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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (26 children)

Hexbear users are welcome here, but I'm not really willing to allow promotion of their communities.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (17 children)

but I’m not really willing to allow promotion of their communities.

I didn't really know anything about Hexbear but I'm intrigued and will check it out now I know it's getting actively censored. What do you have against it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Being actively against the capitalist status quo and US hegemony that's currently committing a genocide do be like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As a rabid homosexual man I'm a little disappointed at the lack of twink self-posting communities on Hexbear. In fact there's not even a general gay community. I'll think about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In fact there's not even a general gay community.

There is! Check out /c/anti_cishet_aktion

But really, the entire instance is the general gay community lol

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think hexbear toned down some of their gayness ever since Putin banned being gay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We've gotten even gayer since 😎

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean Russia, and critically at that, mostly because it serves as a bulwark for China against NATO.

Pootin himself has greatly improved life in Russia and re-nationalized some industries, but he's also made anti-Lenin remarks in the past and supported an anti-LGBT bill back in 2013.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pootin himself has greatly improved life in Russia

Lmaoooooo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah? Lmao if you go even slightly past western propaganda you can see that poverty has more than halved on his first tenure as president cuz he followed through with his academic paper on how Russia could recover from the USSR's dissolution that he wrote the year before, increased the country's purchasing power by 72%, GDP increased consistently, and he reversed the mass privatizations forced on Russia by the west in the shock "therapy".

He has an over 75% approval rating and keeps getting elected in Russia for a reason: people have directly felt the massive improvement in quality of life under his presidency. It is decreasing in recent years though so he's clearly starting to outlive his usefulness.

I'd recommend this book on the topic if you're curious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Half of 100% is still 50% lol. When you compare Russia's progress with that of the world in general, in line with technological improvements, it becomes clear that Russia has been inhibited by Putin's policies and is lagging behind.

Thank you for the book reference though. I'll have to dig to find a version I can access, but I'll add it to the list of disaster capitalist books I should read to figure out what the villains of the world are doing, alongside those of William Rees-Mogg.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Villains of the world" lmao marvel brain really has done irreparable damage to humanity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol I hope your windows are near to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Lol I hope yours is too

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