post more ppb, post more insults, post more dunks

its funny

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I think it's more interesting to have less rote responses, though some people totally have a ppb coming. If we reach for "ppb" or "hog out" or whatever at first sight of conflict, it's reduced to nothing better than a verbal tic and a genre of spam. It's better for the influence of our instance on the others to have more personalized responses (and sometimes even engaging!)

    • asa_red_heathen [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      True, people are too unimaginative with their bullying. Ppb is largely played out already, we need to be on the forefront of new developments in lib bullying.

      • Kuori [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        we have become soft and stale cooped up in our cave

        we must emerge to feast on new flesh and grow strong once more

      • Rom [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        We should be searching for new forms of livestock, feces, and genetalia. Real cutting edge lib dunking technology.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Hopefully some of that pent off energy is tempered after a week or two of 500+ comment China struggle sessions to establish where everyone stand

      If we aren't isolated by then, I'm hoping that the liberals will realize that they actually need to come up with some substance in their criticisms instead of relying on silly redditisms

      • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        there's currently a struggle session about to hit 600 comments in c/cth, I'm fairly certain it has a good chance of hitting 1k comments by the end of the week

        • spectre [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          Yeah haha I've been following it, that active sort is gonna keep it up for another 3-5 days for sure lol

          • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
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            11 months ago

            oh I'm literally having a conversation with you in that thread rn lmfao I'm maybe a little drunker than I thought not to notice that hahaha

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    I mean yes, me too, but I also don't want to annoy Lemmygrad with too much ppb because some of them don't like it.

    And I want to respect Lemmygrads wishes because they've been super nice to us.

    Maybe just keep ppb to libs that come to us?

  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Is it funny? Abso-fuckin-lutely.

    Does it also turn those on the edge away from socialism and solidify their stereotypes of us? Also yes.

    Just keep that in mind, and reserve the nuclear dunking for those who are acting in bad faith.

    • asa_red_heathen [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Actually I think bullying people makes them more susceptible to self crit and therefore helps socialist movements more than placid civility

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Both are good because different things work for different people, and sometimes the combination works when one or the other doesn't.

      • StalinForTime [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        This only works in specific circumstances. It is better used online to shame bad-faith actors who are here to poison the well.

        I'm telling you emphatically from experience that II really don't think this is the case for the vast majority of people in real life most of the time. If you have gotten to a point where they say something shameful, then it can be good to put a foot down and call it out as the bullshit it is, but there's a few effective ways to do it and many ineffective ways to do it.

    • asa_red_heathen [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Im being a very brave boy, just like this free speech warrior of old

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    So far I haven't been impressed with the reddit-logo tier liberals that wander into here expecting "hello fellow progressive, wouldn't it save the world if only we had legal weed and free college?" And maybe expect circlejerks about how Drumpf is finished any day now. pathetic

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    If they come here, absolutely

    Otherwise be chill about it, but also try to bait them here sicko-yes

    • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      yes honestly watching them be absolutely befuddled is funnier than your average ppb. And they don't even have jesse-wtf to express it

      • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        Yeah, my favorite responses today has been:

        WTF does this even mean

        and

        You people are very confusing.

        BECOME-UNINTELLIGABLE

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    11 months ago

    I never realized until just now that the guy is wearing a zip-up collared shirt.

    A plaid collared shirt. With a zipper. As the fastening.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    Thesis: we should be nicer to the libs

    Antithesis: we should be meaner to the libs

    Synthesis: we should be a little more patient with the well-meaning ones and meaner to the smuglords