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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 75 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"There's a sucker born every minute"

From education to business, lying and scamming is seen as fair play by a huge majority of American people. And things like their credit score system don't help things, when getting ahead can literally be the difference between life and death.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

It's not white collar crime unless it comes from the tech ceo region of financial crime otherwise it's sparkling scamming.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

"greed is good"

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 74 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had to block [Hexbear]. I am very sympathetic and generally agreeable to many communist ideals but their brigading and style of that community is annoying.

I am very sympathetic and generally agreeable to many communist ideals

doubt

[–] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

That was actually the person who got reported on my blahaj comm so I was vibechecking them and that's how I found this thread (I also found transphobia in their comment history while doing it so they got hit with the ban-hammer )

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You claim that China isn't full of cheaters, and yet look at this permutation of Chinese characters, you fucking idiot.

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To the western brainpan Chinese characters are actually magical, everything written in them becomes imbued with totemic truth power. This explains the tattoos.

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

Getting "Juan Gweilo" tattooed on my bicep in Chinese as part of my bid for interim president.

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

There's an English phrase, "All is fair in love and war" which means SA, torture, looting, executing non combatants are encouraged by westerners so long as you're technically at war.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Also, totally okay to cheat on your spouse

[–] Anxious_Anarchist@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ever since I started working in social work, I've completely stopped giving a shit about cheating. A good amount of the time I'm helping people cheat various systems to get what they need cause social assistance is so fucked they have to cheat it.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 60 points 2 years ago

Is it racist to say things that are fucking true?

Ah yes, the justification given by every racist since the dawn of time

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It has to do with their culture. Chinese culture is very cutthroat and survival of the fittest. It makes people have the mindset of doing anything they can to win or be successful, even if it means cheating. It’s not just video games. They have a huge problem with it in their education system, as well.

Love it when they try to criticize communism and end up just describing capitalism.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

if you ask a capitalist and a communist to criticize each other they'll both criticize capitalism

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

literally only exists because some Chinese guy invented the plow 1500 years ago (while brits were living in actual shitholes)

lol

(btw I mean actual in-the-groud holes full of shit, the Romans even documented it)

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

Please tell me this is not a joke.

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

Romans documented some eastern Anglo tribes chilling in bogs on hot days. Literally wallowing in peat, dead plant matter and mud. It's why they built so many bathhouses.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Said bogs are filled with corpses. Even today, every now and then a perfectly preserved corpse floats up to the top

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Got too chill

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

They've really fallen a long way.

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

That's hilarious.

I've seen the wojack comics of it but never knew there was truth to it.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

They either accidentally die in said bogs or also use said bogs for burials, the amount of preserved bodies that show up

[–] Tommasi@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They're actually doing the west taiwan bit? I thought that was just something people here said as a parody

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Everything we make fun of either exists or comes into being because of our connection to the Lathe of Heaven

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

That is very much a liberal 'joke'

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Donald Trump literally said he cheats on his taxes on live TV and everyone in America shrugged their soldiers and went "Same"

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

He did say slightly more than that. He said that if Hillary wanted him to pay taxes, she should change the tax-code, but that she wouldn't because her donors and friends and party-members all enjoyed the same tax breaks and loopholes that he did.

[–] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

Was doing moderation stuff for the blahaj zone comm I mod and checking through someone's comment history for a vibecheck because they'd had one of their comments reported but it was unclear whether they were just being a dick or should actually be banned and then I found this lol

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago
[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Literally every university student from the US and Europe was cheating online exams during COVID lockdows ...

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wasn't 🙂 I should have though 🙃

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

This. My GPA was bad only because I didn't cheat.

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

The Fascist instance we defederated from for being fascist is being fascist, who would've guessed

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

Liberals think the social credit system is a real thing. They're the most propagandized people on earth

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

It's like, homie, have you ever heard of a criminal background check? How about a credit score?

[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

hm, i wonder if the world's largest population of online gamers might have a proportionally larger number of cheaters.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This dude thinks western people don't cheat and scam? Give me a min, I'mma get this dip shit to give me his credit card.

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

Look, in Da West^tm^ only our wealthiest and most powerful people lie scam and cheat, which is better for reasons.

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

"If you can cheat, cheat"

“能骗就偏”

从教育到商业,欺骗被绝大多数人视为公平竞争。像他们愚蠢的信用评分系统这样的事情并没有帮助,因为成功与否实际上可能是生与死的区别。

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

"If you can pee pee, then poo poo"

Smh Anglo culture encourages pee pee poo poo

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's in american culture to murder people. Look:

kill people dawg

see???????? in american culture its perfectly fine to murder random poeple.

fucking ridiculous, these people.

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

see???????? in american culture its perfectly fine to murder random poeple.

wheres the lie tho

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

china under the bedUS scared

hmm I can't get this lemmygrad emote combo to format properly here