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this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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Lemmy started off as much more left-wing, to the extent that it had a hard-coded slur filter that only recently was made something configurable. The choice of .ml has been proposed as being chosen because it represents "Marxist Leninist" (and I don't know if that's true or not), but many of the original instances were highly censored.
That being said, I've been both left and right and presently I'm more right wing, and a lot of the time I write up some big screed in response to something dumb or evil and then just hit "close tab" because when I'm on someone else's instance I want to be a good houseguest and not cause trouble.
Such people have been surrounded by an echo chamber for years and years, they never hear any viewpoints other than what the establishment feeds them, and I don't really want to waste my time fighting against the propaganda power of multiple nation-state coalitions.
(I did make the mistake of accidentally saying what I thought a while back, and now I've got a bunch of smug idiots on my case)
I figure it's only a matter of time until the rest of the fediverse starts to arrive (I've heard through the grapevine some other instances considering starting up their own lemmy instances), and then things will be a lot more balanced.
Ah yes, the establishment that wants to (checks notes) abolish all governments and class hierarchy. How very establishment of them.
The establishment wants to:
This can be done by lying to both the left and the right, because that's why they have rooms full of the smartest people on earth crafting narrative framing to let them do the above while pretending they're doing something else, and using overwhelming power to implement their schemes.
You might not like it, but COVID showed exactly what everyone's actual attitudes were. Apparently the left loves bureaucrats, the biggest most authoritarian governments in the history of the world paid for by selling out future generations, and multinational drug companies. Swing and a miss.
Now don't get me wrong, the right is fucked too. Their narrative was the establishment narrative very recently, and even now as views start to change I can already see it that some of the old right-wing establishment types think their "side" is getting a toehold and they stand up and start trying to do the exact same thing just using their narratives. After 9/11 we got to see the exact same bullshit but instead of going after a virus it was going after "terrorism".
Isn't it funny that no matter which "side" you choose, they want to control your life more and spend more money on Government that magically seems to find it into the pockets of the ultra-rich buddies of whoever that part of the establishment happens to be?
Of course, there's an anti-establishment left and an anti-establishment right, and while they might not agree on what the final destination might be, there's a lot of common ground to be found as well (and common attacks from the mass establishment and their pawns on both sides of the aisle)