Went both looking for fellow tankies and seeing who I should be blocking on Mastodon by looking at the hashtag #tankies.
It gave me brain damage and I also found a few of these "lemmy is made by tankies, ewww can't use it"-posts that I had never seen before. So sharing these for our mutual enjoyment:
Also just the general vibe of the posts with this tag is just so hostile. We really live rent free in these peoples heads. Interesting how so many of these were ukraine flag or isntreal flag profiles too, also a few anne applebaum replies, because of course.
The vibe is pretty much whatever this drivel is by a true communism understander:
mastodon posters #love to post #like #this, put entire paragraphs in image alt text, and overuse the content warning feature to the point it's completely useless
Its kinda true about Lemmy.ml being shit for trans people its why they should come here
Im on kolektiva, which is an OK anarchist-heavy instance. The federated home page (popular posts from all federated instances) is at least half lib drivel every day. I havent really used it much since i started hexbearing
Moments like these make me realize how many “intellectuals” are actually dumbasses
I think what that genius means is that if the poors are visible, it's like feudalism. A gentrified "prestige city" that has pretentiously minimalist Steve Jobs temples everywhere with impossibly high rents is the real "left" because the only visible peasants are the derelicts rounded up by the cops regularly.
You kind of have to on mastodon because they don't do keyword extraction to automatically pull posts into topical feeds like twitter does. Most people who aren't wankers just put them in a big list at the bottom of the post though, so as to seem a bit less early-2010s
There's a level of Very Online that I can't even dream of where #hashtags are verywhere and the top is covered with pretentious flag flare and maybe a sprinkled donut
The top tiers would be a ZYBERTRUKKK with a QR code on the side.
"actually, when capitalism kills people, it's feudalism that kills people, and feudalism is just a form of communism"
wow super informed person right here
because feudalism, a system where all land is privately owned by the wealthy and the rest of society works to pay rent to landlords is a form of communism. it's nothing like capitalism.
socialism and communism are merely forms of feudalism
I wish I could be this stupid. Not have to read, not have to care, just make up whatever on the spot and be convinced I'm right.
I tried to explain this feeling to a therapist once and they didn't understand. Imagine never having to think about issues of the day. Just gliding through life with a "it is what it is" attitude. Imagine never having to source your claims, and having an endless army of "normal people" lined up behind you to shout down the truth. Imagine a world built for you, that you never question, never doubt, and never feel betrayed by. Imagine only seeing justice and retribution where there is injustice and ruthless genocide. Just imagine how much simpler your life would be if bad guys were bad, and good guys were good, just like you were always told.
It's the way a pigeon wins at checkers: just flap around, shit on the board, and leave.
Yeah I felt this was pretty special. A new level of unserious even.
What's with all the le epic hashtagging? Some Twitter shit?
I'd find that alone worthy of the Drej Tank.
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If somebody you follow doesn't boost or reply to a post, it will never cross your timeline unless you follow one of the hashtags contained in a post. So including hashtags is realistically the only way to reach people more than a couple degrees of separation away.
I didn't get that clarification about the source so as far as I knew until then, I thought this was about Twitter.
Many people on giant general instances like mastodon.social are people from Twitter. Queer instances and their environment are better with this, but not perfect, still - there are posts that tell "
", but you do have people who are at least receptive of communist topics and do see how fucked up the world is right now. Many identify as "anarchist", but some people do put "marxist" or "socialist" or "communist".#socialism and #communism are merely forms of feudalism
What a novel new kind of material analysis...
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Just astounds me that people can say stuff like "socialism is a form of feudalism" and think of themselves as clever, intelligent people. I've read like 3 actual theory books total and feel like a worm who failed kindergarten because of it
It doesn't even take theory. People don't fight wars, especially civil wars, with people who have the same ideology as they do. The Russian Revolution, French Revolution, Chinese Civil War, and Spanish Civil War all had socialists/communists/anarchists on one side with the nobility and monarchs on another side.
Nearly every time commies have gone to war, it's been to kill fascists or monarchs. You don't have to read 60,731 books of theory to figure that out lmao
ah yes, the dastardly tankies of lemmy are coming after trans people! Do not look at how many users on Hexbear are trans! Do not believe your lying eyes!
I keep getting Lemmy, the wider lemmyverse, and Lemmygrad all confused
I really don’t understand why libs go so hard on that angle. They’ve been doing it since the subreddit days when it was one of the better subreddits for trans people.
The tankies on Lemmy have moderation issues that leave trans users vulnerable.
Meanwhile on Hexbear, we used to ban people for even downvoting pro-trans threads.
Uphold TC69 Thought.
Users on other instances federated with us can downvote us, but we care not for we know not behind Our Great Communist Firewall.
Many years ago there was a downbear button. It's good that we got rid of it - now if someone says something you don't like you gotta engage, even if it's just to post a :downbear:
Saw that downbear and panicked for a second. Worried that I said some bullshit and was called on it.
Oh that's what's going on on the other commie instance? pretty cringe
I have never once brigaded because I will never expose myself to lib brainrot that I can get anywhere else on the web. I'm sure that's true of most hexbear users.
