Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
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They are heavily biased towards China and Russia, two countries with fascist governments. That kinda speaks for itself, even if they claim to be communists or socialists.

Don't confuse authoritarian regimes with fascism. China is an authoritarian state running a diluted version of communism, but it's not fascist. Russia under Putin is leaning more towards fascism these days for sure, but they're not fascist outright yet.

Maybe what the hexbear folks gravitate around the most is the idea of authoritarianism. The flavour doesn't matter as much.

a diluted version of communism,

Is there still something communist in their economy? Are the people working 9 am to 9 pm 6 days a week, owning their means of production?

They share the same positions on global politics as pretty much every Marxist-Leninist political party on the planet. You may not like those positions, but trying to characterise them as actually far-right extremist is absurd horseshoe theory nonsense.

Liberals & social democrats on lemmy.world acting like NATO, the US Democratic Party, and capitalism are the real bulwarks against fascism is amusing.

The guy punching me clearly espouses a pacifist ideology, so calling him violent is absurd horseshoe theory nonsense.

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