I hadn’t experienced hexbear (literally) shitting up the place yet, has a way to block entire instances been implemented or do I gotta find a new one that isn’t federated with them?
I can tune out tankie nonsense (not accusing everyone at hexbear of being tankies, but you guys sure do hang out with a lot of them) pretty easily, it’s the 20 full pages of literal pig shit I’m talking about
My personal definition would be “authoritarian communist (or “”“communist””“) regime supporters/apologists”. I think a good litmus test is, if the topic of the Tiananmen Square massacre comes up, and their first input is “Ok, but, how many zeroes did the number of dead civilians really have”, they’re probably too far gone to bother engaging much with
Too many anarchist/commune types consider the authoritarians to be their allies because they also hate the capitalists, right up until the point they’re next on the list of undesirables destined for the wall
I didn’t call anyone a tankie, a whole bunch of people from hexbear sure did show up feeling incredibly offended by my description of tankies though, if they want to out themselves like that, that’s on them
I guess I just don’t see much benefit in fraternizing with them, the optics on it are bad (see: hexbear being labeled and dismissed as a tankie instance), and if they’re the ones who ultimately win, things historically have not gone well for the anarchists and anyone else who values personal liberties
Sorry I forgot to add “Ok but, were they really inside the square, or just near it?”
Spending the first 7/8ths of your comment dancing around the main issue (at a minimum hundreds, thankfully you at least have to admit to that since those are the official Chinese numbers, potentially thousands, of civilian protestors being killed by the Chinese military), laser focusing on some minor detail like it’s a great big gotcha, then brushing the whole thing off at the end with “Yep it’s bad, but it happens shrug” is exactly what I’m talking about
I guess I should at least thank you for so deftly illustrating my point though
I thought it was all the tankies from your instance flooding the fediverse with their tankie rhetoric, but it’s nice that you’re giving me the sole power to warp the public image
Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.
Well, if it wasn’t his intent, he sure did sit watching it on TV until it was clear that the US government would not be overthrown, instead of swiftly taking action like any other president would when congress is under attack
We had to rely on Pence, hiding in the capitol basement, to actually attempt to manage this thing
They argue that it doesn’t remove anyone’s rights, it’s a constitutionally mandated eligibility requirement, no different from needing to be over 35 or US born
It’s strong circumstantial evidence that the attack on the capitol (which itself is just a component of his overall objective to illegally overturn the election results) was his intention all along
I suppose it would ultimately be up to the supreme court to define what exactly that eligibility requirement (that you basically have to have never tried to overthrow the government) as written in the constitution means, but that doesn’t actually immediately involve a conviction of Trump for anything (as “being under the age of 35” doesn’t require some sort of criminal conviction)
In the hypothetical scenario, someone would try to remove him from the ballot, and the supreme court would either uphold or reject that based on their interpretation of the language of the amendment
If they had instead sent those F-16s to the people of Maui they could have dropped napalm to create a firebreak ahead of the fire, saving hundreds of lives
This is very troubling, and I’m not even sure where to start. I recently received an email message from my ISP which alerted me to an incoming update. I didn’t worry too much since this is obviously not the first update they’ve ever pushed through....
That shit would get thrown in a metal cage and treated as a radioactive DMZ network-wise if I was forced to use it
My ISP is the dumb pipe my internet comes from, it’s bad enough that they inject bandwidth cap warnings into the raw HTML of webpages like some sort of adware virus, they can stay the fuck out of my local network
Only HTTP, they intercept any unencrypted page in flight and inject a giant banner at the top that won’t go away until you acknowledge it, no local application required
This is 100% legal in the US, and in fact, some small regional ISPs actually made money injecting actual ads into webpages, literal spyware
I think a lot of the conflict is a result of the difficulty in telling the difference at a glance between “just askin’ questions :^)” Soviet/CCP atrocity apologist authoritarian tankies and the regular people who just disagree with the capitalist system and want to see it dismantled and replaced with a system that they believe is better
I feel like many people’s impression is that they’re either one and the same (they do unfortunately use a lot of the same language, and it’s impossible to know someone’s true intentions) or at the very least that they are willingly fraternizing with one another (which also isn’t a very good look)
My point is, I think the general impression is that the leftist spaces don’t do enough self policing to keep the actual tankies out, and regardless the smart ones (I know, smart tankies, a radical concept) can just keep quiet about their true motives and attempt to keep the waters muddied as they attempt to radicalize like minded individuals
I saw a thread from them specifically about the Tiananmen Square massacre in my feed, and tankies were coming out of the wood works with their prepared Chinese propaganda “”“sources”“” categorically denying every single fact about it ever happening, it should be no mystery why people are accusing them of being tankies when these sorts of things get highly upvoted
Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left (lemm.ee)
Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency (www.cnn.com)
Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.
[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)
I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…...
Oh my god,okay it's happening,everybody stay calm (lemm.ee)
reuters.com/…/us-approves-sending-f-16s-ukraine-d…
My ISP has taken total control of my network
This is very troubling, and I’m not even sure where to start. I recently received an email message from my ISP which alerted me to an incoming update. I didn’t worry too much since this is obviously not the first update they’ve ever pushed through....
Hexbear federation megathread
Hey folks...