Which we should see as an excellent radicalization and growth opportunity!
It can be exhausting explaining ourselves again and again, always met with the same accusations and assumptions born from the mythos spun by our enemies.
However, we must remember these people are people, and many people change their minds given enough information, delivered with firm respect. For every belligerent person who appears like they wouldn't change their mind for anything, there are 10 people quietly lurking who are more on-the-fence. Even those who regurgitate insults and contempt may change their mind when the stars align!
These people are not our enemies, they are victims to the greatest campaign of dishonesty in human history! It is our duty to draw out the poison and deliver the medicine!
I know many comrades here have very difficult lives and do not have the patience or energy to deal with such people. Please do not exhaust yourself interacting with liberals, and allow comrades with more energy to deal with them.
Radicalizing online is not the end-all be-all, but at this point in the psychological war for those within the Anglosphere, every victory is invaluable!!!
While you were away, reddit made a big fuckup by charging a fortune to use their APIs, killing third party apps. This caused many redditors to jump ship to other platforms, and lemmy was the biggest alternative.
Hence all the libs.
I heard about that, I should have figured the consequence.
Well, it's like old GenZedong days, only we can't get quarantined ๐๐๐๐
Hexbear is also federated now, so we have r/chapotraphouse veterans here now too.
lol libs on from lemmy.ee and lemmy.world are having a complete meltdown over that, for a while they were big enough to run around and brigade things they didn't like and all of a sudden the floodgate opened on the left ๐
So many federated libs have a "fuck you, got mine" attitude and outright brag about throwing money at their corporate masters, so why did they leave Reddit in the first place?