• @[email protected]OP
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    1 year ago

    It’s an affectionate nickname for Hexbear. You might know that they behave like a bunch of 4channers, throwing and smearing their poop around; and Hexagon=>6 sides (must spell it out clearly, else the smart kids won’t understand)… both combined make 6chan.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      can anyone explain why I keep seeing their garbage after attempting to block everything hexbear related? I don’t even mind the occasional tankie that much, but this lot is fucking bonkers.

      • @Rooty
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        41 year ago

        Change your instance, i’m on lemmy.world which has defederated hexbear and I see no tankie posts.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          had issues with lemmy.world for a while and went to lemmy.ee, will give that a try I suppose.

          I just can’t fathom why I can’t eliminate .hex from my feed lol

          • @Rooty
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            21 year ago

            As a stopgap measure you can use the Connect app, which has instance blocking.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Lemmy and federation is very buggy. I’m from an instance which hexbear defederated from, but I sometimes still see posts from hexbear when browsing all+new. It seems like it doesn’t always get around to checking defederation when fetching new threads.

    • @[email protected]
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      -31 year ago

      behave like a bunch of 4channers,

      4chan isn’t tankies and 4chan isn’t just /pol/ there are plenty of boards on there that have no equivalent anywhere including reddit or lemmy like /lit/. I bet people on hexbear haven’t even read a book in the last decade.

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        I never said anything about political inclinations, it’s the trollish and toxic behaviors that are comparable. You even quote me saying “behave”. Don’t be *a Hexbear please…

        *Thanks for pointing out the typo, dear 6channers, much appreciated :)

          • @[email protected]OP
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            41 year ago

            kinda hypocritical no?

            No. Feigning to not understand, or distorting a point is something that Hexbear users love to do. That’s why I asked you to not be like them.

            • @[email protected]
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              -31 year ago

              At this point you are being intellectually dishonest and I don’t see how you can moralize with that kind of meta with responding to people. Goodbye.

      • @[email protected]M
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        41 year ago

        Of most extremists, Tankies are actually quite active in their reading material… Unfortunately, they don’t read to learn opposing views or even what historically occurred, but instead to bolster themselves in an attempt to appear smarter-than-thou, ‘Look at how many books I’ve read!’ – As if that means anything.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          If it’s anything like the alt right Russian propagandists the reading material only includes easily disproven badly written propaganda and ignoring any piece of history that makes their country of choice look bad and twist anything negative to obscene levels. I don’t believe these people are history buffs nevermind people that fact check their “facts”. The only one up they have on people is that they have an argument ready for the most common attack vectors against their fascism.

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              31 year ago

              I’ve argued with my fair share of tankies on reddit and you can never win even if you provide all the facts and sources. They will ignore them or say they don’t matter etc… etc…

        • @PRUSSIA_x86
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          11 year ago

          /an/ is cool, it’s just a bunch of stoners comparing snails and arguing about dinorsaurs.

        • @[email protected]
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          -21 year ago

          /lit/ is mostly clean I had made thread there that were 150 comments deep and no insults or slurs. You can also use 4chanx to filter comments too. Lot of stuff on /g/ is good too especially when it gets technical.

        • @[email protected]M
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          41 year ago

          Most tankies are not reasonable, no. A few of them have legitimately put forth effort in engaging in this community, but when faced with the reality of Stalin specifically sending queers to gulags, they broke and reverted to their trollish behaviour, later returning to hexbear about their worries so their fellow tankies can feed them a false narrative about gays in gulags.

          They are not reasonable, or else they would’ve already tried engaging here–We have threads dedicated as semi-safespaces for them.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Isn’t that like saying not all cops are bad, the bad cops are just the ones you always hear about. (In the US)

          For sure, pretty much every individual cop I’ve interacted with has been very reasonable. Doesn’t mean the policing system isn’t rotten to the core when it’s protecting the bad cops.