/r/buyfromEU "Lemmy is populated by far left Americans who were banned from Reddit for extremism. Strict ideological conformity is required or you’ll get actual death threats."
/r/buyfromEU "Lemmy is populated by far left Americans who were banned from Reddit for extremism. Strict ideological conformity is required or you’ll get actual death threats."
Lemmy is populated by far left Americans who were banned from Reddit for extremism. Strict ideological conformity is required or you’ll get actual death threats. Don’t go there unless you want violent communist revolution and hate discussing interesting ideas.
It's not my fault a lot of like-minded people also thought "Fuck Reddit". If they want more liberal or conservative people on Lemmy they're welcome as long as they follow the rules. Problem is that liberal or conservative people don't really mind the stuff happening on Reddit, so why would they?
It's not like right wingers have never fucked off and built their own "free speech" social media sites, with blackjack, and hookers.
Oh wait they do it all the fucking time. They're just mad we figured out we can play their game too.
They're also mad it makes it obvious that there are more of us than there are of them, since they get filtered into their own little defederated silos on Lemmy. They hate reality's well-known liberal bias.
Ahh yes let’s discuss fringe radical far left views like ‘let’s not kill all the poor people’ and ‘the state has a duty to protect its citizenry’ yes, dangerously radical.
And radical economic ideas like "buy stuff from companies in your own country" or "don't buy stuff from companies in a country that is in the process of severing trade ties with your country".
Wow that’s so radical how can you believe such fringe far left talking points
I haven't been banned from Reddit.
I want Lemmy to succeed because I want to interact more with people who are not from the U.S., and I don't want to use platforms from the people who were sitting behind him on inauguration day.
Since Elon feels that he can interfere in Reddit and since Reddit seems open to letting that happen, that's a good sign to me that I should limit my use of Reddit and should use alternatives instead. Lemmy seems to be the most Reddit-like of those alternative platforms, so here I am.
This.
Thank you for being with us
Hear hear
I’m:
- Not American
- Not far-left (certainly heaps far away from “right” tho)
- Not banned from Reddit
Guess I’m not here, the more ya know
We can be not here together.
That's wrong I'll kill you
I may be far left, but i'm sure i'm not American!
What about those of us who are just average leftists in other countries but far left by American standards?
You probably don’t count.
Lemmy had a mix of Marxists, full on Authoritarians who claim to be communists (tankies, Maoists, Stalinilists, many Leninists), Anarchists (ie. Libertarian Socialists), and a bunch of more centrist liberals (ie. social democrats, progressives, welfare capitalists).
I’m pretty sure the person is ranting about the first three groups, in particular probably the tankies as they tend to be the least polite and most self righteous.
Hahhaha same.
As a Dane myself, whenever I see someone claiming to be Danish with takes like this, I feel like investigating, and what a curious account indeed. The account is a little over 5 weeks old, yet they've posted so incredibly much I doubt that's their first account. They wrote in Danish a total of 6 times and it doesn't look machine translated, so I believe they're from Denmark, but I also found a post stating they "moved to Denmark", not sure where from though, but they post all over the place, like /r/ukpolitics, /r/norway, /r/newzealand, /r/auckland, /r/australia, /r/jordanpeterson, /r/conservative and /r/republican to mention parts of the spectrum.
Interesting person indeed, clearly right wing, but why would they move to Denmark of all places?... so, Russian troll factory account
Maybe he was hired to work on an oil platform or something, you never know.
I think you underestimate how good AI translations are.
They are pretty much always worse than human translations and 99% of human translations already suck.
Thank you for investigating
I just left Reddit because I have principles..
POV: you joined Hexbear or Lemmy.ml
Yes, and while I don't always agree, I like it in that they are decent people who challenge my cherished opinions and misconceptions.
i'm left on a lot of stuff.
I'm small c conservative on a few things. mostly fiscal
My reddit account has not been banned. i'm here by choice
Sorry, have to lock post since it's attracting off-topic debate and personal attacks that break the rules.
Lemmy is populated by far left Americans who were banned from Reddit for extremism
considering you can get banned from reddit for being trans or using a vpn because you care about privacy that's not really the point they think they're making
considering you can get banned from reddit for being trans
Wait what? When did this happen? I'm totally out of the loop for anything reddit.
I mean, I am a far left American, and I don't want far right extremists and nazis on here, but I haven't given anyone death threats.
Please. I would never make a death treat.
If I'm comin' after you, you ain't gettin' a warnin'.
*yet
He uses a lot of words but what I think he's trying to say is 'I'm not leaving Reddit because I'm an American neonazi and I like how things are going here'
I have more of a feeling most people here are Deutsch. But then again, that’s probably an American speaking.
Also: In the last two years I didn’t get a single death threat on Lemmy. On Reddit I sometimes got one a week. Almost always Nazis or cops wanting to fight me on the street, or SA me or something else they love to fantasise over. And then there was that one Indian guy who didn’t like me calling him out on his Islamophobia.
Sooooooooooo I have to assume that part with the death threats is made up.
Dieser Kommentar ist jetzt Eigentum der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik
Yeah, I think that part’s just projection.
That's funny, I deleted my Reddit account after I'd gotten sick of it.
No. Neither. Am here.
Why do they think communism is far left?
they haven't read enough theory yet
Because it is? If private ownership of everything is the capitalist goal, aka far right, then people owning everything is obviously its exact opposite, aka far left.
We're currently somewhere in the middle, leaning towards right. Some places further than others.
That's only one part of it. Right to protest, for example, is considered leftist, but it doesn't exist in communism. It's not black and white, but if I had to describe communism as left or right, definitely right due to social freedoms. I'm glad I'm not obligated to take a pregnancy test before getting a job and I don't think that counts as a leftist idea at all.
a conservative european here.
Conservatism is cancer
better cancer then AIDS.
Just a Canadian here. Threatening 'murica for being ....'murica. fuck em. I hope they hate it.
It’s funny that the commentator is danish.
I would not worry so much about the one guy. But do tell them they are wrong.
Isn't the username of the person literally "Heil Hitler"?
Reminds me of how people say they don't wanna come to Australia, because there are too many spiders. I mean, sure, they're everywhere, but the weather's nice.
I got banned like ten times just use a vpn I don't want to be on it because its full of idiots