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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 65 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Not making a new thread but boy this is... not his best work. He just looks like a weak crying baby lol.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

Oof, low energy posting there boyo. Sad!

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not enough ALL CAPS words, clearly an intern post.

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Askin' is a giveaway. Even just the apostrophe, Trump would never bother with that

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

on top of that it's like something they threw on the end to signal to the base he's just like them, but your gen-x aunt that posts, "Just askin'!?!?!?" on every unhinged facebook post they make is held in contempt by their peers. It's purely, transparently craven.

The big wet boy would never

[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

He sounds like a reddit-logo

Weak display of posting prowess

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

He's been pretty low energy since he got covid

Seriously. Just posting SCOREBOARD would be vastly better.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, it is a good point. The dems were suppring elder abuse and lying about it. They shouldn't get to just walk away from that. Trump being an outsider is the only political That could do it. He won't which makes me sad but he could.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There might be a core of a good point in there but its phrased like low energy whiny crybaby shit.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

True. He also doesn't have it in him to play hardball. Even back when he did have it in hi.. He didn't do it much.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a good point, actually. When we speak to others aware of online left in-jokes, it can be easy to forget that there are people who are still completely unaware of her actual crimes. Are we really supposed to believe Libs of TikTok cares about a corrupt prosecution record?

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah like I told the other person, noone outside of this website and a few other online left circles knows about that context. Everyone else just sees them making fun of a woman for laughing, which is an extremely lame line of attack.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think it's stupid to rule out personal attacks when they're accurate or ironic or something (read: I am not a debate lord please don't think I am for saying this 😁) but when they're essentially standing alone I never dip into that territory.

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think most people on Chapo.Chat the Citations Needed official fan blog, have understanding that they are talking with other liberals who enjoy the work of Marx and may even come here to get away from the nonsense infighting between chuds ands libs.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Comrade you are in the_dunk_tank you think you aren't going to see chud posts here?

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What’s the dunk? That chuds are misogynistic assholes who hate women and they’re still going to win. It feels more doomer to me

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The dunk is that its an extremly lame line of attack lol. And they might not win if they cant come up with something better.

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

They are always like this and they still win. They don’t win because they make some brilliant move or turn the reactionary knob down a notch. The Dems can’t help themselves. They are losers.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I think "woman: laughing" is actually a pretty effective attack. Misogyny.

Explaining why it works is difficult but it also worked very well to attack Hillary via her laugh as well. Look at anything about Hillary and it's all "evil woman laughing". They'll do the same thing with Kamala.

Before anyone says it's not misogyny, you never see "Man: laughing" as an attack. There is a reason it only happens to women.

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

On the other hand, Kamala doesn't give the same "evil" vibes that Hillary. To be sure, she sold her soul to the machine, but to me it just seems like she's nervous all the time instead of a machiavellian lizard robot

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

They both appeal to wine moms/aunts but Kamala's wine mom/aunt energy always came across a lot more genuine to me. When I watched that compilation of her laughing from the screenshot, it always seemed like sincere joy lol.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They tried the same with AOC dancing, but their base just got thirsty.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

dancers should overthrow the US government

[–] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't Howard Dean lose the 2004 primary because he yelled "Yeah!" or do I have that wrong?

I'm not saying it's not misogyny, just that Americans are too stupid to need decent reasons to oppose someone, even by liberal democratic standards.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Didn't Howard Dean lose the 2004 primary because he yelled "Yeah!" or do I have that wrong?

This is somewhat exagerated. It helped but he was already slipping.

(I also think times have changed somewhat).

[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

They should have went with "woman jokerfying"

[–] TemutheeChallahmet@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Libs of TikTok is run by a Chabad lady considered too old to be unmarried by her community, who is currently single because her fiance left her due to her hateful posting. Seeing untempered joy, not derived from hurting or looking down on someone, is alien and unsettling to people like her and her followers.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

untempered joy, not derived from hurting or looking down on someone

sadly the joy in question is about locking up the parents of truant kids

[–] TemutheeChallahmet@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

If she ran on that she might actually siphon the authoritarian vote from Trump too, I don't think a single Republican would even pretend to not want that

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its 2 minutes and 20 seconds of her laughing lol. She's laughing about a ton of things. You are the second person here to think the only time she ever laughed was the time that Hexbear dunks on her for.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True, she might also laugh about withholding evidence, or denying early release because the got paid by big slavery, or locking up cannabis consumers. Could be lots of things, really.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I... I get that youre going at but thats not whats happening in this video lol.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

This is an excellent read.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

I think Chaya saw a woman being happy and got super confused.

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This originated because she was laughing about sending parents to jail for truancy and’s now everyone makes fun of her laugh. They should make fun of her.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is peak "everyone thinks like us here are Hexbear" myopia. I really doubt thats the motive for fucking LibsOfTikTok lmao. You know who they are right?

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t and I don’t care.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

OK well you probably should since their rhetoric has inspired right wing terrorist attacks lmao.

Edit: and you should also know context like this before making comments that are completely ignorant of said context :) Why would I post this here if it was a leftist who agrees with us lmao. Please think with your brain.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and you should also know context like this before making comments that are completely ignorant of said context 

Some people think they just dropped out of a coconut tree kamala-coconut-tree

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I realized I could make that joke too late lol.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

You did a heckin' contextphobia contextphobic

[–] Othello@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i really dont think all the kamala pop girlie memes are about her laughing at truant kids. a bit glib even for libs. not to mention "silk press and laugh" was a kamala meme years ago. i promise the majority of people are not thinking of the truant kid thing. you dont even gotta touch grass for this just go to any non hexbear website.

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Joy Behar for President.

"Let me ask you this, what is the United States? Is that like a city? What is the White House?"

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

They do this with aoc too. Republicans were eating good during the 2016 era of anti-SJW but then they went right back to the pre-2016 era of sounding like out of touch old people.

[–] halfpipe@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think they might be afraid to get the chuds riled up too soon, because they will jump straight to misogyny and racism. The GOP's biggest weak spots right now are women pissed off over losing civil rights because of Trumps judges, and also a fear that the minority voters the GOP has been picking up will be turned off and go straight back to the Democrats.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Chuds putting their foot in their mouths and turning off voters with weird misogyny and racism is going to do more to get Harris elected than any campaigning she does.

(Or maybe a Trump landslide, I can't figure out the electorate)

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I'm voting for Kamala. I wanna see the tears, it's gonna be so big, so big folks