Their “most leftist” community is also deeply anti-communist, suffice to look at the side bar which has a label “We are not” followed by a photo of Russian workers organized with the local communist party

That’s an excellent point, i completely forgot about the sidebar(, which i’ve seen in the past).

There’s probably more than one thing to say about the anti-communist “libertarian” left, that opposes socialism(, not even in their countries !).
The thing is that they’re opposing socialist countries in the name of the exact same socialism, on the ground of humanism, because they’re blindingly ‘exposed to’/believing only one side of the propaganda, and on many topics(, e.g., even with the (relative )decrease of popularity of Israel, it’d still be unimaginable in France to interview a Hamas member and let them expose their own propaganda).
The uyghur genocide is another example of what their admin, and users, believes in. Two/Three people, and myself on another occasion, tried their arguments on him&them. A.f.a.i.k. it didn’t lead anywhere.
(I’m not saying that to you in particular, but )It wouldn’t be a reason for not speaking with them obviously, it’s just a disagreement, it’s mostly safe to say that every single one of us were like them at a time.

peacefully protesting against the result of parlementary elections rigged by Putin.

I’ve tried an argument that didn’t work back there, it was to prove that our anti-russian propaganda lied when they said that V.Putin rigged the elections, because the undeniable fact is that western surveys still continue to agree with the russian surveys about V.Putin. First link :

They could have lied. We know that surveys tell the opposite story in Venezuela(, you can switch between election on the upper-right hand corner to quickly confirm that, interestingly enough, this discrepancy between surveys decreases over the year, and now isn’t there in 2024 compared to 2012, the propaganda/control/manipulation is intensifying).
As of now, i’m confident that you won’t easily find an approval rating that does not confirm Vladimir Putin’s popularity. But since they managed to spread the doubt in Venezuela and other countries, despite the fact that anyone can do a polling, it’s possible that it changes for the next russian president.

Usually, they will end up admitting that russians, or chinese, or other populations, do love their government despite the sanctions&pressure, they don’t have much choice if every survey is unanimous, so they’ll end up saying that it’s only because of propaganda.
That the existence of these surveys end up surprising them is a proof of the presence of our own propaganda. There’s no need to tell/‘prove to’ anyone here that we’ll exaggerate(, or even create,) the flaws of countries we don’t like, and ignore(, or diminish if we can’t,) their qualities/success ; while doing the opposite for our allies.
It’d feel pointless, and almost insulting ^^, to continue. Lemmygrad and Hexbear are really apart from the rest of Lemmy/‘the Internet’.

I’ve also seen a moderator of that community, who is also an admin of the instance, promote the horseshoe theory. They are classic western leftists, anti-communist, anti-revolutionary, pro western imperialism/colonialism.

Yeah, i.d.k. if trotskyists or anarchists would be the correct words, there’s probably some kind of “slang” for that.
Ideally, they should still continue to talk with us though, we should talk with them, and with any ideology, that’s how we become better at defending/understanding ‘our side’/‘the world’. I’m not against some safe space for those who prefer to stop being disturbed by liberals, but since i argued towards tolerance back there, and am inclined to anyway, i’d say that rejecting them because they reject us wouldn’t be as correct as exchanging with them.
Obviously, it’s not a request to anyone here, do as you want, just that i didn’t create this post(, and talk with them,) in order to trash them afterwards behind their back(, and they probably don’t realize that if it’s not ok for you to criticize/trash them, then it shouldn’t be ok for them to do the same).
I’ve linked this post to @Camus in a comment after posting it b.t.w., so they may look at your comments(, but should judge you on the frontpage anyway).

The very same french leftists that were in support of the first world war

I can’t say i’ve never heard this accusation since they promised not to fight, and there’s the murder of Jean Jaurés, but i’ve never heard the opposite side, it seems like they didn’t have a choice since we’d have been invaded by the austrian emperor ?
(but i get that it was also a way to say “since a long time”)

today support the delivery of weapons to Ukraine instead of negotiating for peace

It’d be a political suicide for a french political leader to overtly&frankly support Russia while opposing Ukraine(, we have François Asselineau but he can’t present himself anymore, and wouldn’t really be invited/known that much anyway), even if we can surprisingly find some accusations of relative/unassumed/‘risky sentences of’ support, aimed at both our far-right and far-left, who are usually speaking of making peace now, and sometimes even of the role that n.a.t.o. played in driving ukrainians apart from Russia, and of their intents towards Russia for doing so.
But yeah, there’s no disagreement on my part, we think the same thing.

And don’t feel an obligation to answer, i was mostly thinking out loud here.