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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.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml

Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is bahaj? I think I've seen some of them post in here before but don't know what their instance is about.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Anti-communist Vaushite chaser instance spun off from r/196. We were federated with them for a minute until we realized how intolerable they were.

[–] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, it started as a small kind of libby trans friendly space on Lemmy for just a handful of users that was a spin off of the blahaj.zone misskey instance on fedi (mastodon basically) but because of the Reddit stuff it swelled in size and then r/196 asked if they could migrate to it and suddenly the entire culture of the instance was up ended by chaser vaushites.

also it's become the 1 token trans friend for all the Lemmitors that agrees with their shitty opinions because they can't bear to acknowledge that the instance with the most trans users on is hexbear

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

the misskey instance was pretty anticommunist before the reddit migration too, so they were ripe for it

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

So it's NATO leftist central. I'm starting to realize why every one of them posting here was insufferable as hell.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I still have no idea what the r/196 sub is/was

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just for a little clarification.. Blahaj is also the name of the shark plushie at IKEA that has become sort of a symbol of trans support. That predates the cringe lemmy instance you're talking about (which I had never even heard of until today, but the shark thing has been a phenomenon for years)