Critical support to RFK for trying to enable the DPRK to steal the entire US economy

Yes, but at the end of the day, the survivors will get to enjoy all the freedoms and privileges they wouldn't have if they were part of Russia, such as... hmm, say, what was this all for, anyway?

RFE also "objectively" had nothing to do with the CIA for nearly 20 years after it was created, at which point it turned out the CIA had been funding it all along. But now we know they've stopped because they said they did, and anyone suggesting that they're not editorially independent is a paranoid loon, just as they would've been in the 50's and 60's.

Some of us don't believe that the people whose job it is to lie stopped lying because they said they did. Suggesting that the CIA is still doing things that they did regularly and successfully kept hidden in the past is not a conspiracy theory.

Well yes, of course I deny communist genocides. You don't? What about the claim made by Nazi conspiracy theorists that communism is a Jewish plot to genocide the white race? Are you a genocide denying tankie like us who believe that's bullshit, or do you accept the Nazi claims about white genocide?

Maybe some allegations of genocide are actually just made up bullshit to serve a political agenda and maybe we should reserve labeling people as "genocide deniers" to cases with clear, well documented evidence.

Maybe it's the latest way of writing us off

• You're all bots!

• You may not be bots, but you're all paid agents!

• You may not be paid agents, but you're all blindly ideological tankies!

• You may not be blindly ideological, but you're all terminally online basement dwellers!

No real surprises, but the list pales compared to Lemmygrad's still, they have 3x as many defeds.

A lot of that is because they use a block list while we use an allow list, so a lot of instances haven't defederated with us bc we haven't federated with them in the first place.

Oh, like China?

I'm firmly in the "tone it down" camp on Hexbear (especially on other instances) and I appreciate people's patience and I'm glad that some people have gotten past our rough exterior. I'm hoping things will quiet down and stabilize before we burn our bridges. I'm glad to hear that your experience with our mods was positive and that you're focusing more on that, over the years I've come to trust our mods and I believe they're committed to making this work.

As has already been mentioned and acknowledged, clarification on Kremlin propaganda would be appreciated. I agree with removing false information, but I'm of the belief that it's important to understand the positions and perspective of every nation, especially those considered enemies, for the sake of peace. I do not trust any source from any state implicitly, but rather I believe in gathering information from a variety of sources and critically examining each. I grew up in a "post 9/11 world" and in that context, any attempt to understand the motivations or historical context behind that event, beyond "They hate us for our freedom," was treated with suspicion, along with all sorts of lies about Muslims in general. Since then, I don't go along with hating who I'm told to hate, at least until I feel I've investigated the matter fully. To that end, I think there is value in listening critically to state-affiliated sources, from every side.

I look forward to having productive discussions in the future.

Every time I explain the war to libs I become 1% more pro-Russia and I'm a little concerned about it.

Like, can someone tell me what Russia or the separatists could have done differently that would allow the provinces some pathway towards secession or even just representation, while minimizing loss of life? There's an answer to that question, right? Help.

To Americans, war is no different from a movie or video game.

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So it's time for peace talks then?

It's time for peace talks, right?

Hexbear is a large, leftist instance, that just recently federated, and most of us are pro-China. We're not bots and we're not getting paid, but we're not shy about our political views. That's the reason you're suddenly seeing a bunch more comments defending China.