I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

And Lemmy isn't an echo chamber? Try posting any conservative opinions around here and see how many downvotes you get.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don’t know if that’s fair. Contemporary “conservatism” is pretty indefensible.

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    Let's start to the Florida curriculum telling kids the good things about slavery and move on to objecting to giving schoolchildren free school lunches. Then there's the encouraging suicides of trans kids by taking away the one thing preventing that suicide. I can keep going if you like.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s misinformation

    It is not. I've read the text myself. You're gaslighting.

    Most kids identifying as trans nowadays are not actually. There’s a strange Internet derived obsession with being trans, and it’s important to protect kids from permanent damage over a temporary phase.

    Bullshit. Cite your sources.

    So, yes. Please come up with a real example

    Sure, as soon as you cite your sources and stop gaslighting.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've read the text myself.

    Then quote it

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Sure thing:

    slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit

    Now cite your source.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Not that you're gonna listen to me but.... I grew up in Florida in the 90's. It was racist then and it's racist now.

    It was homophobic then. And it's homophobic now.

    Did you know that there are people moving out of Florida in DROVES and moving all the way across the US to live in Oregon instead??

    https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/07/05/portland-is-unprepared-for-the-wave-of-transgender-kids-arriving-without-housing/

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    They have destroyed social programs and the middle class. Tax cuts for the rich drove up enormous, insurmountable debt. The war on drugs. There were no WMD’s in Iraq. Guns take precedence over kids. Due to voter suppression and gerrymandering, they are vastly overrepresented in government. They refused to let Democratic presidents appoint Supreme Court judges. They are okay with stealing migrant kids from their parents and hiding razor wire in the Rio Grande. They are broadly xenophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic. They support Putin…

    And a bunch of “fuck your feelings” spoiled adult babies who can’t accept that their dumbass, tub-of-lard dipshit president lost tried to overthrow the government.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol all bullshit or bipartisan. Not too mention the typical bigotry of just broadly calling them all "xenophobic" and other typical prejudice

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    To be fair, the GOP has shifted so far Right, that conservative opinions nowadays are less "We need to be more fiscally responsible and try solutions outside of throwing money at problems." and more "So lemme tell you which minorities don't deserve rights and the specific reasons why they don't... the short version is it's all of them.. except my asian wife and my black friend... for now.."

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    . "So lemme tell you which minorities don't deserve rights and the specific reasons why they don't."

    Bullshit. Just more of the hateful bigotry of the left than has divided things so greatly. You won't even engage, just mock an increasingly non existent strawmen

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Trans people in red states say you're full of shit.

    And your comment history reveals you as a lying fascist.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I guess my Florida based insurance provider dropping coverage for my HRT is "just a strawman" turns out

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I'm glad you're better than this, but sadly it's not a straw man.

    Edit: I think this is what they're referring to

    There's a strange Internet derived obsession with being trans, and it's important to protect kids from permanent damage over a temporary phase.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s because all the dum-dums are still over there on Reddit. This place has brain cells and it’s awesome.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It's nice because you can talk to people, be heard, and be able to listen back. Of course I don't agree with everybody all the time, but in some communities it's cool to learn something you didn't know before.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Here's conservative opinion for you: we should go back in how schools work because the less beaurocracy teachers deal with - the better they teach students. Also revert wage inequaloty where director eats-up half of entire budget. Go back to how it was in USSR.

    Oh, you thought there is only one conservative opinion?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Uh yeah, people around here don't tend to accept bigotry. Anybody who espouses racism/homophobia can get out. Which happens to be most conservatives. It's not about being a conservative. It's about being a piece of human shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Even as I'm on the more left end, I'd say not all conservatives or right-leaning people are racist homophobic bigots, though. If anything, I'd say a sizable portion have a right-leaning non-discriminatory worldview, mainly economic.

    Admittedly, as much as I'm preferring the fediverse, it is definitely an echo chamber, Lemmy included.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Lowering taxes for the rich and cutting social services does not tend to have good results.

    Right-leaning economics does not make sense to me at all, beyond the emotional hook of "government stealing your hard earned money to give to lazy poor people on welfare".

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nice bigoted comment proving his point!

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