edgy fash offsiters try to be functionally different from any other lemmitor challenge [NIGHTMARE DIFFICULTY]

russia-cool putin-wink

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
      29·
      9 months ago

      Sometimes I think my mind omits some details of my reading to avoid cringe. I did not notice this in the post, I wish I had not noticed it here.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    34·
    9 months ago

    You’d think with decades of know-nothing “we can dislike both” and “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” libs would get it through their heads that there are people who disapprove of both putin’s Russia and biden’s USA.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      9 months ago

      You would, but “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” was never in good faith. They explicitly position simple reforms and improvements as an unreasonable desire for perfection. Bewcause they’re dumb assholes.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      9 months ago

      Liberals think they’re the ones who disapprove of both Putin and Biden. They think the proper way of doing that is regarding Putin as the primary agent of discontent throughout the world and regarding Biden as a sweet man who’s trying his best.

      Anything else sounds to them sounds like apologetics or unfair demonizing. They have pudding for brains

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      Because when they say “both sides bad” they don’t actually mean it, they actually mean “my side good, their side bad, but I know people won’t listen to me if I say that.” And they assume everyone else thinks like that too.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    9 months ago

    I’ve recently been cooking while my mom played the Colbert Report in the background. It’s so strange to view the aperture that liberals see the world through. I don’t really think about Stormy Daniel’s hush money. I haven’t thought about Putin sans that meme about him explaining the conflict with Ukraine. I don’t think about Ukraine except that it’s not my clown, not my circus. She caught me off guard when I asked her about the super bowl and she wanted the 49ers to win because she thought Taylor Swift would endorse Brandon in front of everyone if they did.

    It’s as if I have more in common with the Trump Thumpers because we’re both talking about FBI conspiracies, warmongering, corrupt billionaires, and the like. But we’re not in the same walled garden as the libs.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      If you gave a chud that mistrusted the FBI, the MIC, and other institutions the ability to fact check their information, and a bit of empathy (this is the hard part), you’d get an alright leftist, at worst a Stupidpoler. If you had to give a liberal enough history lessons to get them to stop idolizing those institutions, you’d die of old age.

      • wall_inhabiter@lemdro.idEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        Already saw that lol, contemptible stuff

        Wondered why that’s the only flag that gets censored? Religious brainworms or worse? Don’t really care.

        Also a double “one of these things is not like the others” with Russia being the only one of the states that isn’t settler colonialist garbage. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what’s going on with these symbols.

            • Aquilae [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              38·
              9 months ago

              Once religious symbolism has been appropriated by Nazis, it’s okay to burn their flag lol.

              It is the “israeli” flag being burnt. You don’t get to decide if it should have the star. Iirc people did report being made uncomfortable when the emoji had it for, again, obvious reasons. Other symbols don’t have the same weight of persecution in modern history as the star does.

              Clearly nobody is worried about alienating Russians from the website. Big 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 vibes coming off this instance

              What the fuck does this even mean

                • Aquilae [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  32·
                  9 months ago

                  You’re just arguing semantics now. Anyone with a brain can tell that’s the “israeli” flag, just without the symbol zionists put in it to weaponize anti-semitism.

            • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
              28·
              9 months ago

              That’s giving Nazis way too much power and legitimacy.

              Also I don’t think a religious group known for being historically persecuted is comparable to a nation state.The Israeli flag isn’t censored because we are afraid of hurting Israeli feelings it’s because we’ve already been accused of anti-Semitism and don’t want to fan that flame when avoidable. It’s also out of respect for Jews obviously.

              On another note, hexbear isn’t exactly known for supporting Ukraine lmao

              Also I had a look through your profile bc I do that with usernames I recognize. I noticed you will comment a lot of very well thought out and cited pieces and then the next comment is pure trolling or banter. I’m curious if you’ve been drunk posting or if you just be like that. Lots of removed comments to be curious about as well.

              • wall_inhabiter@lemdro.idEnglish
                2·
                9 months ago

                Don’t you think it’s giving Nazis a little bit too much power and legitimacy for people to justify feeling uncomfortable around burning Israeli flags because they contain the Star of David? Way to make an ongoing genocide about their pearl clutching lmao.

                • hexachrome [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  9·
                  9 months ago

                  god fuck please let me have the emote that at best might not immediately be spammed by wreckers, ive been on the site 3 days so i can 12 angry men this shit if needed

        • LesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          32·
          9 months ago

          Half the world’s Jewish population resides in the Zionist entity and half outside, I don’t think that we’ve reached a saturation point where burning a star of David is appropriate in societies that are still genuinely antisemitic like the US, England, etc. Who cares, it gets the point across ¯\(ツ)/¯ Death to Israel

            • LesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
              27·
              9 months ago

              It’s clearly acceptable to burn that flag you idiot, we’re just able to replace the symbol easily because it’s jpegs online so who gives a shit, in the real world you’re incredibly appropriate to burn it even if you reside on some other racist entity like the UK, US, etc. Maybe you’re shielded from it but some people still experience actual antisemitism, not this Zionist coddling bullshit, and their concerns are worth noting and integrating.

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          The biggest problem with the burning star of David is it evokes a very specific part of the holocaust, not just contempt for the country of Israel like the rest of the cool flags. Not even using the flag also specifically identifies it as not a real country - it’s is a military cosplaying a state.

        • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          25·
          9 months ago

          The main reason for it is that we get fascist trolls sometimes and we’d rather not have them spamming it.

          Also a double “one of these things is not like the others” with Russia being the only one of the states that isn’t settler colonialist garbage.

          I think you are vastly underestimating the number of burning flag emojis we have.