Its just an instance where tankies can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

If you want you can read some of my comments here and watch these morons make fallacious argument after falacious argument, put words in my mouth, and project some person who makes similarly bad takes which exists inside their head onto me: https://lemmy.today/comment/17304484

Edit: there’s also this thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32415724/17304693

wojak-nooo “Nooo you can’t make fun of me for randomly calling china authoritian its supposed to be the natural, obvious, biological, truth of reality you can’t expect me to back that up with a source nooo!”

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    Why do those bruhs always feel the need to share threads where they were absolutely obliterated and in response thrown a tantrum as some kind of gotcha?

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      Because they have fragile identities based around being the good guys and have never once encountered anything that rejects western imperialism

      They’re used to their enemies either buckling or getting so mad they say a slur. When that doesn’t happen they need psychic soothing in the form of fellow liberals telling them that in fact China is the enemy of all humanity

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    This place is obviously something of an echo-chamber, but it’s so rich coming from a redditor for whom their entire lives are going to be capitalist echo-chambers whereas the people on hexbear just have their little lemmy thing and otherwise exist in the same sorts of dogmatically capitalist spaces the redditor does (for the most part).

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      This is the only place I know where leftists congregate, and their only things in common are antiimpetialist, and far left of center. Which has a lot of actual difference of opinion (anarchist, and communist is pretty deep theory with a ton of different factions) so is this place an actual echo chamber because if I admit that ideologically I’m an anarchist doesn’t that mean I’m inviting a dog pile?

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        I don’t mean it as a point of judgement, it just is an echo chamber and you can observe that in the lack of voiced disagreement on countless issues much more specific and peripheral than “should poor people get to eat?”

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        Yeah, Hexbear has taught me to purity test where it matters and let ideological shit slide. I’m a maoist, but have lots of anarchist friends I do organizing work with. Sometimes we disagree on things, but the important thing is that we’re able to work together to make our area a better place. We all kind of accept that there’s no chance of a revolution where we live, so there’s really no point in getting into ideological spats. Even if there was a revolution coming, there’d still be more value in working together as leftists than purity testing each other.

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      Yeah most of us leave the echo chamber we have here as soon as we go outside. For people in other spaces there is less likely to be a difference.

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      Your name seemed oddly familiar and I thought you must’ve been roasted for chatting shit to come in malding like this so I decided to poke around in the modlogs and…

      No wonder you hate it here with how quickly you jump to casual misogyny and homophobia. Why’d you even leave reddit to begin with if you’re just gonna bring the redditor mindset here?

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        I’m not misogynistic or homophobic. It’s a cheap shot to show a few out-of-context posts without the comments they are responding to. All of those were aimed at vicious MAGA Nazis who don’t deserve any respect or kindness. They are evil, and should be disparaged harshly. It’s a small defense against traitors/racists/murderers, and I stand behind every one of those opinions.

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          Firstly, misogyny and homophobia don’t suddenly become okay when you direct it at shitty people.

          Secondly, they may not deserve any respect or kindness but using insults based on homophobia or misogyny isn’t showing disrespect to them (they’re never gonna read your fucking Lemmy comments), it’s making this site a less pleasant space for the types of people who are targeted by this kinda shit on a regular basis.

          And finally, it shows these aforementioned marginalised people you’re supposed to be an ally with that your allyship is worthless. You’ve decided homophobia is conditionally acceptable.

          As you said, these are terrible people you’re talking about, so why not attack them on that instead of vomiting out casual bigotry?

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            https://hexbear.net/comment/6284093 The loser your talking to apperently crashed out in the same as way as the op. This plus their vaush-like “I can weaponize slurs aganist minorities/people I perceive as minorties because I am the one true ally and you need me” bs this warrents another post. Which will probbably attract another chauvinist… same-as-it-ever-was

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            I’m not going to defend myself to you. I am extremely close to people in my life who are LBGTQ+, and they know I am with them 100%. I have often posted that they are my bright red line. If this government were to do ANYTHING to them, I will become a very dangerous person. I am very prepared to defend these people with my very life, so you can go fuck yourself with your scurrilous accusations.

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              “I can’t be homophobic because I have gay friends” lol k, and also lol @ “i’m not gonna defend myself” followed immediately by a poorly constructed defense

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              Strong words for someone who immediately reaches for misogyny when they want to insult someone.

              Oh but you know some queer people so you can’t be a bigot.

              I swear, cishets are the worst.

              If this government were to do ANYTHING to them

              You gonna do a test to make sure they’re the right kindsa people first before you act? Can’t risk your activism helping the bad gays, right?

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            Gay people are people first, and some people are bad people, gay or not. I am under no obligation to support or excuse bad people just because they are gay, and I am not homophobic because I call out bad gay people for their poor behavior.

            Ditto for misogyny.

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              I am not homophobic because I call out bad gay people for their poor behavior.

              No, you’re homophobic by stating that all homophobia comes from gay people, while ‘regular’ straight people “just don’t care”.

              To be honest it’s amazing you’re not already banned. But you’ve time to yet admit that was maybe an absolutely dogshit awful thing to say.

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              If you’re calling a bad person who happens to be gay out by way of referring to them being gay then yes actually it’s still homophobic, because them being gay is presented as a bad thing, and if I had to put money in it I’d bet that there’s no way in hell you’re not completely misrepresenting the situation