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oldie meme but needed to bring this back due to recent incidents 😭

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (5 children)

A large portion of the world is experiencing political polarization. I see the same things happening on Lemmy happen on other social media websites.

The “if you don’t agree with me you must have the exact opposite opinion” approach to debate seems to be more a problem of the participants than the platform.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Pretty much every time I dare to say anything negative about Russia or China I'm swarmed with illiterate tankie lemmings who jump into the conclusion that criticising one empire automatically means supporting the other empire.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I find that people that do this are often well informed on leftist theory, but know almost no history. I guess it's hard to accept that governing is exceptionally difficult and governments built with the best intentions are still subject to authoritarianism. Also, those governments weren't built with the best intentions, lol.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Great. Another corpo-fascist centrist who doesn’t understand the Overton Window.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

wow can’t believe this guy wants me to kiss nazis on the lips /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I said don’t kiss Nazi ass. That’s not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Did he do the thing he posted a meme about? Ironic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How can you not like waffles! That's outrageous! I'm so triggered right now!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a waffleturd take if I've ever seen one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You're just a shill for Big Pancake!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I read that Big Pancake wants to leave the French Toast Accords

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i feel this problem might be worse on the fediverse because of the political communities that form around instances, e.g. .ml, .blahaj.zone, .world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

tbf, that heuristic works ~80% of the time, which is way higher than I'd like, but that's the effect of polarization