self-awarewolves

No chance. They would self harm if they ever achieved it.

Cowbee wasn't saying that it's bad to make your own space, per se; he was saying that communities of like-minded people are naturally going to develop on the Fediverse because of its decentralized nature. No Hexbear would deny that we created the site for ourselves.

That's exactly it. I disagree with a lot of people in this community. I also disagree with a lot of people on lemmy.ml and the like. The difference is that here at least I can disagree without immediately being banned. It's great that the fediverse allows diversity of thought between different instances, but internally each instance is structured as its own little fiefdom, and lemmy.ml has some questionable leadership.

That's their secret. They're also right-wingers.

Oh lord. And I thought the right wing chuds were kings of projection. These people genuinely live in an alternate reality.

Had my first back-and-forth with one of such ilk a few weeks back... Was quite the exercise in attempting to speak reason to the obviously unreasonable and deceitful. How much was just being lost to an alternative reality? I don't know. But it wasn't all of it. The stench of disingenuous strategy was strong. Unshakeable presumption of having the one true way, and the ends justifying any means. Totalitarianised psyche, where any and all atrocities are seen as necessary virtues. Strong suspicion of narcissism too, in the absence of introspection, the gaslighting, projection, and inner fragility triggering ad-hominem attacks from logical critiques of their arguments, taken as threats to them, inducing reflexive social domination mode, and worsening loss of critical thinking. So [regarding being lost to an alternative reality] it's not none either.

It’s equal parts fascinating, sad, and disturbing.

Yup.

there are only two ideologies.

mine and fascists

Ah yes, of course the people who would have been allies with the Nazis up until the moment Hitler ate their face, the people who looked at Project 2025 and said "still better than Kamala though", the people supporting extreme authoritarianism and proving horsehoe theory correct... those people want to throw the word "fascist" around 🤣

One of the most important tasks in any propaganda framework is defining the words appropriately.

In particular, the word for "enemy" needs to be carefully chosen.

thats the same thing conservative used. they used things like shitlibs as tankies, or libtards as conservative exact same messaging.

Remarkably, it's not that much harder to type Cryptofascist than it is to type Cryptofash. What is a Crypto-fascist, btw?

"We must forcibly suppress the people who say we're authoritarian"

Talkies worship imperialism, the ultimate expression of the ends justifying means, so it makes sense they'd also be snide cultural imperialists without realizing it. I also really think a lot of them would be improved by being extracted from their basements and set to some yard work

I did chuckle about how they use far/alt right terminology like "chud". hmmmmm 🤔🤔🤔

also apparently like one post every few days is considered popular by tankie standards. geez dude

Most posting here would equally ridicule the auth right. I may generally disagree with the right. But when there can be open earnest discussion and openness to solutions, with those that identify as right leaning. You'll find more common ground with them than either auth group that would other and kill you for your dissent.

If it helps, I don't think I've run across any obviously right wing comments on Lemmy in a long time, at least not any that haven't been ratioed to hell and back.

Another fun story is c/conservative. It was started by a conservative, iirc, and for reasons I can't fully recall, is now modded by leftists, and the whole community's purpose is calling out conservative nonsense.

The social fabric of Lemmy seems to be very anti-conservative, which is really refreshing for me, at least.

reddit was pretty center right since '16, im not surprised. i dint see any ban waves recently from reddit. at least dint notice like the purges early in the year. i think reddit switched to doing more background banning because they realized they are losing too much users/engagement and only the bots are left.

Lemmy will never be right-wing, whatever that means anymore.

but if ya spot anything you're unsure of, or got any concerns, just voice em and i'll see what i can do

Once you get to the extremes right and left look about the same

However, Lemmy is very much not right wing. It is very definitely left for better or for worse

You have been banned from the DPRK. Glorious leader has spoken.

Cowbee loves to act like he's not in an echo chamber. All the tankies like him are just currently unemployed dictators. They're like the people who simp for billionaires...just they do it hoping that they'll be in charge when "communism" comes around.

you can block the tankie triad, but the individual accounts maybe harder i just block everytime i see them.