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This is the dumbest post I have seen in ... hours.
Progressives impotently punching at black people because Progressive social media person is unhappy with purity language tests.
Hows about run for office, Ms Rachel ? Put your past through the ringer publicly to help more than rich children with fast internet, nice computers, and free time to be talked to by a stranger online. You know ... children of wealth.
Or make sure y'all stay as divided as possible. That is what wins the day!
Lemmy has been pretty insane lately - like I definitely feel like i'm in the liberal equivalent of /r/TheDonald or /r/conservative. Just absolutely asinine takes, completely out of context, with no nuance whatsoever. The comments are even worse, with insane virtue signaling and justification for abhorrent behavior.
This isn't why we wanted to move off the big platforms, we weren't looking for an even more toxic mechanism to spread misinformation and shit opinions.
For the record I'm a liberal, but what is thriving here at Lemmy is something rotten and is bad for the community.
You could have started off with that. Saves everyone some time.
This is just lemmy.ml in a nutshell, the most insane takes. Whenever I see something this far off the deep end, it's a near certainty that lemmy.ml is at it again.
I am for sure side-eyeing every post on the instance now. I have never seen the Horseshoe Theory this blatant.
Wait till you find out what server your account is on