• Anchorite@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    First weekend on Lemmy and I’m loving it.

    I’m noticing a very strong hard-left bent though, which suits me just fine, but it’s interesting to see how progressive this space is

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        I disagree. Too many people take one side or the other, take for granted that their side is 100% correct, and refuse to believe anyone could possibly be center.

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          If one side says that I should be imprisoned or dead for existing, and the other says I should live not in prison or not dead, I choose life

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            Yes, but also not every issue is that.

            Granted, I think center vs left is where meaningful policy conversation is happening… left vs right or center vs right is normally just painful

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              Center will gladly consolidate power with right if it conforms with their interests, they more frequently will make coalition with the right before they ever even communicate with the left Center has and will gladly overlook slavery if it conforms with their interests Center has always been complicit with overlooking genocide if they ‘don’t have skin in the game’ Center is LITERALLY THE REASON why Hitler was elected, the Weimar Republic was vaguely modern center and STILL VOTED HIM IN

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                Super important insight. Compromising on something that’s insane with 1/2 insane is not a choice at all, really, and is just plain unacceptable still.

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                When I wrote that I was internally mapping center to mainstream Democrats.

                I think you’re putting that more at like Joe Manchin.

                Still… in either case I think you’re out of your mind if you think anyone, except for the very furthest right white nationals, is willing to overlook slavery itself in 2023.

                The comparison of “Center” as an abstract thing you’re tying to Hitler honestly comes off as unhinged.

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                  Democrats are socially center-left and economically center-right If there is a conflict with a social topic and an economic one, they will USUALLY FAVOR the economic one

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            Assuming everybody who votes differently from you or is in the opposing party is exactly the same is just as harmful as taking for granted that everything everybody on your side does or says is 100% correct. This binary view of politics has been exacerbated by social media, and it is doing a lot of harm. Both sides are basically at the point where they’re convinced that the other side wants them dead. It’s fucking crazy.

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              I dunno if you have payed attention to politics recently but “we need to exterminate the trans agenda and the people who spread it” ain’t exactly anyone misconstruing what those people have been saying

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                  I’m not sure you know this, but housing is a NEED, and making it a tradable commodity that is affected by market trends tends to harm more people than it serves

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                    You’re right, I guess we should also murder shop owners, pharmacy owners, clothing production owners, prostitutes, even councils who charge for toilet usage, self-help gurus, artists… All people who provide needs that are affected by market trends.

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                1 year ago

                First of all, not every conservative is a Trump supporter. Second, there are a number of loud liberals on TikTok who have said things like “cis people need to delete themselves.” It goes both ways.

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                  Loud liberals on TikTok are not elected officials

                  There are 496 bills that are introduced to state legislatures all the way to passed in the united states, spanning every state

                  Loud liberals are saying illogical, irrational things loudly on a social media app

                  13 states have laws that specify trans people being murdered is not a crime if the murderer thought they were cis

                  People not in power in any part of the 3 branches of government said something mean

                  In a majority of states, trans individuals can be removed from/denied employment, housing, state assistance, medical care, or virtually anything involving a contract

                  Just because some people were mean in your direction does not mean that they have any meaningful power, and the people being handwaved off that actually have political power are actually doing the things that people are saying they’re doing

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                    Ooh, big text!

                    Elected Democrat officials in many states shut down small businesses, while declaring big corporations like Walmart and Amazon “essential”

                    Elected Democrat officials caused people to die of non-covid causes by denying them access to things like Alcoholics Anonymous and other programs to sober up.

                    Elected Democrat officials hurt development of children with lockdowns lasting more than a year.

                    Elected Democrats granted exceptions to the covid restrictions of 2020 and 2021 to protests they agreed with while demanding that small businesses and parks stay closed for “social distancing.”

                    Elected officials printed a shit ton of money to bail corporations out for covid and then act like they have no clue why inflation is so bad.

                    Elected officials put thousands of my unionized brothers and sisters out of work with executive orders.

                    Elected officials caused domestic violence to skyrocket, mental health to decline, and now they’re talking about more lockdowns after promising that anyone getting the vaccines would not spread the virus.

                    Elected Democrats can’t even be bothered to codify things like abortion and gay marriage, but it’s always someone else’s fault, fodder for the next election cycle.

                    My point is, neither side actually gives a shit. I agree with most of what you’re saying about Republicans, but Democrats just do not give a shit either. They just play the blame game. Nothing will get done because all of these politicians are laughing their way to the bank while everybody else bickers.

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            That is an unbelieveably black and white way to look at things, and doesn’t represent the real world at all.

            The right wing equivalent would be; “One side wants me to have freedom to choose for myself, while the other wants to abort me before I’m even born.”

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              It always amazes me the extent to which people with such absurd reductionist hyperbole seem intentionally unaware of the extent to which there’s an exact mirror of oversimplification on the other side.

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                Absolutely. And if you agree with things from both… “sides”? then you’re a filthy CENTRIST who believes the worst things from both sides and deserve the gallows.

                Why can’t my queer ass think guns are awesome like c’mon

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                  Why can’t my queer ass think guns are awesome like c’mon

                  This exact combination has begun to break brains over here in such a manner as to be exactly like the old r/Politics that made r/liberalgunowners so lovely.

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                    I just want every gun ever because holy shit they’re cool

                    but also there’s soooooo many people who should be B& from GUN forever

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        People behave in normal distributions. By definition vast majority of people are in the centre. The extremists (outliers) scream the loudest and warp an observer’s perception but the actual population is still a normal distribution.

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          This was before my political consciousness, but I feel like 1992 has an argument, but maybe that was just because of Perot…

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      Communists built the platform, and far left spaces fled here years before the rest of us, after Reddit banned some leftist subs.

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      The Politics@ communities seem to be doing their best to bring that back to the right, but yes, outside of that it’s leftist to a lovely degree.

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      Lemmy devs were tankies and one of the first popular instances was lemmy.ml. Lemmy is straight left for sure.

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      One of my favourite things about reddit was that I could sort by controversial, and would often find a reasonable take explaining the view of the opposing side. Even when I don’t agree with it, I still want to hear it, and what I often found the case to be is that I didn’t quite agree with either sides and (unsurprisingly) the thruth is somewhere on the middle.

      On Lemmy this often is not the case and I pretty much only hear one side of the argument and not many bothers to write a reasonable take arguing against the apparent view of the masses because it’ll just receive downvotes and bad faith counter-arguments. The extreme left is just as unreasonable as the extreme right and it’s often the majority in the middle who simply stays silent. There seems to be almost no space for nuance and complexity.