Honestly it would just be leftist cannibalism. Lefties telling other lefties they aren't left enough.
Hey you, reading this message, you aren't left enough. Be more left.
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I turned 270° to the left, is this right?
Thats right but you need to turn 90° more.
While I agree that I don't like conservative content. Censorship is still censorship.
I disagree people need to understand each other. On the other hand toxic right wing misinformation? That can go fuck itself and its creators lol.
On the other hand toxic right wing misinformation? That can go fuck itself
That's what they said, "right wing content".
The only measure by which "we need police to protect people from criminals" is less toxic than "we need to stop migration to preserve the white race" is how palatable it is to centrists. Both promote causing harm to millions of people while pretending to be necessary for the safety of you and me, tricking people into supporting egregious violence against vulnerable minorities.
I'm not your mom, I can't tell you how to resolve your cognitive dissonance, but the boundary you're proposing is merely a popularity contest.
This is the kind of toxic content I was referring to yes. People can claim to be leftist and generate toxic misinformation, people can also be conservative but go on about their lives while respecting. You may not be my mom but you definitely need one.
Also I should probably note, I don't feel like discussing the distinction between these two with a person who enters the topic with insults. So have fun running around by your self.
Any toxic information.
100% agreed, only said conservative because of the topic but toxic left misinformation should also go fuck itself and its creator
But conservatives use that considerably more than leftists. Almost all of the conservative thought are based on misinformation.
Censorship yay!
Legitimately the Internet was a better place before conservatives figured out how to use it.
"Legitimately the Internet was a better place before ..." it became more like TV and a corporate shopping mall, and less like a Library and a village fair.
Before nerds made it easy enough for conservatives and normies to use it. We did this.
I joined a fb group in 2004 protesting the decision to open it to people without an edu address. Fortunately fuckerberg made the right decision and nothing bad has happened since then.
I remember making a facebook account right after he made that decision, lol.
They got in early. I remember researching the Holocaust for a school assignment in the late nineties/early aughts and the top result was a conspiracy theorist/Holocaust denial screed. An openly racist one with slurs and epithets throughout, no less. The early internet was wild.
There was also Stormfront, a white supremacist forum with hundreds of thousands of accounts. Members openly detailed their plans to infiltrate police precincts and federal agencies by having fellow Stormfronters already employed there vouch for them, with the goal of creating a network of supporters throughout the entire law enforcement apparatus to advance their supremacist agenda and sabotage any investigations into them. Looking at the news, it's not hard to imagine they succeeded.
Fucking Stormfront. What an absolute abomination. I haven’t thought about them for years…
Sometime probably around the turn of the century I was emailed a link to like a Q & A or advice section on the site.
This nazi had to learn a second language and wanted to know where people drew the line as acceptable foreign languages.
Some said English only… but that Danish, German, Polish, Russian etc were kinda acceptable. Spanish, Italian, French etc was shaky ground and best avoided. Anything outside of Europe you might as well kill yourself before we do. That was the gist of the answers.
It was hilarious, terrifying and pitiful in equal measures…
so...never?
just because they weren't old boomers doesn't mean the nazi 14 yr olds were somehow not conservatives. If you could find any of the old longbeards from early unix forums and asked them their opinions on minorities I'm sure you'd get fun responses. They were always here, the difference is that they didn't feel legitimized.
“We aren’t really being persecuted, but imagine we were? Wow, that feels bad. That bad feeling justifies anything we want to do.”
The conservative thought process in a nutshell.
"I hate the smell of coffee. Let's go to a coffee shop and demand it smell good TO ME" is the one I grew up with
If they censor your opponents, then they censor you next.
Or if you are AdmiralPatrick you censor the word censor
Or just think back to the mid-90s Internet, when conservatives still had 12:00 blinking on their VCRs.
That's not entirely fair. I know a dude who was a tech for the US army and is conservative. Dipshit told me he voted for Trump 4 times in 2016, which is the last time we spoke. It was an, uh, interesting conversation
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fascist*
conservative are christian democrats (in the US a close equivalent would be Rockefeller Reps), à la Charlie Baker. Those are the real Reps. Trumpists and the like are RINOs.
a conservative is interested in keeping things as is, stable, favouring democracy (even if imperfect). They prefer to avoid a perceived 'haste' in change, but do not outright oppose it.
a fascist opposes both; they above all break down labour rights and align with the reactionary, irresponsible bourgeoise, rather than the proletariat whose labour they employ. Fascism favours the radical change into militarism to enforce its will, rather than building bridges through dialogue.
Love how this myth keeps being repeated
The dems in America are a lot closer to what conservatism classically is than republicans have been in over 50 years.
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a conservative is interested in keeping things as is, stable, favouring democracy (even if imperfect).
This has never been the case. People calling themselves conservatives have always been all about tearing down existing systems in order to magically replace them with a fever dream about how it was "in the good old days". Conservatism has always been a destructive and dangerous ideology.
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I love how billionaires act like they’re arguing on behalf of the people they fleece, like they’re all in it together. It’s like a game of Lemmings. The ruling class leads them with rage bait and lies, and then walks them off a cliff when they’re done with them.
Working class people that think they’re in the big money club is as sad as it gets.
Yep. Well put.
Reminds also of the tactic of tacking totalitarianwards/tyrannywards, where identification on economics, or inconsequential cultural identifications, are played against each other, each professing to be the freedom side, and proclaiming the other the authoritarian side, while really the two sides both professing and proclaiming the other way, are in cahoots, and the sides they present, keep those identifying with the sides, fighting each other. Like the more libertarian left hoodwinked by the authoritarian left telling the libertarian left that the authoritarian left are just like them, the libertarian left, and that all the right are the authoritarians to fear. And the same on the other side, the authoritarian right telling the more libertarian right that the authoritarian right are just like them, the libertarian right, and that [classic Mc'Carthian redscare con here:] the left are all the authoritarians to fear. And then to hide this, placations are loudly given, each side, ((at least) professing to) return a freedom, "personal" or "economic", depending on which side, while simultaneously quietly taking away two freedoms of the other ilk. The other side repeats this. Cons their side that they care, and are the strongman saviour you need to protect you against the other side's rampant scary authoritarianism. Back and forth it goes, tacking to totalitarianism and tyranny, for so long as we keep falling for it, keep identifying with these 1-bit binary groujpthink identifications of "left" and "right" with ignorance of the con. I say, lets stop falling for it.
"You and I are not in the big club." -- George Carlin.
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The internet has become so much less angry in the last few days since I rigorously block everyone arguing in bad faith, reich-wingers and lemmy.ml
How would I know who I'm supposed to hate?
Easy. You'd just carry on hating anyone who points out your book already insists you "love the sinner, hate the sin". World view intact. Just anyone who tries to offer you logic.
Anyone different than yourself, duh. Conservatism isn't difficult.
Imagine a world where the people were smart enough to not put conservative content out into the world
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