This but unironically.

Do you think pro-Trump Russian bots are building up anarchist/communist post histories to throw you off? Or that they’re de facto Trump supporters by not voting blue no matter who?

I don’t go through people’s comment histories to try to validate them.

And there’s a shocking overlap in vernacular and memes between tankies and alt-right. Obviously they’re diametrically opposed on almost all issues. BUT neither really believe in good faith discussion, it’s mostly trolling and “dunking”. Mix in sarcasm that’s not obvious to an outsider, and the jokes are hard to tell apart from misinformation or “muddying the water”.

It’s way more present since Hexbear federated it, every first impression is that it’s an alt-right troll farm. After some interaction it gets clear quickly that it isn’t.

Just expect normies to have that first impression.

BUT neither really believe in good faith discussion, it’s mostly trolling and “dunking”.

I do not like tankies but I have absolutely never experienced this, all tankies typically want to do is discuss theory and history to the point that it’s exhausting. Have you talked to any Trotskyists??

It’s way more present since Hexbear federated in, every first impression is that it’s an alt-right troll farm.

I literally never got this impression, it’s like extraordinarily clear that Hexbear is a leftist instance. From the pronouns in names to the leftist jokes lol.

^^ This guy is a tankie. The fact he’s using the term Trotskyists unironically proved this. Literally no one else except tankies does this.

LMAOOO WHAT?? I’m just using the term they use for themselves.

I ran into a group of Trotskyists once and it turned out they were absurdly boring and wanted me to grab coffee with them for weeks on end before they’d tell me anything, and they apparently read a metric fuckton of theory. So now I know the word Trotskyist. But I guess that makes me a tankie 🤷

No, you’re a tankie. Even in that context normal people never actually use that word. I can sit here ans make up bullshit stories too, doesn’t change what you are.

And stop brigading other instances. Go outside and touch grass