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Turns out we’re just the leftist equivalent to Truth Social
Different spaces of the fediverse are for sure
Especially Hexbear
That place is a toxic cesspool of genocide apologia as long as the genocide was done by a fascist that pays lip service to communism.
They are just on the other side of the propaganda coin and are believing different lies than we do. Hexbears often present with an obnoxious attitude, so I understand why you are annoyed by them.
I had arguments with idiots from "innocuous" instances that think the genocide in Gaza is not a genocide because not enough people have died so far. So there's idiots everywhere.
All flavors of tribalism are the same. That core conservative zeal to say whatever promotes the ingroup and condemns the outgroup seems innate to the human brain. Reasoned argument is a learned behavior - and so is faking it.
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory
I wish ledditors would stop making me trot out respected Jewish holocaust historian saying "for the love of God, equating fascists and communists is holocaust trivialization and has been used to prosecute Jewish survivors of the holocaust"
Implying fascist dictatorships were actually communist.
See, you could read the article instead of doing the thing described in the article as holocaust trivialization
Just because millions of people aren't being systematically executed specifically based on race doesn't make it not a genocide, and just because someone isn't literally the single most racist person ever to walk the earth doesn't make them not a fascist
Read the damn article
I'm reading it and I'm still not seeing the relevance. Nowhere did the person you're replying to compare anything to the Holocaust.
They are left to the fascism, that they equate everyone who doesn’t agree with them, in a very special way - both are ultra right, but tankies are on the left of a spectrum orthogonal to the one the rest of us usually employ.
God I wish. That would be fucking awesome instead we have to fight people on reality because everyone's propagandized to shit.
So you want to be the leftist equivalent of a nutjob conspiracy echo chamber? Weird.
Honestly I just want a place where you can have a reasonable expectation that not every 3rd person you interact with is some kind of fascist. It's really not fun to constantly have to deal with the same nazi-sourced conspiracies and libshit every other platform is infested with, nor do I want to interact with people who think geopolitics is football.