I don’t interact with the various other Lemmy instances very often. I see almost no point in it, it’s just reddit. All they post is endless articles from the Atlantic or Wall Street journal. Elon musk this, orange man that, all useless, pointless posting.
Recently, their favorite flavor of slop has been the “Tiananmen square massacre”. This has brought out the worst in them. We live rent free in their heads, but especially whenever a socialist government is mentioned. They all come crawling out of their basements, pushing Funko pops and copies of Hogwarts legacy out of the way of their crusty, rainbow light keyboards to claim their knowledge of a Chinese protest is infallible.
My god do they not let up either. Any rebuttal is shut down by these drones. Any mention of “what about the Americans many war crimes?” Activates their inner CIA sleeper agent, and they hit you with “commies are just whataboutism. That’s all they have. Well at least we have freedom. At least we aren’t committing genocide.” All extremely easy to debunk claims.
Don’t get me started on isr*el. They sure do love their ethnic cleansing. More so than even the loudest of American Republicans I’ve ever heard. To them, Gaza is all “terrorists”. They should all be killed in their eyes, their only hope of redemption is “non violent protest”, aka, just lay down and die. Never in my life have I seen a larger group of far right genocidal freaks than I have on Lemmy world.
It’s so ridiculous, it’s comical. Say something like “hey this is misinformation” and a thousand replies will hit your inbox, all from dudes that post things like “Hamas needs to be destroyed”, “people who don’t vote shouldn’t complain about anything” and my personal favorite one “Uh actually, I support the maori MPs getting suspended for doing the haka. That stupid dance is disruptive” (Yeah, real comments, not hyperbole)
The Nazis are in our backyard. And they should be bullied back to reddit where they belong.
They started coming around when Trump came into power, before that, they needed to support it because that was the democrat party line
Ah yeah, that makes sense and seems to add up.
Not sure why but replies are slow to federate, since last night.
I feel like calling .world posters pro-palestine genocide is the hexbear equivalent of them calling hexbear pro russia.
It’s more subtle than simply being pro genocide explicitly, manifests more as things like criticism of things like “terrorism” in only one direction, or ‘both sides’. Everyone in this thread who is agreeing with Sunshine dragging hamid for “praising hamas” is pro genocide as far as I’m concerned, they’re all just soooo concerned about making sure both sides get criticism. Disgusting behavior.
My experience has been that hexbear is not pro russia as much as they’re critical of it but also don’t buy the euromaiden was-not-a-coup narrative. Most of the .world side of lemmy is far more vocally supportive of Ukraine to the point of having entire comms dedicated to grisly snuff flims and thinly veiled ethnic slurs.
I see your comparison, hexbear is “pro russia” in a way that their criticism of both sides is exaggerated for effect, and .world is “pro genocide” in a way that their criticism of both sides is exaggerated for effect. The problem I have is that while it can be summarized as such, there’s a distinct difference between the two when it comes to power. The war in Ukraine is essentially peer-level conflict between capitalist powers while in Palestine a colonial occupier is using a flimsy pretext to exterminate a captive population with full bipartisan US participation.
I’m in no way an “all sides” guy, but hamas is also harmful to Palestine.
Israel depends on hamas to justify their genocide, that’s why they funded them.
Yeah, that case can be made. Israel would also find any pretext they need for their genocide, it certainly didn’t start with hamas. I’m also not going to shit on people who are far closer to a genocide than I am for having a strong opinion on the matter.