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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago (36 children)

It's hard to avoid a "no true scottsman" with the current state of bots and propaganda accounts.

But as far as I can tell, there are hardly any lefties, or even tankies, who unironically support Russia or even a middle ground position. Despite their hate of the west, Russia is clearly the greatest evil here.

Most of the middle ground positions I see come from fox news.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 30 points 9 months ago (8 children)

That's because your instance has blocked hexbear and lemmygrad.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Maybe. But previously when I engaged with people making this same claim, when they provided their evidence (a link to a hexbear post) and I actually spent the effort to verify it, it was trivially clear that their evidence was wrong, and when I showed that to them, they blew up and blocked me from the entire community (they were a mod).

Since then I've been pretty skeptical of people making this claim.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 9 points 9 months ago

Don't take my word for it. Even though your instance is defederated from them you can still go to hexbear.net and search locally for posts about Ukraine.

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