Recently over the past couple of months, I've seen political discussion on every single social media (yes, that includes Lemmy) become a bear fight full of propaganda. Twitter/X is becoming a racist hellhole with people hating Jews, Black people and Muslims for existing whilst Lemmy is quickly fostering extremism. There is no where on the Internet, except for small chat channels, that is normal. What do I mean by normal?
Every single place is an echo chamber. Those inside it will shout that the other place is one, but we all know it. Lies and propaganda are constantly being cycled on Lemmy and the other Fediverse, but nobody bats an eye because "we're better" and the other side is full of disgusting people. The same thing is happening in conservative spaces. I don't want to talk about "race wars" "black fatigue" or "Jew bioweapons" nor do I want to talk about mass murder of billionaires and complete social destruction. I just want all of you to be normal.
Tribalism has influenced all of these spaces. In the information age, we have become the dumbest and most extreme political speakers in history. We no longer value the truth of information, just the optics. We sour the airwaves with filth, bringing it into schools, universities and even political administrations. We have madmen destroying the biggest country on Earth whilst people here defend the indefensible.
There is no more love in politics. No more "agreeing to disagree", no more facts or intelligence. It's just pure, unfettered hate.
Lemmy's just the lesser of two evils. Whilst I post here a lot, let me be clear: this place is a shithole. Sure, you guys aren't as washed and feral as conservatives, but you guys are still washed and feral. You guys infect everything with misplaced social justice, constantly finding to ruin everything on the basis of your apparent prejudice. You can't wait to bring people down, and never the other way around.
There is no reason to talk about politics on the Internet anymore. Everyone is lying. Everyone has an agenda. Everyone is being a bad person.
I am so tired
Examples?
Snippets from the comment history of a certain somewhat well known activer user/mod here. Obviously I'm not going to out them but there's no lack of people like this here.
EDIT: This just in
Context? No idea what these are about or who Tomi Lahren is.
And? How is defending yourselves an extremism?
And? This is a tactics used by partisans for centuries. Was Polish Home Army "extremist"? Or most of other resistance movements?
This is more of a desperate call for the change of social order. I don't believe it was meant to be taken literally.
It’s hilarious how you’re able to perform these mental gymnastics to dismiss/justify every single one of the examples I provided - and then immediately go digging through my comment history to make completely baseless accusations about me. I guess you ran out of charitable interpretations and benefit of the doubt while doing all that acrobatics. Good job proving OP's point.
Neither of examples you provided was an evidence of extremism (caveat: first three lacked context).
Are you ashamed of your comments? Since you are defending IDF war criminals perhaps you should be.
What's "baseless" accusations have I made, sweetie? You were defending war criminals using human shields. If anyone is an extremist here, that would be yourself.
English?