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[-] Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 252 points 11 months ago

Lemmy political pov: the universe should be free and open source

[-] baked_tea@sh.itjust.works 130 points 11 months ago

It specifically needs to run Linux.. also there is a literal war about which distro it should use

[-] Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago

Debian. It should run debian. We should genocide arch users.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago

You will never stamp us out btw!

[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

They don't call us the bleeding edge for nothin'

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[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 100 points 11 months ago

It’s the algorithms. Except 4chan where that’s just how it do.

[-] RQG@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

4chan was simply where everyone banned for extreme views everywhere else went because there were no rules or close to none.

Now as algorithms of social media sites have been chosen to dictate our daily news cycle, discussion topics and visibility of culture by engagement metrics alone, as are dominated by flashy, extremist content that appeals to our lowest instincts. Before humans curated content by trying to use human reasoning instead of relying on instinct alone. I think we have taken a step backwards in evolution culturally.

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[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 91 points 11 months ago

Redditors are communists? News to me.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 49 points 11 months ago

They mixed up Lemmy and Reddit, Reddit is full of alt-right bigots

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 90 points 11 months ago

Lmao this is just as ridiculous as them saying Reddit is communist. Massive exaggeration in both cases

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 35 points 11 months ago

Can agree. On Lemmy now and I can feel the ghost of Marx over my shoulder whispering about the proletariat.

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago

Nah liberals make up the majority of Reddit, the rightoids are just more active politically.

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[-] Lux 28 points 11 months ago

Image from 2021, I was on reddit then, I am a communist. Checks out

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 11 months ago

People with extreme views are also more vocal, so that's what you see. That's why social media is bad for you. If gives you a very distorted view of the world. Most people are able to look at politics with nuance.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 34 points 11 months ago

This, plus everyone is concerned with engagement. If I say a perfectly normal statement on Facebook or X or whatever, no one will care so no one will comment or interact with it. If I say that Jesus wants us to make America white again, even the people who disagree with me will only be boosting my message by commenting.

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

Jesus wants us to make America white again

I love this. It's so dumb in so many different ways, but I can easily see people unironically saying it.

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[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 70 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Social media politics is confirmation bias by design.

A few of my opinions that are less popular here:

  • Unions are not a perfect solution.
  • landlords are not inherantly bad and it's not a "sit back and cash in" type of job.
  • Bridled Capitalism is a better system than the comunism we've tried so far.

I have no desire to debate any of those here. I talk politics with friends and in person and I try to remain skeptical especially of facts that happen to go my way.

[-] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

One factual point: we haven't tried communism, we tried socialism. Communism was more of a faraway ideal.

Not debating substance of the claims, as debate not asked for.

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[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 62 points 11 months ago

Enlightened centrist thoughts intensify

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

People even use centralism as a weapon as well though. They push the idea that the correct position in any debate is slap bang in the middle. Sometimes there is a demonstrably correct answer, and sitting in the middle is a bad thing.

But they'll argue to the death that sitting on the fence is the best thing to do in every situation. I've had people claim that the Ukrainians should just negotiate with Russia (assuming that would be even be possible) because that would be the middle option between fighting them and surrendering.

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[-] skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago

Centrism is a sign of a healthy, functioning Democracy. People are allowed to hold nuanced beliefs that don't line up with yours and this "enlightened centrist" bullshit is just pure tribalism from people on the far fringes. You are contributing to creating an "in group" and an "out group" which historically has worked out very well for persons living in Communist and Fascist societies.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Being center of left and right means being about where the Democractic Party in the US is. Anyone who considers themself a "centrist" between Democrats and Republicans is right-wing because the GOP is so far, far right and the Dems are so center-left.

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[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Discourse evaporated when the rightwing and Faux "News" declared "compromise" as blasphemy. That's why so many moderate Republicans will still vote along party lines, despite knowing the candidate is batshit crazy. To vote Democrat is to commit suicide to those people.

Edit: was trying to get this comment done before kid woke up from nap and barely made it. Fixed the faux pa.

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[-] schema@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Holy strawman. Ironically, by reducing all those platforms to one extremist opinion he is doing exactly the same thing he is whining about.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

It's an exaggeration about the stereotypical opinions from those platforms

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[-] Seraph@kbin.social 46 points 11 months ago

The media has tried very hard to normalize extremism.

Funny key then

Ducking autocorrect I meant: Don't let them.

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[-] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Its probably because extremists don't feel comfortable expressing their views in their everyday life, so they do it online instead, where they have some anonymity or at least don't face the same backlash as they would if they were to voice their opinions at work or at a bar or something.

Also, controversial takes get more engagement, which means more ad revenue.

[-] calavera@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Internet also helps gather these people together.

In the past if you were a "weird person" you would not find too many people that resonated with you and eventually many would just "normalize".
Now doesn't matter what kind of shitty take you have, there are always some group of people who thinks the same and will echoing each other

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

I dunno but northern European socialism is looking pretty ok to me lately.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago

They're voting in anti-immgrant right wing politicians. Same with Germany, Spain, and France

[-] blargerer@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago

That's not a fiscal policy. A country or block of countries can be right about 1 thing and wrong about others.

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[-] Jesus_666@feddit.de 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If there's one thing the right are good at it's indoctrination. They co-opt spaces and then use them to infect people with their mindset.

And damn is it ever effective. Someone close to me is normally a leftist – she proudly supports her union (and unions in general), is strongly in favor of LGBT+ rights and environmental protection, mistrusts most political parties as they're too much in bed with big business etc.

However, she also hangs out on 9GAG, which apparently has been pretty much taken over by the right. This has greatly affected her views on immigrants since she's exposed to unchallenged right-wing drivel every day. It was "fun" when she told me how refugee facilities are hotbeds of violent crime and then it turned out that the unspecified statistics she was basing this on were mostly about violence against refugees.

(Not that those camps perfectly safe by themselves but not in the way right wingers make it sound like refugees and immigrants (who are conflated) are all violent anarchists who are above the law.)

Recently she just had to share this "joke" with me. The whole thing consisted of two police officers with Turkish names finding a generic German name exotic. That was it; I couldn't find any punchline in there, just a "the immigrants are replacing us" message. I'm just writing for the day when I hear the word "Überfremdung" ("overforeigning", a standard term of the far right) out of her mouth.

It goes on like that. Politically she's convinced that the Greens are completely unviable as a party and the worst part of the current government – the FDP (our liberal party for rich people) gets no mention despite being diametrically opposed to most of her core views. Ricarda Lang (a Green politician) being fat is much more important and will never get old.

I have no idea how to counter this but I'm afraid that she'll drift off into the hard right with time. She seems unwilling to accept that her main source of funnies is also chock full of right wing propaganda.

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 28 points 11 months ago

No country in Northern Europe has Socialism. They have a strong social welfare system on top of a capitalist economy. Aka Social Democracy. Not even close to socialism.

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[-] Ser_Salty@feddit.de 33 points 11 months ago

You can tell that this is about pre-Elon Twitter lmao

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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 31 points 11 months ago

The more extreme someone's views, the more likely they are to talk about them.

People with moderate views generally avoid talking politics as much as possible.

[-] jrs100000@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Plenty of people with moderate views are passionate about politics and love to talk about it. Its just that they talk about boring stuff like policy positions and numbers.

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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Actually, Communism has never existed.

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[-] SirStumps@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Lemmy is a combination of Twitter and Reddit.

[-] mina_tie@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

"Communism is inherently racist and homophobic" or "All white people never fail"?

[-] OlPatchy2Eyes@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

True whiteness has never been implemented.

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[-] Four_lights77@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

We’re here…we just don’t shout as much the others. We’re probably reading a book quietly in the other room.

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[-] m4xie 19 points 11 months ago

I pictured literal sheep in Halloween masks at first. I thought it was just insane person Facebook.

If I did see a whole flock of sheep in Halloween masks, I would have something to say...

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[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Such is the life of the "radical centrist".

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