“You tankies need to join the real world”
“No not like that”
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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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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lol guys, they got you on this one. Literally the entire federation discussion was just people talking about how they couldn't wait to dunk on libs.
Not necessarily, I wouldn't call dunking on libs "fucking shit up". Our activity in threads posted on other instances can be summarized as us providing a leftist perspective that would not have been there if not for federation. Dunking is what we then do to liberals who respond to said perspective in bad faith. I think that's actually good for the federation, not destabilizing.
You're right, but there was also a broad expectation, including on my part, that immediate rhetorical violence would occur when the two cultures came in contact. "Dunking on libs" relies on detailed knowledge of the observed behavior of liberals - Limited ability to handle contradictions, unlimited excuses for their team while condemning the other team as uniformly evil, total lack of interest in history or material circumstances, shocking flat out ignorance. So, like, yes, some of us, including my self, were screaming M*! M*! M*! while banging on the table with forks and knives while our comically long red tongues hung out of the corner of our mouths and thick ropes of drool splattered on to the plates, but we had a pretty good reason to expect that outcome.
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Look at all the lemmy.world people in there with valid informed opinions
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I know that we have instances that we play nice with, but all the turbulence of the past week, while funny, makes me think that the entire concept of federation is flawed.
You should have gotten reconnected before all the redditors realized their beloved snoo was covered in smallpox and blamed the natives for it.
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