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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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There's nothing more to say. It's literally the r/neoliberal post from a week ago, with some more edition because lemmy libs apparently are dumber and can't understand something unless it's spelled to them.

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[–] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 85 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm not joking, I legitimately hate these people. Absolutely cowardly, anti-intellectual mindset. I can't explain why exactly, but they actually piss me off more than chuds. They are not better on any issue, yet pretend to be because they want to pretend that they are so pragmatic and civil. I'd spit in someone's face who said this shit to me in person.

[–] charly4994@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This sounds like a fucking parody

There is literally no difference in foreign policy between the 2 parties, other than media coverage. This is not hyperbolic.

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[–] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is amazing. The mental gymnastics necessary is mind boggling.

Let's say Trump and Biden are equally terrible for Palestinians but Trump rolls out a plan to pull out of Ukraine. Using the logic above, shouldn't all Dems vote for Trump since he's quantifiably less terrible?

LOL. What fucking losers. It takes no effort to realize all sides are bad and we're all fucked. Just own it. You can even still be a shitlib like my mom. Just realize it's 100% bullshit.

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You misunderstand where their heart is on Ukraine. They don't want Ukrainians to live, they want Russians to die. Their problem with trump pulling out of Ukraine isn't "more dead Ukrainians", it's "less dead Russians". This is why when you suggest Ukraine should take a peace deal to stop the war as soon as possible, you get the whinging and handwringing.

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 77 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're literally just doing mental gymnastics to try to figure out how they can be actively supporting a genocide and still be the good guys. And the playboys getting pretty stale.

"Fuck Biden, he's literally actively carrying out a genocide."

"Yea well trump would bebworse, trust me."

"Fuck Biden, deportations have gone up under him since Trump and he's trying to eliminate the asylum program."

"Yea but Trump would be worse, trust me."

"Fuxk Biden, were drilling more oil than anybody at any point in history"

"Yea well Trump would be way worse"

This coming from the same people who have been wrong about fucking every important decision for the last 30 years, and also managed to lose elections to Bush and Trump.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been having this conversation all month (year, decade, century) and I am losing my goddamned mind.

[–] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These people are our enemy. There will always be reactionary forces, these types take up space where anti-reactionary forces should be. They are a bigger obstacle to change than chuds and should be treated as such.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Yes. They are more angry at people for whom genocide is a dealbreaker than they are at the people committing the genocide.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Damn I forgot that Biden is being held hostage and forced to circumvent congress to run guns to Israel, and forced to sign that border lockdown bill, and forced to give all those companies oil

Poor powerless little president

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Blow up the train you spineless cowards

It’s close enough to the tracks that it would hurt the hostages, and the wreckage would probably have enough momentum to hit them anyway.

This is a good analogy actually. Blowing up the train would feel good, but that isn’t going to stop the momentum, and it’s unfortunately virtually impossible to outright stop it’s momentum at this point. All that blowing up the train would accomplish is sending fiery wreckage towards the middle track.

This is why accelerationism is stupid.

Dot world delenda est

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Blowing up the Genocide Machine is bad actually because of this scenario I imagined

I agree it has to go but we need to keep feeding souls into it and shut it down slowly (they will never shut it down and will forget this conversation happened as soon as it's time to go to brunch)

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Why did these people leave reddit in the first place?

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'd honestly like to know. Looking through their post histories, most of them aren't FOSS geeks and are only active in politics threads.

I hate to say shit like this, but it seems like the reddit astroturf campaigns have come to lemmy

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There were many of them last year who were like "I was a reddit-logo power poster who had N amount of karma, and now I've left it! So long, spez!" so I think some of them left simply because they hedged their bets that they'd be settlers in a land untouched by hecking updooted content.

I also think many of them went back after it became obvious R*ddit wasn't going anywhere and the "important" moderators were in fact easily replaceable. When I predicted this at .world many of the libs there were unhappy, but by now I think I've been proven right.

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hive mind migration over 3rd party app API drama happened, proving of course that none of them even have an original thought.

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[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Browser users who don’t like new Reddit’s cancerous UI probably

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[–] vger@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Deinonychus@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rule 1:

Be civil Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

i-voted lemmitor qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

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[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In this house we believe

In letting inflation disproportionately fuck minorities and the poor

Respecting the letter of law is more important than women's rights

In shutting down the border until we figure this thing out

Drilling for oil is good

Trans athletes aren't people

Committing less genocide than the other guy (while still committing genocide) is a selling point

[–] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

"at this point"

It always was. It was an alternative to Reddit caused by Reddit's downfall that offered no alternative to the ideological conditions of Reddit in the first place. These were people so addicted to Reddit they needed custom apps to fathom using it.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Let's say for a second this reality were true. What they're saying is they're still ok with the Palestinian genocide. They really think this is a good look.

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[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right because Biden is doing so much to help Mexico and Ukraine and the lgbtq community

Lol the BLM flag in there to. Libs are so delusional

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

If people like William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown voted Whig party every single election and attempted to nudge them left we would still have fucking slavery.

The Whig parties death in the 1850s is what allowed the more radical Republican Party to rise. No one looks back on the years of Whig party rule and says, “wow but at least the slavery was ran more politely.”

[–] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

It's delusional to think that a political party that uniamously supports genocide abroad wouldn't also uniamously support genocide at home

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

Actually it became Reddit 2 when I stopped using it 10 months ago.

I was the only thing holding back total Redditeurization. 😔

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

!!Warning!! Extreme cringe"I hope this post gets a lot of tankie comments. They’ll be flockin’ to a blockin’

Heh. See, cause. It rhymes. So.

The one yesterday had that commenter who was all “what’s this? Oh it took me a second cause I blocked all the tankies” and that’s when I realized I forgot to block lemmy.ml. Now that that’s done, it’s just onsie-twosies. It’s a bright, bright sunshiney day."

Adults in the room, everyone.

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[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I think it's time to push the Lib onto the tracks

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's funny... alotta the fellow users even disagree with them pro-genocide Bidenists , it seems...

Future lemmy.ml migrants?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago

They don't/didn't like when that's pointed out. Especially when they grab the shit meme from politicalhumor a few hours later

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Projection is a played-out accusation, but where the fuck do Democrats get off accusing leftists of being grandstanding and sanctimonious?

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's funny when I say "I don't believe Trump would be worse than Biden on Palestine", suddenly these debate bros, logic bros, logical fallacy referees do not understand the difference between "I don't believe this is true" and "I believe that this is false and the opposite is true".

[–] milk_thief@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Power must feel really fucking sweet if these dipshits hallucinate having it

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