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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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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Them: "hexbear is a tankie echo chamber"

Hexbear: Federates to specifically not be an echo chamber

Them: "hexbear is federating just to fuck shit up"

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative." -Michael Parenti

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Thought terminating cliches on the right - "Tankie!" "Putler!" "Genocide Denier!"

"Thought has terminated" cliche on the left - This guy in 1986 succinctly explained why nothing you say will ever get through the reinforced liberal brain-pan