Judging by all the downvotes, you'd think they'd get the hint lol

I've never wanted to engage these people, but after Trump stripped the security from Fauci and Bolton and Pompeo, I have a morbid curiosity to see how'd they justify it. I mean, really, how do you defend stripping protection from your political opponents, who you know are being targeted by extremists, with no real justification or even reasoning beyong them being political opponents?

I welcome them, honestly... Lemmy is emphatically too far left. For fucks sake, two of the top three instances are nearly all tankies.

We need diversity in here if we want to understand what's going on. The conservatives braving Lemmy honestly could be people seeking answers, too.

Some will be propagandists, but so are a lot of clowns on the far-left that lurk here.

Users can have upvotes and downvotes disabled in settings so they are never see how many vote up or down.

They absolutely are incapable of believing they are wrong at all. Every solution that includes them being correct or in the right are the only viable ones and everything else is a trick, or a lie, or "buzzword here". They are conspiracy theorists and suffer the same deep logical failings.

Meh. Lemmy is for them too, even if they are outnumbered.

Unpopular opinion, but I don't really mind them, for now. They are not that imposing and I like to see the other viewpoint occasionaly, as I don't use other social networks. Makes me feel like I'm in less of a bubble here.

I'm okay with downvotes.

They probably thought lemmy was to reddit what truth/gab was to twitter (pre-elon twitter that is), or if you're memory is long enough, voat to reddit.

Like nah dude. Not all social media spinoffs are righties being mad they couldn't drop n-bombs.

Helping people get off of corporate social media is significantly more important to me than maintaining Lemmy's political identity.

I've never met a conservative that wasn't a trash human if I dug deep enough.

Universally uninformed and hateful. Prerequisites for the ideology.

How fucking hard would it be to spin up a Lemmy instance, you know? Conservatives too fucking stupid to buy hosting and run an install package lol

To narcissists any attention is good attention.

These are people ostracized from less extreme groups. The only places they find acceptance is with people like them, leading to an echo chamber where the most insane ideas can fester and grow. I think the solution to the issue of having extremists among us is to do the hardest imaginable thing and accept them into our communities and keep it positive and short when correcting things. "I hope that kind of thing doesn't hurt a lot of people." Or whatever. We're silly animals who will do anything to be accepted by our chosen group including learning to think differently.

My question is why are they so mad about banning X links?

Its good to have differing perspectives. Your not always gonna get it right.

I want them here so I can call them chuds and help them feel outraged and offended. Fuck their cult of personality bullshit.

The funny thing is how … not even far… rather how crazy IMHO it seem to have gone.

I like reading conservative stuff; I like being challenged in my opinions and thinking…

But browsing through r/conservative was an effing joke - all woo and no substance

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It’s just wild the takes I find whenever I stumble on one of these communities. Just no humanity

A lot of them have this sort of humiliation fetish so you can sometimes just bully them into the less shit opinion if you degrade them enough.

Waaah waaah, Lemmy is a lefty ecochamber propaganda machine waaah waaah