the_dunk_tank
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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My go-to site to see what the libs are up has shifted from Reddit to Bluesky. I think a lot of the people consider themselves progressive but they have a mortgage which makes the situation different from my time at with Redditors. The Bluesky people I follow and I think most progressives on the site were all very disturbed, disgusted, and angered by this: Hundreds of police have sexually abused kids. How do they avoid prison time? - Washington Post
I think we'd define the average Bluesky progressive as a centrist. None of the posts I saw even mentioned in passing what could be done about the police. No mention of defunding the police. No mention of police reform. No mention of BLM or the BLM protests. No mention of voting for candidates that might actually do something about it. No mention of anything.
An already huge number of people is blocking me: ~160. That's crazy considering I've only been on the site 4 months and I only have ~90 followers. I assume it's very easy to get defined as a leftist reply guy just for being critical of the dems. Mostly all I've done is mention my democratic bugbear which is the verb "do". Okay, I admit it. I want the dems to do something.
I decided to stop commenting about such things to them. That includes me talking about Kathy Hochul. I don't want to hear 1,001 excuses and rationalizations about how nothing can be done about shitty dem pols like her because the dems have a lock on their voting base.
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Edit
They are having a lot of fun dunking on her. But I wonder how many them would even dream of voting for a leftist candidate.