You've received this feedback a lot because your definition of "Kremlin propaganda" is not coherent, not because there is a failure to understand the nuances of Russian by your interlocutors.

The nazis hosted the olympics, no imperialist war has ever stopped the olympics from letting someone compete. Even in the worst possible interpretation of Russia's actions in Ukraine, barring them from the Olympics for it would be an entirely new precedent.

I don't support imperial hegemony or anything, but I'm genuinely baffled every day that MBS gets away with his shit. Like he should have just have gotten a fax saying "Listen Mac, You're a client state, you supply oil and we keep you in power. If you stop supplying oil we are sure there are others in your country who will" whenever he tried to do anything that doesn't fit the US agenda, and yet Biden keeps grovelling. What the fuck is that.

Morality WAS a significant factor. Like we can't look at the radical republicans, the barnburners and the free soilers and pretend there wasn't a significant amount of people who were morally outraged by slavery. But of course this morality was in part informed by economic interest. The American political structure in much of the country was built around paving over issues of class and economic relations by providing "free" land and thus an incredible amount of perceived social mobility, which created a large class of small holding farmers and petite bourgeoise. These people's economics interests were not aligned with slavery, because they were in direct competition with slave staffed farms and the cash crop plantations of the south.

So as the country settled more and more western territory, these small holders were interested in limited the expansion of slavery, and the slave holding classes of the south were interested in expanding it. This came to violent clashes, which intensified the opposition to slavery, because not only are slave plantations a direct competition to the ideal of the American settler-farmer, he's also hiring dudes to go around murdering the American settler-farmer for it. So whenever America expanded there was intense conflict over whether the new territory should be a slave territory, and therefore adopt the plantation based economic model, or align itself with the northern faction. This was important not only because of the individual economic and political interests of the people settling the land, but new states and territories meant new representatives and senators who would affect the balance of the legislature. The South had a totally outsized level of political representation, but they were intensely paranoid of letting that slip, and many people in other states were pissed that like seven guys in slave states had as much voting power as entire towns and the southern senators were lording that shit over everyone. So on top of everything else, "The south" is paranoid that new states won't be slave states so they don't get to hold all the power, "the north" wants new states to not be slaves states because southern senators are the fucking worst. That's why the south secedes despite no one actually coming for their slaves yet, they're worried they eventually won't hold all the power and lose their control of the senate. (I'm using "The south" and "The north" as short hands, things didn't neatly align this way. Also I'm totally ignoring the existence of factions like the doughfaces, the worst people in the world)

imagine if libs named their ideologies like commies do.

My uncle made a friend whose name is pronounced exactly like a racial slur, so he's calling everyone to let us know.

Hey remember when Bill Clinton started a program to drain the plasma of inmates in Arkansas and sell it, thereby having the inmates cover part of the cost of their own incarceration, and it was done so sloppily it gave a bunch of people HIV.

I also don't know fuck about shit, but I've noticed that everyone who posts on hexbear.net except me is a lib

What about if the cute boy is a lib

Casting couch but it's for wizards

Broke: Master watchmaker

Woke: My little cogchamp

No YOURE a bad gateway