How hard is it to say you sympathize with the innocent civilians and agree all their warmongering leaders should be killed?
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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For the most part because you can support their right not to be bombed into oblivion to further America’s imperial ambitions and also disagree with how they treat their lgbtq people. Often these countries were left leaning in the past until America installed a right-wing government.
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My understanding is that the majority of them want to see America fall (for good reason IMO, we're just billionaire slaves) so they vocally support the opposition to America. They understand the terrible aspects of some of those countries, but given we live in a western propaganda machine that covers those issues readily they focus on pointing out Americas hypocrisy and highlighting all the issues that our propaganda agencys (news) ignore and sweep under the rug.
You'd be better of asking In an instance that isn't defederated from them (like mine), I assume yours is defederated since nobody from hexbear is here yet.
Yeah but then they go and stay stupid shit like "censorship is a good thing". So it's kind of hard to understand the Tankie mind when they literally support oppression. Westerners may be brainwashed by propaganda but at least not all of them are authoritarian bootlickers.
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TBF, they do criticise Russia for its LGBT policies: https://feddit.uk/post/9516220
I don't think they support (modern) russia, they do oppose ukraine though.
They most certainly support them
Wrt China, there were some threads about how why you shouldn´t move there if you´re lgbt+, but it´s all just a really smart play by the CCP "because such rights should come gradually and it would be too divisive at a time where their people need to stay united and strong"
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mandatory support of Hamas
Are you conflating the support of a nation with the support of a state that exercises control over that nation?
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