Ask Lemmy

It's a pretty dumb take to say MAGA people don't exist. I've literally sat next someone at a bar telling everyone around him Trump should be king. And I've had the unfortunate experience of seeing his MAGA fan base come into town rolling coal while waving their idiotic flags out the windows and hanging from their trucks on their way to one of his campaign stops. It's not an opinion, it just makes you look dumb.

I have not checked your mod log and I won’t because… I just don’t care (you’re a stranger anyway, lol). However, personally, I consider Lemmy a Reddit 2.0 but then more into technology.

You will get banned or blocked for the most random thing or having a slightly different opinion these days. The world has just become that divided.

That’s why I recommend to just block and avoid every political and news communities.

I didn't check but "dissenting opinions" can easily just be manipulative disinfo that will direct the least intellectually competent one way or another. No, takes that are close to reality are valid and useful, and attitudes that are prosocial and virtues are the only ones worth having, everything else is incomplete/trash.

Idk what you said in those online spaces, I didn't click the links, honestly, so don't think I'm coming for you personally. But two things are not the same just because they're in the same category (sure, poop IS edible but it's not the same as spaghetti bolognaise), and takes and attitudes aren't all worth the same, and I'd rather have a "closed community" of diverse righteous folks sharing things competently truthfully than have to share it with amoral beasts and the offensively mentally challenged.

Lmao MAGA skepticism is a pretty hot take ngl

exactly. called a troll for relating their real world experience and being told that it isn't real because the mod doesn't agree with it.

fwiw i totally relate to what they said. I have met plenty of dems and 'leftists' who are MAGA in private. People are not necessarily political honest, a lot of them express views that are socially expedient in mixed company, but if they feel 'safe' with you they will tell you what they really think. there is also this weird emphasis on MAGA witch hunting in many places/spaces, usually perpetuated by these very same people who are projecting. I've also been told I'm MAGA because i don't agree with some of the extremist leftist takes on society, or the identity politics that the Dems have become so focused on.

i've had my comments labeled as trolling for this very same reason. some mods/people just can't have an idea that challenge their over-simplified view of the world, so they ban it as trolling. A lot of mods seem to struggle with the concept that people lie and are two-faced... and tell you you are trolling if you acknowledge that... i wonder why?

trolling is also most a eye of the beholder thing. I've posted wikipedia links and been told I'm a troll for doing so. lol

That's a terrible modlog entry. I would have banned OP for transphobia and xenophobia.