• jazzfes@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    3 years ago

    Your grandparent comment:

    And others will defend authoritarian regimes and push conspiracies.

    basically says “non-capitalist outlets defend authoritarian regimes …”. I think that’s bashing anything non-capitalist / tilting towards propaganda and believe systems. There are many non-capitalist arguments that don’t have anything to do with authoritarian regimes or conspiracy theories.

    Your mission statement says that you want to be productive and avoid becoming an echo chamber.

    Those two statements don’t align as far as I’m concerned, since you basically set yourself up as an echo chamber.

    • soferman@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      10
      ·
      3 years ago

      Well, I beg to differ. But that is your opinion and I respect that regardless of how misrepresented I feel about how you portray my position.

        • soferman@lemmy.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          edit-2
          3 years ago

          I don’t believe all ‘non-capitalistic outlets defend authoritarian regimes’. I believe there is a giant majority community on Lemmy with lemmygrad who will go to any length to defend authoritarian regimes. They are also highly conspiratorial and believe that all of mainstream western media is propaganda, and that there doesn’t exist a true democracy in the west. They will also dominate the threads in addition to some becoming annoyed another narrative is portrayed leading the person leading the other narrative getting all posts downvoted and most interactions tainted by their wrath.

          • jazzfes@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            11
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            3 years ago

            All of this sounds quite loaded from an ideological point of view. You may not believe that non-capitalism supports authoritarians, but that is what you wrote.

            It feels that your are on a mission to defend western mainstream media, but it seems that your main point is that you don’t like others attacking it. The arguments you don’t like, “dominate the threads” because lemmy started with people on the left end of the spectrum. Calling it “conspirational” and complaining about getting downvoted misses the idea lemmy presents.

            You can get downvoted on a comment to eternity. It won’t show up in your karma and you are free to engage in the next discussion as you please. People won’t care about your internet points.

            • soferman@lemmy.mlOP
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              14
              ·
              3 years ago

              “but it seems that your main point is that you don’t like others attacking it.”

              Okai, rando