cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1797629

Some communities there are literally calling for the annihilation of Ukraine

https://programming.dev/comment/1999097

edit: Since people are either willfully or otherwose are missing my point, this is a pro-russia, pro-fascist hate group, therefore we shouldn’t give them the platform to spread their shit. this is not about me seeing their community or then causing issues accross other communities, it’s about de-platforming fascists.

The link for the original doesn’t seem to work. I assume there’s some missing context here. Still funny that they’re calling hexbear pro-Russia and fascist. The comment isn’t even by a hexbear. It’s by one of ours.

  • Star Wars Enjoyer A
    472·
    11 months ago

    To be fair, those have been somewhat common liberal takes regarding the war.

    They think any use of “authoritarianism” is inherently Fascist, so the USSR and its supporters are Fascists. And if Russia is, supposedly, returning to being an authoritarian regime and expanding its borders, it must be returning to the USSR.

    it’s such an uneducated take, and makes me furious at our schooling systems.

    • Shrike502
      251·
      11 months ago

      You’d think it was just western schooling, but nope. I’ve heard the whole “Putin is building USSR 2.0” from people in Russia. From adult people. Adult people who had actually lived in USSR. In a negative key. Yeah

      • JucheBot1988
        141·
        11 months ago

        I’ve heard the whole “Putin is building USSR 2.0” from people in Russia.

        I would love to live in the world that libs think they inhabit.

      • misterslime12
        11·
        11 months ago

        TBF they could be referring to the fact that the Ukrainian conflict is slowly but actively weakening imperialism globally, which lays the groundwork for the USSR’s return. They probably don’t mean this when they say Putin’s building USSR 2.0—why would they say Putin is doing it—but I like to be optimistic.

        • Shrike502
          101·
          11 months ago

          TBF they could be referring to the fact that the Ukrainian conflict is slowly but actively weakening imperialism globally, which lays the groundwork for the USSR’s return

          I like your optimism. No. That’s not even close to what is usually meant.

        • The_Filthy_Commie
          5·
          11 months ago

          I think it would be funny if Russia, under Putin or someone else, just stumbled into USSR 2.0. That they get there not because they meant to, but because they started to adopt some of the practical things China’s doing with development and the economy, and they one day find themselves back in the USSR.

          It would certainly be a historic coinkydink.