mycorrhiza they/them @ mycorrhiza @lemmy.ml

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My big comment debunking yours is gone and there's nothing in the modlog, what the hell? It's even gone from my comment history. It had votes, it was definitely successfully posted and appeared for a while

*Found it in the lemmy.world modlog, which makes no sense, because I am not a lemmy.world user and this is not a lemmy.world thread, so they shouldn't have the ability to remove a comment from my comment history

which reddit considered hate speech 🙄

here's the whole quote, emphasis mine:

Hexbear is a Lemmy server that was created about 3 years ago as a new home for the former users of r/chapotraphouse. CTH was banned from reddit because they were openly calling for the deaths of slave owners, which reddit considered hate speech 🙄

Why would you take this out of context, and what is your issue with the whole quote?

I think it's authoritarian when libs ignore their government couping and bombing other countries

I remember during the attempted coup in Venezuela even John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, and AOC supported it

yeah, but you're getting that impression secondhand

I wrote it like that for emphasis because I was mad

Is Cuba far right?

They just passed the most comprehensive pro-LGBTQ rights package in history.

Cuba doesn't allow you to create a pro-capitalism party and start passing around leaflets saying "we should sell all our resources to American businesses," because if they allowed this, the CIA would spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year funding and training that party, installing agents into the leadership, co-opting local movements, publishing newsletters full of slander and propaganda, and doing who knows what else.

Far right, as opposed to neoliberal, means fascist to me, where fascists:

1. Hold reactionary social views — are racist and sexist and homophobic, etc.
2. Support capitalism and despise socialists — see what happens to socialists under every fascist regime in human history. Hitler was in bed with big business, and some of the first people he put in concentration camps were socialists, communists, and labor organizers. In Indonesia, more than a million communists were murdered with US backing, a mass killing detailed in The Jakarta Method and a documentary called The Act of Killing. Socialists were also slaughtered in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, El Salvador, Argentina, and Bolivia. This is incidentally why the US so often supports fascist regimes — they kill socialists.
3. And yes, are authoritarian, but being authoritarian is not what makes them fascist. What makes them fascist is that they use authoritarianism in service of the above positions.

Why are you asking these people about hexbear's positions, reasoning, and motivations, instead of asking hexbear?

Why are you deliberately lying, while knowing you're lying?

propping up Trump

Millie, you yourself posted in the huge thread on hexbear where the entire site agreed that they hate trump.

You posted here after you posted there. You had your disagreements there, but please accurately represent them.

I want you to. You specifically.

What does it say? It’s not that long, go ahead and read all of it and tell me what you think it says about me.

There were multiple polls before the invasion, and some probably contradict each other, but before we go off on an internet argument digging through polls, my main point is that the war is killing hundreds of thousands of people, half a million already, and nudging us toward world war 3, and since Putin probably won't back down for security and economic reasons, it's either compromise or drag this out to the last Ukrainian. At minimum, if you want to end this shit, a binding guarantee to not join NATO should be on the table, and Russian access to Sevastopol. I would wager that the main reason Russia wants to retain some of eastern Ukraine is to maintain a border buffer against NATO.

*For an example, this 2015 survey polled Ukrainians on a range of topics and broke down the results by region. On page 18, residents of Donbas are asked the question, "How do you evaluate your attitude toward each of the following countries?" For Russia, the breakdown is as follows: 5% very warm, 39% warm, 42% neutral, 5% cold, 1% very cold, 9% difficult to answer or no answer.

**To clarify, the survey does not show the Donbas wanting to join Russia (see page 22: 75% want to remain part of Ukraine in some form) or welcoming an invasion (page 27, surprise most people do not want war), but it does show that a plurality preferred economic ties to Russia (33%) over economic ties to the EU (21%) (page 41), and that only 16% in the Donbas wanted to join NATO (page 43).

Vivek Ramaswamy is a fucking ghoul, and so is Putin, but if — like some commenters in this thread — you are concerned about WW3, then Vivek's position here is less bellicose than the official American "Push NATO right up to Russia's border, plant missiles five minutes from Moscow, deny Russian access to the warm water port at Crimea" position. It is also the position most likely to end a war that has already killed half a million people. What Vivek offers is what Putin started the war to obtain.

There is some evidence — various polls, and also the fact that a civil war raged for eight years — indicating that a sizable portion of the population in the contested regions of eastern Ukraine is either ambivalent about or would prefer Russian rather than Kyiv rule. Granting them this would probably not be worse than killing another half million people in Ukraine.

If only

I gave you one. "Liberals" support capitalism, but in America specifically "liberal" also implies that they trend toward supporting more safety nets than "conservatives" and being more "left wing on cultural issues," but neither of those is consistent and it's a spectrum. The main uniting trait of "liberals" in the world is support for capitalism.

*PS I have a meeting in 5 minutes so I can't continue this

I have no idea what response you were looking for, sorry

There's no clear dividing line, it's a continuous spectrum. Many American liberals look center-right to non-Americans.

Here, I grabbed one for you, full of sus-looking comments. Just pick one and I’ll ask the user what their sincere thoughts are. It’s a thread from three days ago about trump’s mugshot. https://hexbear.net/post/422814?scrollToComments=false