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It's the dunk tank.

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I'm trans and I really don't want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren't getting de-modded and banned. I also don't want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.

Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.

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[–] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Hexbear is like the Donald" - an instance blocking comments that are critical of their bigoted content

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The weirdest part about people calling us fascists is that a core component of fascism is anti-communism

Calling tankies fash is right out of the Nazi playbook and just comes across as the same dumb shit as right-wingers saying "Antifa are the real fascists!"

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tankies are bad / Woke are bad

Antifa are fascists / Communists are fascists

Both groups of liberals use exactly the same tactics of thought-terminating cliches when attacking leftwards. The conservative liberals do it to the democrat liberals and they then do it to us.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Liberals and their political analysis not extending past the point of crafting similes, name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.

Honestly, so much lib bullshit is just "Donald Trump is like Voldemort and Hillary Clinton is like Hermione..." and then they list what they like/dislike about those characters in a comparative fashion and that's all the analysis they can muster.

Or they say shit like Putin is like Hitler because Hitler Lebensraum and Putin also expanded Russia via imperialism. Plus here's a picture of Putin with a Hitler moustache to make my argument more compelling.

As if there aren't countless examples of countries engaging in imperialism and expansionism and as if that isn't low-key Nazi apologism to reduce the primary characteristic of Nazi Germany to just "expansionism" at the expense of ignoring all the other, far more egregious, things that characterised Nazi Germany.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All this while they downplay concerns people have about actual Nazism in Ukraine. I wonder how long it will take before they expand this thought-terminating stuff to encompass any anti-nazi sentiment.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Bro, the OUN, Right Sector, C14, Azov Battalion, Patriot of Ukraine, Svoboda, Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, Governmental Initiative of Yarosh, National Corps, People's Front, and Batkivshchyna Battalion aren't actually fascists though.

They're just conservative nationalists, bro. It's completely different. Trust me bro - I read the news!"

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Evergreen skit from an otherwise pretty lib comedy outlet

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I wonder how long it will take before they expand this thought-terminating stuff to encompass any anti-nazi sentiment.

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