi and answer my questions! You're coping and seething! Debate me! Give me the attention I crave!"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have learned the secret art of not giving a shit about engaging with people

It works at the mall for those folks at the kiosks, it works with Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, and it works with the chuds at stores who are mad that I still wear a mask everywhere

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

I find that looking like a homeless person is enough to get everyone to leave you alone. If you don't look like you have any money, they won't bother you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I usually look like one of the Strangers from Dark City

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It's brutal and effective. Doesn't shut them up, but leaves them floundering, they always have the same canned "I'm not a debate pervert, I'm just asking questions!" response. Every time.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Bro didn't even condemn Hamas! Not once in any of those DMs!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

It's creepy when libs

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Their debate tactics mainly revolve around alternating between calling people a fascist, zionist or debate bro. They're not sending their best, folks.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've honestly thought about just being like "Yeah i'm a huge fan of Hamas" if i ever end up in a argument with one of these guys. Honestly, it's not like there'd be any consequences worth noting

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

You might make one of them lose a monocle

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I tried to warn you all about the creepy-crawlies of DMs, but no one listened.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean I was one of the people that got harrassed by homophobic DMs when the site first started. I've only ever used DMs to check if someone is fine, continue a long comment thread privately instead of having a 50 comment deep public chat, and to contact the original developer about site bugs. (Though I don't think they are around anymore). I don't even understand why people would DM randoms on hexbear lol. Especially to debate? Weirdo behaviour.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I've DM'd someone once to ask something I didn't want to put into hextube chat.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Sure you said that then, Cassandra, but why should we believe you now?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've only had two for the past three years I've been on this site. I must not be posting hard enough.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every time I log into this site my DMs is the equivalent to lifting up a large rock on a summer's day.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@[email protected]

I am going to argue that this narrative is nonsense. It tries to pass off as universal and eternal something that in reality is particular and ephemeral. In short: Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. [...]

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're banned, so you unfortunately won't get a response

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] is a pathetic troll, just your typical pol brained shit-flinger without an ounce of integrity or political coherence

And if they're a paid propagandist they're a cheap one, literally asserted checking sources critically was "nazism", absolute bottom barrel dipshittery

The trick is to instantly recognize these scumbags and immediately clown them, cause whether they're paid or not they're all highly insecure people who measure their self-worth by an imagined proximity and loyalty to power

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

Im so glad I'm banned on *.ee

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

Debate perverts everywhere

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly my posting powers are inferior, for I have never once received a creepy DM from any liberals before

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

That anarchost person just dm'ed everyone they interacted with on that thread I'm pretty sure. I think maybe they switched to dm's after realizing their arguments weren't working because people weren't buying what they were selling

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Jesus, I hope that poster is getting paid

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

lol that loser tried that with me to

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Textbook example of bad faith

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

That was one of the more interesting specimens I've seen try to shill anticommunism in awhile.

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