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Looking for somewhere to discuss stuff that doesn't swing right or left and doesn't ban people for voicing an opinion.

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[-] echo@lemmings.world 35 points 1 week ago

No - there is no such thing.

[-] nyar@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Everything is political, even the desire for an apolitical space.

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

This post reminds me of an old adage I heard about driving. “Everyone that drives slower than me is an idiot, and everyone that drives faster is a maniac”

As others are saying, your middle ground is someone else’s extreme.

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[-] Nighed@feddit.uk 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's extremely had to be politically neutral for a global community.

The centre of the political spectrum in one country might be left/right in another.

Then comes the extreme ideologies, are they trolling or genuine? Is that opinion considered hateful in some countries?

It's a complete minefield. Why would someone without an agenda to push even try? Most neutrals would just say 'no politics'.

[-] Guest_User@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Really well put. Totally agree that once a community grows large enough there is no single mindset for every topic.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If by asking for a neutral place you are asking for somewhere that conservatives with hateful, childish, and dangerous beliefs that have no quantifiable basis in reality can go where they won't be treated like children..... shrugs

Not anywhere I will spend my time, conservatives can stay in their lame isolated pockets on the fediverse, the rest of the fediverse is for people who actually have functioning capacities for empathy and want to have adult conversations that adhere to reality.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 days ago

Sounds a lot like this place too, honestly.

Not knocking people with similar beliefs hanging out together, but it's wild yousay that and don't see that in lemmy.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not knocking people with similar beliefs hanging out together, but it’s wild yousay that and don’t see that in lemmy.

Yawn here we go again with slippery slope echo chamber arguments.

Ok well I AM knocking conservatives when they hang out in groups, they become incredibly toxic and violent in their beliefs and they become dangerous even to the existence of a basic apparatus of federal government (see January 6th). Still, like putting all the rotting food in a trash can, while it doesn’t slow down the rot of the already rotting food, it does keep it contained and safe. Conservative hateful ideologies can only really thrive when centrists use force to open the door to larger communities and make them accept the presence of fascists. Then normalization can start that will indoctrinate people who never otherwise would have accepted the violence and unnecessary cruelty of conservatism simply because people begin to think “oh, well we wouldn’t have let an ACTUAL fascist through the door right!? We are civilized!”.

The difference between groups of leftists is while they all might have pink hair and punk looking clothes and rainbow colors or whatever, and they all might “look the same” to you…. but unlike your pathetic, lame conservative friends, your leftist friends will accept you for whoever you want to be whether we are talking about your gender, clothing tastes, desire to express feminine or masculine identities, off the wall careers you want to follow, new developments in your relationship to your spirituality or religion or really WHATEVER the fuck you want. Your leftist friends will give you direct aid no questions asked when you need it, they will be vulnerable and emotional with you when you need it and never shy away from a heartfelt conversation about love or caring for others just because it is awkward.

Your conservative friends will be too afraid to hug you when you reveal to them you are far out on an edge of depression and scared you are going to hurt yourself because that might look gay, they will literally leave you floundering at the edge of the void because they have been so fucked by their ideology that their first concern is to assure you they didn’t abruptly switch who they were attracted to and were now trying to make a move on you while you are emotionally devastated.

Conservatives are for the most part dangerous children who think they are adults, and they largely stand in the way of younger generations fighting for their survival. Go find your local radical leftist librarian at whatever protest all the kids are at on the other hand…

When leftists get mad it isn’t because they are drunk at their high school kids sports game and yelling at an innocent scared high school trans kid that he is gonna beat the queers up, they get mad because people don’t have healthcare or homes, or when genocide is happening or when we are destroying the earth in a way we can never fix. They chain themselves to a tree in the path of a dozer which is a universe away from being angry and mad at people because you don’t understand them and that scares you, the leftist understands exactly what functions the tree, the bulldozer and their body all play in that moment and they willing and full of righteous anger to do it.

The shrillness you place in leftism is we don’t make time for bigots, and if your social awareness is so muted that you can’t tell the difference between shouting down a bigot and bullying a truly innocent and well intentioned person, than don’t get upset at leftists for seeing a massive red flag flying over your head in terms of deducing your intentions.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yawn here we go with over generalizing for the "other" when your side on the extreme takes the same action.

Ok well I AM knocking conservatives when they hang out in groups, they become incredibly toxic and violent in their beliefs and they become dangerous even to the existence of a basic apparatus of federal government (see January 6th). Stillups, they become incredibly toxic and violent in their beliefs and they become dangerous even to the existence of a basic apparatus of federal government (see January 6th).

Lol, right off the bat, like the extreme left have any respect for the apparatus of federal government. 🙄🙄 (see blm riots, where protesters in Portland attacked and caused damage to The Courthouse, The Edith Green-Wendall Wyatt Federal Building, the Gus J. Solomon U.S Courthouse, The Pioneer Courthouse, and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building.)

I don't even gotta respond to anything else. Find it in one, you find it in the reflection of the other.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Lol, right off the bat, like the extreme left have any respect for the apparatus of federal government. 🙄🙄 (see blm riots, where protesters in Portland attacked and caused damage to The Courthouse, The Edith Green-Wendall Wyatt Federal Building, the Gus J. Solomon U.S Courthouse, The Pioneer Courthouse, and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building.)

right like minor acts of property damage equate to literally attempting to overthrow the federal government?

You fool

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 days ago

Lol, your reply is why no one with any common sense who has seen the videos both can take you seriously.

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

What makes a man turn neutral?

[-] MikeOToxin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago
[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Or was he just born with a heart full of neutrality?

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Chronic depression, bitterness, apathy

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

From your comments here, you're clearly not "politically neutral"

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[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 9 points 1 week ago

“I’m apolitical” == “I have political opinions that are too extremist even for political parties”

https://youtu.be/a-7XG4q0hhA?si=NLIsL15K0dscotzw

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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 7 points 1 week ago

There is a saying: "facts have a liberal bias". :-) Some people ofc vehemently disagree.

Each instance is different, as is each community. Many do not follow their own rules, especially about "no politics allowed" but it creeps in everywhere. Tbf, modding is a hard job.

Though you can block communities that you don't want to see in your feed, and even entire instances (it won't stop people from them downvoting you or even commenting on your stuff, but it will stop notifications being sent to you when they do. Get to it via Settings -> Blocks -> Instance. Users and communities can be done similarly but it's easier to just visit their page and hit the block button there. There's a saying about that too: block early and often, for the sake of your sanity.

I don't know about instances - there's a lot to look at like lemm.ee, lemmy.cafe, reddthat.com, sh.itjust.works, etc. - but I hope this helped in other ways:-).

[-] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You could always start this if you can't find it, could be interesting? c/middleground?

Edit: the center is going to mean different things to different people too.

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[-] die444die@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yes , I am. The US right is so batshit that I’ve never found one I could even consider voting for. And most democrats in the US are to the right of my beliefs.

But I am pretty cenrterist in my policy beliefs.

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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The best advice is to be on communities on as many servers as possible. You can’t really obtain “political neutrality” heavy-handed-ly but in aggregate by getting as many viewpoints as possible it will be neutral in aggregate

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