Feel like that hasn’t happened in a while.

I miss them deeper-sadness

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      I love it when they say stuff like that and then when they’re challenged on it they can’t cite anything. It’s just stuff everybody knows.
      Then you eventually get a single link to either Wikipedia or the first article their frantic googling gave them

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    this unironically converted some folks.

    but then we have to defederate the tankies…

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    my favorite thing about us interacting with liberals here is how they can’t handle us talking normally. Just our normal communication style, casual chatting, is interpreted by them as wildly offensive and rude. And that’s no matter what we’re saying or how good faith we’re communicating. It felt like even when I was trying to talk normally to libs here or federated I’d have to water down everything I said, or I’d get asked to denounce Stalin or the DPRK no matter what the topic was.

    Or maybe that’s just their defense mechanism? Like a squid spraying ink. When they don’t have anything concrete to say they instantly complain about manners?

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      Or maybe that’s just their defense mechanism? Like a squid spraying ink. When they don’t have anything concrete to say they instantly complain about manners?

      Yeah that’s it. I’ve worn down enough of them to see the pattern play out time and again. After that comes aggression and insults and if then you get “lol you triggered?”

      My favourite thing to do is to ask them a simple question and then point out how they never answer it.

      My second favourite thing to do is to explain why Wikipedia isn’t a good source.

      My third most favourite thing to do is take a shit so big it tears my asshole in two. Gotta eat less fiber I guess.

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      Redditors all talk exactly the same like they’re in a weird robot cult, so when they see internet people conversing in a normal, reasonably casual style and having a good time doing so it short circuits their brains

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      I’m new here and I couldn’t even tell there were problems with how you guys communicate.

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        I see it differently, I can feel a deep fire burning in almost all of Hexbear’s comments, quite different from most communities that just whine without purpose.

        One day I’ll find out what this fire is aiming at. /s

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          That’s one of the best compliments I have ever received. Another was when I regular customer I had given my number to if they wanted me to send them reading material or podcasts on specific subjects randomly texted me one day to tell me they mentioned me at a house party vaguely and literally everyone was like “is that the cool anarchist commie guy at [grocery store]” Made me really think my agitprop in retail hell is not for nothing.

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        Hexbear gets reaaaally hostile when it’s obvious that a person is acting in bad faith and not at all worth talking to. The crowd does not waste its time trying to engage bad faith actors and instead just switches over to hostility, pigpoopballs or fart noises.

        If someone seems in good faith or willing to actually learn then it’s pretty reasonable.

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        Usually the bad experiences people bring up are ones they instigate.

        9/10 boils down to someone trying to be a debate pervert like ben Shapiro or trying to troll everyone.

        Like no shit it’s a bad experience when you come in hostile from the start.

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          I love it when those people cry about civility because we use rude words. They think that they’ve managed to camouflage their rancid vibes just because they don’t swear.

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          Yeah it’s either that or someone getting defensive when people gently explain to them that something they said was (intentionally or not) extremely reactionary, insulting, bigoted etc. so then everyone just gives up being more polite than they deserved to begin with.

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      I believe it’s really all they know. it’s how they’ve been trained by MSM to think and speak. It’s how they argue with conservatives, who have been similarly trained. When they are confronted with a different pattern they discover they have no other method in their arsenal and are compelled to switch to ego-defense.

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    Question for tankies: when you’re picking out your ideology, why don’t you simply choose the lib-left part of the political compass instead of auth-left?

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      Only tankies get Xi bucks. I’m saving mine up for a life-size replica of Stalin’s holodomer spoon.

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      haven’t you tankies learned that the auth-left is a trick? It’s a bunch of fascists tricking you into thinking it’s communism, but then they make a government that just does state capitalism, which is worse than normal capitalism. You’re being fooled into believing you’re far left, but actually, you’re just the moderate wing of fascism.

      Why can’t you be more like social democrats, like Sweden or Denmark? Those ideologies aren’t tricks by the capitalist elites to make you think you’re further left than you actually are. Social democrats are the true far left, not fascists like you tankies. The social democrats are legitimate and that’s why no social democratic country operates on imperialism.

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    TRUE CENTRISM HAS NEVER BEEN IMPLEMENTED!

    EVERYTHING HAS ALWAYS BEEN OFF CENTER ON THE POLITICAL COMPASS!

    Once we have true centrism, both those who want healthcare ands housing for all, and those who want extermination of lesser skull shapes will be equally unhappy as they will be getting a fraction of what they want.

    THAT IS WHEN TRUE CENTRISM WILL BE REACHED AND HISTORY WILL TRULY END.

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      committing omnicide via nuclear weapons so that human ideas and beliefs simply cease to exist is the way of the true centrist

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      Most defederated us though, not that we wouldn’t have if they hadn’t, but they did do it.
      I do miss being federated though. It was a lot of fun explaining people how brigading works

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      Any comment of yours that doesn’t include a graph sometimes feel like an ideology test. If I can see a picture has been attached, then I usually know to take you seriously.

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    I’ll take the contrary position, I find reading a dozen dunks of ppb and other derivative roasts cringe. Feels like the “two minute hate”. Yeah yeah I know. I just don’t like being mean.

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      That’s what it has devolved into, but that’s not what it always was. It’s because there’s so few libs to go around these days so people just go nuts when there’s finally meat back on the menu

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        I like the theory linkers but i can’t be one. i just take the piss out of em. I don’t have the patience for folks not ready to learn. I know the libs won’t read the links, either. If a theory linker reads this don’t be discouraged, tho! i usually read the links the libs don’t use and learn something in their stead

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          If any theory linkers see this, also know that an unclicked link in a big arguepost against liberals is just as effective as a clicked one. They inspire dread in the uninformed, and make the more self-conscious ones reconsider their belligerence for fear of being dunked on