Not exactly. They’re tankies, which has its basis in appreciating the USSR and modern day China and some other governments that call themselves “Communist” while having very few if any leftist and communist qualities. Hexbear is eager to defend genocides, whitewash parts of Russian history, and tell you why America is in the wrong in every single event, and therefore America’s opponents are good. Most confusingly, they’re also trolls. They really enjoy that these arguments anger other people.
I would say stalinism (which is what tankies are so enamored with) is very conservative or even reactionary from a social point of view, even if it’s not from an economic perspective.
What is conservative economics anyway? It seems to mostly consist of lying about economic competence and fiscal responsibility combined with tax cuts for the rich and general corruption judging by the actual conservative parties in most countries.
“They” turned me into a newt.
“They” took our jobs.
“They” are really just pretending and are actually far right.
The number of strongly opinionated “they” messages from blahaj users any time hexbear is mentioned is impressive.
The patriotism is always surprising to me too. I never knew America being shitty on the world stage was controversial. Like, I figured that out when they overthrew democratic governments to support dictators.
Not exactly. They’re tankies, which has its basis in appreciating the USSR and modern day China and some other governments that call themselves “Communist” while having very few if any leftist and communist qualities. Hexbear is eager to defend genocides, whitewash parts of Russian history, and tell you why America is in the wrong in every single event, and therefore America’s opponents are good. Most confusingly, they’re also trolls. They really enjoy that these arguments anger other people.
I would say stalinism (which is what tankies are so enamored with) is very conservative or even reactionary from a social point of view, even if it’s not from an economic perspective.
What is conservative economics anyway? It seems to mostly consist of lying about economic competence and fiscal responsibility combined with tax cuts for the rich and general corruption judging by the actual conservative parties in most countries.
That sounds fairly representative of the lemmy.blahaj.zone consensus youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI
“They” turned me into a newt. “They” took our jobs. “They” are really just pretending and are actually far right. The number of strongly opinionated “they” messages from blahaj users any time hexbear is mentioned is impressive.
The patriotism is always surprising to me too. I never knew America being shitty on the world stage was controversial. Like, I figured that out when they overthrew democratic governments to support dictators.
Average age is 12 years old (mental, physically they’re probably 32ish)
lmao
Yes, that does sound a lot like hexbear. I defederated them because all I saw was fascist bullshit.