Get in here losers
We’re dunking on everything
Data-driven Understanding
Zero data
very good paper, well done
are my feelings data?
Data-driven as in the data drove, or you drove the data?
*reads article*
Well, that answered my question.
It’s honestly jarring how they don’t define extreme even though they distinguish it from far (by saying extreme is a subcategory of far). Also the lack of criteria for determining how they classified subs into categories such as tankie. And, it should probably go without saying, how they call for intensive moderation on these groups without indicating what harm or risk they represent. It’s almost theatrical.
However, when it comes to everyday societal challenges that are usually points of interest for the left wing—like policing, climate change, healthcare, housing, and workers’ rights—tankies seem less engaged.
Really huge “I clicked on a couple of memes and did no further investigation” energy radiating from this sentence.
They can’t identify “tankies” when they’re engaged on those topics because the only method they have of defining a tankie is as someone that supports AES and opposes the state department’s line.
Everyone who isn’t visibly a tankie is just a regular marxist to them. And everyone who is saying anything the supports AES or opposes hegemony is a tankie and not a regular marxist.
They don’t realise they’re the same thing behaving differently in two different settings. Marxists aren’t ranting about aes and stalin when talking about unionisation ffs.
- “Race traitor” definition of tankie (AES citizens aren’t described as tankies, Communist leaders today and historically aren’t identified as tankies. only westerners who admire the former categories can be tankies)
- Study is entirely focused to reddit communities (a platform used exclusively by losers and cranks)
- “Data Driven understanding” but it’s just the authors own conjured impression that Tankies care more about “state-driven events” and not “policing, climate change, healthcare, housing”. Author should choose a random PSL branch instagram and see what they post about if they believe this.
“Acceptance of X narratives” - 
making a conclusion based on analysis. Fuck, just because you disagree with someone, doesn’t mean you can write them as if they’re not reasoning, coherent, analytical agents. this baseline applies to chuds too if one was to seriously try and understand them also.
Utkucan Balci (@utkucanbalci) is a Ph.D. Candidate at Binghamton University and a student researcher at iDRAMA (The International Data-driven Research for Advanced Modeling and Analysis) Lab. His current research interests include understanding online communities and how they break up into more divergent subcommunities.
Michael Sirivianos (@msirivia) Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and Informatics and the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at the Cyprus University of Technology. He serves on the Board of the CYENS Centre of Excellence and researches ways to help social media users tell lies apart. His research interests include the trust-aware design of distributed systems, device-centric authentication, federated identity management, discrimination based on personal data, cyber safety, transactional workload scalability, and measurement of blockchain systems
Jeremy Blackburn (@jhblackb) is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at Binghamton University. Jeremy is broadly interested in data science, with a focus on large-scale measurements and modelling. His award-winning research into understanding toxic behaviour, hate speech, and fringe and extremist Web communities has been covered in the press by The Washington Post, the New York Times, and Infowars, among others.
Assuming at least the last two of these people are libertarians who think the left is the real menace to be worried about. Imagine putting in your bio that your work has been covered by fucking Infowars.
work has been covered by fucking Infowars.
phrenology… on the blockchain
some of these guys have instagram using the same usernames, WINK WINK (go bully)
Hexbear has fallen, lemmygrad is the vanguard. I will now delete my account here, clearly this webserver is for libs.
lemmygrad is so back as the big scary tankie on the fediverse woooo
Honestly it feels like we’re swapping up with Hexbear every six months
tankies appear to be deeply invested in state-driven political events, often at the expense of grassroots societal issues.
In an article published on a “think tank” with ties to the State Department and which broadcasts imperialist propaganda against enemy states.
This idea is strengthened by reports of r/GenZedong (a tankie subreddit) showing aggression towards Uyghurs online.
Oh gee, that sounds awful! I wonder what that was about?
“As an American, I am very proud of working for the US government in Guantanamo…”
Oh my god, how little self-awareness can a person have? Accusing China of having secret concentration camps while proudly declaring employment at a known, verified torture facility.
I stg every time I check the receipts on “far-left hate speech” it’s in response to like, “Hi, my name is Nazi McFedstein and I love torturing minorities.” How hard is it to make a wrecker account in a leftist space and then cite your own account saying something fucked up? They just don’t even care because they know their audience won’t follow the links because it fits their confirmation bias.
lol I remember right after we federated there were tons of people complaining about getting banned from here. They’d complain about dog piling, about how they’re getting harassed, how they were just talking normally and didn’t do anything wrong and were suddenly banned. And you’d look at the modlog and it was always something transphobic or racist they said, then reiterated multiple times
Oh yeah they’d post a meme with no context and get thousands of upvotes and then you check the modlog and it’s
god i hated that time but also loved it. these
were incensed at being banned for ‘doing nothing’
Rushan Abbas debacle is probably the only time mainstream reddit had a good reaction, IMO certainly because it was so cartoonish and incompetent to a level that(at that time) it was impossible to defend. These days the reaction would be completely different, pretty much blue MAGA would be like “oh yeah so what they’re also actualy literaly a fed agent? Don’t you know that is required training for understanding how to use and spread Western Values?”
They often opt to use the nomenclature ‘Communist Party of China (CPC)’—Beijing’s preferred language—over the more colloquial ‘CCP’ […] Overall, there’s a clear inclination in tankies’ dialogues towards viewpoints aligned with the CCP (or CPC in their vocabulary).
Brain legitimately spilling out of their ears.
We find the tankies’ usage of ‘Zelensky’ aligns with the r/DemocraticSocialism’s usage of ‘Trump’. This parallel suggests a certain scepticism or opposition towards Ukrainian sovereignty within the tankie community.
Wow! I had no idea it suggested this. Care to explain why opposition to a Western puppet who shakes the hands of Nazis and wears their merchandise means scepticism/opposition towards Ukrainian sovereignty (in a data-driven way)? Of course not. The “parallel” drawn is so shallow and meaningless. “This subreddit doesn’t like Trump, these people don’t like Zelensky, waow is there a common link here in that both of these groups don’t like separate people?” And then nothing is done with this comparison?? Filling the word count to the brim.
If I actually wrote something this bad and shallow I would at least forget to put my real name on it.
These are the same people who scream at you if you spell it Kiev
To be honest there is a lot of overlap between Zelensky and Trump, and certainly in their vibes and energy which is something that liberal should spot immediately since their analysis are based just on those (though they also miss those often).
They often opt to use the nomenclature ‘Communist Party of China (CPC)’—
Beijing’s preferred languageliterally just the correct acronym—over themore colloquialincorrect ‘CCP’If you don’t call a square a triangle you’re an extremist sweetie.
They needed to build off of the word association with the CCCP otherwise people wouldn’t get mad enough on their own.
God, is that one of the swords from SAO?! Abjectly shit taste. If you’re gonna pose with a fictional blade, dude coulda picked like. Rebellion, Frostmourne, Ryuko’s Scissor-blade, one of the 40 or 50 designs of Soul Edge and Soul Calibur; and this jagoff picks the single lamest protag’s single lamest blade? HE COULD’VE EVEN PICKED TRUNKS’ NONDESCRIPT-ASSED SWORD, Z-ERA OR SUPER-ERA AND I WOULDN’T BE ROASTING HIM LIKE THIS!
Such trash taste omfg.
That is 100% the sword from the SAO protagonist, and between this and including
Acceptance of CCP Narratives
Go back to watching Vaush.
I am extremely suspicious of mr assistant professor
Someone start a GoFundMe to get this dweeb a LoZ Master Sword
Froustmorne is based, Zoro’s katanas would be lit, demon slayer blades are crazy, zanpaktos are awesome, shard blades are sick. Light sabers are a classic. Practical HEMA swords are neat. Your local blacksmith likes to make swords.
Homie chose SAO???
I know bullying is wrong and bad… but can we please bully him?
SHAVE, YOU LOOK LIKE SHIT.
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lol the only way that they’d get away with this is if liberals try to convince everyone that class discrimination against the rich is bigotry on the level of racism or sexism. I guess they’ve already tried this. Hexbear was created after reddit banned violent rhetoric against slave owners.
They’d have to set up a framework where wanting a violent revolution against the capitalists is extremist, but calmly rationally talking about the need to evict poor people from their homes isn’t extremist.
ya gotta give it to libs
when they write, its incredible how every sentence becomes worse than the last
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GENZEDONG MENTION ALL HAIL THE KING
This is actually the least convoluted thing in this report
Feminism, feminisms, radical feminism, and anarcha-feminism
When a think tank is afraid of plagiarizing the political compass.
“Anercho”-capitalism, the ideology for business school incels, is closer to feminism than to Objectivism (a synonym for “anarcho”-capitalism).
This makes sense. I’m a very serious big boy data driven think tank thinker.
It’s even a tiny bit closer to Marxism than to objectivism lol.
Also there is communism and communist separately on that graph, just as anarchism and anarchist, conservative and conservatives, republican and republicans. Looks like AI made.
These are the names of subreddits, I guess there are lots of subs of similar names covering the same things.
Are those supposed to be subreddits?
“The gang confirms all their biases and proves that everything they want to believe is true”
“Facts don’t care about your feelings.”
“All of my feelings are now facts.”
