I don’t know how but somehow it feels like lemmy is even more full of arrogant, moronic libs than reddit. Such a bloodthirsty, warmongering pack of Western chauvinists. I can’t even stand being anywhere but lemmygrad now. I seriously fucking hate these people.

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    I’m sad to see the lib infestation on lemmy.ml. I joined in June just before all the mass migration and it was a comfy place. I really appreciate seeing the regulars on lemmygrad.ml posting news from the other side of the spectrum on !worldnews@lemmy.ml, even though they tend to get bombarded with downvotes (without any well-considered, thoughtful responses as to why they don’t agree with said articles in the comments).

    And then there is lemmy.world. Like you said, such a hateful and bloodthirsty hive mentality, it’s impossible to communicate your points when they refuse to reconsider their semantics and “facts”. Their response is always “AUTHORITARIAN! GENOCIDE! WHATABOUTISM”, as if those words reduce to anything outside of their societal domains—their language game—so to speak.

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    It all comes down to the mods, I suppose. If we have enough solid, socialist mods that don’t take any shit then they can keep the libs in check. When large instances don’t have that, the libs run amok.

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    Every day, the bigger news communities mirror /r/worldnews more and more. I am already starting to see all the same talking points, the same complaining about tankies, and the same three jokes about China that they already have.

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    Some time recently I sorted by all and came across a post (on lemmy.world I think) shaming US Republicans for voting against sending weapons to Ukraine. I’m not a conservative either, but it really astounds me when liberals like that advocate for war and destruction then get on their ivory tower and think they are fighting for freedom and democracy.

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      They always do. Because liberals still navigate the world believing in the objective reality of morality. They think there is real true evil and real true good and that while the US may not be real true good (like them and their family are) at least they can all agree that Russia and China and Iran are real true evil.

      Basically, liberals have that scene from Team America playing in their heads on loop during all political thinking sessions: “Yes, dicks fuck pussies. But sometimes dicks fuck assholes.” And they nod to themselves as they pat themselves on the back for understanding that despite the humor, the movie is absolutely right.

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      They’re “anti-war champions” until it’s the Republicans who are against the war, then they’re staunch warmongers.

      Almost as if the whole “anti-war” thing in American politics was just another means of controlling narratives.

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      This is one of the posts in the last couple of days that prompted me to post this thread.

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      Hahahaha. Would you prefer they were conquered by force by Russia? Followed by the many atrocities Russia loves to perpetrate?

      Yeah, no. Standing by isn’t the virtuous course of action here.

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        Surely you’re arguing in good faith? You do understand that of horrible people in the ussr, a Ukranian named Bandera could be argued as the worst one, considering all the collaborating with nazis he did (and thus, actual genocide). And Ukraine sure likes to lionize that Ukrainian Nazi for some reason marx thinking

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        In the same way that a police officer “conquers” a murderer or a rapist.

        You don’t have to use cracker language to justify UkraNazi violence, just say you hate Russians.

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        If you actually care about Ukrainians then surely you wouldn’t want to see their children get blown to bits by the cluster munitions that the US is sending them now, right?

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    This has 9 downvotes from those pieces of shit LMAO

    Is there a way to stay federated so they have to read our posts sometimes but they can’t downvote? They can comment, then we can mock them, but silently, anonymously downvoting is too cowardly to abide.

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        Mostly just annoying. Kinda wish the site didn’t have downvotes or maybe even upvotes. Specifically downvotes though are never used to indicate “This info is factually wrong” or “This is a racist comment.” I mean, they might also be, but the primary usage despite any intention years ago is a cathartic “fuck you!” to the person you’re downvoting. It’s used so much for that purpose that I basically mentally swap downvotes for upvotes when it’s a topic that will anger libs. Their disapproval just shows me I probably said something correct (but also further shows the worthlessness of the downvote button). Probably the “like” button is about the only useful such device to indicate engagement but limit butthurt kneejerk downvotes.

        And before anyone thinks I’m making this like my life priority: I’m really not. I don’t care that much. It’s just one of those things which seems outdated and should go away but probably never will because the anticipated asshurt is so high. I absolutely know reddit soys, chud or libs, would lose their minds crying over it if it happened (see the time YouTube removed their dislike button- people fucking still try to code it back in lol).

        Welp, back to downvoting all the liberal comments :)

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          If you don’t like downvotes, you could always use hexbear, they should be federating in this upcoming week

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    Yeah, you need to not go into any political or climate communities otherwise you will end up having to see their racist opinions.

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    Let me guess, bloodthirsty warmongering, in this case, means supporting a country fighting off a hostile invasion by their neighbour?

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    In psychology it’s called “projection”, and this post is a perfect example of it. Thank you.

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    I love the way you were able to lure in your opponents, to engage with them in such a subtle intellectual challenging way.

    Always appreciate when people can start high quality dialogue like this.

    Who needs an echo chamber, when we can all discuss our differences in such a mature fashion.

    Bravo

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      Liberals are the only people who could write a post like this with such a lack of self awareness as to fail to realize how blatantly hypocritical it is.

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          Liberals are neither intellectual nor do they actually want dialogue.

          They’re so hostile to differing opinions that they have sullied the very word for propagating ideas. The connotation that such an action is inherently negative and something that entails deception was added by them. The redefinition of the word propaganda is ironically the result of liberal propaganda.

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          The liberal claims to want intellectual dialogue while having the knowledge of the average yankee