spidervl

joined 1 year ago
[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

my unofficial tribute wall: 1 2

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

Basically left wing progressives are inherently anti-male and anti-white male and social media helps amplify and push these beliefs far and wide because left wing progressives and women are supplying them with easy content

You're describing the liberal wing of the U.S. Democratic Party. A "left-wing progressive" would be someone like Bernie Sanders.

Have a look at this:

Factions in the Democratic Party (United States)

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not the person you asked, but his 2019 Bernie Sanders interview was really good.

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks, good to know you have a similar group over there.

By the way, the two I had previously mentioned have been condemned by the head of the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League:

In November 2023, the Anti-Defamation League classified protest events led by groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow as "anti-Israel", adding the protests to a database documenting rising antisemitism in the US. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt labelled the organizations "hate groups".

To say this characterization is inaccurate would be an understatement.

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Zionists pretend to speak on behalf of all Jews, but never have

For what it's worth, here are two notable U.S.-based Jewish peace groups:

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

I don't mod any communities but I do put in the effort to curate my "All" feed and most of the users & communities I block come from those 2 instances. Toss hexbear on there and that’s almost 100%.

I specifically avoid all three of them as well, along with Beehaw.

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

That's weird. Someone else here in the comments section mentioned downvote bots, so it might be that (?)

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy

I've noticed this with the two largest Lemmy instances -- .ml and .world.

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago (7 children)

it's still mildly-infuriating to see obviously innocuous/irreverent posts/comments being dogpiled

I think early downvoters are just trying to induce others to follow them because they're assholes and have nothing better to do. Unfortunately, it's pretty common with both Reddit and Lemmy.

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I had a Hexbear account for about a month, and noticed whenever I logged in or refreshed the webpage that someone else's username would momentarily appear at the top right of my desktop screen where mine would normally be, and then mine would appear.

This had never happened with any of my user accounts in other instances, and I was considering deleting it out of fear that my username (and, perhaps, login credentials) might somehow get compromised.

Anyway, I ended up deleting it for something else -- the very same reasons often mentioned in the comments here, after experiencing some of that toxic shit firsthand. Good riddance!