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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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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, Xi and Putin. Used to be Soros too but he stopped paying a few years back.

Seriously though, what media operation, "tankie" media is like 5 bloggers who all want to strangle each other.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

like 5 bloggers who all want to strangle each other.

I don't want to strangle any hexbears Care-Comrade

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know a few but only in a consens- oh fuck here come the volcel police

[–] VOLCEL_POLICE@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

volcel-police

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[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think he means stuff like Mint Press, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, The Deprogram, and some other media operations I can't think of off the top of my head.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Breakthrough News

Oh that one's funded by me lol

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 67 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

He's only saying that because he knows who's funding his media operation smuglord

[–] hypercracker@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

honestly probably true. this is the same psychology of when you're high in public and start to believe everyone else is high in public. or people who cheat on their spouses believing everyone is cheating on their spouses, dudes on roids in the gym believing everyone in the gym is on roids, etc.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?

[–] kittin@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

KYC know your customer, idiot tankies

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 67 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lmao what media operation.

Bro there is no openly communist western media outside of some nichie indie projects

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

To be fair there are publications put out by various communist parties in the US ranging from serious to deeply unserious. PSL runs it's own news network, Liberation News. It's a communist publication run by a good communist party

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

I want more Russian funding tho like wtf. China, please????

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but that probably isn't what this idiot is talking about.

He's probably referring to types like the PatSoc weirdos, of whom a solid chunk are probably funded by the US as a means of recapturing any baby leftists who wander after them (this idiot probably thinks they're funded by China or w/e though just because they're 'leftist')

[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

BreakThrough News is basically a PSL news outlet, it's my fav youtube news channel

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Middle-aged man with laser eyes avatar—online phenotype for the most self-absorbed-yet-sauceless posters ever very-smart

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

fedposting

I am literally incapable of not doing this rn.

illegal-to-say cool-zone detectives-arriving-on-the-scene

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

May I be so selfish to remind you how much I love this little corner of the fediverse

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

It may not be the biggest community but I am pretty sure it's in the top 3 as far as activity. But yes I love this place too.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I needed to look twice at his avatar first time i thought it was some version of happy merchant.

[–] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's the inversion, the happy shopper.

[–] ObamaSama@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

Incredible stuff, I can see a LOT of potential with the “happy shopper” in response to chuds

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, we have a media operation?

Oh, you mean the shitty little memes now and then, maybe a few tiktoks that slip through the filters. I'm sure it's destabilizing the entire western hegemony.

Then again, who am i to say it won't. Supposedly a few russina facebook ads totaling like $100k turned all of America racist and woke at the same time and destroyed democracy. We just need to find that One. Perfect. Meme. And it's all over.

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[–] mustGo@hexbear.net 51 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, furries with IT jobs and Roger Waters.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Don't dox me bro

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 50 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course I know him, he's me.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

[R2D2 whistles sad happily]

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

LoL this is actually hilarious. Socialist organizers arrested and charged with being Russian agents? Check. Online shitposters than want to stop a genocide? Check.

They are all controlled by Putin especially those Nader bros is 2000 no I mean the Bernie bros in 2016 wait no the Jull Stein supporters in 2024 that lost the election for Hillary I mean kamala

Et fucking cetera

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 44 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

i really need to take soros, putin, and xi to small claims court

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not, I meme and post purely for love. But sometimes I wonder if this is scabbing and I'm driving comrades' wages down by posting for free

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[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 40 points 2 weeks ago

Putting down CIA-backed anticommunism is actually the worst form of state authoritarianism, according to the CIA guy, working for the world-historic forces of oppression and white supremacy

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The only "thing" "funding" "our" "media" "operation" besides donations from users is our terminally online behavior and depression.

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I saw this cursed image looking through the replies:

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

under historical idealism it's easy. the US stopped doing all that stuff right after the most recent blood-soaked example you can come up with of the US doing that stuff, because America is so good and enlightened.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

NAFO in "reasonable people"

Noam Chomsky on the "lunatic fringe"

This has to be a bit.

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

toxic towards liberals

Oh Jesus, those unhinged lefties went so far as to say bad things about liberals! Prepare my fainting chair!

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

im actually surprised they didn't lump liberals in with "leftists"

I'm pretty sure I fund "our media operation"

[–] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every accusation is a confession.

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

morshupls Ah, but the tankies were the first to make accusations of intelligence agency funding against Bellingcat, therefore it is the tankies who are confessing. smuglord

[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

PayPal and Venmo ban our news sources because that's how foreign governments fund their operations right? That's definitely not because they rely on reader donations or anything, obviously.

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

me casually taking it like a champ and stating that Xi personally pays me 50CNY an hour to dunk on haters

[–] miz@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

not many people know this, but NED stands for No, Eliot! Dumbass

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

I do, yes. It's me and my comrades mostly.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I wish I was being funded, lol

[–] Fleur_@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

PLEASE GOD SOMEONE SPONSOR MY SCHIZO POSTING

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