There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power - eviltoast
  • simin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    hopefully lemmy will not become gab for the left…but it’s a free world!

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      1 year ago

      Gab is actually a Mastodon instance, so you can directly see what people in the Fediverse can/will do to fringe content … defederate

      The problem is that outside of tankies, the far left basically wants people taken care of and treated like people and the far right wants certain types of people to not exist (how they want the not exist part to happen is up for some debate amongst the right, but, they still need to be gone and gone quickly)

      In a practical sense, you cannot really compare the two.

      Yes, there are whackjobs on the left too, but they’re not taken seriously by anyone and not getting prime time TV coverage of their runs for office.

      If we get away from practicalities and talk pure theory, then I guess other arguments can be made, but if we’re restricting ourselves to the things as they are now with labels as they’re typically used, the far right is barren as far as intellectualism goes.

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        1 year ago

        i’ve seen other forums starting out as pretty open-minded and becoming that… so it’s definitely possible… i think gab is not that far right. i would not mention the names.