https://lemmy.world/post/25137286

Nevermind that AOC is a shit choice too, but who in their right-mind would prefer a Biden or Shapiro over even a nominally progressive option?

I honestly thought they’d read the sarcasm

  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    54·
    4 months ago

    My theory is that, since there largely hasn’t been an influx of new users to Lemmy in a while, each instance is taking on more solidified and cohesive views. Lemmy.ml makes this especially obvious. Over time, people jump ship to instances they align with more, and the various methods of social control like defederation and comment removal accelerate this in certain directions, kinda like a sorting algorithm but for political stances.

    Essentially, with the passing of time, .world becomes more obviously “Blue MAGA.”

    • archomrade [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      31·
      4 months ago

      I can totally see that.

      Maybe it’s how lemmy mixes posts from many instances by default, but sometimes I wander into a thread that I expect to be more stereotypically ‘progressive’, and it ends up being shockingly establishment.

      Maybe that’s a strength of federation: that even if your instance is locked-in to a particular perspective, you’ll still get exposed to a wide range from other instances.

      There haven’t been any popular defed protests lately, maybe things are settling

      • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        25·
        4 months ago

        I normally browse locally, I don’t have the energy nor the patience to wade into threads I know have people that already made up their mind, usually liberals wading into more progressive instances will be more open for conversation and that’s more productive.

        However, the anticommunists are getting more desparate, they started tankiejerk back up again and a MeanwhileOnGrad regular has been stalking my account (see my comment here for more on that).

        • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          21·
          4 months ago

          I wonder if it’s because you are one of the only users here that goes out of their way to try and explain things to libs without being confrontational. Don’t be deterred by the haters, that’s what they want

          • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            20·
            4 months ago

            That’s part of it, they said as much and described my, and I quote, “so-called niceness” as essentially manipulation. I think it’s more of a post-hoc justification to internally justify hating me so much. Like, if I am actually being genuine, then they look like a huge asshole, and because they are extremely anticommunist yet think of themselves as a Leftist, they need to keep that internal facade up to justify themselves as a leftist.

            That’s all psychonalysis bullshit though, I have no idea who they are or how they actually feel, but it’s the most logical explanation for their actions IMO.

            • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              10·
              4 months ago

              Yes, you could be correct about that. It is a very common way liberals backwards solve for their preconceived opinions. This is the danger of idealism, if I assume the idea I already believe in has to be true, any evidence to the contrary must be fake and evil and therefore the easiest to reject without investigation. You must be a sociopathic con artist to believe in “authoritarianism” but also be nice and have reasonable takes. Certainly can’t be me, I believe in the good idea

        • gramxi [they/them]@hexbear.net
          16·
          4 months ago

          also related, I notice there’s a circle of unhealthily obsessed power users that have a Zenz-like dedication to making “the tankie triad” a thing. They’re very evangelical about their cause of “growing the fediverse” which involves making a bogeyman out of the 3 of the oldest Lemmy instances, and pushing new users to join servers that explicitly block us.