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Repost because @[email protected]'s original post got removed from [email protected] for dunking outside the dunk tank

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (82 children)

Reposting from the other thread

ConfuzedAZ: "I'm a pretty left leaning person"

Also ConfuzedAZ:

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Value of assets doubled, mortgage is paid by tenants

mao-shining

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

landlord-spotted of course theyre a landlord

“im a pretty left leaning person but i also want to leech off peoples wages and drive up the price of housing”

oh, how magnanimous of you, barely making a profit. YOU ARE GETTING SOMEONE ELSE TO PAY FOR YOUR HOUSE. it’s all profit since it all goes to equity in the houses, maintenance, or straight to their pocket. these scumbags will say anything to make themselves feel better when they know they are despicable

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

a bare minimum profit

YOU GET TO KEEP THE HOUSE MOTHERFUCKER. How the hell is "a free house in 30 years" not a shit load of profit? Dingus doesn't even do his own maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Doesn't even do their own landlording, they pay a property management company to do the villainy for them (pay them out of their tenants' rent checks, that is)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A free house + 200% its purchase value in appreciation so far

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i tied the future of my kids to these houses, have you thought about that huh? every house you take from me you're taking from the tiny toddler hands that i personally put them in, stop being so mean :(

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

liberals my god

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

left leaning

only liberals talk like this

EDIT: lol. a landlord

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

By left-leaning they mean leaning 2° left of total fascism

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone who openly identifies as "a leftist", "extremely progressive" or "socialist leaning", or any other variation of some mealy-mouthed description gets all of my skepticism and disdain, especially when these people always do it to insist upon themselves.

When tell people that I'm a Marxist it's because it's relevant to the discussion (e.g. when discussing theory) or that I'm an ML when it's a matter of stating my political biases or using shorthand to skip over describing that I adhere to dialectical materialism etc., or that I'm a communist if someone accuses me of being a liberal. That sort of thing.

But when people hedge their statements or they feel the need to qualify what they're about to say by asserting their political identity, I look on it with about the same enthusiasm as a statement that opens with "I'm not racist but..."

At least have the guts to say "I'm an anarchist" or "I'm a communist" or plain old "I'm a liberal" ffs.

It's also worth noting that the pearl-clutching anti-"tankie" left often spends time in their echo chambers lamenting the fact that the evil MLs have sullied the good name of socialism amongst the unwashed masses (completely whitewashing the ongoing history of McCarthism and liberal indoctrination btw - and in fact I'd argue that this is an example of internalising this), and how they either must abandon those terms or they must redouble their efforts to exclude MLs from their precious definitions.

I mean, to be honest the majority of MLs I've come across have a very lukewarm attitude towards identifying as a socialist at the best of times. The idea that MLs need to be forcibly excluded from the label of socialist is largely a non-issue because they already avoid the term in most situations and saying this stuff just serves as in-group reaffirmation and grandiose statements of intent from the Anti-Praxis Aktion gang.

"MLs are the ones who are responsible for anti-communist sentiment in the US! We should all concede ground to liberal indoctrination and use a more palatable term which is more amenable to liberals to describe our political identities with!! Tankies bad!!! Updoots to the left."

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hexchan

HEXCHAN

lmao the pearl-clutching is so hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

THE RUDE LITTLE HEXBEARS HAVE POINTED AT ME AND CALLED ME A LIB

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (12 children)

but hexchan ain't helping either

These people so goddamn precious it's unbelievable

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

"Hexbear were mean to me one time because I was transphobic so now I will continually compare them to sites that are full of hate, slurs, and child pornography!" rage-cry

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're so deranged at some point I can't even hate them

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm hex-san to you, thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hitler posting on lemmy.world: "Vell, I consider myself pretty far left, but diese giftigen Tankies von Hexbear"

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"I am completely apolitical, also I fucking hate tankies."

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I really don't fucking understand why some people post shit in a public space and act so taken aback when people don't agree. Like, why the hell are you even posting this shit if you don't want to open it up to discourse? Just talk to yourself in a mirror if you're so terrified of someone thinking you're a complete dullard.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes on you I know I’m a complete dullard

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're no dullard to me <3

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it'd be like if one of us posted something pro-communist on a mainstream reddit-logo sub expecting not to get a stream of attacks or instantly banned.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

hexchan ain't helping either

There is a spectre haunting lemmy and the libs can't cope specter

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ahh yes, the cuddly pioneering era of reddit-logo where one of the biggest subs was barely veiled child p*rn.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's one of the things they consider a virtue.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

"AKSHULLY it's called Ephebefebehebefillia and it's totally normal."

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are chapo once again. We are fated to be chapo.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Chapo was SRS once again

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

Hexchan was here first. Fuck off liberals.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

The funniest thing is confusedAZ is a .world user so they haven't even experienced interacting with "tankies", even the normal left liberals on Lemmy are too far left for them lol

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was around on Reddit a long time ago. The last couple of years I had so many posts removed because a bot decided I had used a bad keyword, or my post wasn't properly formatted, or something. It was very strange. At some point people just stopped having anything new or interesting to say, and actually posting anything became more and more restrictive.

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