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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I don’t think most of us here are laughing, a motivating factor to move away from places like Instagram and Reddit for me was their habit of ignoring far-right activity while punishing left activity. Some of us here are active on the internet in large part because we know there are a lot of Nazis active too.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure reddit and most social media is bias to the left. Maybe you should check your own beliefs as it sounds like you are part of the radical left like most people here.

    When I say far right I’m talking about antisemitic beliefs that are often rooted in racist religious beliefs. That’s not your average conservative.

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    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well yes, I am part of the ‘radical left’, and proudly so, by that mean I believe in healthcare, food and a place to live for all people regardless of any qualifier and think the political/economic systems in place now will not achieve that.

      I agree the average conservative is not a believer in that sort of antisemitism, but it’s not uncommon. In the terms of US politics, social media platforms do have a left bias, from a more global perspective though they are center or center-right, and overall just do whatever will protect their profits. Reddit, Twitter, others will ban left-wing and anti-capitalist groups and allow their algorithms to push content they know encourages far-right violence because it generates more activity.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I agree the average conservative is not a believer in that sort of antisemitism, but it’s not uncommon

        Furthermore, they may not believe in the Nazi sort of antisemitism, but ask them if this is a Christian country. Ask them if there should be Christian prayer in schools. For a real laugh, ask them if Passover should be made a federal holiday like Christmas.

        Because their likely answers to all of those are, at a certain level, antisemitic. Maybe not knowingly so, but still antisemitic. It is antisemitic (and anti-every other group that isn’t Christian) to expect this to be a Christian country that works on Christian principles.

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      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I would say if social media has any form of left leaning bias in regards to US politics, it’s entirely down to the userbase and not the platform. It’s been shown that content from left-wing politicians and groups gets buried by the algorithms on places like Facebook and Twitter when compared to content from right-wing groups and politicians on a pretty consistent basis.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I’m not sure there is alternative to “capitalism” as you call it. As it turns out we are all greedy and to add salt to the wound all of the Communist revolutions failed within a short time and caused a lot of bloodshed.

        I’m scarred of communism because it causes death and starvation in the end.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Please define ‘the radical left.’

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I’m mostly to the people who politically very liberal.

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    • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah really weird how you people claim to not support racist religious fascists yet vote for them every time

      Fucking fascist doesn’t even know the difference between liberal and leftist

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• metallic_substance@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Duh doy

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