I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not going to scare me to take this down

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    4 months ago

    They’re getting there, but so far it’s only a few users that I’ve noticed.

    One guy seems to be following me around to attempt mockery.

    They’re very much getting to “everyone who isn’t farther left than me is a right-wing nazi” mentality.

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      They aren’t even really left. They are super authoritarian.

      I blocked them since they spew Russian and Chinese propaganda points and take revisionist stances on Tianman square and deny the Uyghur Genocide.

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        Many people playing “leftist” are this way, sadly. And <insert religion here>, and <insert country name here> as well, but my favorite example is “conservatives”… who despite both the name itself and the claim to want to return to “traditional” values, instead want to radically overthrow everything that has arisen for the past several hundreds of years.

        It turns out that it is really, really, really hard to be truly honest with oneself, about whatever it is that we choose to believe.

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        One of the mods is an actual Russian troll. Davel@lemmy.ml

        Pro-Russian mod who keeps pretending they’re not.

        “If those kids could read…” meme would be fitting lol

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        I mostly agree with you, but that’s the reason why I picked an instance that does not block them: sometimes it is good to see the world from a different point of view. And it’s not like the other Lemmy instances are completely free of propaganda either.

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          Yeah it is when you’re not affected by them I guess. But their rampant ableism and transphobia would have made me leave lemmy if there wasn’t a way to block.

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      There’s at least one interesting fellow in this very thread sharing extremely predictable opinions.

      I thought I was annoying when arguing. Still do, but I found someone worse. Doesn’t make me feel better, because it seems I’m sharing a table with them.

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      everyone who isn’t farther left than me is a right-wing nazi

      If one’s a strict authoritarian, thats a pretty sensible thing to say 🤷‍♂️