Shame, they had good memes on db0. Now I find myself blocking tankies every other day just to keep browsing their communities without getting an aneurysm.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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any left wing community that doesn't have some grounding in asking basic follow up questions, fact checking, and calling people stupid will end up with a substantial population of these dingdongs
and then everyone with the previously mentioned skills leaves
and then it accelerates until the community is destroyed
and then these dingdongs move onto the next one
anyway fuck civility and facts are real
Anarchists accepting MLs to get backstabbed and overtaken. Time is a flat circus and we're all clowns in it.
shitlibs who know almost nothing about North Korea
The trick is not to take that qualifier personally. It is possible to a) know something about North Korea and/or b) not be a shitlib. The pejorative use doesn't have to be owned by the reader.
Sigh at this rate I am probably just going to go "Screw it I am now an Ent for my politics."
So they combined an ideology based on the principles of statism and national unity with an ideology that is anti state and anti nation, and permits a complete lack of allegiance to local groups?
Are they even trying to avoid the contradictions they swore were causing their ideologies to be faulty in the first place?