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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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Are we nicer than reddit?
good question.
I'm finding, overall the vibes better but the bottom tier comments are starting to come in. Seeing alot of bots/clear shit disturbed this week.
Depends. Nicer to men? Probably. Nicer to women? Hell. No.
Can't count how many times I've seen people call out things like body shaming of men, but do the same thing to women and suddenly it's a "natural expression of human sexuality."
I suppose it's just the end result of any community dominated by an extreme majority of men, but it sure as hell doesn't feel good and has made me heavily consider deleting my account and just finally giving up on social media entirely.
Say that you understand why people intend to withhold their votes from Biden or vote for a third party.
See what happens.
Hell, say you're voting for him in the same comment. You'll still catch the same shit.
Sounds like you expect the responses you should get for that
Thus.
Yeah I don't have to pretend that the actions that helped elect Trump are understandable. They're selfish and/or moronic actions that fuck everyone over
Like so. Like I said, I'm voting for Biden. But that won't stop you from pontificating. Just keep going like lecturing me will change other people's minds. Thank you for the additional confirmation that lemmy's centrists are every bit the same as they are on reddit.
Forgive all us sinners who don't like bad ideas spreading, we definitely have no reason
I'm voting for Biden. (You'll continue to ignore this and keep scolding.) I also know that the party is losing voters it needs because it keeps taking them for granted.
This is a problem. "Shut up and be happy" won't solve it.
When your next condescending self-righteous reply is done, the problem I described will remain.
Yeah I'm the condescending one. The enlightened actual centrist has educated me everyone. Suddenly pushing shitty ideas to the top isn't bad anymore
Shitty ideas like?
That voting against sanity is "understandable"
I can't force you to understand that other people have different standards for who they will vote for than yours. That's not a shitty idea. That's recognizing the political reality as it exists. Democrats are gonna need the votes of these people.
As a recent example, I can imagine someone who came here as a refugee being hesitant to vote for someone who funds bombing refugee camps. I'm sure you'll yell at me for having enough empathy to understand that.
There are certainly people out there who will never understand that you can only maintain a diverse coalition through solidarity. By an astounding coincidence, they all seem to think that solidarity is something the party can demand from its constituents but can disregard in the other direction without consequence.
In any event, you don't understand because you're not here to understand. You're here to browbeat. You're doing a fantastic job of acting exactly like this is reddit.
You've adequately demonstrated what happens when someone deviates from centrist orthodoxy on lemmy. I thank you for your participation and will now withdraw mine.
Your repeated mention of centrism is bizarre, as is how monumentally condescending you are being while asserting you're the victim of such.
I am not a centrist, that's what apparently you want to be. Centrism is just giving a name to choosing ignorance and pretending it makes you a super advanced genius