Dunking on Tankies from a leftist, anti-capitalist perspective.
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We allow posts about tankie behavior even off fedi, shitposts, and rational, leftist discussion.
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Edit edit: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531
Welp
If I had disposable income, I would massively overbid everyone and just replace the server with a photo of Winnie the Pooh.
Just host a redirect to Wikipedia page of Tiananmen square?
OMG that would be hilarious, I am definitely not considering taking a loan out for this lmaooo
Can you imagine talking with a bank accountant to sign off on that loan?
"So are you looking to invest in a personal buisness or a down payment on a car or maybe invest in an asset? So what is it cm0002? What would this capital be going towards, what plans do you have to properly utilize this investment?
"I want to win a online auction so I possess a domain name of a niche internet fourm populated by mentally unwell politically extreme nutjobs and general morons. From there I may use the domain to redirect its user to a funny picture insulting them, I dunno havent thought that out too hard yet but the tankies will be fucking OWNED by the time in done with their precious domain." "...."
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"Okay I guess I can scrape their private information and sell it to the highest bidders, im sure theres a few advertisers and government agencies that wouldn't mind paying to add some names to a list."
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"Your interest rate for this 12,000$ loan will be 43% and pray I dont alter the deal further. Sign the line and get out of my face you fucking peasant. Have fun paying this off for a quarter of your lifetime."
The way to do this is to setup a non-profit or some other kind of organization. Call it the Touch Grass Foundation. An organization dedicated to getting intensely online people to go outside and touch grass. From there you can point to a membership paying dues and donations to secure the loan.
Really, this is the way fediverse instances should be setup if they are serious about longevity and community. If hexbear had proper governance, they wouldn't be in this situation. I don't think the paranoid is comfortable with that level of transparency though.
Maybe being held by Putler with heavy makeup?
LOL @ “It’s because capitalism ruined DNS”
DNS is enough to ruin DNS, it doesn't need help from any outside influence.
Source: It's always DNS.
So... How did they lose the domain?
Word on the Lemmy-verse is that the admin in charge of the infrastructure went MIA and someone was waiting to snatch it as soon as it expired and threw it up for auction
Who bought (or almost bought) InfoWars? Was that The Onion? Someone should let them know!
Please god, make some rich dude buy it and redirect it to .world it would be so fucking funny
If the bidding doesn't hit at least 6 digits, then we know for sure that Hexbear's paranoia about the CIA undermining them is unfounded 🕶
Lol seriously i hope this inspires more instances to defederate from all the ML instances, since a lot of hexbear users will be pissing off to grad or .ml
Yea, that's what I'm hoping for. All those "They're not that bad, they're nice sometimes" folks about to see the mask fall
If hexbear is "nice sometimes" then i must be the fucking reincarnation of christ himself lmao
Auction is up and going everyone LMAO
$300? That's the best you can do?
$505 as of now
It's more than doubled since I went to bed last night. Over $700 now.
It's all the way up to $305 now! Things are heating up! Will it get to $310?
Wouldn't they just move to Hex-bear.co or something if they lose this one?
Possibly, but if whoever buys it does something funny with it, I will still be highly amused.
I'll wait out the auction and grab it if it's reasonable.
Hell, someone just start a gofundme and we can collectively buy it and hand the name over to blahaj, just for the lulz.
Hell, someone just start a gofundme and we can collectively buy it and hand the name over to blahaj, just for the lulz.
LMFAO I'd pitch in some money to see that lolol
It's $500 and aint worth a shit anyway, but if someone want to waste their money i wont tell them no x).
Though a lot of them moving to other ml instances could maybe push the fediverse to defederate from all 3 of them.
I'm OOTL on hexbear. I know its tankie, but wasn't it a continuation of the chapo trap house subreddit which was was leftie memes? And chapo trap house started from supporters of the podcast, which is run by Democratic socialists. How did the community get so tankie?