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Eh, I agree with you, but Lemmy is it's own special flavor of echo chamber. In the real world I'm super leftist, but on Lemmy I'm somehow the voice of conservatism. Lemmy needs some additional feedback because most everyone is saying the same thing as everyone else without any contrary opinion.
It's entirely possible you're not as leftist as you think you are, but there's also a number of tankies around here.
most likely a right winger pretending to be a leftist. it always starts with "im a leftist, but,,,
True but there are a lot of like full tilt anarchists and, I guess I'd call them soviet flavored "communists" here as compared to like reddit. But mostly a lot of people just don't really know what constitutes left or right wing.
You might be right, my statements come from a US frame of reference. In the total spectrum I'm probably fairly centrist while in nonUS perspectives, but in US perspectives I'm moderate heavily leaning left. At the end of the day I still believe in a democracy which still leaves openings for conservatives. I'm not a true socialist in leftist European environs.
Then yeah, center-left at best.
US politics isn't the real world. If anything it's more of an echo chamber than Lemmy. Because the working class really isn't represented at all and it's just the oligarchs arguing with each other from the center and the far right.
And surprise, you are outside the capitalist bubble. On a federated platform now hearing the actual opinions of working-class people, not the opinions of Democrats. Or their echoes from your liberal countrymen.
And leftist argue so much we have jokes about it, and how we can't get anything done in spite of the fact that solidarity is one of our guiding principles. I am a far leftist. I'm anti authoritarian to my core. There are also authoritarian leftists, people who get called tankies around here a lot. Apologists for Stalin and Mao.
Just because you've been living in a propaganda bubble, ie an echo chamber your whole life, that does not make things outside that bubble an echo chamber.