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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Petition to make "the Triad" a thing. It's streets ahead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like tankie triplets. Triad feels like it gives them more importance than they deserve.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Triangle. Like Bermuda Triangle.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tankie users who are used to being on .ml, grad, or Hexbear sometimes react with surprise or disgust when their horrific views are downvoted or criticized when they wander onto non-tankie instances.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or simply that people are allowed to reply with real facts and history instead of authoritarian propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

"Uhmmm OK lib"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

"You are the entire circus"

-Everyone else

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stragglers + strangers = stranglers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

A new thing has been invented just like Kelloggs!