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Judging by all the downvotes, you'd think they'd get the hint lol (lemmy.world)
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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How can you look at what is happening in the US and say they are not imposing?

[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, I meant they are not imposing here, on Lemmy. They are a minilority that often gets downvoted.

Also I try to not look at the US. It's always extreme, like watching a bad reality show.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Right wingers regularly drive wedges into communities and weaponize their base to otherwise recruit from, control, or destroy them. You let those people in and they WILL become an imposition. This goes beyond the US.

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iamragesparkle's barkeep story about Nazi's was right.

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

right wing idealogy is inherently against the fediverse didnt they put ads in truth.social and it isn't federated, thats what happens when conservatives find open source tech, they close it off and charge for it after adding ads.