So much for the acceptance in the free market of discussions, huh
I used to make death threats to people over the internet. Then I realized something: either your threat is empty and you’re an all-bark-no-bite cringebaby, or you’re actually in a position to kill them, in which case just kill them. Making threats only leaves a paper trail.
in which case just kill them
Oh boy, my inbox is going to look spicy the next time I criticize treats where a federated visitor can see my criticism.
The worst treat defenders are yet to come, so brace yourself for the incoming onslaught.
I’m expecting a lot of epic logical reactions to such criticism such as more “who hurt you?” and cherry-picked quotes from leftist thinkers that make it seem like everyone from Marx onward was writing a longhand version of “let people enjoy things. My entertainment has no effect on me which is why I’m this mad about you criticizing it. Criticizing my treats is against Materialism™. touch grass touch grass touch grass.”
I love how I can immediately identify Hexbear users in threads on other instances by the emote spam. Totally understandable though, we do have the best emotes, the biggest emotes
I have to say, in a completely positive and awe-inspiring way, that UlyssesT is the absolute GOAT at it.
I’ve never seen such a strong sentence-to-emoji ratio, and they all completely fit.
Someone posted this before, in reference to my posting style, and I admit, I was eclipsed centuries ago.
holy fuck
we post in the shadows of gods
You could say it’s a veritable feast.
collect em like pokemon and post em to the dunk tank so we can pile on the nerds.
Maybe you will run into some Star Citizens. That would be fun to watch.
I might.
Honestly just replace ‘tankie’ with ‘person who doesn’t help advance Western interests, primarily America,’ and that’ll cover all their bases.
Tankie is just “commie” for boomers. Meaningless
Sorry, I was walking drunk through the lib factory wearing a wallet chain and now some of the new ones are a little more scratched than usual.
It’s funny how I don’t agree with Tankies, but I don’t wish them any harm. And then there are right-wingers…
what is a “tankie” to you, son?
I’ve seen it defined as apologists for dictatorships. This is the version that I was using when I made the comment.
Anyone to the left of Henry Kissinger
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Love your username lol
I wonder if I would have responded this way if I had found out about Lemmy a few months earlier…
Maybe read the Communist Manifesto if you haven’t read it yet — it’s not that long :)
I feel like the manifesto isn’t the best starting point, I’ve heard “socialism utopian and scientific” is but idk.
state and rev is such a short and readable summary of why liberal reform is always doomed that I just recommend that.
I need to get around to reading that myself to be completely honest.
it’s worth it. it reads like a compiled twitter dunk thread so it’s very approachable.
Principles of communism by Engels is a great start
It’s not a bad read, but I wouldn’t suggest that alone
Manifesto is an easy read, but probably not the best introduction. There was a good beginner reading list posted around here recently, I agree with their recommendation of Harman’s “How Marxism Works” pamphlet. Super fast read, and can really help capture people’s attention to read something a bit longer form.
Don’t always agree with a lot of Harman, but he gives a really easy to understand overview.
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Waiting for lemmee to ban him over this like
He did get banned! Surprising but props to the admins
I thought he was from world, they seem to be slightly better at moderating on lemmee.
Nevermind, I looked from Lemmygrad and he was banned from here. He is not banned on lemmee.
It’s here! The countdown is finally here!
That’s Hexbear’s countdown emote. You can always copy that post’s source to use it here though
Oh I know, I’m just excited that we can finally share it.
Oh look, a scratched
Jesus christ the emoji is comically huge on Lemmygrad. I love the emphasis that gives it though
this could honestly be a hilarious unintended callback to the start of Hexbear when we forked away from lemmy - for some reason, emojis used to resize/expand when you hovered over them, and the emoji for the hexbear logo was like 3000x3000
so when it wound up in one of our site taglines at random, it broke the whole page
Wow, it really is. In that vein, here’s OP’s message sender reading this thread:
Edit: it is not as comically large
Someone did downvote all the comments here, lol
this is why we got rid of downvotes - having to reply to express disagreement means we can dunk on the dumbasses with shit takes. there’s no peanut gallery, only potential snacks to be toyed with, and eaten.
Such
I think that’s because the lib emoji is vector?
I think on other instances, it defaults to the actual image resolution instead of the scaled down emote size. Very funny :)
So you’re telling me that is an absolute unit for you comrade?
look at em go
Are we rats or a disease? Pick a pejorative and stick with it.
big talk from a bugman who wont last 2 days without running water and his funko pop collection
running water should be a human right though
Not op, and I agree, but wanted to clarify what I think is that commenters thoughts and why they might have said what they said.
The point is that they don’t know what it’s like to not have running water, and they just can’t mentally put themselves in the position of someone who doesn’t have it, making it hard to emphasize and thus, fight for the rights of those people, instead of, for example, caring about if they have a new car every 3 years (or funko pops as the deprogram guys joke about).
scratched liberals are not humans :bean:
How could I forget ?!??
First they came for the Funko pops, and I said “no stop”
the bugmen are cool people. this comparison is slandering their good name.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
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The moderate wing offascismimmediately went back to playing league of legends after writing this
God damn that is ice cold lmao
CPC alone has over 90 million members who these clowns would consider “tankies”. Good luck messing with the PLA.
Probably thinks the U.S. military has that covered. It would be funny to watch their reaction to the pacific fleet getting owned before the retaliatory nukes fly.
You don’t even have to go that far to find people they call tankies. Just the other day I had the immense privilege of witnessing a lib call an anarchist Mastodon instance tankie because they saw someone talk about killing all billionaires
we did warn them this would happen tbf
Nothing like a little speciesism to drive the point home
They have clearly never actually met a rat because they are awesome animals. Way more intelligent and friendly than anyone give them credit for. Amazing survivors in the wild, amazing companions too.
Rats get a really bad reputation, they make great companion pets. Extremely smart and social, very clean. Not too demanding to take care of as long as you are willing to spend time with them.
The only problem with rats as pets is their short lifespan. I wish I could spend a decade or more with a little fuzzy buddy like that.