Feel like that hasn’t happened in a while.
I miss them 
What if i compared the worst times in socialist countries with the best times in capitalist ones? That would probably make you cry
What if I bring up awful shit capitalism did like… yesterday.
that’s a what-about-ism, tankie
Which is rich because any mild critic of democrats defaults libs to whatabout orange man
Especially with Gaza.
Biden should stop the genocide - - 2023 yeah but trump would be worse
raising awareness of trump’s blatant hypocrisy, incivility, incompetence, and disregard for the institutions of government is hardly the same as deflecting criticisms of communism by pointing out the relentless violence committed in the interests of capitalism. i find you guilty of one (1) false equivalence. smh.
That’s not real capitalism that’s crony corporatism oligarchy look at sweden they do it right
Ummm Sweden is socialist, John Oliver did an episode about ot
Worst time in communism: when it implemented capitalism
What about that one time people starved in the USSR? What about that one time China did violence on protesters? Bet you didn’t know about that.
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?
I’m new here and I couldn’t even tell there were problems with how you guys communicate.
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.
We could do well with chilling out a little bit though. Whenever an @ asks any question that might mark them as Not A Leftist they get ppb before they even show their ass.
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I’m joking obviously. I agree with you.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Made me really think my agitprop in retail hell is not for nothing
for agitation 
it’s mostly just lack of capitalization, punctuation, use of emojis, etc that triggers them
They have a hard time with low brow humour. They also have a hard time with high brow humor. They have a hard time with humor in general.
It’s only funny if it’s a stale meme beaten to death before it got to them
Or homophobic
Or any kind of bigotry really
If liberals have a hard time with humor, explain why Bill Maher makes me laugh so hard
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
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.
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.
Since they love the word ad hominem, someone should point out to them that tone policing is one of them.
When I learn to code I’m gonna make an ad hominem bot that insults people who invoke it. Also it will explain that an as hominem isn’t just when you are insulted, there’s more to it.
The phrase
ad hominemshould invoke the botAd Hominem?
Ad Hominem Deez Nutz!
beep boop i am a robot lol
We need more bots
Silly tankie, your instance is full of them already
Just type tinyaynaynaynemen square and they’ll all come rushing to you
whataboutism 
Lmao great bit
Amber.
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
Poop pilled
“The Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis, who weren’t actually that bad.”
You just reminded me of something some wannabe military historian posted here recently. They were talking about how the Soviets only lost so many people due to their military tactics (human wave attacks).
Incredible that myth is still aroundAn obligatory reminder that 60% of Soviet losses were civilians.
Damn, I can’t believe Stalin ate all those civilians when they got in the way of the big spoon.
The Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis (complimentary to the Soviets)
You do realize the only citation there is radio free Asia right?
Oh so you didn’t accept sources you don’t agree with? Not very dialectical of you
A lib would never use the word “dialectical”. -10 social points
I thought my blatant misuse of it would make up for that fact
Help I can’t deal with the sad cat picture
Dialectical means tasty right?
Of course not, they’re obviously calling SovietBeerTruckOperator a fake leftist
Typical tankie, ignoring objective facts when they dislike them. Go give me a link to one of your little red pamphlets which aren't biased at all. I enjoy this little game we have, let me debumk you some more. I haven't even talked about Venezuela or the holodomor yet (if you haven't heard of it, here's a hint: it's one of the reasons your daddy isn't that good of a guy).
I feel dirty now. Yuck.
this has become an ecco chamber:
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.
committing omnicide via nuclear weapons so that human ideas and beliefs simply cease to exist is the way of the true centrist
Consider human nature. It’s innately programmed in our brains to hoard wealth
hoarding my cock and balls rn
As is your right!
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?
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.
I tried but some of the questions on the survey were very trickily worded.
Only tankies get Xi bucks. I’m saving mine up for a life-size replica of Stalin’s holodomer spoon.
I’m saving mine for a Stalin android that’s Deepseek trained on all his works and historical acts and puts me over his knee and spanks me when I step into revisionism.
Define what “auth” means exactly? Does it mean any exercise in power? Cuz I think you need to do at least a little of that to achieve anything.
“auth” is the opposite of “lib” duh. There’s a American Prestige where Daniel Bessener argues exactly this, that “authoritarianism” means nothing at worst and “not liberal” at best.
Tienimin Square.
This is a bit, if it wasn’t clear.
I like the colour red more than green
What are you talking about, hexbear is filled with libs, everyone knows I’m the only real leftist
You are correct except that I am the only real leftist.
Mom said it’s my turn to be the leader of the proletariat
The gap in understanding was really something to behold, like being Dracula and every once in a while some villager shows up with a wooden crucifix and some prayed-over creek water, thinking they’re gonna be the one to banish the monster.
Actually you tankies are more like voldemort and I’m the legendary guy with the scar who’s here to maintain the status quo
We know that JK Rowling didn’t originally intend Harry to be a cop because if she had she would have named him Thumble Wifebeater
Honestly I almost feel like we should loosen the mod policy to let some back in. It was a good bonding exercise for us, I felt like we all got along better when we had Libs to dunk on.
You can just go outside of hexbear to lemmy dot ml and get the same thing.
yeah but i cant go there with my @hexbear.net username so that they all tremble in indignation
you can! lemmy.ml is run by commies who are just less strict moderators than we are, so they’re still federated. Just turn your front page on here to “All” instead of “Local” or subscribed
Do you think the name evilHexbeardotnetALT@[x] will get approved if one tries?
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I’m very non-confrontational IRL
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There’s actual consequences for this behavior IRL, like losing friends, jobs, getting the cops called on you
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it’s not as fun when you’re trying to make it happen on purpose imo
when I first started on lemmy.ml I received a ban from a federated instance for being a “hexbear alt and troll”, that’s how I realized I might fit in here
I’ve said this since forever. People talk about hexbear pre-federation as if it was a good place. It was stale, full of people arguing over rocks and when they weren’t doing that they were posting about how much better a site this is than Reddit.
I liked the bit I had going during election season where I just linked them the last person I argued with, since they all said the same. Ended having a link-chain of 8 or so.
If everybody gets paid the same, what’s the incentive to be a doctor?
I literally overheard some chud on a train argue that point with a friend, and used that to conclude that that’s why communism will never work. If everyone gets paid the same, then what’s the challenge???
He reminded me of that 20th century banker in the TNG episode “The Neutral Zone”, who wakes up in the 24th century after being thawed from his cryogenic state, and then asks Picard what even the point of living is in that century if material needs no longer exist, and people’s want for riches and possessions is no longer a thing. Picard skillfully schools his ass.
Me: what’s the point of being alive if i have to constantly be looking for more income to survive
That fucking guy: what
that character is mentioned somewhere in like a star trek comic or novel or something. Turns out he defected to the Ferengi lmao
Ackshually
(I’m a bit of a Trek nerd) in one of the novels he became the Federation ambassador on Ferenginar. They gave him that position because of his capitalist expertise, which makes it easier to deal with the Ferengi. They were like “You’re just like them, so help us deal with them.” 
Lmao that’s awesome.
Idk, Cuba seems to pull it off.
Yeah by forcing people to become doctors at gunpoint. Slave doctors are still slaves
I would have thought this was too hamfisted if I hadn’t heard Rand Paul say it almost verbatim
Anime tells me a slave doctor would be metal asf tho
Umm actually sweaty have you considered that communism has killed 100 million people?? chekmate
100 million? Must be a slow day
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 themit is just known but then go it wasn’t capitalisms fault for all of the deaths it’s caused
I heard this site was owned by the CCP so I went to the search bar and what do you know
You should spell it tinyman square
That would’ve gotten results tho.
Damn that would have been better
We’ve had a few people who don’t understand the Moscow time thing being a joke
We should have weeks where it changes to 北京时间 sometime
Me too, dunking is fun. We ban them too quickly now and also everyone knows to stay away from us by now
now they just make up shit about us to get mad in their defederated instances
They did it when we were federated too. It was fun
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.
I like the accidental hybrid tactic thing we have: Heavy Arguers in front, Theory Linkers behind them, and a swirling vortex of PPB Skirmishers all around
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
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
I like linking theory and then pointing out they won’t read it. Half the time I link ppb. It’s fun
Heavy Arguers
You rang?
A mural dedicated to our beautiful posters
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
