• Yor [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    For the record, I still hope he dies!

    And Biden!

    ASAP!

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    8 months ago

    Liberals can't fathom people not having Trump Derangement Syndrome and being able to laugh at his goofy ass without popping a blood vessel.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      Understanding that America's institutions are unsalvageable unburdens us from being precious about their disgrace.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Which ironically is the the only thing giving him any legitimacy.

      Instead of crying about him saying bloodbath for two days (but reiterating they won't do anything to beat him electorally) he's gotten days of free press and he gets to act like a tough guy.

      If the universal response had been "what're you going to do get your supporters to smear shit on the wall then go home while you watch it on tv?" They'd actually put him on the backfoot.

    • mkultrawide [any]
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      8 months ago

      I hope he dies, but it will be a bittersweet day for content-brains like ourselves.

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Oh come on the conspiracy theories about him actually being alive and hanging out with his best friend Tupac are going to be hilarious.

        Chuds are gonna post pictures of 90 year old women with perms from behind with captions like "still hiding in plain site, trust the plan"

        You don't wanna watch a dozen Maga dudes struggle to disinter him to prove he's not dead and accidently flop his rotting corpse with a perfectly intact toupee out on camera?

          • NewLeaf
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            8 months ago

            I kind of don't think people as a group have enough follow through to start (more of a) cult around trump. We just don't have a collective attention span that lasts longer than a week. What we're seeing is more like a lifestyle brand than a group of people seriously committed to ideals.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
        hexagon
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        8 months ago

        Yes, but him dying from covid in office would have been peak content.

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          I wish he actually believed some of the things he said. Trump taking a truly heroic dose of horse paste then shitting his guts out would have been true kino

      • NewLeaf
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        8 months ago

        The internet as we know it will die with trump. Even with him alive, there are still days where I think "there's nothing on the Internet today"

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Liberals need him to exist because without him they'd look like feral demons who are incapable of doing anything apart from murdering anyone us-foreign-policy

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Turns out "I'm not trump" is less of an effective sales pitch if the other person also isn't Trump and that's literally all they have to run on.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Liberals in 2028 after Trump died of natural causes a year prior: We're still 99% Hitler. Why won't you vote for the lesser of one Hitlers?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      8 months ago

      They'd just find another guy to villainize. Probably a foreigner like Xi or Putin or Generic Hamas Guy.

  • LaBellaLotta [any]
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    8 months ago

    When liberals stick their fingers in this beehive is when you folks are at your absolute finest. Federation has been awesome. I know not everyone likes it and I know arguments online aren’t THAT important but there is such a clear difference between sides when the Hexbear posting batallions engage with the liberal interlocutors.

    I remember reading someone somewhere say years ago that to the extent debating online means anything it is for the people reading the exchange and not so much the parties debating. The lurkers if you will. Well I am a lifelong lurker because I think I recognized before I had the vocabulary that a lot of posting on social media ultimately amounts to alienation from creative labor. The feeling of bleakness from that and a sort of shame about the idea of trying to garner attention towards myself have kept me from ever being a committed poster.

    This space has been the only time I have ever felt like it’s really worth being a part of this.

    The way in which you folks have honed your rhetorical edges against each other and practice libs in the dunk tank really shows. Those muscles are strong and they hate that to outside observers you are almost always the more cogent and coherent side.

    But the absurdity and humor are even more potent weapons because it breaks the tension and gives people room to examine preconceived notions. There is a degree to which inspiring a laugh is almost like a concession of a point. They cannot stand that we’re more factually grounded AND funnier!

    All this is a long winded way of saying that they cannot stand that you folks are funnier, more grounded, and have way better emojis.

    Never log off Hexbear o7

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      4chan used to be afraid of CTH. Glad to see we're carrying on that tradition here.

      CW: Slurs, 4chan

      Show

      • Anne_Teefa
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        8 months ago

        Never got to see those threads but was lucky enough to lurk on the main sub during chapos prime time, truly a time to be alive.

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
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          8 months ago

          made me feel like being in the middle of a huge, supportive moshpit where everyone is being a bit rough, having fun, and absolutely fucking up any nazis that get near

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        I've seen this so many times and yet, every time I read it its like the first time all over.

        "They don't even get mad, they just waste your time and degrade you"

        • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Proof that streamer debatebros are wrong and the real means of victory over online fash dipshits was always posting pigpoopballs and telling them they're going into the Tito Cuck Pit

      • Rom [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        If not for the slurs this would be amazing tagline material.

          • Rom [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            I say we do.

            I don't mess with chapos anymore just not worth it. They're actual fucking psychopaths. I wanted to debate them wasn't even memeing that much and they dug up everything from my post history and kept pressuring me to post pictures of my dick. Fuck with any of the dumbass political boards on reddit but I would stay away from chapo. they don't even get mad, they just waste your time and degrade you and some of them are real fucking psychopaths and I don't know what they might do nor do I want to

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      The way in which you folks have honed your rhetorical edges against each other and practice libs in the dunk tank really shows. Those muscles are strong and they hate that to outside observers you are almost always the more cogent and coherent side.

      Iron sharpens iron.

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      The way in which you folks have honed your rhetorical edges against each other and practice libs in the dunk tank really shows.

      lol I never thought of it like a training ground. It just feels good to put my frustration into words and/or read the dunk of someone who already put in that work.

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      As much as I like this, I do understand why someone replied to you with a PPB due to the unfortunate reality:

      For every one of us who have studied the posting blade, there are two vulnerable comrades who will be subjected to libs tearing the mask off so fast they scalp themselves in their fervour to bully our trans, queer and enby posters to death.

      It fucking sucks, but we can't trust them (libs) to be better and we can't sacrifice our comrades for privileged posting enjoyment

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      They're completely out of their element. Liberals are so mad that it's not Reddit and there's no mod looking over their shoulder to delete our posts to protect their feelings when we dump a massive 7 paragraph essay on them shredding every stupid belief they have and have been allowed to repeat unrestricted for years on Reddit.

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    8 months ago

    What annoys me is not libs disliking us, or disagreeing with us about who the true LEFTIST is, or crying because they got banned.

    It's just the sheer, utter disinformation where it's objectively demonstrable that they just make up shit about us and then all believe it. Still in .world, despite being corrected many times, the majority of users will say Hexbears did mass downvoting, when that's literally impossible.

    They'll say we love Putin, and Trump. And that we're all fascists - even if you believed dumbdumb horseshoe theory, a fair portion of us aren't even close to authoritarian. That we're largely Chinese shills and bots. That we deliberately organise RAIDS on other instances and aren't just a big community group who like to share our personal experiences on other threads and we like to come to each other's aid. That we're a place of HATE when this place, of all sizeable internet communities, has one of the biggest cultures of love and mutual aid I've ever seen.

    I get the political disagreements. I get the disagreement on conversational tone. What I don't get is the sheer determination to not even understand us in the slightest way, to take the most random bullshit, even when it is factually impossible, and take it at face value; all just so they don't have to acknowledge us as real people. That's what upsets me. kitty-birthday-sad

    Now I made myself sad >:( I love y'all comrades meow-hug

    • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      It's just the sheer, utter disinformation where it's objectively demonstrable that they just make up shit about us and then all believe it.

      Reminded of how Hitler had documents forged implicating his enemies prior to the night of the long knives, and then getting angrier and angrier when he read them.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
        hexagon
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        8 months ago

        It's why right-wingers can't write satire---they get too mad at their own fiction.

      • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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        8 months ago

        That's hilarious, can you point me at an article about it? I'm being genuine, I can't find one and I really want to read more about it.

      • Rom [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Even viewing posts from other instances through Hexbear (for instance https://hexbear.net/post/2105999) will have the downvote button disabled. On the flipside downvoting Hexbear posts from other instances does nothing, we don't see nor count downvotes. So if a comment gets hit by libs and sits at 10 upvotes 50 downvotes, we would just see that as +10.

        • IMF_DOOM [she/her, undecided]
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          8 months ago

          We actually can be down voted and it affects how our posts are ranked on other instances, it's just that we can't see the downvotes on our end

  • cosecantphi [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    express extreme indifference

    You must publicly cry and grieve for this man who we have been calling the reincarnation of Hitler for the past four years!

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      i'm elevated beyond mere indifference, I'm getting extreme with it. Once Trump dies I'm laying down on a pillow and snoring so loudly that a feather floats up and down on my breath

  • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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    8 months ago

    They think when we joke about him dying we're just being edgy, but also we support him cuz that's also edgy.

    They hate him in a dignified civil way where they fail to stop him from doing anything but say "you are like Voldemort good sir!"

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Also lmao at "extreme indifference"

      So you can't even be neutral you literally have to pretend the guy isn't completely deserving of a slow and painful death.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      Your honor, I was expressing moderate indifference at most. saul-your-honor

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Trump dying would be extremely funny and cool

    Like imagine it happens at one of his rallies and the crowd just thinks he's speaking in tongues but his brain is dying and nobody moves to render assistance until he keels over, hopefully falling into Jared Kushner's lap 3 Stooges style

    • qaopjlll [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      TFW you realize that whichever nutcase he picks as his running mate has a high probability of becoming president before 2028

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Nobody is gonna have the same iron grip on the base he does because they relate to him because he has zero shame and will say literally any stupid shit then double down on it forever.

        It requires you to have the opposite of political savy, nobody else is half the chud whisperer he is partially because the chuds can tell when somebody is just pretending to be a dumb shit racist and now they've had the genuine article they will accept no substitutes.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        8 months ago

        I already have my President Ramaswamy bumper stickers and coffee mugs ready for drop shipping

        • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]
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          8 months ago

          This is a perfect example of a comment a liberal would read and go "OMG HEXBEAR WANTS A FASCIST IN OFFICE" no we don't but if it happened we're gonna grift the chuds. Or at least joke about it.

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            8 months ago

            I'm joking, in reality most of my e-merchandise features erotic photoshops of Jordan Peterson. gotta meet the market where it's at

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        8 months ago

        the problem is there is zero chance he picks someone as weird and unpredictable as himself. he's absolutely going to pick whichever standard conservative freak is the most adept at groveling and ass-kissing.

        • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]
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          8 months ago

          Ramaswamy is pretty damn predictable, IMO. And he did a great job politically at making the case for himself without implying he would be better than trump. He killed the debates, objectively. I'd bet he's high on Trump's list.

          • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]
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            8 months ago

            (obligatory: he's a fascist and I would like him in the gulag, saying he's politically savvy doesn't mean I agree with anything he said.)

  • SnowySkyes
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    8 months ago

    I'm still so disappointed that fucker didn't croak. Him dying could've actually changed the entire landscape of COVID response. Or it could've set off some chuds into a wild fit of conspiracy and shit would have been wilder than it was.

  • neo [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    When Trump got COVID I was having the most fun I'd had since the pandemic began. Too bad he didn't go out like Stan Chera.

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      8 months ago

      That shit was crazy. When they made that weirdly edited video of him landing in the helicopter then standing at the top of the stairs breathing laboriously.