It’s not alarmist: A second Trump term really is an extinction-level threat to democracy

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It’s not alarmist: A second Trump term really is an extinction-level threat to democracy
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So much fearmongering. I'm new to Lemmy, and it seems to me that the Kamala campaign has infected Lemmy as well, just like they have Reddit. Looks like I'm not safe from leftist echochambers even after switching to Lemmy.

If supporting Kamala is your definition of a leftist echochamber you clearly haven't browsed Lemmy much

What are you on about lol.

Leftists on lemmygrad and hexbear don't support Kamala. You're on lemmy.world tho so I don't blame you for not knowing.

Hell, a large portion of us outside of grad and hexbear don't exactly like Harris. Sure is a helluva lot better than a bald faced fascist though.

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Fearmongering? The republican presidential candidate talked about using the national guard / military on "radical leftists"/"the enemy within". If that's not a threat/fascism, what is?

That's what I've been asking the magabrainz in my life when they object to the f-word. I ask them if this doesn't count as fascism, what would count, in their view?

So far, no cogent responses. All emoting.

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What exactly were you expecting when you shifted to the Reddit alternative whose main developers were communist? You're either clueless or a bot.

In their defence why would you expect them to know about the political stance of the devs?

Honestly, I think they're a troll account. In general Lemmy took a bit more effort for me personally to sign up to vs Reddit, I had to figure out an instance and roughly how it worked before signing up and the political stance of the devs came up. I mostly assumed most people went through a similar process.

If you read my comment, I said I'm new here. That is my first ever comment here. How was I supposed to know that the website was being ran by tankies? I've jumped from the frying pan into the fire. I can't escape far leftists. And they want to put a communist and a known warmonger in office. We're so cooked.

Lmao if Kamala was a communist more people on Lemmy.ml would've voted for her.

Evidently clueless in more way than one. No worries botski

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Asking as a non US citizen: why do you believe Trump is better than Kamala? Just objectively curious.

It's not Trump that I believe in. It's RFK Jr. But since RFK Jr joined forces with Trump, a vote for Trump is a vote for RFK Jr. Any genuine RFK Jr supporter knows that.

First, A lot of the far-left authoritarian users are in other instances, like lemmy.ml. Those communities are easy to avoid and users from there easily identified.

Second, I can only guess you're talking about Harris when speaking "a communist and a known war monger". Speaking as a former libertarian Republican (who left the party when Trump took over), Harris isn't communist or far left. That's 100% right-wing propaganda. America's Democratic party is pretty conservative compared to liberal and leftist parties in Europe and isn't that much to the left of the pre-Trump Republican party.

As for the known warmonger, I have no idea what you're talking about.

How was I supposed to know that the website was being ran by tankies?

Um, tankies? I don't think that means what you think it means.

A tankie is another name for a communist.

That's simply not true, but by happenstance the particular communists in question are tankies.

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