It doesn't matter their political system or economic alignment, authoritarians always look for unproven or racist ideas to divide others away from themselves. It doesn't matter what race or for which political idea, racism is always bad and corrupts all ideas.
MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
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It’s easier than accepting that all people are capable of good and evil. It’s so easy to decide villains are born that way because then the targets are easy and you’re definitely a good person.
well said. Shame they don't see that
I’m just going to continue to be happy I don’t know what Hexbear is…
Probably best to add it to your instance blocklist now and nip that shit in the bud before you do.
They're on .world, which defederated ages ago.
I thought hexbear defederated from world
I know they defederated from SJW, oh man, it was hilarious. They were all hyping themselves up that they have an entire ocean to dunk with and then they lost their safespace and they quickly folded. It didn't even last a day before they admitted defeat and ran back to their safespace.
Huh. I never realised sh.itjust.works kinda shares an acronym with Social Justice Warriors. I think I'd prefer SIW given how it's punctuated, but SJW does indeed work too.
You've likely interacted with some of their terminally-online dungeon denizens before. They have authoritarian takes that would embarrass fascists, but they call everyone else Nazis. Truly a special and unique crowd over there.
What did Rammstein do again?
Gave groupies better seating so they could have easy access to them after shows. Potentially drugging some of them although that was never proven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein#Concert_misconduct_allegations
I saw them in Philly a few years ago. At the end of the show they had their cam feed point to women to flash the camera. Whoever was directing the feed kept cutting back to one woman who was obviously not comfortable with it, definitely left a bad taste in my mouth
It finally became news that rock bands take advantage of groupies? What's next? A rapper actually murdering someone? A polka tuba player eating an entire cake?
Well that's disappointing.
But Ramstein won in court and the people aren't allowed to spread that stuff anymore.
If I pay someone to do a sex crime to me, do I get in trouble or spare them the trouble?
Unfortunately illegal is illegal so, yes, they probably would be prosecuted. It’s the “crime” bit that matters. I think there was a German (lol) cannibal who consensually ate some bits of people. Prosecuted.