What I have learned: * Russia has already won the Ukraine war * Which NATO
started * A lot of people in the West think that Ukraine should surrender * Also
Ukraine was the world’s main provider of CSAM * Also Ukraine is exploited by the
West but if they can unite with Russia then their economy and everything else
will finally be alright It’s literally like a bizarro world and everyone is over
there agreeing with it. I’m genuinely confused by, who even are these people
(what is the mixture of Russian bots / Russian-aligned ordinary people /
confused Westerners / some other explanation.)
Zero mention of the news mega. How disappointing
That’s the weird thing. Every Lemmy post where they complain about Hexbear being shills and bots and Russian agents, I never see a single mention of the mega. They could easily screenshot like 5 different people unironically wishing Putin nukes Ukraine but they don’t. They don’t even have screenshots of people saying infinite genocide on the first world or saying hamas is good lol. These guys’ brain are permanently on Russia. 2016 truly damaged their brains in an irreversible way. It’s terminal.
They can't even screenshot the weekly chad and cuck rating with Putin as a gigachad smh
Hating Russia is instilled in Americans from birth
The US is into its 8th decade of nonstop anti-USSR propaganda, which has been difficult since 1991, but they've managed to equate USSR and Russia so it's worked out for them.
The Hexbear news mega is one of the best news aggregation/discussion forums I have ever had the pleasure of using. Genuinely.
If you don't have time for it, the mega is just too much to deal with tbh. I often only wander in there when I'm doing a search and a comment leads me into a thread. I know, I know, it's a skill issue.
I don’t think that’s really a problem, you really could use it as a top news stories of the day and be fine, but the added aspect of discussion is nice if you want that too. Truly the best of both worlds imho
Get your hands of that grass and get scrolling!
always kinda awkward when the libs on other instances are talking about how Hexbears are SUPPORTERS OF TERRORISM AND GENOCIDAL RUSSIAN IMPERIALISTS when referencing posts outside the news mega that I now consider kinda milquetoast and unoffending like "Hamas's actions on October 7th weren't great but Israel is so much worse and we need to overthrow Israel for peace in the region"
meanwhile in the news mega, there are people who (sometimes half-jokingly) say stuff along the lines of "Hamas could kill my grandmother and I'd still let Sinwar use me as a footstool, 72 trillion dead settlers, please carpetbomb Tel Aviv, free Palestine" and "fuck yeah Putin bomb the fuck out of those Azov Nazi scum, don't end the war until the fascists are all dead"
it's simultaneously great and a little disappointing how the news mega has remained essentially conflict-free (in terms of other instances obviously, there's still regular mini-debates/arguments in there between us, which is good; it shouldn't be a total echo chamber) since we federated, even during the weeks where we were federated with a bunch of lib instances. I, like many others, expected a tidal wave of "have you no shame, sir?!" libs coming at me and others in the news mega but it literally never happened. I can count the number of libs that have entered the thread and commented at all, not even necessarily in a hostile way, on one hand.
for some reason the megathreads just seem to completely repel liberals, like they're vampires and we have a bunch of garlic in there. maybe it's just intimidating? maybe they assume it's mostly "hm, the Sri Lankan economy grew X% in the last quarter, simply fascinating" boring political/economic analysis in there and don't bother to check?