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  1. Linux (Linux)

  2. FOSS or die

  3. Video content should have been text

  4. Not caring a LOT about privacy makes you a non-lemmy normie

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)
  • Every thread against people not strictly aligning with Leftist politics will be boiled down to: “There are three types of people: reasonable people who agree with me, crazy fascists on the other side, and lily-livered wimps who can’t pick a side (and are also secretly fascists who just won't admit it)!”

  • Anyone with passable writing skills will be downvoted because creating cogent arguments against them is hard, and heaven forbid anyone see a smart argument that doesn't align with your views perfectly.

  • In a similar vein, people will use the downvote as a "fuck you" button without commenting or adding any value to the conversation whatsoever.

(Edit: Yes, yes. You're all hilarious. I may not have a button to hit, but fuck you too.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this is written like a lily-livered wimp who is anti-woke and won't admit it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My liver may be flower-scented, but I tend to not paint situations in broad-stoke terms like "woke" that are used to dismiss valid arguments.

You can't disprove a label (especially a vague one that someone else applies to you), however you can very much disprove points.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That sounds like some of that woke socio-commu-liberalism to me.

/s for the oblivious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You summarised my feelings far more eloquently than I managed here yesterday.

Downvote for you!!

But seriously, lemmy feels like more of an echo chamber than reddit ever did to me (which is saying a lot), maybe that's because it's an echo chamber for views i don't agree with and reddit was more aligned to my thinking so I notice it more here, but dear god it's getting harder and harder to stick around.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, bud, ive got your right wing right here, despite not being right wing, an american, a frequent voter, or anything....I just apparently am to people so delusional they think a canadian style rational socialist is a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess everyone is on the right when you're on the absolute most extreme left.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well, no, I don't vote ndp because I'm anti union and anti gun control. I'm perhaps center right and want the national health care fixed, not privatized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're missing my point bud. Everything is hot compared to something at 0 kelvin.

Everyone is left compared to the most right wing person, everyone is right compared to the most left wing person. It's why people here often claim reddit is right leaning, despite it heavily favouring the left.

Being the most anything is rarely good, extremes prevent people seeing the other side way too often and very few subjects are 100% anything, most have nuance.

Just making a joke about why someone might accuse you of being a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Leftists famously don't have uniform views and bitterly disagree on important topics. Some leftists aren't reasonable in my opinion, with many non leftists having better reasoning behind their beliefs. Too many leftists are purity testing assholes, treating leftism with the same elitism that people on Lemmy treat using Linux. I hate elitism, even if you want to limit how big a community is. It's just an unpleasant attitude.