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When you kick out French imperialists, and then roll out the red carpet for the Zionist entity. 
Massive Troaré L. Thomas Sankara must be spinning in his grave right now.
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I've been coming to believe through threads like these that the leading ideology of Hexbear is "Marxism-Leninism-Gobshitism": people with underdeveloped leftist ideas come to Hexbear; eventually become reliant on Hexbear for their social needs; and what ends up happening because of this arrangement is that "leftism" here just becomes a series of memes that people endlessly quote at each other as a signifier of group belonging, or "kulture" as I call it. I wonder if some of the people here have subconsciously convinced themselves that by merely being on Hexbear, they're developing their understanding of the world, as if developing one's knowledge through this site doesn't require active will, effort, and struggle, just as developing one's knowledge through any other means.
So, many people here make no effort at deeper understanding: trying to have the correct reaction to a headline at a glance alone, is merely a game of call and response to see who belongs here the most.
it has its flaws but this is the only social space I have that isn't suffocating in capitalist death sludge making me feel like I'm the only person who gives a shit
Yeah, that's how it is for me too.
Over time I've increasingly felt the same. I like to delve into the weeds and why people do the things they do, it's my way of reconciling contradictory narratives that all appeal to something that's fact; "seeking truth from facts" basically. But instead I often get people jumping to conclusions or making hyperbolic statements that I'm getting increasingly tired from.
When I recently asked for counternarratives to the Western narrative that explains the jihadist insurgencies in the Sahel ("AES and Russia did too many war crimes, we were right to warn them about the Russians"), the few answers that I did get were short "the French are funding terrorists" narratives, which to me just seems like a mirror of liberals handwaving dissent as "Russian interference".
On Lemmygrad I got a longer response but the only alternative explanation for people joining that jihadist groups was just "poverty", which felt incomplete because not every poor place turns to militancy simply when given the chance. And I still felt like I was being told to just take their word that the Sahel states won't fall like Syria did, where foreign funding of HTS doesn't explain why the Syrian Arab Army just fled and let them take the country.