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I'm a conservative. I don't mind the liberal stuff here. It's good to learn the other side, but I don't want a liberal echo chamber. I'd like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?

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[-] eldavi@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

The Fediverse is undeniably very left leaning currently, which is surprising to me since you’d think the anti-censorship design on paper would appeal more to people on the right who are against big tech and censorship, but I guess not? It’s interesting.

american conservatives care more about denying rights and liberties than anything else as evidenced by their leaders and publicly shared platforms; so if you believe that censorship has anything to do w it, you're not a conservative.

[-] sphericth0r@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I think both the left and the right are concerned with restricting rights, they just have different views of which rights it's okay to obstruct.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 25 points 1 year ago

Which rights to leftists want to "obstruct"?

[-] jdsquared@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

They never come back to answer that question do they?

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I personally would like to further obstruct the freedom to murder children at school.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Personally I want to obstruct the right to murder schoolchildren that seems to have become prevalent but the rightwingers seem to think that's an infringement.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The "rights" to deny bodily autonomy and to enact ethnical cleansing are not worth defending.

[-] Hobbes@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the classic conservative "both sides" argument.

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