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yes I need to see the fascists masquerading as leftists otherwise I would be living in an echo chamber…

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They’ll certainly bring up an actual good point from time to time, unlike actual fascists.

Mostly though you can negate the majority of their most obnoxious shit takes by blocking users.

But my instance isn’t federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear as is so I can get away with that, and I don’t see “Genocide is okay if” takes in my feed.

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They’ll certainly bring up an actual good point from time to time, unlike actual fascists.

and a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day doesn’t mean it’s useful to have it taking up space on the wall.

also they are actual fascists. in the chapo trap house community I literally got the reply “ukraine should be destroyed at all costs”

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Well, as long as we judge entire communities by the actions of individuals.

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Thanks for the nuance. While I agree that tankies can be annoying, I think it’s stupid to compare them to fascists with the whole “red fash” thing. Just because they have some terrible takes of their own, it doesn’t make them fascist.

The worst of them do deny genocides, which is terrible, but they do it out of a habit of denying anything western powers claim actually happened. I imagine many of their members are trolls and contrarians, as well. Despite this, like you said, some of them have decent takes and not all of them are off the deep end, yet

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People who say this are generally fine being a part of every other instance that is full of liberals who repeat fascist propaganda verbatim. Seen rather clearly in response to the recent escalations in Gaza.

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