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TIL lemmy has a traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns community (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

youre very in your own head about these ideas. perhaps you have been told these things and have not investigated yourself. you are not immune to propaganda.

The first contradiction stems from the set of terms {“Moscow”, “no fascists”, “LGBT”}, it conjures images like:

the moscow time thing is a joke, theres a lot of people that genuinely think hexbear is on putins payroll. for the record, historically the trans community has even been decried as soviet and russian infiltrators, as far back as the 50s and 60s

Videos of gay couples holding hands in the center of Moscow, getting insulted and spit on by random passerbys.

i have gone into my experience dealing with russia on hexbear in the past. im the head mod of c/traa on hexbear. i have personally engaged in (now) highly illegal acts in russia, largely to do with helping trans refugees escape to czechia and finland, draft dodging, and getting HRT to people along the border with china. you might be surprised to hear this, but the average young russian communist is very trans supportive and very helpful to the trans community at large in russia. so many have helped get trans people out of volatile areas like chechnya and donbas.

“if it moves, then we eat it” saying.

can you explain this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I'm afraid the rhetoric pattern of "neg, victimhoood, authority" is not gonna work here.

Maybe that is closer to what Russian citizens/refugees are used to, or even need, and maybe that makes Hexbear useful... but it's far from the clearer dialectic that those already fed up with rhetoric would willingly engage with.

That means, any "investigation" is going to be limited to a cursory glance, checking the rules, and a few interactions like this one... after which, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck... I like tangerine duck.(¹)

The saying is about China, which is friends with Russia right now, and is notoriously "non-vegan".

Overall, if what you're saying is that Hexbear is actually anti-Putin, and pro-idealized communism... cool, but it still doesn't look like it, whether that be by design or not.

CW: Food

[¹: This is actually true. I'm a "pragmatic" vegan in that I will pick vegan when given a choice, but also eat anything non-toxic, ranging from horse steak tartare, to bull testicles, century eggs, or tangerine duck.]