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lemmitors on voting platner
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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My reading is that it is one person (not naming names, but if you know you know), arguing for it, and everyone else pointing out how stupid their logic is, with some people up voting them, but most people up voting everyone else. This is not the website "tearing itself apart."
The last person that actually divided, and likely still divides the website, is Mamdani. Pushing Platner is literally a single person's pet project on here.
Maybe I am misremembering, but I seem to recall the threads following his tattoo being revealed to have more than a few people arguing for him or at the least for neutrality around his having said tattoo for a decade and change (I also seem to recall that many of said people have subsequently been deservedly banned).
I also feel compelled to mention, my point was not to demean this instance as a whole; moreso, it was to use this instance as a favorable point of comparison to basically all of lemmy, noting that if people here took the bait then of course the much more reactionary instances would.
I am thinking about recently, at the beginning yeah, several people were pretty credulous about Platner, most of whom are gone now.