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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even if that is true, it shouldn't bother you I think. You have to let people have their convictions. The alternative is The Ministry of Truth. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascists and red-Fascists have no place in discourse. In part because their engagement is never good-faith.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We are talking about developping open source software. To be clear, you're saying you disagree with using copyleft software written by people whose politics you disagree with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I would generally agree, but tolerance should not extend to the point of accepting genocide denial and defense of clear-cut authoritarianism. See here for the general concept.

Tankies make the (imo) correct assumption that the US (or the west in general) engages in imperialism and is responsible for a huge amount of problems in the world, in addition to general atrocities, but then somehow decide the everything and everyone that opposes the US is perfectly fine and does no wrong. It's baffeling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Regardless, the whole point of a platform like Lemmy is that it's creators have no control over it, by design.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure but look at some of the discussions in the US...they are also completely convinced that the US is the best country in the world.

It's something with certain human beings it seems, that makes them want to join a team and defend it, no matter if it has flaws and is obviously incorrect at times. They connect their self confidence to their country I guess.