• Tankiedesantski [he/him]English
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    Are the Hexbear users who are saying Ukraine is being ungrateful repeating Kremlin propaganda or are the Hexbear users who are saying Ukraine has a point repeating Kremlin propaganda?

    Is Kremlin propaganda just ontologically what a Hexbear user says?

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      I’m referring to the concerning number of users from your instance who seem obsessed with parroting what has been confirmed to be Kremlin propaganda and lies spread through deliberate misinformation campaigns. Obviously, this isn’t all HexBear users, but you guys clearly have a general problem with this kind of stuff.

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        What are some specific examples of “confirmed Kremlin propaganda” are being posted by Hexbear users in this thread?

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          They never respond with actual examples.

          Edit: Lmao they’ve responded with a post that points out Ukraine has been killing people in the Donbas before the war started and a post that highlights the many offramps to the current conflict

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            Points out numerous examples, expecting actual good faith engagement.

            LOL! You’re wrong!

            This is why nobody likes you guys and wants to defederate with you. Really great job everyone.

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              Lol! You’re wrong because

              I think you forgot half of the sentence.

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                  Ceding land to a foreign aggressor is not a viable off-ramp. Get real.

                  This is nationalist rhetoric. Claiming to be a socialist and yet obsessing over the borders of one bourgeois state over another bourgeois state is one of the reasons you are being called a liberal here. You are a nationalist cheerleading for one group of billionaires to rule over the people instead of another group of billionaires, all while hundreds of thousands of people get killed in the name of that. Meanwhile socialists are out here saying we don’t want people dying and do not give a fuck what borders exist as long as people aren’t dying, the best solution is the quickest and fastest way to minimise death.

                  You are defending the state, not people’s lives. You are sacrificing people for states and borders. You are a bourgeois nationalist, and you would have advocated for the same thing in every past conflict. You’re not even a social chauvinist and they were shitbags, you’re just straight up nationalist.

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                    You are defending the state, not people’s lives.

                    Ironic when liberals act how they claim communists act. I mean I know it makes sense logically, that it’s all projection with scratched libs, but it’s still so weird to see in practice

                    I mean the Ukranians are doing suicidal infantry attacks against entranched positions with conscripts ffs, it’s just too on the nose

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                  Allright, I guess we’ll just wait until all the able-bodied ukrainians have been killed (despite themselves not wanting to fight) and then the land will be ceded. I’m sure its much better if thousands more die first!

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                    So Ukraine should just lay down their arms and let an authoritarian, borderline oligarchy like Russia have their way with the country?

                    Great logic bro. Can’t argue with that.

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          Do you seriously have to ask?

          This post wasn’t difficult to find.

          Acting as if ending the war is Ukraine’s responsibility, rather than one of the country engaging in a literal invasion.

          Anyone who doesn’t take the 2014 referendum with an extreme grain of salt is slotting nicely into Russia’s current playbook.

          I seriously don’t understand why so many of you dickride Russia, other than “west bad”. The current Russian government is antithetical to so many of the values you claim to champion.

          https://hexbear.net/comment/3865920

          Here’s another for the road.

          EDIT:

          Numerous comments people claiming that the Maidan Revolution was actually a US backed coup, with zero evidence provided outside of Kremlin and state operated mouthpieces of course.

          Possibly the most egregious yet: apparently the Bucha massacre was a hoax. Remember all those videos we saw of Russian soldiers gunning down unarmed civilians? Apparently they all must have been doctored, or were actually Ukrainian soldiers dressed up as Russian soldiers gunning down their own people.

          One of my close friends is a Ukrainian photographer/videographer who was among the first on the scene after the Russians left Bucha. You’ve very likely seen some of his photos before. I can only imagine the rage he’d feel if he were to read some of the bullshit that these comments are attempting to spread.

          Honestly, my opinion of HexBear has reached a new low after this thread. I used to be against defederation, but now I can at least understand why people don’t want to be associated at all with your instance.

          EDIT 2: This post was locally removed on HexBear. I think that says enough on its own.

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            You claim that these are examples of “confirmed Kremlin propaganda”. What sources and/or authorities confirm the opinions contained in these posts as Kremlin propaganda?

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            I seriously don’t understand why so many of you dickride Russia

            love how liberals manage to weave in casual homophobia whenever geopolitics comes up, you people make me sick

            It’s not because of blind allegiance to Russia or anything like that, people have positions counter to your narrative as the result of actually paying attention to events, as they’ve unfolded, over years.

            Impressive how mad you babies get when people don’t swallow the lies you’re peddling, expecting them to be taken as implicitly true or something.

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        parroting what has been confirmed to be Kremlin propaganda

        Ah yes, Kremlin propaganda that is being spread around by THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT!

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