I'm asking because I wonder if Lemmy having a left wing, progressive, socialist, communist bent means Reddit was coming down hard on those ideologies (biased if you will) than right leaning, centrist or free market Capitalist ideologies?

Side question, if Lemmy grows do you think the same will happen here?

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[–] 2 points 20 hours ago* (4 children)

I'm in a weird spot where some people would consider me right wing and some would consider me left wing. I believe I'm closer to the left but I do have some Right ideas. Because of this no community fully accepts my opinions. But on Lemmy atleast we can argue without some fuckass mod deleting the messages and banning everyone.

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    I've always hated the left/right "spectrum". Politics and philosophy are highly multidimensional, reducing it to a single line - or, these days, a pure binary value - hopelessly oversimplifies the issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago*

    Yeah, and it's not immutable, or even the same from country to country.

    The funny thing is, it still seems to accurately predict the political preferences a random person will have in a specific place pretty well. Third legs like libertarianism exist, but they never seem to gain much momentum, or last long. (Libertarianism, for example seems to be dying out right now)

    I guess a line is the shape that allows everyone to agree on as much as possible, while still having someone around to oppose.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    But on Lemmy atleast we can argue without some fuckass mod deleting the messages and banning everyone.

    lmao, no, lemmy has fuckass mods too. I wrote a whole thing once on feminist theory, and how gender essentialism was actually upholding the patriarchy, only for it to get deleted for the reason "pointless slap-fight". The comment I was responding to was about gender segregation being feminist, and other TERF-y nonsense, and that remained up.

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