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see: George Carlin - Stupid people

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Basically left wing progressives are inherently anti-male and anti-white male and social media helps amplify and push these beliefs far and wide because left wing progressives and women are supplying them with easy content

You're describing the liberal wing of the U.S. Democratic Party. A "left-wing progressive" would be someone like Bernie Sanders.

Have a look at this:

Factions in the Democratic Party (United States)

I'm not the person you asked, but his 2019 Bernie Sanders interview was really good.

Thanks, good to know you have a similar group over there.

By the way, the two I had previously mentioned have been condemned by the head of the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League:

In November 2023, the Anti-Defamation League classified protest events led by groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow as "anti-Israel", adding the protests to a database documenting rising antisemitism in the US. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt labelled the organizations "hate groups".

To say this characterization is inaccurate would be an understatement.

Zionists pretend to speak on behalf of all Jews, but never have

For what it's worth, here are two notable U.S.-based Jewish peace groups:

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/

Ralph Babet, United Australia Party's senator for posting on social media, was first to leap into action, demanding the band be deported:

I call on the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to join me in denouncing Tenacious D, Jack Black and band member Kyle Gass, and I call on the Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to revoke their visas and deport them immediately.

This is the same senator who in April refused to take down graphic footage of the attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel from his X account because: "Without free speech our nation will fall".

In the U.S., this kind of hypocrisy is so common that people apparently no longer notice it -- if they even did in the first place.

I don't mod any communities but I do put in the effort to curate my "All" feed and most of the users & communities I block come from those 2 instances. Toss hexbear on there and that’s almost 100%.

I specifically avoid all three of them as well, along with Beehaw.

That's weird. Someone else here in the comments section mentioned downvote bots, so it might be that (?)

It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy

I've noticed this with the two largest Lemmy instances -- .ml and .world.

it's still mildly-infuriating to see obviously innocuous/irreverent posts/comments being dogpiled

I think early downvoters are just trying to induce others to follow them because they're assholes and have nothing better to do. Unfortunately, it's pretty common with both Reddit and Lemmy.

Things were great when I first joined Lemmy a year ago -- it truly felt like a community -- but then unfortunately some of the same toxic Reddit-like behavior started to creep in.

I've since learned that if I avoid the two largest Lemmy instances, plus some of the more sketchy ones like Beehaw and Hexbear, for the most part it's good.