Because anyone not exactly in line with his views is right leaning, that’s it. Tankies want to shame you into their ideology by calling you right leaning for thinking murder is bad, that’s basically all.
Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoLemmy.world and sh.itjust.works don’t seem to have any noticeable political leanings as far as I can tell. Why do you say they’re right leaning?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works don’t seem to have any noticeable political leanings as far as I can tell.
…What?
I consider myself a raging liberal, at least in the US. A socialist. But lemmy.world is so liberal it makes me feel like a Trumpster.
I guess I don’t feel at risk of getting globally banned like I would for disagreeing with the consensus like on .ml, but claiming .world is neutral is quite a sweeping statement.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There are definitely some bad actors on here who are trying to manipulate the election in Trump’s favor. The sort that claim to be leftists and come to every US politics-related thread (or even ones that aren’t related to the US until they make it so) with their list of talking points about why no one should vote for Harris, but conveniently have no answers for who deserves votes more.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
from the perspective of a south american, yes, .world is biased towards north america and europe.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s not really what I mean, I’m talking about leaning far right or left on the political spectrum. I think both of them are based in NA, so it would make sense they’re more focused there, just like midwest.social
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
World is kind of the vanilla instance.
Just.works is a “free speech” instance, I never see many communities hosted there, but a large amount of trolls make accounts there because just.works is unlikely to nuke an account.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lately sh.itjust.works been more good about nuking spam and troll accounts, and they also have automated defenses set up to mitigate abuse.
barsquid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t fully understand but it turns out if you don’t think both Donald and Harris are equally fascist you are a classic liberal and pretty far to the right.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
They’re not equally fascist.
It’s fascism lite vs fascism deluxe!
barsquid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Right? The system is awful that lite is the best of the options that will actually happen. And yet here you are, every day campaigning for fascism deluxe by telling everyone who chooses lite that they are genocidal goose-steppers.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Harris wouldn’t support genocide if she knew it would cost her the election. There would be an arms embargo by now if it weren’t for her voters reassuring her; “No no, it’s okay! You can kill anyone you want and start WW3 and we’ll still vote for you.”
But calling you all genocidal goose-steppers isn’t fair. You’re just cynical. You fundamentally do not believe you can change anything.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I can DM you if you want, this is already spiraling far beyond my intentions of my original statement, that I think it’s better rather than to consolidate communities and overpower an instances mods and admins, to decentralize and replicate so there’s always a space for people, on an as-needed basis.
The short answer is that Lemmy.world is a very US-focused liberal instance, essentially the Democrats embodied in an instance.
Sh.itjust.works maintains NCD, MeanwhileOnGrad, and other generally pro-Liberalism, anti-Communist communities, hence why I say it leans right.
As always, you can absolutely find Anarchists and Communists on both Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, my point is more that the moderators and userbase generally consolidate around a given stance, my point isn’t that you can’t be a leftist on Lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.