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Life and people aren't nearly as awful as Lemmy constantly paints them to be. Too many users here just doomscroll and get a kick out of pretending the world's already doomed and deserves it.
I refuse to live like that. My life is about finding joy, helping people, knowing my neighbors, and genuinely loving others. Because of that, the so-called "paradox of tolerance" doesn't apply to me. I'm not tolerating intolerance; I'm just choosing not to build my world around hating or fearing it in the first place.
I don’t know I had a dude wake me up at 5 AM every morning for 18 months so he could parade his loud truck and his Maga flag down the street. For me, the paradox of tolerance was broken when the police wouldn’t stop him from breaking the law every day.
You guys let your extremist run wild and terrorize society for the last six years. You have no moderate views you have no moderate inclinations. You have no conservative values. It hits pure regressive politics and hate mongering. The only thing you conserve is hierarchy and perverse incentives.
Please explain "you guys."
I'm not republican. I didn't "let" anyone run anything. The US voted, and Trump won. And next election people have the option to vote someone else in.
Are you assuming I'm republican just because I said not all republicans are bad?! Dude, come on...think about that. Fucking Lemmy, man.... lol
The paradox of tolerance is real, it has been broken. They wanted to genocide me after Charlie Kirk died because I made meme. Millions of people used their voices to call for violence against the left. Like left of hitler basically.
So yes you have chosen a side. You turn a blind eye to the horrors unfolding across your country and pretend like people are innocent actors. Keep ignoring the calls for violence, I suppose if you don’t feel included in them, then they can’t hurt you 🤣
If January 6th wasn’t enough to rethink your party members, then you chose a side, and you’re with the traitors and oath breakers.
I'm not republican or conservative tho. So that has nothing to do with me.
Good for you, must be nice living in a fantasy land like the pyro from TF2.
It's fucking delusional it's what it is, and you can't just choose to ignore the paradox of tolerance, unless you want to turn your favourite bar into a nazi bar
How is it a fantasy world?
Do you realize that the US isn't a war zone, and that most people just go along their daily lives of dropping kids off at school, hiking, mowing their lawns, going to work, going to the park, going on dates with their significant other, watching netflix, etc?
Most non-Lemmy people don't make their politics their identity, nor do they talk about politics every single day, nor do they call every single person that disagrees with them a Nazi or a Fascist daily.
Most just don't care about politics. As we saw in the election.
How is that a fantasy world? Normal society isn't even close to what the Lemmy-verse is...lol
Lemmy has the worst cases of doomscrolling and negativity that I have ever seen.
A: you assume I'm American. I'm not. That's an insult where I'm from.
B: it's not open to everyone, don't be stupid. It's a walled and managed garden like every social media, just the walls are guarded by volunteers instead of staff. And instead of single source of moderation, it's literally hundreds of teams working together (Federation)
C: Right, let's say that someone says something shitty and bigoted, you saying I should let them stay, in the interest of "balance"? Just answer that
I'm saying that not every conservative is shitty and bigoted. Lemmy doesn't want to admit that though. That's my point.
Lemmy has about 1.366 million registered users worldwide (with monthly active users way lower, around 48,000–50,000). That's less than 0.0004% of the US population of roughly 343 million. Not even close to representing how the general US population feels about things.
You can't be trying to "both sides" everything, when one side have a secret police that kidnap children from their houses and destroy families
I refuse to give in to the negativity and extremism of Lemmy. I choose to fill my life with love, laughter, friends, and understanding.
I choose to live in reality, where I don't ignore and enable the one side that have a secret police that kidnap children from their houses and destroy families.
But you obviously don't care about that, as long as your little bubble of unreality is safe.
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They're not all shitty and bigoted, but they are all comfortable with shittiness and bigotry, and that's functionally the same thing
Not true. Again, you can't speak for everyone and you are just spouting the usual extremist stuff that Lemmy does. The fact that so much of Lemmy thinks reddit is actually conservative tells ya how out of touch people here are. lolol
How else to you reconcile being on the same side as all the bigots? You are clearly comfortable with them
I'm not republican tho. I said they are not terrible people. But hey, we're on Lemmy, where's its dangerous to have a different opinion....lololol
How old are you? And what do you do for work?
I didn't suggest Republican, I suggested conservative. Having different opinions isn't dangerous, but some opinions are dangerous, so maybe don't believe hateful dehumanizing things or be comfortable with those who do and suddenly you'll find people more accepting.
And I'm 400 years old and the King of Wales, professionally, since you seem to think either of those factors have some bearing on my opinion.
I'm not conservative. And I refuse to give in to the negativity and extremism of Lemmy. I choose to fill my life with love, laughter, friends, and understanding.
Ah yes, and the rest of all are all angry loners who hate friendship, very astute assessment
What are you going on about, mate? I didn't respond with that statement to you at all. I simply said that I refuse to give in to the negativity and extremism of Lemmy and that I choose to fill my life with love, laughter, friends, and understanding.
And you downvoted it, and somehow read that as "you all are angry loners"?! What is going on in your life right now? How on earth did you see that in what I said?
Today is a beautiful day here and I'm heading out to go hiking in the mountains w my gf, and i hope your day will be amazing today too, mate.
Then you don't know how America really is and have no room to talk with any authority about it. All you know is what you have read on news and Lemmy. That's only accurate for extreme stuff. The vast majority of the US is quiet and boring. Which is awesome.
Lemmy has about 1.366 million registered users worldwide (with monthly active users way lower, around 48,000–50,000). That's less than 0.0004% of the US population of roughly 343 million.
Answer B and C
Thee was no question on B. For C, it depends on what they say. Because Lemmy thinks a lot of stuff is shitty and bigoted, and it's not. Lemmy thinks a lot of stuff is Nazi and Fascist that's not. You guys are so out of touch with reality it's crazy. Again, Lemmy has about 1.366 million registered users worldwide (with monthly active users way lower, around 48,000–50,000). That’s less than 0.0004% of the US population of roughly 343 million.
Cool. I don't care
That's obvious.