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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.

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[–] flan@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

modern liberals have this interesting perspective that is essentially the opposite of “the ends justify the means” where the means are actually the ends. The problem is not the genocide or the exploitation, it’s the authoritarianism that necessarily accompanies those things. So if you were to use authoritarianism to destroy a fascist movement it is exactly the same thing as using authoritarianism to do genocide. It’s not the genocide or the destruction of fascists that is good or bad, it’s the means by which you do it.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

He's so gentle and nice while supporting genocide, he even sent a strictly worded letter to Netanyahu for him to stop destroying the aid packages Care-Comrade

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's infuriating to see these children smugly lecture other people about how effectiveness if for bad people, and don't you realize that if you become effective you are therefore bad? Bet you didn't think about that, better read up a little more or your politics there kiddo, I understand being young and idealist but one day you'll understand the we had to do this genocide to beat the fascists.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

So if you were to use authoritarianism to destroy a fascist movement it is exactly the same thing as using authoritarianism to do genocide.

This is what comrade dril has been telling us for years. dril

[–] readmore@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

As someone who has family that was killed during the October Revolution, I can assure you that isn’t “far left. Far left is much, much, further left.

lol

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

My innocent great grandfather that only beat and imprisoned people while working for the Okhrana was brutally executed by the evil commies. He was just doing his job.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

They could've died fighting for the bolsheviks, who knows shrug-outta-hecks

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

They didn't kill enough reactionaries apparently

[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't like next to no one die during the October Revolution? There was a shootout but mostly injuries

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much no one died in the October Revolution, but a lot of people died in the following civil war.

[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, but framing it as the October Revolution is some anti-communist shit by them.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gonna enjoy this before it gets rule 8ed

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Gotta have our fun before the cops show up

[–] highalectical@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It has over 7000 updoots to the left. I think it meets the criteria for rule 8.

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

There's no way to know, it's entirely vibes based.

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty funny how Reddit is so convinced I want their content I MUST use their app.

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's like the Nigerian Prince scam. It is poorly written to filter out smart people.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

hungrypotato19

I've caught a ton of right-wingers right in this sub pandering the "Genocide joe" crap. A couple of them have admitted that they don't even live in the US.

Yesterday, it was 5 of them.

Old_Baldie_Locks

Shit, I engaged with one of them a few days ago who forgot he wasn't supposed to admit he's Russian. Hope he didn't get fired.

Guys, there are people on this site expressing their political opinions and they're not even from the US. Anyone one of us could be a foreigner. Trust no one.

[–] absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not even allowed to be a Russian person online anymore

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

As a Russian bot living in America, I'm planning on voting for Biden because Putin told me to. I have no choice but to obey my programming.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I'm going to demand my girlfriend turn in her phone.

I didn't think she could've been using it for internet purposes until now.

[–] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

every russian is payed by the goverment (they have UBI now)

this is liberalism

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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