this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
134 points (100.0% liked)

the_dunk_tank

15897 readers
1 users here now

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.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml

Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Do any of these debate perverts even use the logic nerd terms correctly?

Link: https://hexbear.net/comment/4403689

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago

actually i was gonna become a marxist but YOU didnt want to do the special words dance to coddle me like a big baby.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Might as well make it official and call him a fucking idiot

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago
[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Libs always be pearl-clutching over the commies grabbing power but never mention who they were grabbing power from.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"They just replaced the old elite with a new elite"

Tell me about the old elite honk

Tell me about the old elite! big-honk

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Ehm that would be 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙢 sweetie smuglord

[–] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

liberals will speedrun holocaust denial if you start steering that type of conversation to the Soviet Baltics

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah arguments about what happened post-war are one thing, but it’s undeniable that the Soviets kicking the Nazis out of the Baltics was a good thing.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

I've seen way too many people who argued that murdering Baltic Jews was understandable, because they were sympathetic to the USSR.

[–] CrimsonSage@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Yes but they took away their slaves!! Their SLAVES!!! Their slaves are just like FAMILY!!!

[–] MorelaakIsBack@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

buckle up, we're going ad hominem smuglord

[–] raven@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

No thank you I have an ad blocker. I'll just have the hominem.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

dressed up in the clothes of communism

The CIA famously caught up with Che Guevera at the Bolivia Commie Con annual event.

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

No one did cosplay better than 26th de Julio movement. Iconic

[–] Vingst@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They just wanted to become dictators in the most difficult way possible, making the most powerful enemies in the world.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

che-smile the old trick of fighting on behalf of the most powerless people in society to gain power. Its so obvious

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

For real. If I wanted power I’m just going to be a fascist politician or business owner who’s friendly to the colonial powers. Why the hell would I bet my entire ambitions on a revolution that has the deck stack against it?

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

We love our beautiful mods folks. Very smart, very handsome. The best mods. Many people are saying this a-little-trolling

[–] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

It's actually on everyone else to coddle me and tell me I'm special big-brain person until I eventually decide to listen. It's not on me to know anything. It's called burden of proof and it's why I'm a rationalist logic-enjoyer.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Virgin ledditor: "Most trains in france are still using steam engines"

Chad hexbear: "You obviously have no fucking idea what you're talking about"

Virgin ledditor: "Uhm actually that's an ad hominem which means I win. Good day Sir"

Chad hexbear: [fart noise]

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How dare you call me wrong I am always right 😎

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

“You just don’t know what you’re talking about…”

That’s the part that makes it personal

That was how they started their last reply michael-laugh

Way too on the nose! Today i learned saying someone is wrong is a personal attack lol

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My favorite type of guy is the kind who comes back days later to try to convince you that he's not mad. I always respond with something like "oh well if you don't care then you won't mind if you let me have the last word" and they almost always continue to engage.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I find that a classic "lmao" often shuts them up

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

That's the magic of pigpoopballs, you can let them have the last "word"

[–] axont@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

yes Lenin and Mao were only interested in power for themselves personally which is why they became courtiers for their respective royal families in the feudal societies they lived in and then enjoyed lives of luxury by sucking up to various feudal landowners, oh wait no none of that happened

so how exactly does one do a power grab over the course of like 30 years talking/writing and organizing socialism, finally achieving victory, and then doing everything they said they'd do? because Lenin and Mao at certain points were down to like 20 guys. Both of them got exiled at various points and could have given up and just lived their lives peacefully out in Austria or Hunan or wherever Mao got exiled. If you wanted power in the year 1905, you didn't become a socialist revolutionary in a feudal monarchy. That's how you got imprisoned and then shot. You wouldn't even become a socialist revolutionary shortly after victory because that's how you became international assassination target number 1.

these liberals do the same thing as conservatives, they accuse communists of simply lying and having no true beliefs. It's projection. They think everyone is as cynical as them.

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You know in China they have the same word for "obnoxious liberal with zero reading comprehension demanding you concede all of their points right away for no discernible reason" and "opportunity"?

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

When you put it that way, i really did miss an opportunity there

Critically
Reactionary
Asshole
Censoring
Knowledge,
Enduringly (resistant to)
Reason

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"You're all reactionaries"

"Anyone who disagrees with me is reactionary!"

I can't understand why none of us tried to explain 100 years of history and 200 years of theory to them. They seem so reasonable

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

reactionary /rē-ăk′shə-nĕr″ē/ adjective Characterized by reaction, especially opposition to progress or liberalism; extremely conservative.

they weren't even using it right if I understand correctly

[–] Vingst@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You say you aren't a reactionary, yet you reacted to something I said very-intelligent

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Every time a doctor hits a knee with a plexor a new reactionary is born. Imagine reacting to physical stimuli.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yeah plenty of people who dont understand politics dont understand this word. I shared a discord with someone who's media opinions always echoed that of reactionairy youtube ragebaiters, and told him so, but he tried to tell me "normal people" would see me as the "reactionairy" for reacting to those people, lol.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

lol, lmao even. To be fair, it would make some degree of sense for that to be the meaning. Sadly, they brought sense to a conversation in English. If only they’d thought to take five seconds to google it.

taps the sign with the Mao quote

[–] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

one time I told my chud cousin that America actively antagonizes other nations or sets up dictators as a pretense for invading them. He responded "No, America is purely reactionary. Foreign countries are provoking us." And I agreed with him. "Yes, America is reactionary." He got all smug and then I left, I got what I wanted out of the exchange lol

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, America is purely reactionary.

che-smile

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You see, you reacted to me. Checkmate tankie reactionary smuglord

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It wasn't even the first word they used incorrectly today

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

on the topic of definitions:

stolid /stŏl′ĭd/ adjective

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive. Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
Similar: dull impassive foolish Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility. Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited.
"her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"

Imagine naming yourself "stupid/dull/impassive/not easily aroused/ect and doesn't have a strong opinion on religion". what a killer username.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's some peak Nu Athiest/Rationalist naming convention there. Maybe they fell through a time warp from like 2008?

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The nice thing about arrested development is you always know when that person feels like they peaked.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago
[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

"You're not wrong because you're an asshole, it's just that you're wrong and you're an asshole."

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

"Ad Hominem? That's the only good rapper right?"

[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Ad Hominem? I remember that game

oh wait I'm thinking of Alien Hominid

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the correct use. Absolutely no information was provided to change the other person's mind. They merely insulted their intelligence.

Leftists gotta try harder if they want people on their side.

load more comments (1 replies)