• @TurboDiesel
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy isn’t “too extreme,” a very small subset of Lemmings are just fucking insufferable.

    • @clearedtoland
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      601 year ago

      …have these people met certain redditors? 🧐

      • Dudewitbow
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        811 year ago

        News: People on the internet find out some people on the internet grinds their gears

      • @Bassman1805
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        411 year ago

        I think it’s just a symptom of “people”.

      • @foggy
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        I mean, tankies are kinda worse.

        Edit: seems this post is controversial! Let me clarify.

        Tankies are definitely worse. 🥂

          • @[email protected]
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            81 year ago

            No, they aren’t.

            Tankies are mostly just delusional victims of troll farms.

            Fascists are… fascists.

            • @foggy
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              111 year ago

              Fascists are… also delusional victims of Russian troll farms.

                • @[email protected]
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                  41 year ago

                  HB federated with SJW, a bunch of them raided two posts on SJW’s main and management communities, they started insulting the local users, calling them fascists and Nazis, they defederated by pretending they got insulted and called homophobic slurs and their admin called SJW “sh.itsfulla.chuds” and “sh.itholefor.nazis” without noticing the irony…

                • Ataraxia
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                  31 year ago

                  They’re trying their darndest to drag the left into the mud. They’re pushing the same rhetoric as trumpers trying to brainwash young people Jordan Peterson style. The Russian government has a vested interest in destabilizing the US and trying to push people to violence and ‘revolt’ because that would take down the only threat to them. At least most of us aren’t so stupid to believe these people are in any way representing the left, the LGBT or minorities. I was looking for an LGBT friendly community and was so saddened to find out what it really was… trying to radicalize vulnerable groups. Shame on them. Fucking shame.

                • @foggy
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                  51 year ago

                  Which side isn’t genocidal?

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                    So we’re just pretending they’re literally Stalin’s reanimated corpse, and that they’re genocide supporters instead of deniers?

                • @[email protected]
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                  41 year ago

                  From a governmental point of view, both extremes are responsible for multiple genocides so I’m not even sure which is which in your comment 🤔

                  And I’m talking about Lemmy’s tankies vs Reddit’s alt-right, since that’s what the conversation was about in the first place.

    • @saltesc
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      81 year ago

      There is a lot of political and other “adult” discourse. Not extreme, but more exhausting for a person wanting memes, gifs, and lols. I imagine the median age here is higher than that of Reddit. Can’t confirm, but it certainly conducts itself with less…“juvenility”…or some word.

      • @[email protected]
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        I find the political discourse, at least on some topics, very juvenile on Lemmy. You know, screeching about how billionaires aren’t people but parasites and need to die, hundreds of upvotes. That’s some edgy, frustrated teenager bullshit. Or at least it should be, guess some people never got the memo about inalienable rights, equal treatment, vigilantism and how two wrongs don’t make a right.

        Seriously, this thirst for blood is disturbing and if it isn’t just venting then, well, look how the French Revolution turned on people. That wasn’t very poggers.

        There’s also this idea that everybody who isn’t 100% on board needs to be defooed and marked, preferably as a fascist. Which plays into the hands of the actual fascists because the non-fascists hate each other too much to collectively tell them to fuck off, despite their differences.

        There, that’s my venting done for today.

    • @Touching_Grass
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      I actually hope more middle ground right leaning people migrate.

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          Maybe not, maybe you’re a problem because you exclude people like that.

              • V17
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                11 year ago

                Even for the US this is insanely out of touch. But it is kind of sad that one of the main reddit alternatives is even more US-centric than reddit.

            • @foggy
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              101 year ago

              Biden? Biden is middle ground right leaning.

            • @Touching_Grass
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              51 year ago

              Disagree entirely with that. There’s propaganda on all sides and there’s things that we’re all fucked up on. Hate to do the both sides things but I think its realistic that both sides are being driven to extremes and we should fight that and recognize

              • @Gabu
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                131 year ago

                Imagine being braindead to the point of thinking “people should have as many rights as possible” and “people I dislike should die” are in some way similar. That’s why rightwingers don’t belong in society.

              • @Nudding
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                31 year ago

                What are some extreme positions on the left and who is the representative pushing for them?

                  • @Nudding
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                    01 year ago

                    Do you know what a representative is

                • Ataraxia
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                  If by left you mean tankies, which are just fascists posing as leftists, then violence against liberals or anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their ccp/russia/nk bs…

                  • @Nudding
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                    11 year ago

                    Do any of you know what a representative is?

      • @Katana314
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        91 year ago

        We call this the “Centrist pull” to get people to the right.

        It’s like the carnival of flaming demon knife throwers insisting that throwing flaming chainsaws at your family every day is “extremism”, and just throwing knives at them is normal.

        • @Touching_Grass
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          See its this shit that drives me nuts.

          How did you get so hateful. Same bafflement I get with hard right wing people. I figure its the same forces being applied