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I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.

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[–] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I hope you're a just a troll, otherwise your head is more empty than my bank account.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (7 children)

If you had engaged in good faith instead of being rude and combative (not to mention demonstrating extremely weak dunking game), you might have learned a thing or two about some egregious lies you've been told about a country that has been in a constant state of war with an impossibly powerful empire sitting almost literally at its doorstep for several decades now. Alas, instead you chose to be a jerk.

But yeah, it's us Hexbear tankies who are the unpleasant ones. Totally.

[–] davis@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Hello! I am interested in information about these lies. Please direct me in the right direction to learn more.

I'll start with one piece of information that would have to be challenged for me to support the DPRK. I understand that North Korea operates under a totalitarian dictatorship run by a defacto dynasty. If this isn't true, point me to where I can learn more.

Editing to add that I want to be clear that I am attempting to argue in good faith. I gave an example only as an easy starting point. If you think it is unfairly phrased, please correct me. I hope you understand that this take is so unfamiliar to me that I feel an urge to learn more.

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Other users have linked to good resources, but one thing I'd like to comment on is that people should be wary of overusing thought-terminating epithets. Communists also have this problem to some extent when they flippantly throw out the "fascist" label, but coming into the wider fediverse after the redditpocalypse, I've seen too many "discussions" that are essentially "authoritarian totalitarian fascist genocidal dictatorship upvotes to the left pls" which is an extremely reddit type of discourse that serves to shut down discussion before it even begins (they're bad bad bad bad nothing to talk about).

I'm not accusing you of this because you've made a good faith effort to seek out constructive engagement. In most other cases though, I wish more people would investigate these claims like how you're doing instead of salad tossing adjectives and relying purely on intuition and cultural conditioning.

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