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I would argue it’s worse than reddit in terms of the average political leanings of users. I have seen overwhelmingly far far left users around here. The few reasonable moderates I’ve seen are getting downvoted for incredibly normal comments. Then I recently found the conservative sub and that place is just a mess. Even in their own space all the posts and comments are downvoted.

I am genuinely concerned for these people. Shutting everyone down and running away from people you disagree with doesn’t make them magically disappear. It’s just creates more division and less understanding at every turn.

It’s not even just a problem here though. Even in my own family the far left thinking and shutting out all who even slightly disagree leads to problems. I tried to warn them that Trump was probably going to win and they didn’t believe me. Being in California and surrounded by deeply blue/left people 24/7gives you a warped sense or reality. The bubble is so big around here that many people don’t even realize they are in a bubble.

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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I would argue it’s worse than reddit in terms of the average political leanings of users. I have seen overwhelmingly far far left users around here. The few reasonable moderates I’ve seen are getting downvoted for incredibly normal comments.

i think it’s gotten considerably worse since the election, which is to be expected, from both sides.

I need to go make a eudaimonia post i think.

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growingentropy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Oh yeah, the conservative sub is ridiculous too…but it’s contained. The left shit is everywhere around here. It’s like oxygen.

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- Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I got sorta yelled at on here for “only attacking the left” and I was like… I can’t attack people who aren’t around now can I?
  
  I have seen like one or two "right"comments in the sea of lefty circle jerkin that’s permeated this entire site. It really is as abundant as oxygen around these parts.
  
  I’m still gonna stick around and attempt to engage in meaningful discussions from time to time, but I have already had comments deleted and been banned from subs for saying very normal and accurate things. Now I’m not surprised that I was banned from the Vegan sub instantly, but still. The mod abuse and censorship here seems even worse than reddit which is honestly kinda impressive.
  
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  - growingentropy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    May we one day find a home that isn’t inundated by extremism.
    
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    Majorllama@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Sadly I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. The unfortunate reality is that both forms of extremism tend to slowly pull at people from the center over time. Even if we got a group of moderates around someone would get mad and get pushed one way or another more. And thus the cycle repeats.
    
    It’s the classic “what radicalized you” meme. All of us are extremists in one way or another. We just haven’t had something push us over the edge yet.
    
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