• AmberPrince@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For real. The tankie problem here is crazy. I can say something like China is trying to deny freedom of navigation of international waters on the South China Sea and somehow it becomes “BuT aMeRiCa”. I don’t get it.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been seeing this a lot from instances like hexbear and lemmygrad and my take is either cult members, paid trolls, brainwashed persons prone to pavlovian responses, or all of the above.

      I just wish that as a user I could block instances.

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        1 year ago

        This isn’t unique to the far-left, though. It’s a problem throughout the entire political spectrum.

        It’s rather dangerous to be creating echo chambers in a democracy, though. Democracy lives off of discourse between opposing views.

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          1 year ago

          I would not call them far left tbh. There’s something else about them that irks me. It honestly feels more North Korean to me and that ain’t left by any stretch of the imagination. It seems to be more authoritarian minded.