Honestly I think that isn’t an issue with any one platform so much as it is one of the biggest successes of the extreme right. By being obnoxiously loud, openly self contradictory and everywhere in the media the extreme right has succesfully portrayed themselves as being representative of the entire right wing. This leaves the moderate right isolated, less likely to co-operate with the centre or left on issues where they might agree, and more likely to embrace the extreme right.
TLDR: Firehose of falsehood works even better when it splashes on the guy next to you.
Agreed. Is there any Lemmy group where left, right, and center can discuss issues without some resorting to name calling?
I don’t know of any place people can discuss issues without name calling.
Of course you don’t, you shoe.
Moccasin behaviour, fr.
Agreed
The issues the right care about are Haitians eating cats and dogs. How do you not call them idiots?
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There aren’t Lemmy groups where left, right, OR center can do that
agreed
Right isn’t welcome here at all. I’m center and this place is hostile as fuck.
Honestly I think that isn’t an issue with any one platform so much as it is one of the biggest successes of the extreme right. By being obnoxiously loud, openly self contradictory and everywhere in the media the extreme right has succesfully portrayed themselves as being representative of the entire right wing. This leaves the moderate right isolated, less likely to co-operate with the centre or left on issues where they might agree, and more likely to embrace the extreme right.
TLDR: Firehose of falsehood works even better when it splashes on the guy next to you.