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    Hexbear is fascist. They’re pretending to be tankies, but every single post on there is right-wing and bigoted. It’s so damn obvious.

    You all have been found out.

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      Hexbear might actually be one of the most non-bigoted places on the internet. we are militantly against bigotry. no epic logical debates here, you just get smacked in the fucking face by a banhammer if you try that shit here

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          I’m not sure quite what to think about the Baltics. Obviously fuck their governments, and the numerous institutions pushing Holocaust revisionism and denial and re-writing 20th century history. But blanket-condemning little countries like that, no matter how shitty their government is, feels different from blanket condemning the US or UK. They’re under the NATO umbrella but despite being little pissant countries with fash governments they’re not exerting hegemonic power and are at most expendable speed bumps for Imperialism. I can’t imagine it’s fun or say being a dissident in the Baltics. hell, I don’t even think it’s legal, is it? Yeah, looks like they’ve got some blanket laws they use to hunt down Communists and, probably, anyone they think is communist

          Idk, I gotta think about it.

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                  Yeah. The idea of a country that’s the size of a medium suburb having any role in global geopolitics is funny. Like yeah, guys, that’s great that you’re in NATO. By the way Dallas, Phoenix, and San Anton are all going to join too, and they’re going to have more clout than you by a silly margin.

          • The weirdest thing about the baltics is how they love to act as rabid dogs for nato/US same-picture but in the event of an actual war between nato and russia the only purpose they serve is to give the ghouls in DC and the pentagon a couple extra minutes to get to the bunker

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              I ran in to 1 (one) Baltic resident who was somehow convinced that their military would be a significant obstacle for Russia in the event of a war and I suspect that nationalism might have been involved in clouding their judgement. I honestly doubt NATO would even respond to a Russian invasion in the little fringe countries if they weren’t already interested in a hot war.

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            Eh. The Baltics are very small countries with… what’s the nice way to say this… Fascist collaborationist governments that have worked hard to control the narrative, erase the crimes of the 30s and 40s, and create a questionable view of 20th century history. It’s like any other country - Shitheads, none shitheads, and regular people in between. The official government line and the views of many citizens are hard right-wing, holocaust denial, and support for Nazi collaborators. You’re going to run in to a lot of fash and fash-adjacent assholes.

            Edited bc I realized I’ve been saying Balkans instead of Baltics all day.

            • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              I think you mean Baltic.

              Just gonna also throw out that a ton of the world’s stateless people live in the Baltic countries because they denied ethnic minorities citizenship after the fall of the USSR unlike every other former Soviet country. IIRC Lithuania isn’t involved in that at least, I think just Estonia and Latvia.

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                  I believe most countries have signed an agreement never to create a stateless person due to how vulnerable they are to abuse.

                  That’s a why, for example, the ukkk claims that Shamina Begum was a Bangladeshi citizen when they revoked her citizenship.

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                    I remember that. That was really fucked. Political exiles in the democracy loving freedom of speech west? Hardly surprising but very against the marketing. I still don’t entirely understand what their purpose is with that. Is it a way to reinforce anti-immigrant rhetoric in preparation for some kind of V for Vendetta more fascist Britain thing?

              • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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                Yeah it’s pretty bad. You could conceivably have had parents born in the country and been born in the country yourself and still be denied citizenship in 1991 because they refused to recognise anything Soviet

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      the fact they think so many trans people are out and about fascists is fucking wild. plus they talk about blahaj being ran by trans people, which is true, but also ignore that the trans community on lemmy is largely here, and for very obvious reasons

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      Response 1 to that:

      “I believe you, but i honestly can’t find anything fascist on their front page right now”

      Lol maybe they shouldn’t believe a claim that has no evidence!

      Response to that:

      “Give it time. You’ll stumble across a pro-Putin post eventually.”

      Since when do leftists support a capitalist like Putin? This is what late-stage Russia Derangement Syndrome looks like.

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        It’s also a motte and bailey fallacy that the internet debate experts are mysteriously refraining from jumping on. “All posts are fascist” != “if you browse long enough you will eventually see a fascist post”.

        So mad I can’t post my mspaint graphic over there now rage-cry