Yeah, like Italians, the Irish weren’t considered White. Whiteness was a concept invented to justify slavery and human exploitation in the New World. It’s interesting to see how different races have become accepted as ‘White’ over time.

A book I highly recommend is White Fragility by Diangelo.

PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can eat read a dick.

People are downvoting you because you’re an obvious troll.

Look at your account age, username, and posting history.

Step up your game. This is just pathetic.

I get 3x as many groceries at Costco for the same price as at Walmart.

Nicely done OP. This is the best post I’ve seen on this community on lemmy.

Also amusing how many ignorant and uneducated people are calling your take/nuclear energy “stupid” simply because they don’t understand it.

“Nuclear = bad” is about as far as their level of thinking goes…

The Half Life mod Earth’s Special Forces will forever be the GOAT to me.

Couldn’t find a good gameplay video. But man that was kickass with other players or even just bots.

Halfway thru high school, I remember accessing MySpace on my original iPhone on safari before the appstore even existed. I felt like hot shit.

I’m so glad social media was still new enough that I didn’t document my awkward dumbass development. I can proudly state that I never made a FB account.

Oh I never worried about being downvoted on lemmy or reddit.

I’m not discounting my bias; I’m acknowledging the bias exists, but that it’s far more aligned with reality and objectivity than the mainstream right, which complain about the leftist bias of lemmy.

And your Isreal example is totally out of touch. The vast majority of discussion on lemmy condemns both the terrorism of Hamas as well as the genocide being committed by Isreal.

I personally didn’t think he had a chance to be elected… I thought Hillary was going to win and didn’t want to cast a vote for her because I disliked her as a candidate. But I would definitely go back vote for her if I could.

Oh I 100% agree with you. I have mixed feelings about how their communities are downvoted, but I’ll admit I’m mildly amused by it.

It was because of their defederation status for Threads as well as the tankie instances. I was originally on lemmy.world, but switched to feddit.de because of .world’s Threads federation.

Feddit.de was the only instance I could find defederated from Threads and the tankies.

Ah, yeah I had the comments of this post open for longer than 6 minutes, so your comment wasn’t visible to me.

I think they were mostly reasonable, with some complaints like how they banned piracy communities for a while and also banned/removed a community about magic mushrooms.

I disagreed with their federating with Threads, so I hopped over onto feddit.de because they are defederated from Threads and tankie instances. That’s the beauty of the fediverse tho.

But you can view the de/federated instances lists for every instance and see if you agree with it. Different apps may have different routes/capability, so I’d recommend opening it in a browser and scrolling to the bottom of the page to find the link: “instances”

To make it easier for you, here’s the instances list for lemmy.world.

If you look at the conservative community, all their posts are downvoted (at least every time I’ve peeked at it). Same with the Joe Rogan community.

They don’t have respite in their own communities on lemmy, due to users browsing all and downvoting their posts.

Maybe on specific instances that cater towards propoganda and extremism, but not on the Fediverse itself.

Lemmy most certainly is less of an echo-chamer. There’s often good discussions and less toxic responses and blanket downvoting (not that it doesn’t happen).

Typically, heavily downvoted users are trolls, hateful comments, or categorically false claims/propoganda (which is why conservatives don’t like it). But there is still toxic bandwagon voting that suppresses dissenting opinions.

But to claim it’s on the same level as reddit is laughable. You can claim that lemmy is a “leftist” echo-chamer, but the important distinction is that the “right” do not hold themselves or their news sources to any standard or basis is reality.

Lemmy may be more leftist, but that doesn’t mean it’s an echo-chamer in the way reddit/conservative forums/subreddits are echo-chamers. And it sure as hell doesn’t mean the news/discussion is biased/false in the way it is among conservatives.

Not to mention, there are stark differences in the way extremism manifests and the propensity for violence between the right and left.

Yeah, reinforcing your beliefs in an echo-chamer is comforting, isn’t it?

I love how much more international and diverse lemmy is. I’m American, but I am happier with the fact that lemmy isn’t 85%+ Americans like on reddit (not a real statistic). I enjoy seeing more content from different perspectives and nationalities.

Being pragmatic is to take the lesser of two evils. You’re taking a different option entirely. Inaction.

I will admit I fell into this during the first election cycle in which I could vote, which was 2016. I couldn’t stomach voting for Hillary after the Debbie Wasserman Schultz/DNC corruption with Bernie.

I dispised trump, but refused to vote for the lesser of two evils. Never again… I’m not a big fan of Biden, but I voted for him and I will eagerly do so again.

My first thought reading the title was “Better check his posting history, probably alt right.”

They are certainly outnumbered on lemmy and face factual rebuttals without insulation of echo-chamers.