• doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    :ukkkraine: The Russians are gonna make us gay

    :russia-cool: The West is gonna make us gay

    It's heartwarming to see that despite current events, the Ukrainians and Russians can still come together on hysterical, violent hatred of LGBT people.

    Oh wait, that's not heartwarming at all.

    Also, a White Lives Matter protest... in Ukraine. Have you motherfuckers ever even seen a non-white person? :internet-delenda-est:

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Have you motherfuckers ever even seen a non-white person?

      February, train station, back of the line

    • ennemi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      How long ago was it that slavs weren't even considered white by racists

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        On one hand, Russia is a reactionary and conservative country that fucking hates LGBT people and has a traditionally masculine strong man leader who does martial arts and poses shirtless on horseback which made a bunch of chuds in Europe love them, even in Finland

        On the other, devious Asiatic commies :frothingfash:

        I guess it depends on if the racist in question is a more generally reactionary Trump voter type or a flat out nazi with a bunch of racial skull size charts

  • booty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I always love watching dumbasses try and fail to burn flags

    they're not flammable, dudes, you need to coat them in something flammable lol

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      haha, I would have made that mistake. tbh, I expect anything made of petro-chemicals to burn a little.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Methods to reduce the flammability of fabric in the last few decades are one of those little unremarked triumphs that crop up once in a while. Flame resistant fabrics have dramatically reduced the number of house and structure fires. They might cause cancer though so I don't know if it's a net gain or not.

          • NPa [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            There are no permanent human settlements on the moon, but there is still a flag. Checkmate, humanoids 🚩 🚩 🚩

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          2 years ago

          or, y'know, we could choose a model besides "fire starter" that we build our houses and structures according to

  • scarletdevil [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    You can tell exactly who was bank rolling this from the slogan being in English

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly really funny that the larger fascist state is currently devouring via shock doctrine the smaller larping fascist state leading to it becoming a wartorn blasted wasteland within the next few years.

    edit: the larger fascist state is the US y'all, Uncle Sam is devouring their finances and state property via MIC and shock doctrine shit sorry if I didn't phrase this correctly lmao

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It's honeslty pretty bleak when that entire thing is happening two countries away from your own and the Ukraine-supporting nazis like the one in OP are already getting rocket launchers from the warzone because they're Gladio-style ops, but i understand that laughing about horrible things makes them more bearable, so i'm not judging.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah thought the same thing too and wrote it down before backtracking on it and posting my above comment. Tbh though I find it darkly ironic that the OG fascist state, the United States (which inspired the Nazis of Germany and also Ukrainian Nazism), will be responsible for both dismantling whatever remains of Ukraine postwar Son of Saturn style via economic shock doctrine and creating some type of war debt for all the stuff we are selling to them all the while Russia while likely at minimum take their own quarter or so of the country via it's breakaway states

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Extremely inaccurate to call russia fascist and while I don't particularly like the russian state I don't think we should fall into the habit of playing into it.

      If we do so we are setting ourselves up for having to explain why China is allied with a fascist state in the coming battle lines that are being drawn.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          In that case carry on! Reading comprehension issue

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            All cool, I should have dropped a :amerikkka: in there to make it clearer

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              One of the things I like about Hexbear is that a simple misunderstanding like this over on reddit results in one person being incomprehensibly downvoted to oblivion and sometimes defending errors that they shouldn't just because of the emotions that kind of rubbish causes whereas over here it's just "oh yeah misunderstanding no worries!" and we're all good.

              • macabrett
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                2 years ago

                but every once and a while two users who disagree over some treat will agree to disagree and the heavens open up for everyone to celebrate le epic human moment le human being bros. We're good people! We swear! :reddit-logo:

              • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                There doesn't need to be anymore leftist infighting, also yeah this place is far better than :reddit-logo: where people go to dig themselves into argument holes

  • yoink [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    but Ukraine wholesome chungus Russia Sus amongus how could they burn the pride flag :'(((

  • FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    its so funny how much of the Western and Ukrainian propaganda effort has focused on pretending that Putin made these guys up and Ukraine is actually epic wholesome 100

  • Infantile_Disorder [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    How are you going to claim you're resisting LGBT agenda by fighting Russia when all your leader has done is go around the West begging for scraps from their they/them armies.

    If you're going to do "Globohomo" shit then at least realise what side you're on.

  • Sator_is_Tense [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    at 0:55-ish you can see the moment they just give up on flame-resistant flags and go full nazi-march mode :data-laughing:

  • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    God, Fuck these fascists born out of Banderites ~~ fuck their fake nationhood. Death is a mercy. A better world would never have recognized them as anything but the cursed borderland between fascist Europe and Russia. ~~ Edit: I know this is wrong, but I don’t see a logical reason for it. How can I give the love humanity deserves to a nation of fascists? I don’t want to hate, yet they do their utmost to act like nazi savages. I don’t want to be “pilled” about Ukrainian righteousness. I want to learn about the resistance that proves they have moral people too.

    edit: was drunk and emotional. strikethrough is because the sentiment was at least somewhat fucked.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      a nation of fascists

      Keep in mind that up until Maidan the border between Russia and Ukraine was basically a formality, and huge numbers of people had family on both sides of the border, crossed it regularly for work, etc. The president overthrown in the Maidan coup was elected in free and fair elections, in so far as Ukraine is capable of such a thing. Literally the first thing the coup Rada did was ban Russian language for official use and begin suppressing dissent by ethnic Russians.

      Also, look at how they're doing the camera. work - Low angles of the front of the crowd. Then they only show the whole march when it's largely obscured by smoke. I don't think this march is actually very big and they were using camera trickery to hide that.

      There are lots and lots of people in Ukraine who aren't frothing at the mouth fascists. Plenty of people got out when it became clear what was going to happen. Zelensky wouldn't have had to ban all opposition parties, hamstring unions, seize control of the media, and send the SBU around torturing and terrorizing people if there was no dissent. There was significant opposition to the Maidan coup - It was largely supported by people in Western Ukraine and opposed by people in the East.

      • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I did not know it was basically a formality. It sounds like it used to be a good arrangement (seeing as borders ought to be just a formality anyways).

        You are right. Fascism is rarely if ever a popular movement. They rely on terror. They need to make the consequences of being good worse than the revulsion one feels for a hateful ideology. By hating in response I risk becoming more like them.

        I appreciate the effort taken to help me snap-back from my reaction to seeing yet another public demonstration of anti-lgbt bigotry and Russophobia.

    • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      More than likely, the moral people are isolated, few in number, and terrified of speaking up. They have nowhere to go, and no one is coming to help them. I'd be terrified too.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They literally started lynching those people within like the first two weeks of the war.

        • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Those videos on telegram are terrifying. It's scary how Russia can just share the truth of what is happening to people over there and it is effective propaganda.

      • macabrett
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        2 years ago

        They banned all the leftist parties early on. I'd also be terrified.

        • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          You are right, it is terrifying. I wouldn't have the courage to resist. I would leave or hide most likely since I wouldn't be allowed to leave. Keeping perspective on this is probably good for empathy.

      • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Thanks for the reality check. That is a bleak reality the comrades (or simply people with a moral compass) face.

        They have nowhere to go, and no one is coming to help them.

        that hits hard because it is true.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Note that they're using low angles and smoke to obscure how big the march is. it doesn't look like there are actually that many of them. If you have a big crowd you hold your camera up as high as possible to show the whole crowd and impress people with the size of your movement.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You can also tell it's a small crowd because they're able to stop and start on a dime. Can't do that with 10,000 people marching behind you

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      the ukrainian right doesn't have to be a large percentage of the population to be effective at terror when they're highly organized, well-armed, and getting billions of dollars in weapons from NATO countries (they themselves say this)

  • posting_proleteriat [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    what's the source, I want to post this to /r/Ukraine and watch the gold medalist in mental gymnastics come out and justify it and or declare it fake Russian news