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Use it as a tool only. Hobbies, DIY and the like. It's no good for real discussion. They have an Atlantic Council member on their board. It's not a real place, just hordes of automatons with false consciousnesses. You might aswell walk into a stadium of rival sports fans and start arguing with them about how their club sucks. You're just going to annoy yourself.
I tried using it only as a tool for hobbies, but anti-communism infects damn near everything. Couldn't go a week without some dumbass take about China randomly worming its way into just about anything. Glad I quit.
Exactly bro tell me why I am on a shitposting subreddit and getting "XI JINPING AFTER KILLING 100 THOUSAND BABIES" and it's a picture of Walter white or something like dude I'm just trying to laugh not be inundated with dumbass westoid propaganda
For me it's wargaming subs. A little easier to understand, but still a nuisance.
I still have mine for following sports and some games stuff but yeah it's impossible to escape. Guess it's by design
I notice the shit everywhere. From kids and family shows to churches, social media, and education, regardless of state. They really do introduce it and hammer it in from the earliest opportunity.
I know it's just the internet but it's really disturbing how many people automatically think this way without even stopping to think about whether any of it is true, they just state it like it's already accepted fact.
Sadly not just the internet. I meet a lot of people who are too quick to believe anything bad they hear about "enemy" countries, no matter how absurd.
And they don't even stop to think about how bad it is here, just that it's not like [insert anticommunist propaganda of any AES country here]
Agreed. I've seen so many people here get 80% to a meaningful conclusion explaining why our country is the way it is, but they always refuse to finish the logic. Instead, they jump to some racist theory that a foreign power has corrupted the US, and therefore whatever element they disagree with is un-American sedition. Conservatives insist it's Muslim or Chinese infiltration. Liberal progressives think it's Russians. Nobody wants to admit it's just all our insanity coming to a head.
The greatest irony is that they'll admit the government lies, big lies are told all the time, and we get tricked all the time. But introduce the concept that they lie about socialist countries, point out the consistency and pervasiveness of the lies, and that the US has everything to gain from lying, and they'll call that a conspiracy theory. Even if you produce evidence, like CIA admissions to lying. I feel like I'm insane half the time.
Agree, I mostly use it for Linux stuff at this point, the Linux subs on reddit are somehow significantly better than the ones on Lemmy lol (helps that it has actual developers and people who know what they're talking about)