I wish there was at least half the amount of this kind of memes about Russia
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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This was about settler-colonial states in particular. Not to say I wouldnโt love to see the Bourgeois Russian state go through another 7-11-1917.
That's fair. Wasn't trying to take a jab at you in particular, if it came off that way, I'm sorry
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
hm, i wonder why there's so many union jacks here?
Me looking at virtually any problem stemming from the 19th and 20th Centuries:
While England is definitely the worst offender, it really is more just western Europe
While it's true all of Western Europe is guilty, there's a reason why people point to Britain first and foremost. Its empire was pretty much the codifier of what people think of when the word "superpower" is used. There wasn't such an uncontested concentration of power in a single polity that could be projected globally until the UK came out on top from the Napoleonic Wars then went on to subjugate Asia and Africa by the mid-late 19th Century, essentially becoming master of the world market and trade networks (at least until the onset of WWI). Not even the Spanish and Portuguese Empires held such a monopoly. Even after the start of Britain's terminal decline into becoming America's lapdog in the cold war, it still influenced world politics in ways that still affect us today (relevantly, it was originally Israel's patron power before the US supplanted them sometime in the 70s/80s).
Leaving everything else aside, South Africa went from having one of the worst flags in the world to having one of the best.
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