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[โ€“] rockerface@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wish there was at least half the amount of this kind of memes about Russia

[โ€“] RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was about settler-colonial states in particular. Not to say I wouldnโ€™t love to see the Bourgeois Russian state go through another 7-11-1917.

russia-cool

USSR

[โ€“] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

That's fair. Wasn't trying to take a jab at you in particular, if it came off that way, I'm sorry

[โ€“] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you think the Western public is more anti-Isreal than rabidly anti-Russia, I don't know what to tell you.

Disclaimer: I think they're both fucking awful. Isreal is objectively worse though.

[โ€“] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the public, just this community. Although it could be confirmation bias on my side

Its also just what's in the news. If Lemmy was big in March 2022, we would likely be flooded with them.

[โ€“] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah but that would go against the hexbear narrative of "neo-USSR good because communism, anything western-adjacent is imperialism bad"

Nuance, or frankly any political intelligence, is not their strong suit

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No one on hexbear likes Russia in its current state. No one thinks it is a "neo-USSR" (lmao). Russia is not Communist and no self respecting communist would call it that. The West is imperialist and bad, the most obvious example of this being the entire global south.

Have you ever been on hexbear?

[โ€“] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one on hexbear likes Russia in its current state.

Meanwhile in this thread by hexbear users: "nothing Russia is doing is that bad, they should just become citizens, stop hating on russia"

For "not liking" Russia imperialism, they sure spend a lot of fucking time apologizing for Russia's imperialism. We can hate multiple despotic shitholes at the same time, they are not mutually exclusive.

[โ€“] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I mean the fact that you think the people of hexbear support the Russian Federation thinking its communist but then go on to say they have no nuance or political intelligence is kind of funny