kucuvaAug 28, 2023

Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics.

https://lemmy.world/post/4025605

Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics. - Lemmy.world

I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

Show threadatomicfox
And Lemmy isn’t an echo chamber? Try posting any conservative opinions around here and see how many downvotes you get.
Aug 29, 2023 at 2:11amWeb
Show threadcontextual_somebodyAug 29, 2023
I don’t know if that’s fair. Contemporary “conservatism” is pretty indefensible.
Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023
How so?
Show threadFlying SquidAug 29, 2023
Let’s start to the Florida curriculum telling kids the good things about slavery and move on to objecting to giving schoolchildren free school lunches. Then there’s the encouraging suicides of trans kids by taking away the one thing preventing that suicide. I can keep going if you like.
Show threadcontextual_somebodyAug 29, 2023

They have destroyed social programs and the middle class. Tax cuts for the rich drove up enormous, insurmountable debt. The war on drugs. There were no WMD’s in Iraq. Guns take precedence over kids. They are vastly overrepresented in government as a result of voter suppression and gerrymandering. They refused to let Democratic presidents appoint Supreme Court judges. They don’t mind stealing migrant kids from their parents and hiding razor wire in the Rio Grande. They support xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny…

A bunch of spoiled babies who won’t accept that their dumbass, tub-of-lard dipshit president lost decided to overthrow the government. They support Putin…

Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023

Let’s start to the Florida curriculum telling kids the good things about slavery

That’s misinformation

Then there’s the encouraging suicides of trans kids by taking away the one thing preventing that suicide

Most kids identifying as trans nowadays are not actually. There’s a strange Internet derived obsession with being trans, and it’s important to protect kids from permanent damage over a temporary phase.

Show threadcriitzAug 29, 2023
You just made all that up.
Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023
False
Show threadFlying SquidAug 29, 2023

That’s misinformation

It is not. I’ve read the text myself. You’re gaslighting.

Most kids identifying as trans nowadays are not actually. There’s a strange Internet derived obsession with being trans, and it’s important to protect kids from permanent damage over a temporary phase.

Bullshit. Cite your sources.

So, yes. Please come up with a real example

Sure, as soon as you cite your sources and stop gaslighting.

Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023

I’ve read the text myself.

Then quote it

Show threadFlying SquidAug 29, 2023

Sure thing:

slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit

Now cite your source.

Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023
That’s a factual statement
Show threadFlying SquidAug 29, 2023

No it isn’t. There is no benefit to a skill if you’re a slave. None.

Still waiting for that source…

Show threadcubedsteaksAug 29, 2023

Not that you’re gonna listen to me but… I grew up in Florida in the 90’s. It was racist then and it’s racist now.

It was homophobic then. And it’s homophobic now.

Did you know that there are people moving out of Florida in DROVES and moving all the way across the US to live in Oregon instead??

wweek.com/…/portland-is-unprepared-for-the-wave-o…

Portland Is Unprepared for the Wave of Transgender Kids Arriving Without Housing

For those young adults, Portland may not be the haven they had imagined, because resources are constrained.

Willamette Week
Show threadcontextual_somebodyAug 29, 2023

They have destroyed social programs and the middle class. Tax cuts for the rich drove up enormous, insurmountable debt. The war on drugs. There were no WMD’s in Iraq. Guns take precedence over kids. They are vastly overrepresented in government as a result of voter suppression and gerrymandering. They refused to let Democratic presidents appoint Supreme Court judges. They don’t mind stealing migrant kids from their parents and hiding razor wire in the Rio Grande. They support xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny…

A bunch of spoiled babies who won’t accept that their dumbass, tub-of-lard dipshit president lost decided to overthrow the government. They support Putin…

Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023
Lol all bullshit or bipartisan. Not too mention the typical bigotry of just broadly calling them all “xenophobic” and other typical prejudice
Show threadcontextual_somebodyAug 29, 2023
Lol “bigotry”. Conservatism isn’t an identity. Their policies are literally xenophobic.
Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023
False. The bigotry of the left has led to that misinformation spreading
Show threadDBTAug 29, 2023
That’s because all the dum-dums are still over there on Reddit. This place has brain cells and it’s awesome.
Show threadRentlarAug 29, 2023
It’s nice because you can talk to people, be heard, and be able to listen back. Of course I don’t agree with everybody all the time, but in some communities it’s cool to learn something you didn’t know before.
Show threadJimboAug 29, 2023
Uh yeah, people around here don’t tend to accept bigotry. Anybody who espouses racism/homophobia can get out. Which happens to be most conservatives. It’s not about being a conservative. It’s about being a piece of human shit.
Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023
Nice bigoted comment proving his point!
Show threadCatfish [she/her]Aug 29, 2023
shut up loser
Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023
Another one!
Show threadCatfish [she/her]Aug 29, 2023
I’m not going to pretend that your anti-social values have merit just because you think they do. Even putting on the veil of politeness is too much validation for your childish ideas.
Show threadbbmbAug 29, 2023

Not all conservatives or right-leaning people are racist homophobic douchebags, though. I know quite a few that have a right-leaning non-discriminatory worldview, mainly economic.

Admittedly, as much as I'm preferring the fediverse, it is definitely an echo chamber, Lemmy included.

Show threadFlying SquidAug 29, 2023
But they still vote for homophobic bigots. If you sit at a dinner table with Nazis, what does that make you?
Show threadQueen HawlSeraAug 29, 2023
To be fair, the GOP has shifted so far Right, that conservative opinions nowadays are less “We need to be more fiscally responsible and try solutions outside of throwing money at problems.” and more “So lemme tell you which minorities don’t deserve rights and the specific reasons why they don’t.”
Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023

. “So lemme tell you which minorities don’t deserve rights and the specific reasons why they don’t.”

Bullshit. Just more of the hateful bigotry of the left than has divided things so greatly. You won’t even engage, just mock an increasingly non existent strawmen

Show threadexplodicleAug 29, 2023
I’m glad you’re better than this, but sadly it’s not a straw man.
Show threadfreeindvAug 29, 2023
Lol I bet you refer to black people as “criminals” too
Show threadexplodicleAug 29, 2023
Why?
Show threadQueen HawlSeraAug 29, 2023
Huh this post got my dogs barking…
Show threadmindbleachAug 29, 2023

Trans people in red states say you’re full of shit.

And your comment history reveals you as a lying fascist.

Show threadRilichuAug 29, 2023
I guess my Florida based insurance provider dropping coverage for my HRT is “just a strawman” turns out
Show threadmindbleachAug 29, 2023

‘My private anecdote disproves targeted state action!’

Jog on.

Show threadRilichuAug 29, 2023
Asking if I misword something? I’m saying insurance companies are being actively complicit on this ongoing fascist movement by denying trans people coverage to HRT.
Show threadWidowmaker_Best_GirlAug 30, 2023
Yup, based on the replies you got they’re proving your comment Lemmy absolutely sucks when it comes to political circlejerk.
Show threaduisAug 30, 2023

Here’s conservative opinion for you: we should go back in how schools work because the less beaurocracy teachers deal with - the better they teach students. Also revert wage inequaloty where director eats-up half of entire budget. Go back to how it was in USSR.

Oh, you thought there is only one conservative opinion?