I think it might hit closer to home, because the insult (accusing someone of being loyal to the empire) is less abstract than insulting someone for having an unscientific world-view. Another benefit is that it makes us seem less like conservatives, and is harder to coopt by patsocs.

Obviously, the insult will probably only become effective if it spreads so that people know what is being referred to. And obviously, liberalism is still a menace.

What do you guys think?

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[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I barely had to scroll down in your profile to find you trying to use "tankie" as a pejorative lol

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 9 points 12 hours ago

lol literally a site tagline

One issue I have with hexbear is that you can't argue with its users on hexbear itself. Most comments from outsiders are deleted within a day, and most of the users aren't interested in discussions and simply resort to name calling and personal attacks. The more "sophisticated" ones will tell you to "read theory". The amount of hexbear users actually capable of producing arguments seems to be very low, at least from my experience.

These issues exist on other instances as well of course, but on hexbear its particularly bad. The only other instances this toxic I have interacted with were lemmygrad and exploding-heads.

Eat shit liberal

[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I apologize, I did not realize "tankie" was a pejorative. I thought I had seen people on here use that term to refer to themselves, but maybe that was lemmygrad.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago

It was probably ironicly.