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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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tankies are out of touch with reality. by the way, if someone I didn't like stated a clear fact, I would rather reflexively rebuff base reality than hand it to them smuglord

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lib says dumb shit in dunk tank -> dunk tank post -> lib says dumb shit in dunk tank...

Is this dialectical motion?

[–] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

I prefer the term "sisyphean purgatory". No matter how hard you dunk, it’s always futile in the end.

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

more like human centipede

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

All we have to do is get Xi and Putin to say that breathing is necessary for life

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

Look mom, I'm famous!

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

Just openly admitting their entire worldview is vibes-based reaction stalin-point

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

And then what?

Stick your head back up your own ass?

Seriously, these people are something else

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

Hahaha, libs are actually like this in real life too. I asked my mom at one point whether if Trump did something good as president whether she would think it's bad, and she said yes. I looked at her confusedly and asked if she really meant that and she said yes! I was shocked. Of course I should add that hours later, she brought it up again and said that actually, no, if someone she doesn't like does something good, the act is still good. So this anti-Trump (or Putin or Xi) impulse is extremely strong in the moment, but can be overcome with time and thought, after the immediate emotions from a political conversation have cooled. Very interesting.

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

Ee, smartest instance on lemmy

[–] Grimble@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LOL liberals should know that we can trick their ilk into doing whatthefuckever just by quietly nudging them to do the opposite. They can know all about it because they can't possibly change it. Given the way anticommunist neoliberalism has been structured, it's inherent to their survival.

Be worried. Not about me, not this site but whoever ultimately decides to use Contradiction as a weapon the way we've always wanted to. We've been sitting around for 30 years just studying and scheming, and your side isn't built for what's coming. You willingly enslave yourself in a game of opposites, where you can't take your eyes off the Enemy or lose sight of your whole identity. We don't have that problem - we have the key to humanity which youve sunk billions of agency dollars just to replicate.

We'll feign weakness to relax your confidence. We'll feign strength when you're at your tensest. We'll point one way, then the opposite, and when your guns are trained on both paths we'll disappear down a third one. You spend billions on the scientific study of how we beat you, because it keeps happening when you fight us, and all you can come up with is "Dangerous propaganda" and "Unexpected maneuvers". You'll never win the game of opposites because your whole goal is to stand in opposition to us. We are ghosts with the power to take physical form, or else haunt you forever.