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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml

Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again

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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 94 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Folks is our reputation improving? I'm seeing pretty even splits in terms of people defending our instance vs. scratched libs. Some even saying we changed their minds on things.

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I definitely saw a few who specifically said that if you engage in good faith that Hexbear isn't bad.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 66 points 11 months ago (3 children)

We are really nice actually

Just have a zero tolerance policy for imperialist propaganda

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We are really nice actually

Unironically, y'all are my friends, like real friends. Not anyone specific, just the person reading this. I hope I've been as nice to you all as you've been to me over the years (shit I've been here a few years now).

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Crazy how it all started. Having fun, mocking libs on reddit. Years later, somehow, here we are.

[–] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely agree with that assessment from all of the hexbear interactions I've had.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Even then I usually operate a one or two-strike policy when a first strike policy would be perfectly acceptable.

Let them learn something or reveal themselves to be bad faith dipshits.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd say that's true. There's a lot of well read people here who are absolutely willing to be patient with someone who was combative from the start or the second it's apparent they didn't read the room and thought whatever arrogant platitudes they posted were gonna go over just fine and then didn't. They come to our house and act out of line, they're gonna get ripped to shreds because it's our space.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Our house

In the middle of our street

Our house

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

its hard to make us into a north korea situation when people can just come and see, the more we live rent free in their heads, the more they talk about us, the more people get curious and come look and its like, just anticapitalist memes and people posting cat pics

[–] Florn@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

Which is pretty much how it went on reddit

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I only joined 9 months ago but in the 4 or so months I was on lemm.ee y'all changed some of my perspectives on the DPRK

Propaganda works both ways. Keep up the posting comrades kim-salute

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

I posted on the old sub for years and I didn't come around on the dprk until I'd been here a couple years tbh.