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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish it was just "towards the left".

I'm very much on the left socially and left of center economically, but even I feel like every other comments section on here reads like some insane tankie commune.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's always a weird flavor, too. Like "I'm communist but only if I get all the wealth. Also I hate minorities but love the LGBT."

For some reason it just makes me think of Dennis on 30 Rock. "Fiscally liberal, socially conservative."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m communist but only if I get all the wealth. Also I hate minorities but love the LGBT

Where did you see that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No where. "Centrists" love strawmen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a bit of hyperbole, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear aren't far off.

A lot of their users believe that Russia is a communist state, not some crony capitalist society that would make Bezos blush. They also seem to really love Trump for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Where did you see someone saying Russia is communist and where did you see some unironically loving Trump?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Literally none of that is true. Why are so many lemmy.world and lemm.ee users being dishonest about what goes on over at Hexbear? I get disagreeing with their takes but you are just flat out lying about them instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s always a weird flavor, too. Like “I’m communist but only if I get all the wealth. Also I hate minorities but love the LGBT.”

Can you point to a single comment that said this? Doesn't even need to be from Hexbear or Lemmygrad, just in general.