• Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Shout out to that one user named Good Girl who swore that being on Hexbear and Lemmygrad meant she got better treatment than the rest of lemmy.

      I hope she gets over her self-hatred and loves herself as much as outside of those spaces.

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
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        3 months ago

        I’m missing out on this particular bit of Lemmy Lore, did something happen?

        • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 months ago

          It only really impacted me and a few others on Blahaj/196. She “swore off” the rest of Lemmy (still has it, still uses it) and said that being on Hexbear was better for her than other spaces online, and anyone disagreeing, even other trans women, were all wrong.

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            3 months ago

            I don’t understand why someone would downvote you or why this opinion would cause an impact of any kind? People say all sorts of crazy things online. Was she particularly rude, trollish or baitey?

            • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              3 months ago

              She thought that the group of trans people that run 196 was somehow enabling transphobia and other horrid things when we constantly removed it.

              And when we removed it, she said it was better for communication if kept things up to show the idiots.

              And then when I kept it up, she got mad at me for not instantly banning and removing them.

              Like everything 196 does was inherently a master plan where we messed with all users just for her.

              She’s banned because she constantly went “I can’t wait to leave this place” and never did. So I left the ban note along the lines of “If you want to leave, you can. You’re not, you’re harassing users and defending tankies, so take this time to breath some air.”

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        3 months ago

        At a guess: “these things are necessary to secure the state from Western agitators and things will change.”

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      3 months ago

      I’ve heard plenty of “LGBT Rights is wrong because it means forcing Western Values on other cultures” stories from Tankies. It was enough to prove Horseshoe Theory to me.

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        3 months ago

        Horseshoe theory, the one where we call countries doing what we do communists to avoid facing our own failures?

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                    3 months ago

                    People, observe the rhetorical devices of tankies. They do not engage in meaningful discourse. They answer with non-sequiturs framed as innocent questions. They present themselves as free speech defenders, yet they use this free speech to defend the most oppressive regimes in the world, though most often implicitly as their whole thesis becomes an obvious sophism were it to be explicitly stated:

                    America bad, therefore Russia/China/NK good.

                    It’s the exact same rhetorical devices that /r/The_Donald used during the '16 election, only with a different goal. It’s the methodology of people actively working against their own self-interest, shitting all over rational discourse because they found themselves in a self-reassuring echo-chamber of anticonformism.