DougPiranha42Mar 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?

Show threadDarkFutureMar 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.

Show threadPapaSkwatMar 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.

Show threadgwl [he/him]Mar 20
Paradox of Tolerance my dude
Show threadPapaSkwatMar 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.

Show threadTronBronsonMar 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.

Show threadPapaSkwatMar 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

Show threadTronBronsonMar 21
If January 6th wasn’t enough to rethink your party members, then you chose a side, and you’re with the traitors and oath breakers.
Show threadPapaSkwat
I’m not republican or conservative tho. So that has nothing to do with me.
Mar 22 at 3:25pmWeb
Show threadTronBronsonMar 23
No you’re just an ostrich with his head in the sand and a couple of nazis in your immediate social group 🤣
Show threadPapaSkwatMar 24
My head isn’t in the sand, I have have no nazis in my social circle. thx.
Show threadTronBronsonMar 25
Yea for sure because you’re a bot. You don’t have a social circle, you have a hallucination of a popular wall poster from 20 years ago.
Show threadPapaSkwatMar 25

So if i was a bot, how would I be responding to your posts? And if I were a bot, then why would you point out that I have no social circle? Because as a bot, there is no such thing as a social circle.

Nah, you know I’m not a bot. You just thought that’d be a fun insult because I made you touchy and you’re upset that some people on Lemmy actually have social circles and friends.

Hey, next why don’t you use “bootlicker” which is Lemmy’s 4th fav insult. Go on, do it!!! lol

But hey, you stay mad, bro. It’s really been helping your life, right? lol

Show threadTronBronsonMar 27
Idk bro what is a ChatGPT and an API. What’s a Bot net. What’s any kind of technological advancement thats happened in the last 20 years? You’re right you’re not a bot because they surpassed you in intelligence like 10 generations ago.
Show threadPapaSkwatMar 28

So you admitted you were wrong. Good job. Of course, you knew I wasn’t a bot. But you thought you would get me mad or something.

Still super funny that you think calling me a bot would insult me, and now you think that saying a bot is smarter than me would hurt my feelings. lmao

How old are you that you think insults from some lonely rando online would actually offend me? When’s the last time you even went out side and talked to a real person?! lmao

But hey, stay mad, bro. How’s that been working out for ya? lolololol