It’s not that these groups are full of true liberals, it’s that much of the population isn’t tolerant of lies and misinformation. So it seems that “conservatives” are being targeted.
I've seen people be objectively correct but assholes with their delivery and get fucking blasted on here. Regardless of politics I'd youre a prick you get vibe checked.
As it should be. I'm tired of lying and "alternative facts" being the new normal.
Even correct and real facts delivered in an intentionally backhanded way can fuck off for all I care
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I'm still unreasonably salty about getting bodied into negatives after pointing out that the fusion research coming out of the National Ignition Facility is just nuclear weapons research. ~~That's what Laser Inertial Confinement is, it's a very contained implosion bomb. Their role in the nuclear stewardship program is the first thing in their damn "about me" page. Gah.~~ I wasn't even (all that) rude about it, its just really hard for some people on here to accept that their understanding is flawed (myself very much included)
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People bandwagon, they think it's funny to make the number go down even if it doesn't deserve to. Although I have come back from negative to positive.
Conservatives are often so completely full of shit it isn't funny.
So you're telling me that Trump didn't actually turn on the giant spigot and single-handedly extinguish the California wildfires?!?
I'm a person who likes to learn. When I find out I was mistaken on an issue and why, I sometimes feel briefly embarrassed for being wrong, but in the end I appreciate knowing more and like to share the truth with others. I feel like I can approach people from a place of familiarity, empathy, and compassion and help them understand something they did not before.
I feel like there's a lot of people here who share that mindset, and when we see someone intentionally trying to manipulate others by knowingly spreading disinformation, the other, less-compassionate side of us shows up to the party.
I’d absolutely rather take the embarrassment of being corrected, over the embarrassment of being wrong consistently.
I haven't seen too many conservatives on Lemmy, but Bluesky is a fine example of how if you deplatform and cut off the oxygen of fascists and leave them talking to themselves, they really do fade into the background.
I also like how Lemmy has the "modlog" at the bottom. If conservatives are being treated "unfairly" you can see what got them banned and decide if the mods are being fair.
I like this.
I think it should be Mastodon & Lemmy though.
Bluesky isn't even on the Fediverse. It's private corpo.
They really are fragile folk, they need to diminish others in order to feel important and special.
also conservatives are snowflakes lmao
mastodon:
Compared to Bluesky, pretty much yeah 😅
Lmao, maybe don’t make memes about things you don’t fully understand? Bluesky isn’t even the Fediverse or decentralized really— and it’s owned by venture capitalists. Mastodon, like Lemmy, is open-source, open-standard, and actually decentralized.
From the outside, this kind of response almost comes off as weird corporate propaganda. Even if that’s not the intent, it’s still a bit cringe—why take this angle?
The only kind of NIMBY I can get behind.
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