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What I have learned:

  • Russia has already won the Ukraine war
  • Which NATO started
  • A lot of people in the West think that Ukraine should surrender
  • Also Ukraine was the world's main provider of CSAM
  • Also Ukraine is exploited by the West but if they can unite with Russia then their economy and everything else will finally be alright

It's literally like a bizarro world and everyone is over there agreeing with it. I'm genuinely confused by, who even are these people (what is the mixture of Russian bots / Russian-aligned ordinary people / confused Westerners / some other explanation.)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not even remotely satire, and you might notice I never said anyone over there "glorified or likes Pol Pot." Back in my early Lemmy days I spent way too much time on Hexbear trying to understand, and repeatedly was told that any communist dictator, no matter how heinous, from any time in history would be preferable to any US president. They twisted in knots denying any atrocities by communists while at it. They were clear they don't particularly like Putin, Xi, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc, but would prefer their leadership in every case over US leadership

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I recently had a stray gradbear challenge me to show them any link that said Pol Pot was the shit (then he'd quit the fediverse)

They have this theorem on 'actual real world communism' where you're the weakbear if you like book communism but dare to speak ill of said regimes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You should post that! if it's good

[–] Sootius 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is just.. not representative of any opinion on Hexbear in it's entire history. But feel free to lie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Lmao hello from the future

Seethe about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sootius 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's.. a single post, without the user or even vote count shown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you can search it up yourself then, but we both know you won't care

[–] Sootius 0 points 2 months ago

Cool, after lurking the place a long time I now know full well you're talking shit.