I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

  • atomicfox
    3921·
    10 months ago

    And Lemmy isn’t an echo chamber? Try posting any conservative opinions around here and see how many downvotes you get.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          142·
          10 months ago

          Let’s start to the Florida curriculum telling kids the good things about slavery and move on to objecting to giving schoolchildren free school lunches. Then there’s the encouraging suicides of trans kids by taking away the one thing preventing that suicide. I can keep going if you like.

        • contextual_somebody@lemmy.world
          103·
          10 months ago

          They have destroyed social programs and the middle class. Tax cuts for the rich drove up enormous, insurmountable debt. The war on drugs. There were no WMD’s in Iraq. Guns take precedence over kids. Due to voter suppression and gerrymandering, they are vastly overrepresented in government. They refused to let Democratic presidents appoint Supreme Court judges. They are okay with stealing migrant kids from their parents and hiding razor wire in the Rio Grande. They are broadly xenophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic. They support Putin…

          And a bunch of “fuck your feelings” spoiled adult babies who can’t accept that their dumbass, tub-of-lard dipshit president lost tried to overthrow the government.

          • freeindv@monyet.cc
            29·
            10 months ago

            Lol all bullshit or bipartisan. Not too mention the typical bigotry of just broadly calling them all “xenophobic” and other typical prejudice

    • Queen HawlSeraEnglish
      267·
      10 months ago

      To be fair, the GOP has shifted so far Right, that conservative opinions nowadays are less “We need to be more fiscally responsible and try solutions outside of throwing money at problems.” and more “So lemme tell you which minorities don’t deserve rights and the specific reasons why they don’t… the short version is it’s all of them… except my asian wife and my black friend… for now…”

      • freeindv@monyet.cc
        513·
        10 months ago

        . “So lemme tell you which minorities don’t deserve rights and the specific reasons why they don’t.”

        Bullshit. Just more of the hateful bigotry of the left than has divided things so greatly. You won’t even engage, just mock an increasingly non existent strawmen

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
          94·
          10 months ago

          Trans people in red states say you’re full of shit.

          And your comment history reveals you as a lying fascist.

          • Rilichu@lemmy.world
            41·
            10 months ago

            I guess my Florida based insurance provider dropping coverage for my HRT is “just a strawman” turns out

              • Rilichu@lemmy.world
                2·
                10 months ago

                Asking if I misword something? I’m saying insurance companies are being actively complicit on this ongoing fascist movement by denying trans people coverage to HRT.

        • explodicle@local106.comEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          I’m glad you’re better than this, but sadly it’s not a straw man.

          Edit: I think this is what they’re referring to

          There’s a strange Internet derived obsession with being trans, and it’s important to protect kids from permanent damage over a temporary phase.

    • DBT@artemis.camp
      198·
      10 months ago

      That’s because all the dum-dums are still over there on Reddit. This place has brain cells and it’s awesome.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        51·
        10 months ago

        It’s nice because you can talk to people, be heard, and be able to listen back. Of course I don’t agree with everybody all the time, but in some communities it’s cool to learn something you didn’t know before.

    • uis@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      Here’s conservative opinion for you: we should go back in how schools work because the less beaurocracy teachers deal with - the better they teach students. Also revert wage inequaloty where director eats-up half of entire budget. Go back to how it was in USSR.

      Oh, you thought there is only one conservative opinion?

    • Jimbo@yiffit.net
      1415·
      10 months ago

      Uh yeah, people around here don’t tend to accept bigotry. Anybody who espouses racism/homophobia can get out. Which happens to be most conservatives. It’s not about being a conservative. It’s about being a piece of human shit.

      • bbmb@kbin.social
        94·
        10 months ago

        Even as I’m on the more left end, I’d say not all conservatives or right-leaning people are racist homophobic bigots, though. If anything, I’d say a sizable portion have a right-leaning non-discriminatory worldview, mainly economic.

        Admittedly, as much as I’m preferring the fediverse, it is definitely an echo chamber, Lemmy included.

        • twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world
          41·
          10 months ago

          Lowering taxes for the rich and cutting social services does not tend to have good results.

          Right-leaning economics does not make sense to me at all, beyond the emotional hook of “government stealing your hard earned money to give to lazy poor people on welfare”.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          54·
          10 months ago

          But they still vote for homophobic bigots. If you sit at a dinner table with Nazis, what does that make you?