Boy if that isn't the truth. There was an article over the weekend where someone came in boldly claiming how the war could be ended in a day if Ukraine would simply concede the land that was occupied by Russians. I jumped in asking why they would believe that when Russia's goals from the beginning were to commit genocide against all Ukrainians to claim their land and natural resources. The conversation never even got to the point of discussing how Russia initially attacked regions far removed from the Russian-occupied territories or that those regions are only occupied by Russians because the original Ukrainian people 'mysteriously' disappeared and neighbors woke up to find someone else living in their homes. Just trying to defend Ukraine's actions was too much and the mods deleted my comments without any explanation.

Btw the term to describe that type of person is "tankie." They're ostensibly leftists, but in reality support all manner of authoritarian and genocidal leaders and groups.

Their foundational principle is generally "America and its allies bad, American enemies good" and almost all of their political positions are developed from that foundation.

Since tankies often don't like being called tankies, the more historically used term "campist" encompasses that "america vs everyone else" mentality. Campism is dumb and tankies end up fighting against the democratic movements they claim to support.

Are the obnoxious trolls from hexbear? Lemmy.world and a lot of other instances have defederated from hexbear because they were/are insufferable.

Some of the hexbear users have since then made troll accounts on other instances, but it's still a lot better than before defederation. It also helps that they tend to get their accounts banned pretty quickly because they are insufferable.