Are there any good leftist instances?
Dork fucking named them already lmao
Fleabitten colonizer yapping, with some of our friends from sh.itsfulla.nazis, kbin.stormfront, and lemm.eglin. Seriously, it’s like the same four or five feds that can be counted on to to throatjob the entire settler boot, leather polish and all, every single time.
I am thinking about actually making note of the accounts that constantly say this sort of stuff, just to see if it is the same half dozen or so who flock to every mention of lemmygrad just to poison the well.
Do it. I’m certain the results will be illuminating.
Not entirely but yeah, i recognize few nicknames popping up over and over in such threads. Also there is probably shitton of sockpuppets on many lib instances used exactly for that.
One of the biggest reasons it took me so long to make the jump from reddit to lemmy was because there isn’t any RES/RPT analogue for lemmy so it’s harder to tell who the nazi trolls are. The only reason I did is because the reddit API changes made RES/RPT unusable.
(Reddit Enhancement Suite gives you the ability to tag users while Reddit Pro Tools allows you to automatically scan their post history)
I won’t go back to Reddit without RES; even if the only hubs for my hobbies and the games I still play are over there
My predictions before diving in:
“They hate left unity”
“They are fake leftists/pretending to be leftist”
“AUTHORITARIANS!”
“They’re all rude assholes”
“They’re all condescending”
“They support those evil regimes!”
“They give the left a bad name!”
“They’re pro violence”
“They’re secretly right wing”
“Secretly nazis/they’re anti-semitic”
“They hate trans/LGBTQ people”
Bonus round:
Reddit style “Umm acktually” speech patterns.
Post toe-dip EDIT:
I was waaaaaay off.
I forgot:
“They’re all toxic” (Though this could be “rude assholes” I guess)
“They’re crazy marxist cultists! Gommunism is religion!”
Tautological nonsense about them being unpopular because they are unpopular.
“They refused to tolerate my debatebro “Entertain my hypothetical nonsense where my argument makes sense!””
And of course a “Suppose a hypothetical where they bad.” See; they bad.
I give myself maybe half a point, really sorry showing, I’ll have to try harder next time.
“They refused to tolerate my debatebro “Entertain my hypothetical nonsense where my argument makes sense!””
Their whole style is more like "entertain my hypothetical nonsense that ONLY makes sense if the only perspectives you’ve EVER listened to or taken seriously are Amerikan, not realizing these perspectives are pretty reliably fucking wrong." I’ve never felt so vindicated in refusing to humor colonizer hypotheticals. These shitbags don’t deserve debate until they can be trusted to be housebroken humans, rather than slavering genocidal barbarians.
Entertain my hypothetical nonsense where my argument makes sense!
"Bro, imagine this world where, like, we all like were business owners and we all had mushroom hats, and everybody like didn’t pay taxes and the Martians came and gave us advanced technology, and like the USSR had never happened and there was no war, and I come out and tweet something using my Constitutional Right to Free Speech, and people who worshipped the Flying Spaghetti Monster tried to stop me because they had a religious belief that petting dogs was wrong, and I wasn’t allowed to stop them because the Flying Spaghetti Synod had ruled that owning guns was wrong…
… would age of consent laws still be valid?"
My blood pressure can’t handle actually looking at the thread, at least not today, but I am pretty confident that your post summed up everything I would see.
Surprisingly little of what I guessed was in there though. Maybe it just needs a few more hours in the oven and we’ll get a full lib bingo.
It’s not really that bad tbh
It def started that way; but a bunch of comments have already been removed-- which admittedly, it feels like lemmy.ml’s staff has been a lot more proactive about turfing out the shitters lately; so hey-- maybe I was a smidge too harsh on nutomic. Who knows.
They were lax for awhile but then once the place started getting filled with genocide justification for [geopolitical event] they cleared house.
for [geopolitical event]
It really is just any generic geopolitical event, isn’t it. Doesn’t take much.
You forgot “They’re ebil redfash tankies!!1111!!!111one1”
you forgot “they called me a fascist without reason!”, which already happened
I mean, I’m kind of a rude asshole (to libs) so that much checks out.
“They give the left a bad name!”
And they’re ‘as far left as one can be’ while still being palatable to the local ‘left’ party, like the Dems. As if their name isn’t already carved into a fossilized turd in a museum, complete with worms and all.
Anyone i ever read who claimed they are “as far left as one can be” was always center right.
There is a specter haunting the lemmy
