I thought I would just throw it out there as part of my discontent with the main instance of lemmy along with my utter disappointment on how readily accepted it is.
I don’t really see the conspiracy here. the lemmygrad users post stuff like this all the time, and I think most lemmy.ml users think its easier to ignore them than start the 1000th pointless argument
How are you about to say that without citing some examples.
Which sources? What brand of leftism? If you’re going to make a post, at least read the community rules.
Yeah, alright, lets attach a few things.
I also distinctly remember that there was some conspiracy theory non-sense that was posted around 2-3 months ago which linked to a youtube video. I will have to hunt this down but I made a mental note of it because it was an
As for the certain brand of leftism, that I am having difficulties describing but what seems consistent is that their opinions seem to align with authoritarism or just a straight up anti-US perspective (however, I find that with any kind of authoritarianism typically just leads to an in-group subjecting an out-group)
Completely fine with shitting on the US but there are plenty of real bullshit to removed about rather than skewing things to hint at culpability and then pass it off as solid proof.
Thanks for the evidence. It is annoying to see those old twitter links and that YouTube link considered sources by anyone and it’s good to see that recent YouTube one being downvoted. That said, I’m not sure if it’s fair to say they are promoted or popular in World News. Almost all of the stuff I see on their community posted in the past week are The Guardian, Al Jazerra and national sources which are generally considered reputable rather than problematic (now, I am certainly not claiming that these sources are unaffected by the filters of the propaganda model, or that they are always trustworthy, but as far as international news goes they are considered reasonably accurate sources).
or just a straight up anti-US perspective
Well, this isn’t rare outside of the US. The United States has far more enemies than friends. It’s not even just leftism; if you live outside of USA then nationalism and patriotism are generally anti-US as well.
I’m not sure I’ve seen anything in the way of aligning with authoritarianism apart from many taking a pro-Russia stance, but that’s usually ‘lesser of two evils’ or ‘enemy of my enemy’ arguments against US/NATO because Russia is certainly not ‘leftist’ or compatible with it by any definition. I’ve seen a couple of those accounts in your image as ones that knee-jerk anti-US views even in situations when it’s tenuous, like you said “skewing things to hint at culpability and then pass it off as solid proof”.
Alright, fine… if I am to rephrase, it is mostly the instance of which afaik, many first come in contact with. Similar to mastodon.social
Helllooooooo?
