I registered for Truth Social a couple of months ago. After weeks waiting to get in, I was finally accepted. My profile communicates clearly that I am a leftist. I have now spent a month on the site. Here are my takeaways.
Many users have expressed to me and others that leftists and Democrats should either be removed from the country, killed, or fought in a civil war. Many users want to be challenged in their homes and communities to justify killing leftists and Democrats.
Many users have tried to flip the script and are fond of calling anti-fascists fascists and Democrats and leftists Nazis. There is also a very common claim that the Nazis were aktually socialists.
Absolute obsession with pedophilia. I know it’s been talked about here already but I really need everyone to understand just how rampant this rhetoric is on Truth Social. Users believe Democrats want to groom children. Users believe schools want to groom children. Users believe trans and gay people want to groom children. Users believe socialists want to groom children. The word “groomers” gets thrown around a lot, which I believe to be a spiteful response to “boomers”.
Users say socialism and democratic socialism means not having money, means laziness, means Nazism. They believe Biden is socialist or communist. They believe the democrats are far left.
Billionaires were smart enough and worked hard enough to earn what they earned. You can be rich if you try hard enough.
Users very fond of accusing all leftists and democrats of being jobless and living in their mother’s basement (I can’t tell you how often I heard mother’s basement).
Users say Jan 6 was either A) a non-violent protest, B) false flag by the FBI C) false flag by ANTIFA D) false flag by BLM E) false flag with Nancy Pelosi to blame.
Users say the 2020 summer riots were all done by ANTIFA. Users also have great enthusiasm in saying any remotely violent situation anywhere, robbery, murder, etc, was done by ANTIFA.
Users say ANTIFA is funded by George Soros. Users also say George Soros wants to create a new USSR within the US.
Users don’t like Ukraine, UN, or EU for the most part. Some support Putin. Some don’t.
Users are extremely distrustful of government and institutions, except for police and Trump. They are mad about inflation, gas, lying politicians, greed, money in government, they want term limits. Trump, of course, is the remedy to removing the deep state and saving them.
Users think Wisconsin will decertify the 2020 presidential election results any day.
I thought this was original research by you and was gonna pop off. (I wish progressives on lemmy did progressive stuff that was more than slacktivism)
Great post still though.
Yes, the title is verbatim but very misleading because of it saying “my”, and it doesn’t help that the text doesn’t use the quote feature when quoting someone and the source link is listed at the bottom instead of the top. I think this post should have the title edited to be in quotation marks (to make it clear it’s not OP talking about themselves) and/or the source in the URL field instead of just copy-pasting an entire post, unquoted, as if it’s original: you can use the body and URL fields at the same time on this site.
for the record, i don’t mind that it says ‘source’ at the bottom :p. Would you have treated this post different if you knew in advance that it was/wasn’t a sexy_peach original?
Well if I didn’t have a sneaky glance at the comments after the first paragraph, I would have started preparing questions for them and been excited to see something new and original here on lemmy. So it’s not a huge deal, but yes, a little bit differently.
Ahh i see, good point, we can’t ask OP questions since OP is not here.
and it doesn’t help that the text doesn’t use the quote feature when quoting someone
true, but how can I quote large amounts of text, I had to manually add all the > thingies
Assuming you run Linux with X11 and have the text in your clipboard, it’s a short one-liner :D
xsel -bo | sed 's/^/> /' | xsel -biSure, but it would be nice for the devs to make the Quote button work on multiline highlighting. (plus
xselisn’t pre-installed on my OS ;)haha thanks!
I think you do need to add those before each paragraph. It looks like the quote button doesn’t yet work on multiple highlighted lines.
I wish progressives on lemmy did progressive stuff that was more than slacktivism
haha I wish that too. Maybe you start?
haha that’s a catch 22, on days when i go out to protests, i’m too busy for the next few days (pretty busy to go to work 9-5, protest for a long time, not sleep enough, work, protest again etc) to manage to post on lemmy :p. Which probably happens to other lemmy users too but it gives a curious impression. You go out to protests?
You go out to protests?
Yes.
Atta boy!
