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The vote ratio on your comment is alarming and tells a lot about the Lemmy user base.
I'll never understand how people can call themselves leftists and then simp for the likes of Khamenei.
I bet there's tons of stuff you struggle to understand on a daily basis.
Indeed there are. Maybe that's because I don't see the world through the lens of an ideology, that's entirely detached from reality.
Do you understand the idea of critical support? Do you understand that America is the global hegemon and their actions in Iran are war crimes? Leftists don't support Iran because of their structure of government, its because America is the bad guy, and has been since the end of WWII.
Do you also "critically support" Jeffrey Dahmer because he murdered Americans?
Do you equate Jeffrey Dahmer, a single man with mental illness, to a nation state defending itself from the largest military to ever exist, which is run by genocidal pedophiles?
Are you 12?
My genocidal pedophiles are better than your genocidal pedophiles!
Thanks for answering the question honestly, I guess, lmfao.
Oh yeah, there's not a lot of valuable discussion to be had here. It's mostly state actors and college kids that just read about the subject for the first time and think they're experts. And fuckin half the comments at least are clearly written by an LLM. If reddit didn't ban you for calling nazis nazis I'd still be there. Redditors on average seem much more educated than lemmings in my experience, you always see the most dogshit takes upvoted here.
I am not too sure about this. I doubt half of the comments is written by LLMs. I just think Lemmy is much more left-leaning than reddit was. Israel was always polarizing in the left, since Oct 7 this has become much worse. I really miss a critical view on the conflicts here. I feel people need to divide every topic into 2 contrary views, it is always black or white. The enemy of my enemy is my friend - so they rather sympathize with Iran than with Israel or the west™ in general. I don't think this has to do with education, and I highly doubt the average education of redditors is very high. Reddit is mainstream nowadays, the user base is basically old Facebook minus the boomers.
Honestly, I would prefer Lemmy every day over reddit, because I believe in a free user controlled space without big corp. However I instance blocked lemmy.ml and always think twice before engaging in a political discussion. But sometimes, like in this case, people are so blind and stupid that I can't shut my mouth.
Unrelated to topic, but i only see total up/downvotes. How do i get ratio? Switch viewer or change setting?
I guess it depends on the viewer/app you are using to access the Threadiverse. I use the Voyager mobile app on Android, but the setting should be available on iOS and the web viewer too.
Appearance > Other > Display Votes > Separate
Thanks, i'm using Voyager on Android too and thoroughly checked general settings but appearantly didn't even think to look at appearance settings, oops.
I agree the settings categories are a bit confusing