• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    I think it’s important to downvote them and even make them feel unwelcome. You can’t let Nazis and white supremacists in your communities because any community that doesn’t kick out Nazis will eventually find itself overrun by Nazis fleeing communities that kick them out.

    You don’t need to argue or make a fuss, but make sure to downvote anyone who doesn’t believe all people are born equal and that people have a right to choose what to do and who to love.

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      People downvote me all the time and I just think “well they’re wrong, I’ve laid out my argument and they can’t refute it”. So I imagine Nazis feel the same way when you downvote them.

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        14 hours ago

        When I say I’m a centrist that means for some stuff I’m liberal and for other I’m conservative

        Centrist isn’t someone who is not into politics. They classify themselves as “non politicals”

        You got the difference?

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          14 hours ago

          It means your convictions are meaningless & you will become a tool of the Fascists eventually.

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            I’m from india so I can tell my perspective only for my country

            I want

            1. the affirmative actions to be removed,
            2. laws to be made gender neutral,
            3. freebies to be removed (which is given to the uneducated low earning people because they are the votebank),
            4. to increase the funds in higher education govt institutions,
            5. DEI should be removed from job hirings,
            6. and there should be a test for civic sense for the ones who are applying for passport in india
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              I have bad news for you brown guy, you are a middle ground between conservatives and fascists. Almost all of your takes are aggressive and repressive. People don’t work like that, we are all different and we should account for all diversity. You think “uneducated low earning people” should not get free shit but because they can be bribed. So you understand that desperate people would do anything, so why not help them? Why are they desperate? You remove the freebies but you keep the poverty.

              You can step into fascism when you realise that “removing DEI” it’s a lot of bureaucracy and wasted time. Bullets are much cheaper.

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                I know it’s a mixed side. But I’m definitely not a fascist nor do I support fascism

                So you understand that desperate people would do anything, so why not help them?

                I don’t know if you don’t understand the situation but in india shit is complex. There have been interviews of people living in slums, they say they are making more children to get a little more money from the govt (from the scheme which was made for educational purposes of lower income households), some of them are regularly caught to be begging instead of doing some work (specially the ones who are fully fit and fine).

                You know why it’s like that? Because most of them got the bread and circus and they don’t want anything more.

                The govt doesn’t even care about the poor and handicapped people tbh, because they get less seats from the affirmative actions. The so called oppressed groups “STs/SCs” get it.

                Recently I gave an exam, the cutoff for general category is 94%ile but for ST it is 49%ile. Just look at the difference

                That’s why affirmative actions should be income based only for the ones who are in the BPL (below poverty line) list

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              As I understand you, you’re in favor of abolishing quotas for SC/ST persons, for example. In view of the large and rising income inequality and wealth inequality across the Indian population (stats), would you be open to an ambitious ‘caste-blind’ social security system, financed by taxing the rich? Or to income-based educational support programs?

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                What’s caste blind social security system?

                There should income based affirmative actions, for the ones who comes in BPL (below poverty line) list and for the specially abled people

                If more than half a century of affirmative actions wasn’t able to give jobs to certain communities, then it’s a skill issue not a society issue

                Casteism doesn’t exists except in some villages, left extremists would say otherwise

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      Balancing on the knife’s edge is always a dangerous act.

      Share your thoughts, be cordial, question politely, answer in kind.

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        I always answer politely unless the other person fcs around

        Still you’ll targetted everywhere id you’re a centrist. Just look at the down votes😂

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          You can’t please greek and trojans and politics are always a dividing subject but, in my opinion, nobody has the reason by themselves. Usually, everyone has a good idea that everyone should support.

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    I do think anyone on Lemmy is probably smarter than anyone on Reddit. I was browsing a conservative sub today and while they were very few comments, most of them disagreed with the general direction of the Trump administration.

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      at least there are some of them here, i havent seen them yet whatsoever

      (I even feel like its way more progressive but also more “radical/chaotics” here and there since the communities are still more niche and therefore weighting feels off)

      would love to read some “frustration” every now and then to see how my facebook grandparents would argue for example, lol

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      I don’t think user intelligence has as much to to with it as foreign interference and astroturfing campaigns, since its a larger platform

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        The first “couple”? I see the porn subs that we defederate because the admin doesn’t want to risk legal liability. There’s the one tanky instance that they defederated before later deciding not to defederate tanky instances. There’s the spam Reddit resharing instance. There’s the two instances mentioned in this LW post, which seems to indicate it’s about illegal content, not political alignment. That just leaves exploding heads, which was right-wing, but gave up hosting at all after everyone defedded them, and hilariouschaos.com. That one, I don’t know, so I’ll take your word that it’s right-wing. But that only leaves one, not a couple.

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          EH & HC (considered by many to be EH under a new name) are the two I was referring to. Tanky subs were an afterthought on my part.

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          1 day ago

          Let’s take a look at HC’s local front page right now:

          • First post is pro-Elon, uses “woke” as a derogatory term

          • Second post is anti-science transphobia

          • Third post is the same story as the first post, says a “hate crime” was commuted by the “woke” person, article is on Breitbart

          • Fourth post is ok, fairly normal, but posted by an avid poster for the site named Donald Musk

          • Fifth post follows the suit of the fourth post

          • Sixth post is transphobia for sports, article is on Breitbart

          • Seventh post follows the suit of the fourth and fifth post

          • Eighth post is by a news bot, headline says Israel is gonna keep doing what they do

          • Ninth post is ok, just a banal joke

          • Tenth post paints Tesla as a victim of violence, article is on Breitbart

          • Eleventh post is saying most voters prefer moderate Democrats over “radical” AOC & Sanders, article is on Breitbart

          • Twelfth post is anti-science transphobia

          • Thirteenth post is by a news bot about Canada’s Carney’s plan (I don’t know enough about Canada’s politics to know where this guy stands on things)

          • Fourteenth post is by a news bot about Anti-Trump rallies, headline seems politically neutral

          • Fifteenth post is anti-science, pro-Trump, COVID conspiracy theories, article is on Breitbart

          • Sixteenth post is ok, just a joke

          • Seventeenth post is by an admin trying to save face by soliciting mods for a token leftwing community on their site, the only volunteer is one of the above posters of anti-science transphobia

          • Eighteenth post is in German about some technology?

          • Nineteenth post is by news bot about US attacking Yemen

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          I’ve been completely unable to tell if they’re right wing or just a bunch of edgy 14 year olds, and I’ve been kinda reluctant to block them till I figure out which

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            Does it matter? If the edgy 14 year olds aren’t contributing anything you consider worth your time then block them anyway.

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              Oh it definitely doesn’t matter, I’ve been ready to block them since the second post I saw from that instance. It’s just morbid curiosity stringing me along at this point lmao

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    I couldn’t take it anymore. I’ve had this alt for so many days now. I just got banned from a bunch of heir drumpfkins fluffer conservative communities today. I needed some entertainment to lift my spirits.

    I watched a documentary about their ancestors while I commented freely. Deliverance.