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It doesn't sound super interesting to me, only because it sounds very one-sided.

I hope this is true.

Except for the Iran getting nuked part lol

I suspect they think they don't need to make deals or sign treaties or agreements. They probably see them as pointless and they can just strong arm countries to do what they want via force, military or economic. That seems to be the modus operandi of the Republican style of governance.

Got married last week? Omg his poor family. That is rough. I don't watch too much football, but sounds like he was both talented and a class act, too.

That's a lot of apps. Going to have to bookmark this.

100%. I hope all these hit pieces backfire. It reminds me of when people said Bernie Sanders was going to execute people in Central Park lol. And every interview they berated him for saying the word socialism or praising Castro's literacy program. It made me wonder what was so bad about socialism because the essence of his policy proposals and what he said all seemed good to me, they just insulted his vibe basically. It made me look into Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, and socialism in general.

Now look at me, I'm a full blown commie.

Watch any show from the 80's 59 90's and tell me racism and homophovua didn't exist.

Oh damn that was her? How are you going to get rid of Al Franken for doing air boobs and then support Cuomo. Like they were definitely in bad taste, no argument here, but the other man has been credibly accused by like a dozen women.

I think another big part of that with hexbear is that 1) it was a relatively big instance before people arrived to lemmy so it looked like an army of people disagreeing with someone when they were wrong, giving the appearance of brigading, and 2) down votes don't exist in this instance so when someone disagrees with someone else they have to write a comment to them.

Hexbear is definitely argumentative, too, but it actually seems less so than it used to be to me. Or maybe all the defeding made it less. Or maybe being here so long has made me see other sides to hexbear. Idk.

And the libs don't reply at all to comments like this.

I noticed that lol. Weird...

I think this one is my favorite answer so far, besides the ones people have already posted by Monkey_DDD_Luffy:

The primary contradiction in the world is imperialism vs anti-imperialism.

Socialists come down on the side of anti-imperialism.

A lot of the soft-left has an incorrect analysis that Russia is imperialist, this is not correct. It is aspirationally imperialist but the imperialist bloc in the world is the nato block led by the US. Russia in its opposition to this bloc also provides arms and helps in the defence of all the other opponents to the imperialist bloc.

It doesn't do this out of goodness. It is aspirationally imperialist. But this does not matter. The primary contradiction in the world is imperialism vs anti-imperialism. Everything that harms the imperialists increases the sovereignty in the rest of the world. Increasing the sovereignty increases the potential for revolution unimpeded by the mass genocide that the imperialists have carried out dozens of times against communists.

Another way to look at this problem is to do a thought experiment:

Tomorrow, let's say a EU country has a socialist revolution. Who are its enemies? Who are its potential allies? The first thing this new socialist country needs is the capability to defend itself from counter-revolution, they are immediately about to be attacked. Ask yourself who is going to do that attacking, and who and where this new socialist nation is going to get weapons, supplies, logistics and allies from. Is the nato block going to be nice to this new communist-led country? Or is it immediately going to throw it out and start attacking it? Are the nato countries going to arm it or sanction it? Is Russia going to view it as useful to support or as an enemy? China? DPRK? Iran? The global south? This thought experiment will lead you to making the correct analysis about who our potential friends are and who our real enemies are. I don't need to point out what the correct answers are, they are self-evident realities of the current time. Your enemies will become the nato countries, you will need weapons and you will be getting them from russia, and you will need many other things that are going to come from iran, china, potentially the dprk among others.

This is the reality of the world and a lot of the soft-left has never performed this thought experiment to come to the conclusion that while Russia is absolutely not a good country, it is a strategic necessity to socialists and anti-imperialists in the current moment.

Does that mean everyone should become loud mouths about it? Also no. That would be a tactical mistake.