I suppose you just don’t see the censorship and raging echo chamber crowd when it’s your own tribe running it. Enjoy the blinders pal.
andxz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Better conversations, and less echo chambers in general. I know exactly who’ll disagree with that notion too, but that has been my experience.
The right-wingers that did come over are obviously butthurt to hell since they can’t abuse the report function and get backed by obviously biased mods like they do on Reddit. It’s easier to simply ignore them here, as well, even though they’re around as always.
Hell, half the comments in this very thread seem to be bitching about “Marxism” like it’s something that anyone gives half a shit about in today’s world. They need their bubble, and they seem to be angry they didn’t get this one, too.
Also people are generally more tech-savvy here than there, for obvious reasons. That’s a plus.
Mango@lemmy.world 5 months ago
andxz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s pretty widely accepted that whatever happens over in the US has ramifications all over the world. My tribe, so to speak, are Swedish speaking Finns, and we’re a very small minority in a country that functions better than most.
It sort of gives one a perspective. The Finns are liberal in some things sure, but very conservative in many ways. We’ll never legalize weed for example, but we also won’t touch abortion rights because that’s just common sense.
That said, in the US my voting pattern would be extreme left sure, because that’s just normal over here. Sadly people are afraid and vote right because immigration, but that’ll stop once everyone realises it doesn’t work, since we still depend on immigration to get jobs filled. Everyone knows it, they just don’t want to say it out loud.
And when the climate really hits us, the clowns will probably be gone anyway. It’s the last gasp we’re seeing right now. Enjoy it while you can.
Mango@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think this whole left/right thing is the issue. Stop bundling shit together and work in individual issues yo. Abortion rights is common sense. So is right to bear arms. Somehow we gotta have an XOR gate on this? Lunacy.
andxz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Finland is up there on weapons per person in Europe, but it is both expensive and complicated to get that first license. It does get easier the more you are into it, but following all the laws to the letter is, again, expensive as hell.
Meanwhile practically every fighting aged male has had some time on the range and weapon safety drilled into them during their conscription, although some more so than others. It might be an old system, but it works for us. Can’t really see it working in the US, tho, for obvious reasons.
Is it practical? Not really. Do we have a lot of mass shootings? Nope.
Dempf@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I have been happy to get outside my bubble a little bit. But at the same time, many of the Marxists here seem to be in their own bubble.