Also claim that any history that doesn’t fit their narrative is biased western history.
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve been experiencing this on lemmy 100% They follow a playbook of sorts too. A couple of things I notice they all do:
- Ignore any comparison to Republicans/Trump. Because doing so would point out how absolutely lop-sided the choice is.
- Claim Genocide is the reason. Ignore all other reasons.
- Call you Racist, Conservative, etc.
- Claim that you insulted them in an attempt to become the victim.
- Claim that during every presidential vote “America has been at stake if you don’t vote for [X] candidate” - ignoring the very real attempts at overthrowing our government.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Are you me? Literally the same experience. I think it’s bots programmed in a way that follows what you described.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I just went for the heavy use of blocking those types, and my experience on here has gotten way better. Otherwise, my user experience was just a fire hose of outrage and performative pearl clutching.
Alteon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I just blocked the whole of lemmyml and lemmy.blahaj or whatever it is, and my experience has been 100% better.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Honestly .ml lives rent free in the head of so many people that I actually got a better experience by blocking every random who mentions how much they hate .ml in a conversation that has nothing to do with it.
I’ve gotten to the point that I think the US government has paid shills spamming Lemmy with those comments just to make sure socialism doesn’t get discussed at all.
Alteon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My experience with ML Socialists has been nothing but hostile. Anytime I’ve had questions or tried to have a discussion with a socialist about socialism, the response has been nothing but pure acid from them. Change is slow, and we’re slowly becoming more liberal as a people. They view socialized democracy as cowtowing to imperialism, and they seem to advocate for violent revolution to enact they’re goals. I literally can’t support that.
I would love for the US to become more socialized, for the workers to be more empowered, for people to live with better healthcare, less stress, and better safety nets…but as a social democrat, I’m the fucking enemy to them. As they described me, I’m imperialist scum.
I considered myself pretty far left…but those people? They fucking scare me…
… But if it’s more convenient for you to believe that I’m a paid government shill, then so be it.