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

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What if I bring up awful shit capitalism did like… yesterday.

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that’s a what-about-ism, tankie

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Which is rich because any mild critic of democrats defaults libs to whatabout orange man

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That’s not real capitalism that’s crony corporatism oligarchy look at sweden they do it right

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6 points

Ummm Sweden is socialist, John Oliver did an episode about ot

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16 points

Worst time in communism: when it implemented capitalism

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10 points

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.

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84 points

“The Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis, who weren’t actually that bad.”

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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 around

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An obligatory reminder that 60% of Soviet losses were civilians.

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11 points

Damn, I can’t believe Stalin ate all those civilians when they got in the way of the big spoon.

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The Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis (complimentary to the Soviets)

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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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53 points

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

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56 points

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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17 points

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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51 points

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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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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17 points

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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37 points

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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38 points

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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it’s mostly just lack of capitalization, punctuation, use of emojis, etc that triggers them

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17 points

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.

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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 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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27 points

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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Since they love the word ad hominem, someone should point out to them that tone policing is one of them.

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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.

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4 points

Poop pilled

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You do realize the only citation there is radio free Asia right?

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Oh so you didn’t accept sources you don’t agree with? Not very dialectical of you

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A lib would never use the word “dialectical”. -10 social points

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8 points
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.

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72 points

this has become an ecco chamber:

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