Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives!
Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives!
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I would actually want to see conservatives (who doesn't currently support trump) come and debate stuff.
I don't agree with them, but I want to see what their perspective is.
Having a conservative community on a non-corporate site would help prevent the most extreme opinions of the right-wing and minimize russian propaganda (because we have manual applications). Give them a space here, allows them to be exposed to opposing views, preventing far-right extremism.
(Obviously, the trumpers are too far gone and we shouldn't platform them. Racism, sexism and stuff like that should Never be allowed)
Maybe a c/DebateConservatives type of thing?
After the last couple days, I want nothing to do with these fucking backstabbing traitors.
I agree, but most Lemmings seem to be completely intolerant of right of center views. I've never seen any content in that community that's right of center without being downvoted into oblivion.
If Lemmings just don't want other views here, that's fine, it just kind of sucks when all I get is an echo chamber.
This seems to come from the assumption that right wing views have equal validity and exist on an equal footing, but they just don't.
Right wing autoritarian attitudes are just whatever is propped up by the propaganda of the prevailing hierarchy. They're blasted out of mainstream news outlets everyday. They don't survive on merit, but on funding.
Like honestly, if you want to hear what conservatives have to say, go watch their news, listen to their pundits, join their social media apps, but if you've got half a brain then you shouldn't be surprised that it's just a pile of callow, self-serving bullshit. You will be disappointed. You won't see a reasonable debate of the ideas.
Like this is an open system. Anyone can make an instance. You know why right wing instances just... aren't? Because they can't stop themselves from being bigots, which most people hate, actually, and gets them yeeted, so they don't thrive here. It's not some conspiracy or bias, it's just what happens when assholes aren't shielded by some big daddy corporation. They can't hack it.
It's not our fault that the actually reasonable conservatives were already drowned out by the raving lunatic fascist mobs.
gestures broadly at US federal government
By how much the overton window shifted in the US, those (non-trumper) conservatives should really be called "centrists"
I mean, according to magats, "liberals" are "far-left" 🤣
Maybe you should consider why that is. After several decades of "right center" politics being like "we promise we're not crypto fascists" ultimately enabling Trump, you are still confused about why people are so hostile to those exact same narratives?"
"Right of center views" currently means lies, propaganda, and reality denial. I do not consider myself a leftist (though I do agree with leftists on a lot of things) nor a communist, but there is absolutely nothing of value the current right offers.
I do agree Lemmy (and Reddit) are echo chambers. The real solution? Go outside. However, you'll likely find most people are very apathetic (and easily fooled) but not necessarily right leaning.
Fascists feeling unwelcome is exactly how things should be.
"Right of center" means the insufferable liberal types on LW.
Show me a right of center viewpoint that isn't hateful or in bad faith and I won't downvote it.
Go on X and hang with your treasonous fash friends then.