• christian [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      My bet would be on him not actually knowing what that word means

      100%, but he does know what the word “most” means and that’s why he was right on top of that.

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      It’s more about his affinity for autocrats and his reflex to defend them. In 2017, he jumped to Putin’s defense in an interview when the interviewer called Putin a killer. “You think our country’s so innocent?” Hexbear really does have a lot in common with modern Republicans. You guys should consider completing your transformation and just openly vote and campaign for them from now on.

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          Affinity for autocratic states. Ones who silence media they disapprove of, for example.

          Trump recently said he will be banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from covering the White House. This is obviously just a tiny first step toward the total control of the media that your role models in the Chinese and Russian governments wield, but you gotta start somewhere.

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            Affinity for autocratic states. Ones who silence media they disapprove of, for example.

            How did the democratic party react to protests on campuses against the Gaza genocide again?

            Trump recently said he will be banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from covering the White House.

            He can say whatever he wants. In the end just like every other president he is doing politics for the bourgeois class, who own that very same media and understand it is a tool to manufacture consent (e.g. for the Gaza genocide).

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            This is obviously just a tiny first step toward the total control of the media that your role models in the Chinese and Russian governments wield, but you gotta start somewhere.

            Seems like you were already scratched before you even got into this thread lmfao

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            “What are we, a bunch of asians?!?”

            I love it when libs try to own people via things they clearly have no understanding of.

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              You really think that’s an accurate paraphrasing of what I said? This place is all memes and straw men.

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                The weren’t trying to paraphrase you, they were making fun of you for characterizing things typical of Western liberalism and fascism as something foreign because you’re a racist indoctrinated with liberal xenophobia that serves the class that rules over you doggirl-thumbsup

                Your concept of “autocratic” states is infantile and it’s very silly for shitlibs to get riled up about Donald Trump banning some news outlets from the White House when your entire media apparatus is owned by the same interests the White House also acts in favor of when neither of them even hides that fact anymore

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            I honestly applaud your willingness to stabilize your own world view by ‘engaging’ with your (self acclaimed) enemies. I really don’t see any other purpose but to keep up your probably faltering believe in an obviously failing system. Nobody here is going to convince you about anything (and no one is trying) because every second you literally waste on here is only used to cement what you so desperately try to keep believing. It is a weird strength I admire in some fashion. I wonder what you will do ‘IF’ your ‘democracy’ fails.

            If you were sincerely ready to question at least part of your believes you would be wise to educate your self. You always can.

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              Pretty sure they’re just trying to get banned for posting liberal nonsense, so they can complain about how authoritarian the tankies are

              I hope we keep them around forever catgirl-smug

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              They aren’t ‘engaging’, they are regurgitating.

              What Trump has an affinity for is a ‘culture of respect’ and recognition of power, that exists within these countries, which develops out of a political environment where saying things actually has real consequences. Where saying some bullshit that you haven’t carefully considered is dangerous because you could be held personally liable for it. It is the same reason he likes the mafia, because they pretend to have that kind of culture (if it actually ever existed or not is debatable).

              It’s an irony because he is in the position he is in precisely because the U.S. doesn’t have this culture of respect at all, because none of our opinions matter. The machinery of the capitalist state will just keep grinding on, and nobody in power is ever held liable for any of the dumb and dangerous shit they do and say, because otherwise they might actually have to fix things.

              That said, there is a reason they do this though. The reason that Caeser seized power was to protect himself from prosecution in the Senate. So the theory goes that If you never prosecute people for their political crimes, you never get a Caesar. Which works out pretty damn well for the oligarchs.

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                  I just assumed English wasn’t their first language and was doing them a solid. I like it when someone tells me I’ve been spelling or pronouncing a word wrong all my life.

                  I didn’t address the content of the comment because it was just limp psychologizing.

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            The “what are we, a bunch of Asians” quip is correctly applied here, as it refers to racists like you using a negative, reductive, and false comparison to Asian people to hypocritically deflect from criticisms of abhorrent things you support.

            You don’t want state-controlled media, because liberals prefer media to be a for-profit business owned and beholden to oligarchs in the American style, as this is beneficial to their position.

            When liberals are confronted on their inability to change an oppressive government, they raise on the highest of pedastals their ability to criticize it as if this means anything.

            The country leading the largest green transition and the one turning numerous Nazis into fertilizer every day are examples to follow. All liberals have to offer is empty complaints and complicit inaction in the face of war, climate disaster, and genocide.

            The oppressor can expect neither mercy nor trust from the oppressed.

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              Calling autrocratic regimes is in Asia autocratic makes you racist against Asians. Got it. Braindead take.

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                Yes in fact, because your definition of “authoritarianism” I this case only applies to non-whites and your “enemy”.

                A liberal has never advocated for Republicans to be bombed or starved for their " authoritarianism", they must only be voted against every 8 years.

                You are showing your ass to people who have a deep understanding of concepts you sophomorically attempt to bludgeon us with. The logical and moral bankruptcy of your inane regurgitations time and again have been exposed, and now all that is left is to continue to watch you devolve into insults and retreat into your derangement syndromes to further insulate you from a reality that has left you powerless and irrelavant.

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                Why do you all talk like this? Universally, your ability to argue or reason out a point breaks down after about two replies so you resort to a kind of default, smug, profoundly irritating template. 1st generation chatgpt had a larger context window than you.

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            What happenes to media that reported on “Israeli” war crimes? Media that exposed Ukraine’s Nazis? Media left of Reagan? Your “free” press is only the freedom to promulgate hate speech and rehabilitate criminals.

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        “You think our country’s so innocent?”

        That is an objectively true statement you dumb fuck, one the few good point he’s ever made, also “affinity for autocrats” that’s hilarious considering establishment democrats cow tow to Trump’s autocracy and vote for all his major bills and ratify all his appointments

        You liberal neocon freaks hate Trump but love all his policies, complete your own transformation liberal, you people are to the right of Reagan but by all means keep believing you’re gonna win with recycled natsec consultant talking points

        The biggest joke though is that you’re not even paid to write this shit you larp loser i-cant

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        Everything in the US is going to continue getting worse forever, eventually you’ll agree with us.

        You’re going to hate this country as much as I do and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

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            I think we’ll see the development of a fascist camp which is pro-EU/anti-US in certain yankees, actually.

            They’ll hate the US, but they’re not going to move to the left in any appreciable way because they’re so prone to reaction. Instead of wanting the US to dominate the Western hemisphere they’ll want countries like Canada to join the EU as associates.

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        openly vote and campaign for them from now on.

        Lmao, you already do that by being LOSERS

        Somehow Trump the cossetted, senile, spoiled oligarch surrounded by fascist sycophants is more engaged with reality than the American liberal, so much so that you feel the need to come in here and try and salvage the loss of face.

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        You guys should consider completing your transformation and just openly vote and campaign for them from now on.

        I don’t know, you libs seem worse; you’re advising people to vote republican? You want them to win again? Didn’t you people learn from this term how bad this is?

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          What’s that thing you like to say all the time? “BuT I ThOgHt We wERe tOo sMaLL tO mAttEr”

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            Dumbass can’t even keep your own DC thinktank talking points straight, that line was the excuse you dipshits made up to justify supporting a genocide in 2024

            How’d that plan work out for you and your parasocial establishment fandom, that shit stung huh? che-smile

            In 47 days you and the other natsec larpers are gonna find out just how much we own you and your favorite political brand