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DougPiranha42 Mar 20

What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

https://lemmy.world/post/44496431

What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people? - Lemmy.World

I came here a few weeks ago after many years of reddit. Altogether I find discussions I enjoy, however, the posts and comments noticeably lean, well, tankie (I didn’t know that term before I came here). It’s not that I am looking for an echo chamber, but I also don’t want to spend my time reading propaganda. I’m really curious about a lot of things outside politics, as well as the opinions and arguments of reasonable people across the political spectrum, but I don’t want to listen to the boring canned lies of fascists and tankies. I realized that people celebrating communist dictators trigger me, and this is something I didn’t have to deal with before I started reading lemmy, I didn’t even know this type existed. I also notice that accounts created just a few hours in advance come from other instances to brigade political posts. Because of how lemmy works, I can block individual users or communities, but not individual instances. Is there an instance that could be a “safe space” from this kind of brigading and tankie spam? Or a way to use the internet to read interesting things now that blogs died and then Reddit became whatever it became?

DarkFuture Mar 20

I largely use Lemmy because it doesn’t tolerate conservatives.

It’s 2026. There is no such thing as a moderate conservative. They don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. They don’t deserve yet another platform to argue in bad faith on. They’ve gone too far. Every platform they touch turns into a cesspool of bigotry and garbage opinions they think should be taken seriously or they play victim.

I don’t want them on Lemmy.

PapaSkwat Mar 20

I don’t want them on Lemmy.

Lemmy is open to anyone though. Excluding someone based on what they believe slides into the very fascism that many on Lemmy proclaim to be against. Intolerance is never a good thing, regardles of what your political outlook is.

gwl [he/him]Mar 20

Paradox of Tolerance my dude

PapaSkwat Mar 20

Life, and people, aren’t as bad as Lemmy wants them to be. Many on Lemmy just doomscroll and revel in the fantasy of the earth being doomed and destroyed.

I refuse to live my life like that. I’ll live my life filled with joy, helping people out, knowing my neighbors, and loving others. So there is not Paradox of Tolerance in my life.

TronBronson Mar 21

I don’t know I had a dude wake me up at 5 AM every morning for 18 months so he could parade his loud truck and his Maga flag down the street. For me, the paradox of tolerance was broken when the police wouldn’t stop him from breaking the law every day.

You guys let your extremist run wild and terrorize society for the last six years. You have no moderate views you have no moderate inclinations. You have no conservative values. It hits pure regressive politics and hate mongering. The only thing you conserve is hierarchy and perverse incentives.

PapaSkwat Mar 21

Please explain “you guys.”

I’m not republican. I didn’t “let” anyone run anything. The US voted, and Trump won. And next election people have the option to vote someone else in.

Are you assuming I’m republican just because I said not all republicans are bad?! Dude, come on…think about that. Fucking Lemmy, man… lol

TronBronson Mar 21

The paradox of tolerance is real, it has been broken. They wanted to genocide me after Charlie Kirk died because I made meme. Millions of people used their voices to call for violence against the left. Like left of hitler basically.

So yes you have chosen a side. You turn a blind eye to the horrors unfolding across your country and pretend like people are innocent actors. Keep ignoring the calls for violence, I suppose if you don’t feel included in them, then they can’t hurt you 🤣

They wanted to genocide me after Charlie Kirk died because I made meme.

No they didn’t. Also, how about not make a joke of someone being murdered. Never cool. Never funny.

Keep ignoring the calls for violence, I suppose if you don’t feel included in them, then they can’t hurt you

I see much more calls for violence on Lemmy than anywhere else. I refuse to give in to the negativity and extremism of Lemmy. I choose to fill my life with love, laughter, friends, and understanding.

TronBronson Mar 23

PapaSkwat Mar 24

This has nothing to do with me. I see plenty of call for violence on Lemmly too.

I refuse to give in to the negativity and extremism of Lemmy. I choose to fill my life with love, laughter, friends, and understanding.

TronBronson Mar 23

PapaSkwat Mar 24

This has nothing to do with me.

TronBronson Mar 25

I never said it did. Just pointing out the calls of violence which you had requested evidence of. You sound like a bot or a wall poster. The negativity on Lemmy is called the real world. people come here to discuss things, and the overwhelming negativity is a reflection of reality.

PapaSkwat Mar 25

I don’t know know what a wall poster is.

The negativity on Lemmy is not the real world. Not even close.

In fact, that’s why you are all are pissed. You are pissed that most people just don’t give a shit and they are not nearly as bothered by everything as you are.

You get more and more angry as you look around and think, “Why are people letting this happen?! How come there isn’t a revolution?!”

There will be no revolution. Lemmy has about 1.366 million registered users worldwide (with monthly active users way lower, around 48,000–50,000). That’s less than 0.0004% of the US population of roughly 343 million.

You stay mad, the rest of us keep going to starbucks in our SUVS, picking our kids up from school, going to yoga class, chilling at the park, and happily ignoring you and ragebait news.

I’m having a great time and life is fun. You should try it! But hey, if you think I’m a bot, then no worries. Right?

TronBronson Mar 26

Ignoring the negativity means you are helpless when it comes to making improvements on your self or your community. That must be pretty isolating having to deal with real people in the real world.

PapaSkwat Mar 27

Except that you are missing the point. Most people in the real world aren’t taking it as seriously as you and the rest of Lemmy. We don’t care. Your revolution won’t happen. Just accept it. My life doesn’t revolve and being mad and political like yours does. Go outside, dude.

TronBronson Mar 27

I don’t really have a revolution in mind. I just want my constitution upheld. I want laws to be enforced, just those basic fundamental fabrics of society. I think you got me mistake with the communists. I’m just rooting for them in case they do a French Revolution with the former middle class. I’d love to see some house cleaning but I’m not talking about a revolution. I’m just saying if you think taking school lunches and giving them to private jet owners is an okay use of government resources, you’re probably a hypocrite with all the live laugh love shit.

PapaSkwat Mar 28

Cool. Weekend is here tho, so I’m going camping w my gf and kids, and going to an awesome state park. Then on Sunday, my neighborhood is having a block party bbq, and pool party at a few houses.

So good luck with whatever it is you do on the weekends. I won’t be thinking of politics or Lemmy at all. :)

TronBronson Mar 23

We all got receipts bro. You and got no understanding. Your friends are fake and convenience based, idk what you got to laugh about besides this comically childish worldview. I hope your momma loves you cause I doubt that emotion extends very far in your life. You clearly got a lot of time to chitchat with me about nonsense.

PapaSkwat Mar 24

I refuse to give in to the negativity and extremism of Lemmy. I choose to fill my life with love, laughter, friends, and understanding. thx

TronBronson Mar 23

Do you think that they left any room for interpretation in those Internet posts there? Or does that pretty much read like we should kill leftists as a violent reaction to our golden calf milking blood

PapaSkwat Mar 24

I refuse to give in to the negativity and extremism of Lemmy. I choose to fill my life with love, laughter, friends, and understanding.