The difference to Reddit et al is that votes don’t generally matter a huge lot in here. And you can easily hide them.
Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’re here, anything pro trump is often downvoted, and most things heavily critical of the Dems are also often downvoted.
For better or worse, there’s not a lot of right wing stuff that makes it into the positive on votes.
If you sort new, you’ll see it pop up from time to time.
It’s hard to tell sometimes, but it certainly feels like some political regimes are trying out dropping propaganda here or there into the conversation. I’m sure most of it is from genuine users, but there are some comments that just look like they’re here to stir up dissent.
vga@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
However Lots of places love to call those pointing out flaws in democratic policies trump supporters unfortunately
snooggums@midwest.social 3 months ago
That is for the better.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You occasionally run into some disagreeable but unobjectionable “traditional” conservative opinions, usually around economics and the governments role in it, but trump shit isn’t that. We can be friends if you think a market solution is viable or better than an entitlement program. We can’t be friends if you think a significant portion of your fellow citizens are vermin or that we should just let terrible problems continue or get worse.
The window has just shifted so far that literal objective depictions of reality are described as “left”.
hypna@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It would be nice to have some opposition, though. Even if most “conservative” media right now is little more than xenophobia, or cult worship, there do exist sound arguments against the typical internet-left positions. I don’t have a solid enough read on what comes through New in the fediverse to say whether any of that is being submitted and just downvoted off everyone’s feeds, or if all that’s being submitted is the average conservative media junk.
Still, political spaces without opposition/diversity invariably degenerate into purity contests, and circle jerking.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, there’s really not sound arguments against them. That’s why nobody ever hears sound arguments.
Stop assuming ghosts exist because you saw a picture frame on the wall move when a large truck went by…
ABCDE@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s like saying there are no trade-offs to any policies; it’s simply not true. I’m as left as they come (not American left, British), but failing to admit there are flaws or sound arguments against left-wing ideas is very ignorant.
Sunforged@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Conservative media comes through plenty in the form of business, tech and mainstream media sources 🙄