• CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I’ve had an interaction that pointed out posting Hunter Biden stuff (it was the cocaine and prostitutes news) is inherently pro Trump due to the connotations

      I explained drugs and sex work should be legal and it makes Hunter cooler than any Trump or Obama.

      And they went on to post that it was still pro-Trump in a different thread.

      What I mean is “pro Trump” is a tenuous term.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      1-Our trump posts are mostly about how funny that piece of shit is, which can definitely be confusing to people who are used to viewing him as some kind of singular harbinger of social decay. We dont view him with any kind of unique horror beyond the horror of his class, which can look exculpatory to bystanders.

      2-The “2” party dichotomy is dominant in the US and the left has been deliberately dismantled over decades, so it’s a common and easy misconception to think that

      There is a lot of anti-republican sentiment, but maybe the person got unlucky and missed it

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      Don’t get me wrong, I get it now, I’m just saying that when I first came to Hexbear, I was confused