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[-] axont@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago

I'm getting the impression from Lemmy that there's an overrepresentation of the particular demographic of comfortable middle-aged bookish software engineers who live in the US or Canada.

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

It's reddit rejects so what do you think

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

comfortable middle-aged bookish software engineers who live in the US or Canada.

That seems to be like 95% of both reddit's and lemmy's (or some other federated instances') user-bases.

[-] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

On the other hand there's also an overrepresentation of tankies. I don't think those are the same people.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Tankie" is to liberals as "woke" is to conservative liberals and fascists.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] abraxas@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

What word would you prefer to someone who tells you to your face that they intend to "put you up against the wall" and then asks if you "know what that means, you fucking lib"?

I mean, I'm a demsoc, and of the last 20 death threats I have received in my life, 15 came from people who identify as Communist-Leninist. PLEASE give me a better word for them.

[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funny because of the dozens, if not hundreds, of death threats I've gotten, practically all of them come from zionists, NAFOs, keyboard nazis or the occasional trumpeteer.

[-] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org 13 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah!? Well I've received thousands, no, millions of death threats!

Who are you people?

[-] abraxas@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Full disclosure, as a leftist I avoid those far-right areas like the plague. I'm quite certain I would receive more far-right death threats if I did not.

[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

so you admit that you get mostly leftist death threats because you avoid groups that would send more?

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[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

You don't know the difference between a demsoc and a socdem. You're not any kind of socialist, just a lib who likes the idea of being seen as leftist.

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[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Death threats are an inappropriate and disproportiate response but have you considered that it is because you're more irritating to the left than you are to the right? Especially given how right wingers historically are massively more violent?

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[-] sammer510@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are the tankies in the room with us right now sweetie?

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah we are

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[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh fuck off lol. The biggest instance literally preemptively removedd from everyone left of Bernie Sanders. Go back to reddit if you're afraid of getting called out for being politically illiterate.

[-] LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm guessing your autocorrect didn't like the word "defederated" and turned it into a word that's a slur if you don't include the 'd' at the end? lol

also I agree with your comment.

edit- Who wouldn't want to be called an outfox?

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah I was on my way back from my lunch break when I typed that no clue what it autocorrected too

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

there's no such thing as a tankie, the word literally has no meaning

Death to America

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[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

tankies

Did you mean communists? Common westerner mistake

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

"Everyone to the left of me isn't being actively purged from the platform and it's not to my tastes"

Fucking leave then

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[-] Flaps@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago
[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Frankly i don't think there's nearly enough tankies to offset the neolibs but i have a feeling I'm in the minority. Eh! Fun times we're in

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