A community for some conservative points of view. You can comment but not post articles, because there are bad-faith posters who want to post horrible content just to get people in trouble.
Rule 0: Serial downvoters who downvote out of hate and don't interact with the community will be banned.
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All of us are here for a short lifetime. Letβs have a nice time here and avoid negativity. :)
Please be respectful, even if you don't agree.
Don't personally attack people. Don't call them names.
Be grown-ups.
Here's a friendly little DM from from @EndlessApollo@lemmy.world
Youβre a sellout piece of shit, how fucking dare you support a party that wants to detransition you and kill minorities. Please kill yourself and send me video so I can laugh at it :3
That's a pretty bad comment - probably unjustified
Theoretically speaking though, what would a community member have to do to justify that comment? Maybe support a party that is systematically destroying democracy, replacing it with kleptocracy? That supports cruelty as though it was a fun sport? That supports racism? That dismisses health and climate science as though it was just someone's opinion? All of the above and more? Would that be enough to justify such harshness?
Just wondering.
Regardless of what you think of a political party, it's not cool to ask someone to kill themselves and film it so you can laugh at it. A difference of political opinions doesn't mean that people stop being human.
I agree. We should all be realizing this is a time to reform the executive branch and come together as a nation. But Trump, MAGA media and MAGA influencers are making it impossible.
I don't the poster that told me to kill myself and video it for him to laugh at was MAGA.
Plenty of liberals are against opposing points of view. Lemmy for example, is actively hostile to conservatives, even tho not all conservatives are rich white guys and extreme. Plenty of minority and gay and trans conservatives. But Lemmy doesn't wanna hear that and tries to run/bully conservatives off of Lemmy every chance they get.
Just look at my original post that started this thread.
I agree with the first part. I don't think you should kill yourself, but if you moved to Africa forever, I wouldn't mind.
I'm fine with someone wanting me to move away. Not so cool with them asking me to kill myself and videotape it for them!
I have been to parts of Africa, and it's beautiful! But I won't be moving there.
Now if you wanna start a little gofundme thang and ship me off to Ireland, let's do it!!! lol
Don't call them out, report that shit.
Doesn't matter what ideology you subscribe to, that's just toxic, shitty behavior.
I reported and .world banned them for 2 days. LMAO
Thank you.
I've just arrived home from vacation and this is what I found when I logged in. My bf read it before I did and yelled out a "What the fuck?!" So I came to see what he was talking about and see that DM. My bf is very upset. Sucks because I was just talking up how great Lemmy is. And then he sees that message directed toward me. :/
Very troubling that there are people like this on here.
I reported the DM via the flag icon on the actual DM and sent a message to @ruud@lemmy.world an admin for .world, but I don't know if that was the right person to report it to or not.
Thank you. Honestly. I used your message as an example to my bf of what kind of people Lemmy should be made of. People who are open-minded, even if on opposing sides of the political spectrum.
In my experience most people are Lemmy are pretty cool, but I'm been noticing an uptick in extreme hatred from people who self-describe as "left."
I for sure don't subscribe to everything he convervative party does, but in my little area, the conservatives have been cool and welcoming to me. Seeing a hateful comment like that was definitely a new thing for me. This kind of division is bad for everyone, regardless of political party.
@EndlessApollo@lemmy.world has been perma-banned from this sub. Sick messages asking for someone to kill themselves will not be tolerated here.
Sorry you had to deal with that, OP.
Another example of how extreme and hateful Lemmy can be to the trans community on here...just because some of us are conservatives.