No Stupid Questions

I'm just here because I hate capitalists.

I also hate stalinists, so the joke is on me I guess.

I see a bit of everything on here, but I do like that voicing leftist ideals (not sure about left wing) doesn't get you shot down immediately from all sides (as it would in a lot of other places).

I imagine that in general leftists exist, but avoid posting in other places due to the abuse they'd receive for doing so.

tankies created lemmy to share with all leftists and it started moving to the right in the last wave of reddit changes.

I'd argue it is not really left wing. Or maybe not JUST left wing. Sure these people have some left ideas, but that is not all, and for sure is not the most important.

This is what the word "Tankie" refers to.

They (tankjes) go out of their way to argue for totalitarian governments and dictators. As it it is some kind of fetish.

They deny the wrong doing of countries like Iran, china, Russia and other totalitarian states as if all the wrongdoing by these countries actually are not real and just some big plot by the evil western propaganda machine.

They deny tainnamen square massacre, maidan is a cia coup, Iran is actually not that bad.. the list is endless.

They are worshippers at the altar of totalitarianism, the trump supporters but then for people like Putin, khameini, xi. Tankjes cheer on countries like north Korea while it starves it's citizens, deflect human rights issues in Iran with whatabout ... Saudirabia, muricah, etc.. Tankjes believe Hamas are fighters for the people, chant "from the river to the sea" while with the same breath saying it is all the wests own fault, Jews caused it all themselves... You know, the abusers credo... "Look what you made me do".

Please don't construe any of my above remarks as saying "west good, west blameless".

But that is my opinion. Left wing is not a feature of what is going on on these instances. It is just noise between the vitriol.

My advice, block Hexbear, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml on instance level. And if you come across one of their loons arguing the above point, block the user and move on. Nothing of value is gained by engaging these Trolls that spread misery across the internet.

A non-zero percentage of the rightwing posters you will find online are very enthusiastic about warm water ports. Lemmy is small and new enough that the influence campaigns are not directed this way

A lot of people have pointed out inherent ideological components of this platform, but I would also suggest that the lean is likely in part from network effects.

How did each of us find our way here? Someone likely mentioned the platform on another social site, or linked a meme, or shared other content.

If the site has lots of left leaning content that gets shared by left leaning people in places where such people gather, it's going to bais the new arrivals in a similar direction. This is true of most social spaces, I think. And it's good! I want right wingers to hang out in right wing spaces like Twitter, just like I want them to hang out at their own bars and clubs, away from me.

They're all psycho left.

Depends on what you consider left wing. It seems shitlibs are taking over, they are not left wing.