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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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[–] ThisMachineKillsFascists@hexbear.net 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shout to the guy lying and claiming we defederated when it was lemmy.world that defedded us before we even federated lmao

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Or the guys lying and saying that you're right-wing anti-LGBT people masquerading as leftist?

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never know if i should be more repulsed by the sheer amount of transphobia in that kind of comments or just completely baffled by how ignorant and clueless these people are. First time i saw that in the wild, it was by some guy who thought that it's suspicious when his replies include pronouns like, i shit you not, he / him, she / her, they / them and any / undecided. Made him think we're Russian bots with pronouns set to shuffle. Like mfer have you been living under a rock, there wasn't even a single neopronoun or she / it catgirl in there! Any irl trans meetup i've even been to had a wider pronoun selection than that. When other users pressed him on that, he admitted that he had never talked to a trans person in his life, which is probably better for all the trans people he could run into.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which is hilarious considering how much better we are at banning transphobia than most other instances

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our big wet mods are pretty quick to handle those kinds of things.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, banning libs.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

in fact i did a survey of other online trans communities and we have the most trans positive admins and mods of any one group. (for example, we have 26 mods/admins patrolling the reports of /c/traa and removing transphobic content)

at some point, ideally once we reopen registrations, i intend on getting more trans people to this platform so they can be in a nicer place free of transphobic rhetoric rather than being constantly under siege on places like reddit where mods experience burnout incredibly fast

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the ones where they go looking for a fight in our instance, then use that as reason to defed lol

I think we've done alright tbh

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[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

It's so cool being told by liberals that I'm faking my gender and politics to score political points online when I've spent literally years trying to avoid being online, and it's all because I have the wrong views about zelensky-pain or something

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

even though socialism is a strong undercurrent in the trans community since stonewall, and there was even a book written about it by leslie feinberg in the 90s?

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

It's all lies, it's all projection lmao

[–] Anxious_Anarchist@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I was called a bigot by 7 or 8 different people because I dared to suggest that when someone finishes transitioning, they are no longer trans.

Lol bruh that is bigoted, it reinforces the gender binary. Dude was so confident about this they responded to multiple comments with this.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Checked to see what that one got banned for and...

shocked-pikachu

Person with weird stance on transpeople is in fact a transphobe.

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

"It's a complicated issue. On the one hand, I am credulous enough to swallow the bait of this wedge issue hook-line-and-sinker. On the other hand, I actually am bigoted but don't want to admit it."

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

I remember that bigot. It was more than 7-8 times especially if you count jokes that implied he was a bigot

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[–] NormalC@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not only does it reinforce the gender binary, its also is a transmedicalist reactionary take that trans people all need to become indistinguishable from cis people to become "cured of gender dysphoria."

Nobody called them out about this immediately in that thread because it fit the "evil alt right alt left ultra tankie authoritarian ruzzian CCP teenage hexbear conformist" narrative.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

I was called a bigot by 7 or 8 different people because I dared to suggest that when someone finishes transitioning, they are no longer trans.

Only 7 or 8? Those are rookie numbers!

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

data-laughing

people then piled on saying how I was a hypocrite and deserved violence brought against me, because violence has been done by cops agains homeless and trans people. also, that all I care about is getting brunch

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

This genuinely could have been any of us.

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lol, that comment is directed at me. they reported a comment for a reason that bordered on transphobia, so i @d them and called them a coward for hiding in the reports. now theyre crying to their lib friends. @JudahBenHur@lemm.ee how about you come and defend your report, coward

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[–] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

@Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net you're famous, there are at least five screenshots from your comments in that thread, kinda jealous ngl

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago
[–] kristina@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i like how theyre acting like catradora has unlimited power but is only just a mod of traa

also those posts are fucking hilarious

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[–] TomboyShulk@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thanks for the free ban list, fucking nerds stalin-joking

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[–] Stoatmilk@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

Wow those comments really show the limits of liberal tolerance of LGBT+

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my lord imgur tier memes bruh.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

a-little-trolling They're not bringing their best folks!

[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

when someone finishes transition, they are no longer trans

For anyone who isn’t sure how to explain why this is wrong, here’s what I came up with:

  1. It’s better to think of transition progress in terms of how often you are content vs whether or not you’ve achieved some completed state.
  2. Transitioning does not retroactively fix your AGAB being wrong and all the harm that comes with that. It does not negate the experience of needing to transition in the first place.
  3. There’s a difference between being “cis-passing” in most of your interactions with cis people and being mostly-content with your transition. These stages usually happen at different times if they both happen at all and the OP’s comment feels like it’s prioritizing cis people’s perception of “passing” over trans people’s contentedness.
[–] axont@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw that person and it's the most ludicrous position I've ever heard. I think I get the idea they don't regard NB people as real too. Finish transitioning? Who decides that?

I think this person is what's called truscum, as in, they think being trans is entirely HRT and surgery. Once the surgery is complete, then that's when the transition is over? What an confusingly stupid opinion.

That person is complaining we called them a bigot and they go out of their way to say weird bigoted things

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

when someone finishes transition, they are no longer trans

lol i wish. when the doctor says im done with transition do i get a sudden magical girl transformation at the end?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Updating your name and gender at the DMV and they hand over your state mandated Sailor Moon cosplay over the desk

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

isn't that the official LGBT line of the Islamic Republic of Iran? live-slug-reaction

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Ever wanted to be talked down to by a 14 year old alt-right sociopath who pretends to support lgbt so they can stealthily insult liberals and blame western whites for how China is?

holy fuck I laughed out loud at this outside by myself at ten to 1am … I didnt know what hexbear was, soooo, I reported a post for saying that anyone who ever supports a democratic candidate in america needs to be hit by a truck, and that violence needs to befall them, so the mod I reported it to posted my username and announced I had reported it in a comment to that post. people then piled on saying how I was a hypocrite and deserved violence brought against me, because violence has been done by cops agains homeless and trans people. also, that all I care about is getting brunch

lmao these people are so willfully ignorant it's amazing.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

so the mod I reported it to posted my username and announced I had reported it in a comment to that post.

I don't remember doing that, have other mods started to do the thing too?

Edit: I got the answer, it was zooms who named and shamed that clown

[–] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

alt-right

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blame western whites for how China is

??

pretends to support lgbt

???

stealthily insult liberals

??????

Perhaps they're talking about a different hexbear?

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

stealthily insult liberals

they have pics of me telling them to kill themselves, idk why they think im stealthy

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chris Pratt is a fine representative for their way of thinking.

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[–] Melonius@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Some of them are sharing their bad opinions but most are just outright lying. How shit of a person do you have to be to lie on the internet smhsmih

[–] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Office is one of the most neoliberal shows I've seen, until I saw Parks and Rec (shoutout to that Biden scene lmao)

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[–] ComradeCmdrPiggy@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NotErisma@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Whooaaa specter hexbear

sicko-pog hexbear-specter

AND Im stILl exCITED ABOUt the BRIDGET EMOTES

bridget-pride-stay-mad

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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uncritical support to our megabillionaire tankie overlords who are apparently PAYING Lemmy admins across the Fediverse to keep mention of our communism quiet. SHUSH EVERYONE IT'S A SECRET.

a lot of Lemmy admins are actually on the take from dumbass tankies. Actually the two Lemmy devs are tankies too, or so the word on the street says. No one wants to even consider that, though.

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

Lotta holocaust trivialization going on in that thread.

If only people would see this link under posts that were "le both sides" https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

[–] axont@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shout out to the liars over there claiming we wanted to be defederated for three years. My understanding is we wanted to federate with at least lemmy.ml from the very beginning, but we ended up on a separate branch of the code and it took years to fix.

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

Yep, hexbear achieving parity with the upstream lemmy api is why I'm here because muh apps

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We need to get to the point where Ledditors accuse other Ledditors they disagree with of being Hexbear alts.

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