ChairmanSpongebob [he/him]

You’ll defederate because one user from an instance did a bad thing? (And then publically apologized for that thing?) Yeah, very reasonable

Again, fascism is when you’re rude to me personally

This is a great bit, we should do it to at least one instance, just before they do it to use

No more half measures, walter

saying that phrase is legitimately intended to be trolling- it’s not meant to be convincing to the recipient or “activism”. at some point you start to care less and less what reactionaries think. It’s nigh impossible to convince anyone with arguments on the internet anyway.

please keep up this bit. it is good.

we have von hindenberg and the NSDAP

uh if you’re a millennial you have ALWAYS lived under the nuclear threat dude

tankie this tankie that - yeah that’s annoying when you’re online, but when you’re meeting up irl with some lefties and every other word is admonishing “tankies”, yeah we got a problem

I learned about this from the internetcommentetiquette video- I think it’s a good bit that he reposts the exact same video every year

what script is that on the tee size chart? who’s norm?!

Fair enough! I’ll just leave you with this:

You do have to wonder, yeah, is it their choice? Countries like the US, Russia and China can make “choices” but in geopolitics I’d say smaller countries like Ukraine kind of don’t. Maybe they can choose to be in Russian-sphere or EU-sphere, but they certainly can’t choose to be neutral. The powers that be: the US as the global hegemony, and Russia, the local regional hegemony are going to try their best to make those choices for them. It’s real bad

Genuinely I think Zelensky had promises made to him by the US/NATO about how much support he was going to get which the US reneged, and the far-right elements of his government and military he’s not able to control- so even him I don’t think has much choice. I do have (limited) sympathy for the guy. I think most people on Hexbear share a similar understanding, it’s def not a chauvinistic pro-Russia thing. Esp given how transphobic the Russian state is, you’re not going to see any touting of that as a good thing on hexbear.

coming to this pretty late, but yeah, we’ll never really know since we can’t get in their heads but there might be some credence to that believe among US policy planners as they did a similar thing to Allende’s Chile with the whole “make the economy scream” sanctions.

That was of course coupled with a US-supported military coup with Pinochet. They are also using sanctions to encourage domestic discord in Cuba and Venezuela to ultimately achieve a regime change. Economic sanctions are definitely in the coup-toolbox right?

yeah like, “these buildings are all empty and there are impoverished people”, have you been to any small town in the US lately?

I mean good luck with that- even if we didn’t exist, conservatives of all stripes will slander you as a disgusting communist. They do that to democrats in the US even. Worrying about image should be the least of anyone’s concern

like others have said, the common understanding is more anti-NATO than pro-Russia, but if you’re on the other end of it, like getting into an argument with a Hexbear, we’re all going to have a pretty united front and not criticize eachother. That’s not to say there aren’t a lot of heated debate within the Hexbear community, that happens a lot. Esp on geopolitics.

from the perspective of the average westerner, who doesn’t really think of these things, yeah its very weird. The appeal I think lies in the incivility. These are people who are tired of civility-politics that dress up all the monstrous atrocities committed by the same people we’re all supposed to look up to as leaders. so the behavior I think is largely cathartic.

Looking at the big picture, I think to sum up the ukraine take that’s the most common on hexbear is: Ukraine cannot possibly win despite what we’ve all been lead to believe, the people who suffer most in any war is the working class (the people we sympathize with) so it’s better for a peace settlement to end the suffering, even if that means Russia “wins”. There’s a lot more history to the situation than that

so all that step-sibling media out there is really about returning to tradition? huh edit: i have replied to the wrong comment

yeah- very good point lol

I simply do not understand the dissonance. redditors and missing the point (name a more iconic duo). “The rebellion was based on French and other European resistances in WWII” yeah, maybe try the Vietnamese resistance TO the French (and others) there bud. Then the kid in the show’s manifesto is just “against tyranny” but no, definitely not a systemic critic of imperialism, no. Def not a direct reference to Marx or Lenin. Just “against tyranny”, so profound! Ffs… liberals