Arenge

joined 1 year ago
[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's otherwise a good friend?

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

He's anti-Israel

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

We go back decades. Around the 2016 election cycle he had a pretty severe psychological episode and he became hyper-fixated on politics. He self-medicates with various substances on top of the actual medication he takes. He stays up days at a time and consumes political content, then posts entire essays into my inbox while arguing with people online on like 20 different tabs. I've learned to just ignore the political stuff

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (13 children)

He's a breadtube sort of leftist that used to send me videos of that one greasy debate bro we're not supposed to mention, though that was a few years back before some of his controversies including the recent one that I think kind of ended his career

He's also been sending me every single article about Donald Trump for like 8 years now

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upper-left quadrant

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

He believes Russians will [CW: SV]

spoilerrape
and massacre Ukrainians en masse if they win. He also believes that if Putin isn't taught a lesson now the Russians will do the same to other neighboring states next, because they're monstrously evil barbarians apparently

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But broadly speaking all the stuff about Ukraine being Nazi-riddled as a casus beli falls flat when Putin has been happy to use far-right-wing groups like Russki Orbaz for his own benefit, and I don't think Russia is really a credible threat to western hegemony like China is, so I don't see how supporting Russia would be meaningfully revolutionarily defeatist.

I don't even support Russia. I'm just annoyed Ukraine having a frightening amount of militant Nazi psychos is now apparently disinformatsiya invented by the Kremlin when Western press was regularly mentioning the problem before the war.

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad the American military doesn't have a drug problem

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Already did, but apparently the far right isn't a big problem because they're not winning elections or something

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They see Russia and Israel as the greatest threats to world peace. I'm just kicking myself for saying anything at all about the Ukrainian military and their love for ~~Nazi iconography~~ ~~esoteric occult symbols~~ traditional Slavic imagery. I have no interest in litigating this shit

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

We can't let Putler win or the Russians will unleash [CW: SA Mention]

spoilerrape and murder squads
in the areas they control and also kidnap children, and also attack Nato next

 

Shouldn't have said anything, now I'm getting paragraphs upon paragraphs about Putler and how the West has a moral obligation to prolong the war in Ukraine for as long as possible sad-boi

Also while apparently it can't be denied that the far right has grown somewhat stronger in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military had to rely on militias such as Azov so they wouldn't lose, we should not worry because they haven't seen that much electoral success

[–] Arenge@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

I was just at a complete loss for words

 

...and also somehow directly causes third world countries to be drowned in plastic trash

monke-beepboop

He had no complaints about a link to the same cheap spare part listed on Amazon though

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