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we need to get the moscow time back in the sidebar

Do not get fooled, Hexbear might seem like fascists pretending to be tankies, but it is actually all a ruse to hide that they are liberals

they will literally just say anything about us. like, if you go to the_donald or /pol/, you can tell they are bigoted because they are saying slurs or barely disguised slurs, calling people r***rded, gay, "low IQ", groomer, etc., talking about defending The West or a future for white children.

here, somehow, the bigotry apparently exists in some kind of mysterious non-corporeal state that cannot be pointed to.

Middle one is how I started. Apparently lemmygrad was so "bad", that two of the instances I joined defederated it by default before anything else. I was like "Tankies, huh? I wonder what kind of nonsense stuff they like to post." So I lurked on the front page.

1 week later

Holy shit they're right.

Who are you gonna believe, me, or your lying eyes?

I believe you, even though there is literally no evidence for your claims

When have we ever been pro-putin?! Lmao these people are delusional

You may laugh at them but these fine gentlepeople represent the current dominant economic system that managed to crush it’s opposition with sheer efficiency and might. Not so amused now, are you, fake tankies.

I literally made an account here to ask about the pro-russia narratives and like 20 people responded to me and only 1 was sorta kinda pro-russia and that's because ukraine had been shelling where their family lived for years

i think the issue is that, it's really easy to distance yourself from differing opinions, but you still feel bad when you do it, so you have to find an excuse to not want to listen (i.e "it's all propaganda" or "they believe X gross thing") no one thinks that simplistically though

@HellAwaits@lemm.ee can you link me to a single pro-Putin post please? Just one.

Serious question. I'm genuinely asking you for this in good faith, I want to understand what you're talking about.

There's solely using Umberto Eco's work to understand fascism and then there's this. The whole 2016 election didn't ruin the definition of fascism, but it certainly ruined most spaces to have conversations about fascism.

I know a lot of this shit is deliberate from fascists who have a lot to gain from muddying the water, but it's still frustrating as hell.

Like how are we supposed to have a conversation with people who think the conditions of the border camps are significantly better under Biden than Trump?

This is nothing new, I knew people IRL who believed this about the subreddit.

Including a friend who'd been one of the primary forces pulling me to the left. It was like watching them turn into a liberal in real time.

I saw a hexbear in the closet and it had a baby and it looked at me

Given that these people usually direct far more hatred at tankies than fascists, I guess that means we've moved up in their estimation!

guess they're mad that we don't care about being called tankies anymore

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We're all the same person and you're all my alts. I'm actually a very strange man living in an overturned T34 tank in an abandoned junkyard in Wisconsin. The best way to test whether an electrical wire is live is to drool on it and shrimp salad is racist.

I hope the person in the middle continues lurking and eventually starts posting. they seem salvageable

"Fascism is when you embrace revolutionary defeatism, and the more defeatism you embrace the more fascist it is." - SPD supporter, 1914.

I see some controversial, sus, or even downright wrecker shit on Hexbear sometimes, but I can't recall a single time anyone stanned for Putin unless you count dunking on homophobic "lol Putler gay with Drumpf" takes as stanning.

Complete uncritical support for Владимир Владимирович Путин against НАТО :07:

Those liberal chuds are unintentionally giving us so much comedy gold

The middle one is fine, the guy's basically saying "please point it out to me" in a way that won't start a fight.