They don’t ‘defend Russia’. They recognize that the US is in many ways just as bad for the other countries they stick their noses in (look up the many coups they’ve funded in other countries) and that its better to have a counterbalance in geopolitics. That just so happens to be Russia (and China), but if you actually read the posts there (which I doubt most people have), nobody is actually a fan of Putin or his policies.
Edit: Russia is a capitalist nation that oppresses LGBTQ+ folks and has reactionary anti-communist policies. Just as I guessed, downvoters haven’t actually read any Hexbear posts or they’d realize why thinking a communist instance supports Russia in a general sense is complete nonsense.
I’m sorry, but this is asking for a mental gymnastics meme.
Mental gymnastics: They don’t defend Russia. They just recognize that the US is bad. It’s better to have a counterbalance in geopolitics. They’re still lefties. It just happens that Russia fills that niche. They don’t actually like Putin.
Mental non-gymnastics: They claim to be lefties. They seem to defend Russia. They’re strawmen.
But no, I agree with you that (at least a good deal of) Hexbear is actually left wing. Except there are probably some right wing poser trolls among them, and it’s hard to say how many. There are probbably right wing poser trolls among us too. Hehe among us.
I agree with you. What I meant to convey is that users may support Russia in specific situations that run counter to the goals of the United States and other Western nations, but as a whole, Russia is not an ally of leftists or something that users represent as an ideal. Neither is the United States. Political nuance tends to not do well in instances like .world though. They prefer to brush off anything as “Russian trolls” rather than practice introspection as to why someone would want to resist their goals in the first place.
They don’t ‘defend Russia’. They recognize that the US is in many ways just as bad for the other countries they stick their noses in (look up the many coups they’ve funded in other countries) and that its better to have a counterbalance in geopolitics. That just so happens to be Russia (and China), but if you actually read the posts there (which I doubt most people have), nobody is actually a fan of Putin or his policies.
Edit: Russia is a capitalist nation that oppresses LGBTQ+ folks and has reactionary anti-communist policies. Just as I guessed, downvoters haven’t actually read any Hexbear posts or they’d realize why thinking a communist instance supports Russia in a general sense is complete nonsense.
I’m sorry, but this is asking for a mental gymnastics meme.
Mental gymnastics: They don’t defend Russia. They just recognize that the US is bad. It’s better to have a counterbalance in geopolitics. They’re still lefties. It just happens that Russia fills that niche. They don’t actually like Putin.
Mental non-gymnastics: They claim to be lefties. They seem to defend Russia. They’re strawmen.
But no, I agree with you that (at least a good deal of) Hexbear is actually left wing. Except there are probably some right wing poser trolls among them, and it’s hard to say how many. There are probbably right wing poser trolls among us too. Hehe among us.
I agree with you. What I meant to convey is that users may support Russia in specific situations that run counter to the goals of the United States and other Western nations, but as a whole, Russia is not an ally of leftists or something that users represent as an ideal. Neither is the United States. Political nuance tends to not do well in instances like .world though. They prefer to brush off anything as “Russian trolls” rather than practice introspection as to why someone would want to resist their goals in the first place.