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My handlers are asking me to tell you not to link/tag the comment or post, to prevent accusations of brigading obviously, but there have been a ton that should be added as new taglines for the site.

The one that prompted this post:

I'm fine with interacting with people of different ideologies and cultures, but I feel like the hexbears mostly just want to harass us "tankies".

Huh? Do you mean "liberals"? Hexbears are the ones liberals and leftcoms call "tankies"

From what I can tell, which so far is decidedly little, everyone is calling everyone tankies.

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also hope it's not narcissistic to post my own

in relation to freedom in America vs freedom in "authoritarian countries":

people get arrested during strikes and protests all the time in America. of course, you would justify it as "actually they were breaking Clause 8 of Section 9A so it was against the law and they shouldn't have done it!" without questioning if that law might possibly have been drawn up specifically to punish those people because the government couldn't do it legally before. no, all laws in America come straight out of the Founding Father's dick as a glorious bukkake for us all to share freely, while in tyrannical states like Russia and China, all laws are to be questioned and/or drawn up by the supreme ruler himself because he was really extra totalitarian that day

never try idealism kids, it turns you into this

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

bruh you're by far the most valuable poster on hexbear, you've earned the right to quote yourself a little, as a treat

Death to America

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

someone did a copypasta of the liberal saying where soviet soldiers would pick up guns off of dead bodies cause they had none, but with keyboards and hexbear users

too lazy to find, i was cry laughing

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember when someone posted the Jordan Peterson fetish tweet, someone just responded with xibe-check

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There was a recent thread about Hurricane Hilary and one of the comments was just here-it-comes planet-hillary planet-hillary planet-hillary planet-hillary and I thought it was hilarious.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

what the fuck is that hillary emote hahaha

[–] Tofu_Lewis@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

"She is light itself" and the moon give us light, so Hillary is moon.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Communism killed 100 million in Europe alone and 300-400 million in China. Count other parts of the world and the number easily reaches a billion.

This one was a real knee slapper.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When your fascist anti-communist propaganda does not go far enough and you simply have to out do it.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Vibes based politics at its finest

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Holy shit that 400 million number is literally just the number of births projected to have been prevented by the one-child policy. tito-laugh

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Just keep counting, you will eventually hit a trillion.

[–] iie@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

communism killed every chinese person

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

And somehow life expectancy still went up

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When @President_Obama@hexbear.net posted

this response

I like it when a cute guy gets a boner and has to try and hide it from me, getting all flustered and embarrassed :top-use-words: and I don't think it counts as sexual attraction E: oh this is c/music

when @corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net asked for music hot takes

What a great post, taken down by our tankie mods 😔

[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Uhhh, let me be clear. I don't think it counts as sexual attraction because I'd hate this IRL - I'm asexual and aromantic. For some reason thinking about cute, flustered, boys makes me smile. Best of both worlds really, I get to think gay thoughts and don't have to bother with relationships.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Someone accused us of downvote brigading and brigading Lemmy dot world.

We do not have downvotes, and we have never been federated with Lemmy dot world

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Any variation of the libs reacting in horror when first encountering PPB

[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

tank-on-tank violence is at historical lows

[–] Pseudoplatanus22@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.

[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's a good bit we should just start calling everyone tankies

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tankie is the new gender neutral "dude"

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

excuse me i'm not a tankie i'm a tankette

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

We'll just use "tankie" the way most use "man", "woman", or "person".

Examples:

The firetankies put out the fire in the building.

The policetankie arrested that guy for a little weed.

The chairtankie of Lockheed Martin announced record profits.

[–] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I think it should be like Smurf where it can be interchanged with any part of a sentence.

Also, I think TankieSmurf should overthrow PapaSmurf in the next shitty blue troll movie.

[–] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

The army are tanktankies

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

semantic satiation but with tankies

[–] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

The Avengers:

Spider-Tankie

Bat-Tankie

Super-Tankie

Iron-Tankie

Tankie America

The Incredible Tankie

Thor

Aqua-Tankie

Hawk-Tankie

And of course, The Green Tankie.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

easily the funniest comment I've seen on this site in ages

[–] ImOnADiet@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone pinging you to let you know that your effort is being explicitly recognized, top tier post

(posted this with my grad account, meant to post this with my hexbear account originally and forgot)

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I'm here all day, comrade ❤️

Ritsu Tainaka making a heart with her hands afront a black and red flag

[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I knew some of them blahaj.zone people could post.

Shame about their staff.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they made an account here just in case we defed party-sicko

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Well, I have now, now that we're actually defederating. I'm sure hoping it'll be longer before I have to make an Erika4sis somewhere.