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Well this sub is fucked.
The new mod just defended Trump calling nazis "very fine people."
A civility rule attached to a community that regards platforming fascist misinformation as an obligation just results in mods bending over backwards to make things comfortable for fascists. We've all seen this shit happen on reddit, and I for one don't have the energy to participate in such a community here. I see no reason to provide content to help such a community flourish.
Any suggestions on another politics community that isn't hell-bent on becoming r/anothernazibar?
Well I can say lemmy.ml and lemmygrad will never allow Nazis to proliferate on their instances, but people are convinced they’re “tankies”, so I guess the question is would you rather deal with communists or fascists?
I'm kinda dumbfounded that no one's hosting one over on blahaj.
I think being called lemmygrad Is a bit of a hint at maybe being tankies
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/17/fact-check-trump-quote-very-fine-people-charlottesville/5943239002/
All those who marched in the rally marched in a nazi rally. If you march in a nazi rally in 2017, it's because you're a nazi.
Trump said the side that was all nazis included very fine people. This bit:
was a lie.
So not a single person in that rally was just a white nationalist, every participant must have been a national socialist? If so, prove it. If not then you were the liar in this instance, not Trump.
Trump is clearly a moron, a narcisist, he's probably a sociopath and he's definitely a curse on the globe and on US politics specifically. Still, for some reason, people keep dragging up misleading and false quotes to try to condemn him, instead of just pointing to his actual words and actions, which are just as bad as the imagined ones.
And then they wonder why the left is failing and Trump remains popular, as if the answer wasn't staring back at them from the mirror...
They were marching with obvious nazis. They were nazis. It's not that hard to comprehend.
Not like there's much of a fucking difference between nazis and nazis who want to be called by a name they think is somehow better.
You're missing my point entirely. If you want to criticize someone then you need to be better than them. More accurate, more truthful and more levelheaded. If you just go down on their level and fling the same dirt around as them - like you're doing - then you've accomplished nothing and you'll convince no one.
Well, they're nazis and I'm not. So mission fucking accomplished.
Good luck with that.
Who needs luck to be better than nazis? It's real easy: just don't be a nazi.
Where did Trump call nazis "very fine people?"
Found the next mod.
Err... can you find me a source?
Lol.
Edit: 2 dislikes in 10 minutes. Still no source, lol. Yeah. Glad we have these mods.
still waiting on source
https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-not-a-hoax-trumps-very-fine-people-in-charlottesville-did-not-exist
Here ya go. The article also mentions many of the garbage pro-nazi arguments that nazi sympathizers are using in this very thread.
Poorly written article, but if what they claim is true then that's messed up.
Do you think they're going to overmoderate?
Can't you just block the people you don't want to interact with?