Political Memes

When and where has that happened to you on here? Let's be clear, there are always going to be individual bad actors, but outside of .ml and hexbear, that has not been a trend I've observed.

I’m no conservative…

And so I brace myself for the usual rightist dog whistles…

As soon as someone thinks even slightly different in some small way, they're labeled a fascist or some other pejorative … can't just have reasonable debates anymore. … groupthink … dogma. … brigaded … their side …

There it is.

If someone gets called a fascist here, it’s almost always because that person is meeting the definition of a fascist. We have a lot of different kinds of leftists here and a lot of lively and healthy debate. What you can’t get away with on Lemmy is being an awful person. If you advocate hate, oppression, authoritarianism, misinformation, injustice, etc you will be called out.

Unless you are spending time on ml or hexbear, but tankies are rightists who unironically claim they’re leftist. It’s best to avoid those places.

That depends on what sort of conservative viewpoints you're taking about. I see people expressing opinions that I would associate with what I think of as Eisenhower conservatives and they are met with civil discussions. It's when people start in with the post-Nixon bigoted, poor hating, corporate/wealthy bootlicking, regressive "conservative" viewpoints that people are less likely to engage beyond calling them out because there is probably no point to anything else. One obvious exception to this is someone unknowingly stumbling into a post on the tankie triad and saying something with even a whiff of conservatism. That's not going to go well. But it doesn't take long to learn that.

Conjecture.

Post proof of this or this is pure bullshit.

I think there's furious and constant discussion between the various left leaning and far left groups on Lemmy, but """brigading""" isn't real. That's just using the website.

Come to Beehaw. In my experience, discussions there are more thoughtful and respectful than in some of the bigger instances. ML in particular is straight cancer.

Dull mewling.