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Hexchan tankies are voting Trump?? 😳 (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve been having a number of conversations on Hexchan recently trying to make sense of their politics. The most common instance of their hateful hypocrisy I’ve encountered is this constant assurance that they support trans people while immediately attacking and dog piling and trans people who point out that the situation would be much worse under Trump.

The hexchanners who aren’t actively Russian trolls seem to be little more than useful idiots for conservatives, minimizing the damage they do to vulnerable populations and engaging in high school level pettiness and hate.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1879291

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sick and tired of a way too vocal minority on this site pretending that Trump is "at least better on foreign policy than the Dems"

Yeah, this is one of the worst takes I see frequently on here. I think it's a mix of terminally-online contrarianism and anti-lib contrarianism. It's trolling libs with (generously) an intent to have them consider how close both parties are on foreign policy. But they mostly miss that point, because no one gets subtext and we're staking out a bad position ourselves, so it comes across as uninformed or confusing (do these communists support Trump??).

The good things Trump did (detente with the DPRK, attempted Syria withdrawal) are due to dumb luck and are easily undermined by NatSec ghouls/subsequent administrations. The they are offset, at least, by the bad things he did (a complete 180 on Iran, taking us to the brink of war multiple times), which were also due to dumb luck, but which are much harder to undo.