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I thought I knew what to expect after having experienced a deluge of takes on platforms like Reddit and Twitter, and yet, I was taken totally aback by some of the unhinged ones I've seen on here since the federation. From bog standard accusations of being bots or paid shills for disagreeing with them, to flat out disgusting claims that queer people on Hexbear are not really queer because they're not liberals.

I came to lemmy early in the reddit exodus, but too many god damn liberals came along and it's gradually getting worse. Hexbear has the only good anime community, so now I have to have another lemmy account

The lib hexbear experience is taking a seat in a cafeteria with a bunch of people to say the worst possible thing imaginable and the whole cafeteria stops to hold you accountable.

Had a moment of online culture shock when I recently saw people commenting on how gross eating ass is and assertions that all the talk about it is people being ironic and joking. Someone even had the gall to respond with “haha keep telling yourself that buddy” when someone said that people have been eating ass forever! Have you heard of the romans??

It’s so jarring to suddenly crash into a totally different culture like that. Like you ran into a caveman at the grocery store

Lemmy did the turn to shit any% speedrun to become a liberal shithole.

For as much as we get called CPC bots, Putin puppets, etc., the liberals I've encountered on here and the 'grad are largely indistinguishable.

It's obvious they have been spoonfed their worldview by increasingly homogenous mainstream media. They seem to think platitudes and blanket statements should be accepted uncriticalally. They provide no sources or information for their worldview, they just dismiss ours.

I think this problem (in the USA at least) goes deeper than shitty media coverage. The USA has such an anti-intellectual culture. People seem to be unaware of why they even think things.

I used to be guilty of this myself. I remember one of the first doninos for me was when I realized I had no idea why I thought Cuba was an evil place. Then I did some reading and realized I had been lied to.

I really don't want to think about the timeline we don't get preemptively dropped from lemmy.world now.

Check out this fucking thread.

https://hexbear.net/post/385753?scrollToComments=false