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• FaeDrifter@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the take that bothers me the most, as if the most aggressive and outspoken faction of any group exist only to drag the more respectable members down by association.

  Eh, only a small minority of hexbears are fascists, but almost all hexbears tolerate fascists. All the fascists have to do is walk in and say “NATO is bad, Ukraine is bad, libs are bad, vote for Trump because he is a big lovable goofball” and the other hexbears are like aight let’s own the shitlibs.

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• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s blatant though? They use right wing talking points for everything and it’s all dog whistles?

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  • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Geopolitics exists as a binary, and on some issues they agree with the opposite binary from me”.

    Worse actually, “they might agree with me on one issue but they disagree on another, so they must be pretending to agree with me to begin with”

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    • FaeDrifter@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On hexbear, geopolitics exists as whatever hexbears feel like owns the shitlibs the most at that particular moment.

      Sometimes, Russia is just months away from a well planned and strategized victory, against an evil Nazi Ukraine.

      Other times, everything is a mastermind NATO move that’s all benefiting NATO, and Ukraine is just the meatgrinder victim.

      What feels most alt-right about hexbear isn’t any particular position, but the fact that there’s no particular position. No logical cohesiveness, no rooted in solid reality. It’s superfluid ever changing dream reality.

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      • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think the parallel with right wing extremism is because they’re both pushed by the CCP. They use a divide and conquer approach via LLMs on social media to weaken political opponents.

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• PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Again, they are “left wingers” supporting far right regimes. Its bit that big a consipracy

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  • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just a point of clarification: you think the USSR was a far-right regime?

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    • wanderingmagus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They didn’t say the USSR, they said modern day China and Russia

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      • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        See, this is exactly what I mean by “I understand them so little that they must be the opposition in disguise”

        If you tried at all, youd understand that they’re position on “modern day Russia and China” is based on the idea of critical support. They evaluate policy decisions against “does this bring the working class closer to solidarity or not”.

        I.e. on the Ukraine war, their position is basically “U.S. Involvement in any war is a net-negative to worker solidarity in the country of question”. None there support Russia’s invasion, but they think Americas involvement spells the end of any socialist coalition to begin with.

        But again, “I understand them so little they must be a part of the opposition”. They have a different (definitively leftist) understanding of the war than you do. Doesn’t make them right-wing.

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