It definitely tilts that way but I’ve interacted with other “centrist dad” type people like me on here (although I’ve not got kids).
No, its a generic instance withno particular political direction. I’d say it’s left leaning, but that is the general direction on Lemmy.
IDK what “modern leftist” is supposed to be, but lemmy.world is not what I’d describe as “leftist”, especially not relative to other Lemmy instances. It’s certainly left of fascism and Reddit, but y’know, low bar to clear.
It’s news to me that we are supposed to select a server based on politics. join-lemmy.org gives suggestions based on any number of topics. For instance, technology and gaming.
You probably don’t want to be on a far left server like lemmy.ml if those aren’t your politics. If only for the risk of getting defederated, but it’s also a quick way to get banned by your own instance if you do participate in political threads.
Even if you do fall under “far left politics”, you’ll still be shit on for being the wrong kind of leftist.
we are supposed to select a server based on politics.
No one said we are.
I picked .zip as it had the UI I prefered.
I see there is an old.lemmy.zip. I wouldn’t be able to live without that UI. It’s perfect
Can you clarify what you mean by ‘authentically “modern leftist”’? There are a lot of people on this platform who identify as leftists, but I have no idea what you mean by 'authentically “modern leftist” here. I can’t answer your question because I’m not even sure what you’re really asking.
Posting such a vaguely defined question from a brand new account with no post history feels rather trollish.
It’s an instance, not a community. Anyone can join world
No, its lib
Liberal is leftist. Stop changing the meaning of words willy nilly, America.
The fuck are you on about? On the traditional left-right axis liberals are placed in the center, though that is a simplification. The ideals align with plenty of leftists but the economy is waaay right.
Just because yanks don’t know anything left of their centre-right democratic party doesn’t mean that liberalism is suddenly leftist…
Edit: sorry, should have read closer. You aren’t american but are accusing Americans of changing the meaning, whilst spouting the american usage of the word? It doesn’t make sense. Why accuse Americans of changing the meaning of the word liberal when you are clearly using the american meaning in the previous sentence?
Not in my country, liberals are either centre or right over here. Socialists tend to be the left.
You ask a lot from the Americans, my friend.
Of course not. Anything online and open to participation by all people with internet access is fully engaged in the worldwide information war (WIW).
lemmy.world admins doesn’t like comments that will get the CIA to raid their homes, if that’s what you’re asking.
(cuz comments that are deemed by governments to be “advocating violence” is gonna catch their line of fire and they’ll pull a Kim Dotcom raid)
No lol, it’s basically Reddit 2.0 and I don’t mean that as a complement 😆
Why the hell would you expect something designed to function almost identically to be radically different?
Liberals, liberals everywhere in the .world
If “right” means amorally selfish, anything goes, war and plunder, etc etc and “left” is anything that goes in the opposite direction, then kinda? The propaganda still confuses but their hearts are kinda sorta in the right place mostly.
Lemmy.World is a liberal outcropping in an otherwise leftist community. It is probably the last instance I would label as “authentically leftist”.
It might be left by American standards where you are a leftist for supporting a center-right party like the American Democrats
Modern leftist community that keeps clamoring to defederate lemmy.ml which tbh isn’t that political? Nah.
LMBO!!!
NO. .World is mostly liberals that constantly push sino/russophobia, empire narratives and supporting empire favorites like the Nazi “totally not a puppet state” government of ukraine, NAziTO, Israel and anything else that supports the empire’s imperialism
^ this right here is why people can’t stand you lot
Nah, he’s right. Americans and Westerners here are fully brainwashed by the empire’s propaganda, which is why they act so shocked when things happen that are just expected for anyone who understands America and vassals as what they are. The downvotes just prove it.
What about the rote Russian propaganda that the person I responded to regurgitated?
Where’s that? They just said some pretty basic things about the reality we live in?
So criticising Russia or China is being brainwashed but criticising a Western country being open-minded and enlightened. Got it.
Looking at YappyMonotheist’s post history, I’m pretty sure they’re just a troll, I would just ignore and move on.
No, posting and believing in Western sinophobic and russophobic propaganda is being brainwashed. 🤔
So is Russia currently engaged in an imperialist invasion and occupation of a neighbour to exert regional control and seize resources or is that just me being brainwashed?
Ah, .ml
As if I had to wonder.
On a related note, the Voyager app has excellent support for tagging users, making it easy to avoid pointless debates.
When I find idiots, I tag them with relevant info, making for a saner Lemmy experience.
Being brainwashed by American propaganda doesn’t make one that idiotic, at least not in a drastic way that cannot be helped, as one could still come out of it. And some people here like me don’t mind the noise, downvotes and insults while deprogramming the Western man, it is morally right.
Боже мой, что же с тобой? с ума сошел, что ли?
TIL that being against CCP is Sinophobia… 🤦♂️
So you are against democracy?
My man, first of all, no. Secondly, you HAVE democracy, the whole West in theory, and look where you are. And they push it everywhere else in the world for only one reason: to give legitimacy to their hand-picked leaders. It’s harder to coup an autocracy, basically.
Sorry not quite following. Yes, we want the people to elect their leaders, just like it’s meant on democracy. Autocracy means there’s a leader you didn’t elect, that means you’re somebodys bitch and there ain’t anything you can do about it. You wanna be somebodys bitch?
The coup this is all cool and dandy until some dude decides to grab your leader like we saw in Venezuela.
Legitimacy comes when leaders are hand picked, by the people, freely. Nothing wrong about that, because that is freedom. You can be pissed off about how your neighbours vote, but you can actually do something about it If you wanna.
But people are sheep and easily convinced to move against their own interests, which is where America comes along with its “democracy”, which just means handpicking their Western aligned puppet and pushing him as much as possible, eventually putting him in power because the consent has been manufactured and him or her being elected seems plausible. Also, you’ll either be or have a leader regardless, I don’t see it as being “someone’s bitch”, that’s a very juvenile way to see things, lol. I’m God’s slave, that’s all.
Yeah maybe i was at bit blunt with that, but you get the point.
We can agree the US is not on good standing anymore and the biparty system is like choosing between douche and turd, but there’s nothing manufactured on democratically elected officials. The people get what it wants.
In autocracy you are also a slave to your dictator and what If he decides that tomorrow you’re all wiccans? There goes your religion.
In theory the West is full of democracies and I don’t see a lot of freedom, only when freedom means walking the party line. People get shot in the face by a weird secret police group in America and nothing happens besides the government praising the murderer, the dude has a gofundme! In the UK grandmas against genocide get arrested for protesting, I’m not kidding. Idk man. And nobody can decide you’re something the next day, that’s not how belief works, it just means now you gotta pretend or die. 🤷😔
Yeah that is because US is turning into an autocracy where President is actively against some of his people. The way he uses government forces is very reminiscent of Russia, Belarus, Iran, China. UK also has very authoritan movement labeling grandmas terrorist, restricting Internet content, hopefully they come to their senses. That kind of leaves Europe which of course also has it’s issues, but at least the free and democratic elections being the main point.
Yeah pretending or dying doesn’t sound so good when you could just live and let live.
