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People who think Lemmy is too political and refuse to join is good. (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by queue@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/140vbey/launching_rlemmymigration_what_communities_have/jmxnzsh/?context=1

Look at here and the people who complain about it being too hard to figure out are the ones complaining about "I can't use muh slurs, this is awful."

"The left of today is very much in favour of censorship to avoid “harm.” This makes those of us in the middle very wary of signing up to any partisan media." /u/decidedlysticky23

/u/misshapensteed claims he isn't far right, but explictly only posts on PoliticalCompassMemes and TheLeftCantMeme and KotakuInAction.

If they are too stupid to figure out we know they're lying, they're too stupid to figure out lemmy.

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[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

While I generally agree with the sentiment that people who do not care about politics because it does not affect them are sometimes bad people. I think it's also worth noting that apathy towards politics can be born out of ignorance and not malice. To that degree, we need to inform and make people around us conscious of issues.

PS : I'm not saying that people should be forced to take on that role as it can be very draining but to some degree, it is the only way for people to change and I believe it is worthwhile to do.

PPS : I'm also not saying that this means we should invite intolerant people to change their minds or anything like that.

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah, I told a guy today his hate of communism was totally his own prerogative, but he might want to put it aside to make a unified front against the impending Reddit changes. He flipped out on me and called me some choice words. Just another day on Reddit I guess.

[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, perhaps you needed a translator to put things in terms this particular individual could understand. Let me help:

Woke woke WOKE wOke, woke wOKe WOKE!!!! 😡

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[–] mainfrog@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Would Lemmy embrace or allow /r/2ALiberals ? This is a topic I’ve been curious about.

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If someone wanted to do that they could spin up a server or find a friendly server and create the community. So definitely allowed.

I can't really speak to whether it would be embraced because I'm too new to know, but assuming a critical mass of people move here I would assume so.

[–] mainfrog@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m curious if it would be federated or not. Plenty of firearm owners in the US are not conservative or right leaning. They often don’t have good communities to participate in for firearms related content because of that.

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, I'm well aware. I'm lightly left leaning with a few running around because I hunt. I'd probably join to look, but I'm not big on participating in that kind of community because it's such a small hobby for me compared to the other million hobbies I have.

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[–] Ado@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Good reverse riddance

[–] rootinit@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I think Lemmy is too political, but still joined a long time ago. Things can improve with time. We're seeing this happen now.

[–] balerion@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

People like that guy either don't realize that choosing to allow slurs is also a political decision, or they do realize it and are simply cynical. I'm honestly not sure which.

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