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The politics is very left wing and very unwelcoming to any other viewpoint.
Agreed, basically if you are moderate, you have to block 2 or 3 major instances to escape from extremist content. That's very unwelcoming for new users.
Extremist...lol. Please continue to feel unwelcome.
If you don't see grad as extreme you are lost in the sauce
They're extremist and openly advocate murder. Hexbear users threatened to kill me.
I’m pretty sure Lemmy has a right wing bloc of instances.
Maybe but they are not in my feeds.
I finally found an anti-establishment libertarian instance!
https://lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org/
https://sh.itjust.works/ looks like they have conservative posters
if a "viewpoint" is based on lies coming from a convicted felon rapist traitor to the country, than anyone holding that viewpoint can actually go fuck themselves
edit: as a reminder, we're talking about people who cause and advocate for this
What a perfect example of what the top comment meant. "You either 100% agree with us or you are a trumpist/fascist/nazi", no in-between, no nuance, no moderation allowed.
if someone's voting for trump, then yea. that's exactly what they are.
if you sit down to dinner with 8 people and one of them is a nazi, then you're eating with 8 nazis
maybe trump voters don't come to lemmy because they know they'll get shat on. they're free to make an instance of their own like hexbear and lemmygrad.
but the thing about trump voters is that you can't have a rational discussion with them, because they throw everything they don't like to hear out the window as "fake news"
so yea. they can still go fuck themselves
Not everyone who is right wing is voting for trump.
Are you seeing Lemmy being intolerant of all right wing discussion, or just Maga bullshit like sol is railing against
Anytime you mention anything right wing you get a lot of downvotes and a lot of railing against MAGA. It is almost enough to make me vote for Trump just out of spite. There might be a "silent majority" that doesn't do that, but the evidence that anyone can see: comments and votes are clearly intolerant of all right wing discussion.
Just look at all the different replies I've got - most of them instead of looking at Lemmy in the mirror proved the point by jumping onto railing against MAGA.
That's because all of right wing politics is hurting people for no good reason.
Staunch Obama and Biden supporter here ... I've read Obama and Kamala's most recent books...
You do not need to be a Trumpie to get annoyed with the "everything is emshittified", "fuck capitalism", etc posts and comments.