Once religious symbolism has been appropriated by Nazis, it's okay to burn their flag lol. You don't have to make up "the swastika is a religious symbol" tier jank to justify using a cryptic and unknown symbol instead of one that has power.
Clearly nobody is worried about alienating Russians from the website. Big 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 vibes coming off this instance
Ah my mistake I was scrolling past 400 cartoon characters. I guess that's a more consistent application of the theory of imperialism that leads people to apply it to Russia. Can't wait for the burning Iran flag.
It was a weird comment, unclear, I meant in the case of a hypothetical large scale war and people getting dragged into the same kind of BS about how Iran's govt is reactionary (obviously is on domestic shit, but a clear attempt to undermine the antiwar movement or justify sanctions and regime change shit like that needs to be treated as such)
But idk it feels like this is already WWIII so my vibes are off. I stand by my point about the Israeli flag
Hard agree here, though I will say we're pretty nuanced about giving critical support when the enemy is the greater satan.
There's a lot of issues with Iran's government, but at the end of the day that itself is a product of the US's own actions and at this point I think the vast majority of hexbear users would be rooting for a US aircraft carrier getting denazified in that event.
Right that was where I was coming from on Russia. Smashing the barely livable post USSR state because reactionaries are in power doesn't solve shit. Hell we got here by smashing the Ukrainian state with BLACKROCK but now I'm just trying to be clever
I totally get that, the modern Russian state is itself a product of western meddling and I have a really hard time being in spaces around liberals here in the west because of their open russophobia.
There's lots of issues with social reaction, but at least they're not evangelical about it. Half of the US is openly more reactionary towards trans people at this point.
Once religious symbolism has been appropriated by Nazis, it's okay to burn their flag lol.
It is the "israeli" flag being burnt. You don't get to decide if it should have the star. Iirc people did report being made uncomfortable when the emoji had it for, again, obvious reasons. Other symbols don't have the same weight of persecution in modern history as the star does.
Clearly nobody is worried about alienating Russians from the website. Big 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 vibes coming off this instance
You're just arguing semantics now. Anyone with a brain can tell that's the "israeli" flag, just without the symbol zionists put in it to weaponize anti-semitism.
Somehow I think this has a lot more to do with the accusation of antisemitism being weaponized successfully, if you're going to combat the allegations of antisemitically burning the Israeli flag by taking them seriously and using a make believe flag instead lol
That's giving Nazis way too much power and legitimacy.
Also I don't think a religious group known for being historically persecuted is comparable to a nation state.The Israeli flag isn't censored because we are afraid of hurting Israeli feelings it's because we've already been accused of anti-Semitism and don't want to fan that flame when avoidable. It's also out of respect for Jews obviously.
On another note, hexbear isn't exactly known for supporting Ukraine lmao
Also I had a look through your profile bc I do that with usernames I recognize. I noticed you will comment a lot of very well thought out and cited pieces and then the next comment is pure trolling or banter. I'm curious if you've been drunk posting or if you just be like that. Lots of removed comments to be curious about as well.
Don't you think it's giving Nazis a little bit too much power and legitimacy for people to justify feeling uncomfortable around burning Israeli flags because they contain the Star of David? Way to make an ongoing genocide about their pearl clutching lmao.
god fuck please let me have the emote that at best might not immediately be spammed by wreckers, ive been on the site 3 days so i can 12 angry men this shit if needed
That's giving Nazis way too much power and legitimacy.
Did you forget about WWII or something? Maybe you're drunk? It's called having a sense of humor, some people can do that sober. I didn't read your profile because it's irrelevant to a random internet conversation but ty for the TikTok style notification about it.