"Could be the ratchet effect. Lemmygrad and Hexbear are both explicitly Marxist-Leninist, but .ml is explicitly FOSS and Privacy based, just with Marxist-Leninist admins."

This was back when I tried to get PugJesus to try to understand how deeply unserious they were, and generally tried to appear less threatening to liberals to hopefully lead some to question liberalism or even read theory

(Spoiler: it didn't work)

Specifically, it was in reference to Lemmy.world becoming more and more right-wing as the target boogeyman shifts from more overt to less overt leftism, especially since ml removed leftist from its description.

Kinda funny seeing it up there now that I've made a Hexbear account

  • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 days ago

    I was really hoping my "having your comment become a tagline is bourgeois decadence" would surely have made it. I was even prepare for a "Witness me!" bit with silver spray paint and everything.

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      That one's good! I have some I think are zingers, like "Communism is when everyone passes around a single copy of Capital and gets temporarily posessed by the Spectre of Communism, and gets to say "it's me, the Communist"

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    2 days ago

    Getting a tagline is Hexbear poster Valhalla

    I have a few from the original tagline thread right after the site opened and another one from just posting good

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Nice! Love the taglines, a lot are really funny

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 days ago

      i have a couple, one that i remember most is referring to hexbear as pink news but pinkoer after we had a time period where we posted like... only lgbt news/stuff for a couple of days

  • Egon [they/them]
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    2 days ago

    I've written so many bangers, so much unhinged shit, yet none of it has been made a tagline. I can only assume this is because hexbear is a psyop specifically made to make me a little bit frustrated

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      I think it's precisely because I often say less than entirely based shit on my .ml account to soften my anti-liberalism for liberals, in the hopes that they may actually read theory, that this one got the tagline. Like, of course lemmy.ml is going to have MLs, lol

      It's like in Dune, trying to go slower so the defenses don't pick it up and I can land a strike

  • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 days ago

    I shudder at the idea of seeing one of mine taglined. All the comments I've made that people reply "tagline" to are the most intensely autistic things I post.

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Yea, I personally think I've written far better lines than this one, haha, but it is what it is.

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Basically the Jeff Tiedrich of Lemmy. Insufferable liberalism.

      Fun fact: dig through the linked thread if you can, and PugJesus even claims to have read Lenin, yet in other threads can't help themselves from denouncing even the Black Panthers for being ML.

        • Cowbee [he/him]
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          2 days ago

          Fair, I do love a good Jeff tweet. PugJesus is basically a dedicated left-puncher while Jeff punches Trump at least. PugJesus is non-stop annoying, while Jeff is just cringe in the way liberals are.

        • Cowbee [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 days ago

          Nobody hates leftists more than PJ here, not even the genuine fascists seem to put as much of an effort into left punching

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 days ago

    One of my gags is on one of the sidebar for a board

    I'm very proud of anti-nautilism

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    2 days ago

    It’d be nice if one of mine were a tagline, but also, i like the obscurity