NOOOO

I have that book. It is an incredible resource honestly for anyone. It’s like a textbook practically in its depth and breadth. This is horrible.

Hm I can’t really tell if the moderation has a particular political bent because I can’t see the deleted comments.

How do you look at the mod log

Oh whelp yeah that explains it

Even if simplified, thank you for explaining! I wonder if mastodon has had a similar thing happen … (I was never much of a Twitter user so I never became active). Like, is this a result of the fediverse in general or just something unique to Lemmy

Are the defederation campaigns the reason people call me lemmygrad? I only joined a month ago and people hate me for existing and not repeating their echo chamber.

It’s honestly depressing. This is very easily the most right-wing/centrist social media site I use. I love the format of reddit, but hate the redditors. I thought Lemmy would be better but it’s not. And it’s not just that people disagree, they call everyone who disagrees a bot/troll/shill etc, and they freak out if you use swear words like… it’s the worst of tone-policing and performative liberalism all in one place.

I kinda want to start a ShitLemmySays lol, that was easily the best part of Reddit when they were active.

Anyway blocking you bc you’re honestly just like, harassing me at this point? You’re just mad I exist? Weird

lmao you’re mad I said “fuck” okay

Is “centrist” insulting to you? Why do you align yourself with politics whose very basic descriptor draws out this much vitriol?

Again, I’m not insulted by you calling me grad because I don’t really know much about it and only hear about it from pissed off conservative Dems/centrists. Anything they hate is bound to be kinda good lol. What I feel is more like the bemusement/pain you feel watching Michael Scott.

“Fucking centrists” isn’t name-calling, it’s an extremely appropriate labeling of the ideology, spoken with disdain.

And you literally called me “grad”? Which like, is it so hard to believe that leftists just exist and aren’t in these random instances you’ve decided to hate? And even if I was, why would that matter? Like idk much about lemmygrad except apparently there are leftists there and people hate them. It’s not insulting just confusing for me and embarrassing for you.

The poster didn’t say the phrase “dumb liberal”, they said that liberals are siding with fascists which they absolutely are with their unwavering support for our president funding a genocide and repeating the lies that campus protests are anti-Semitic.

So nobody should go to protests? You said that nobody should go to protests if they don’t want to get hurt. I just named the demographic who is most able to survive physical harm.

Am I … trolling, or am I contributing to the conversation in ways that you personally disagree with. Hmmm.

Where is the logic from:

rich people may be broke if they spend a lot

to:

capping wealth may have unintended consequences and will hurt more people than it helps

You do realize that the vast majority of people are not wealthy and that the top one percent own a ridiculously disproportionate amount of the wealth? Wealth caps would only “harm” the top whatever percentage of earners. And if they’re at such a thin margin that the wealth tax would hurt them, like boo fucking hoo lmao, they can sell their Bugatti and buy a new Honda Civic fresh off the lot.

So, only young, fit, able bodied people should protest? 🙄

People should only protest if they’re willing to be injured? What the fuck?

Oh the fucking centrists have shown up 🥱

I read that Chinese survivors of the Titanic were turned away from the US because of the Chinese exclusion act.

If immigration is difficult, then most immigrants in the country working will be illegal. That makes them easier to exploit because they will fear deportation.