Had some fun with this. Rules:

  1. When a tankie post comes up, post a legitimate, fair argument. Do not argue in bad faith. No matter how nasty the post may be. Legitimately combat the disinformation there by going into their bubble and posting a sane response.
  2. Watch the responses come in. Especially if the post is on the tankie triad.
  3. Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t respond to anything, unless there is actually a legitimate attempt to have a legitimate discussion. Otherwise, start a game of tankie bingo to help prevent yourself from responding to the madness.

Suggestions for expansion welcome.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t respond to anything

    The cowardice of these losers is hilarious, they’re scared to death of actually engaging with even our more pedestrian takes, instead they want to hugbox themselves to death and scream at the walls

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Hey, they actually said

      Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t respond to anything, unless there is actually a legitimate attempt to have a legitimate discussion.

      We often fail to provide well-meaning Lemmy users with legitimate arguments and good faith discussion. You know, like yesterday when @unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth was telling us about how Tank Man was executed and we started responding really unfair things, like

      Why do you think tank man was killed?

      You got any sources to ground that assertion in reality, or are you completely full of shit?

      And Joe Biden wwas replaced by a body double halfway through his term <- a statement with the same amount of proof and the same basis in reality

      In the future, we should be better and try to have a legitimate discussion. I think it would be nice if we instead said something like, “Gee, I hadn’t thought about it that way! I guess you might be right, and if I imagine that China has executed any given person hard enough, it becomes true!” or something along those lines.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        5 hours ago

        From 3 hours ago, @unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth has complained about @CyborgMarx@hexbear.net misquoting their comment. They stated the following:

        For a fucking bullshit bingo game lol.

        At this point I could play the game with the hexbear thread. They’ve already misquoted me by cutting off a part of my sentence to make it look like you should never even talk to them, lest they be right. My God, learn to fucking read lol.

        Oh, and they’re discussing the difference between putdowns and insults. I dunno, I learned that shit in school. In a school in the West even! Oh, the horror!

        https://sh.itjust.works/post/53221142/23188823

        No acknowledgement of my comment where I responded to the full quote because I thought it was even better when taken as a whole.

      • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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        When liberals whine about tankies not being well meaning they mean “heretics dared to question gospel truth”

        Anyway, @unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth murdered a college student in 2009 and chopped their body up before dumping it off the side of a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Everyone knows this happened because everyone knows that @unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth is exactly the type of person who would do this sort of thing. Anyone engaging in murder-and-dismemberment denial will be banned.

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          Yeah, you actually provide a source and it’s like “that’s not even from a corporate credible source”, god forbid you link counterpunch, dropsite or whatever bc then you’re a Russian propagandist(???) and the fucking Mossad bias meter comes out.

          Forget about even linking anything in another language, only anglos are smart enough to do journalism.

      • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t respond to anything, unless there is actually a legitimate attempt to have a legitimate discussion.

        Cowbee nevers calls people names and tries to have a discussion but every time they call him manipulative propagandist or make up lies about him

        • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Yep, but it ends up useful for me anyways from a purely rhetorical perspective. I try to avoid cheap rhetorical wins in the first place, but if they shoot themselves in the foot even after I point out how it’s backfiring I can’t really do much

          shrug-outta-hecks