this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

...by dunking on their user bases

They don't really bother to hide the fact that their primary reason for existing is trollng and brigading, do they?

Edit: Here is proof that "dunking" is their term for organised brigading, where a hexbear member is posting a comment in another instance on hexbear "if you wanna dunk".

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is there a way to just block hexbear? Tankie nonsense almost kept me from trying Lemmy at all, and for the longest time, it’s been good. But recently it’s just tankies everywhere and I’m so over them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only way is to join instances that have tankie instances blocked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pixxelkick 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Downside as a Lemmy.world user:

For the last chunk of time I have had zero clue the fuck everyone is talking about. Whats a "hexbear" and whats all the hubbub about?

Hexbear is blocked but all the people complaining about hexbear sure isnt lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, when more instances block hexbear you won't hear any mention

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • beehaw.org
  • sopuli.xyz
  • lemmy.blahaj.zone
  • feddit.de
  • feddit.uk
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lemmy.ca as well.

And hopefully sh.itjust.works in the very near future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin has the ability to block instances wholesale natively

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not yet. What kbin has is domain blocking, for hiding posts that link to a particular domain. It's also buggy right now, and will just hide random stuff from you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Some clients let you, 'connect for lemmy' lets you hide posts and comments from specific instances.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy is already like, 80% anti-capitalist.

I would say they're preaching to the choir here, but this is far more obnoxious than preaching.

[–] Estiar 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Bolshevists wanted to kill the Mensheviks, though they were both against the capitalists. It ain't all peace and kindness on the Left

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Left Unity until I say the revolution ends.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ive seen dozens of hexbear and lemmygrad users post unironically that lefties that dont support Lenin and killing any and all capitalists also deserve to be murdered.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Hexbears users are all either trolls, pro russian and china fascism or both. They don't add any kind of value to the fediverse.

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

So weird how they're brigading ever other post mentioning them but remaining suspiciously quiet on this one.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha, nooo, not suspicious at all! Lemmy.world has hexbear defederated, they can't access this thread.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Ahh gotcha, in that case I may never leave...

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

I bet they have a bunch of alts on each instance.

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[–] LazyBane 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Emotional labor" is a funny way to describe being a keyboard warrior.

[–] Agent641 17 points 1 year ago

The first rule of coup is 'dont talk about coup'.

I thought a tankie would know this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If only those MLs understood that by forcing themselves on the public square most people will reject them, and with them the concept of socialism as a whole...

[–] negativeyoda 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still not convinced that a sizeable chunk of tankies aren't right wing false flag types trying to make anything other than the capitalism we're all dealing with seem reasonable in comparison to the authoritarianism they peddle

[–] Ataraxia 9 points 1 year ago

Correct. Because that's exactly what they make people feel like and if we were actual idiots we would fall for it. Instead they're just insufferable trolls. Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They don’t actually care about any ideology. They’re 100% trolls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do non-hexbear people even post on hexbear? If so, why the hell do you torture yourself?

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[–] RoyaltyInTraining 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I refuse to believe that people actually think like that. Hexbear is either filled with trolls, or it's a damn psyop.

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

Nah, not a psyop. Just sad people.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is one brand of their typical users. The sooner everyone realizes they have nothing to offer, the better. Everyone needs to defed with hexbear.

What's really wild and astounding to me is any of them that might actually not be just trolls. Like, how do you not recognize you're the bad guys when everyone hates you for what you're doing to them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Have you never met a narcissist in real life before?

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