when they turn off old.reddit

If they do that I’ll open a reddit account just so I can leave reddit again. 😤

On Connect it’s a lemmy.world user called batman. (The first link works properly.)

In any civilised society American “Democrats” are considered far right (Biden et al) to centre right (Sanders).

Republicans are self admitted fascist lunatics.

Don’t expect American standards when you get out of your fascist echo chamber.

The USA is neither mainstream nor normal.

It’s a literal fascist shithole.

President Musk is doing nazi salutes on live television and anyone calling him right of centre gets labelled as a communist and a terrorist.

No one who isn’t a fascist wants that kind of shit to be considered mainstream or normal.

It’s a well known fact that .world admins have wet dreams at night about spez seeing what good boys they’ve been and rewarding them by making them reddit admins and letting them suckle his little pigboy twig.

alternatives to republicanism

You calling spez’s little playground and a far right “enlightened centrist” instance like . world “left-wing” makes it abundantly evident to anyone with more than half a brain and the slightest bit of education that any supposed alternatives to fascism you’d find acceptable would be effectively indistinguishable from fascism.

Only fascists and idiots would want to be appealing to fascists.

It’s a very good thing that you don’t feel welcome outside of your fascist echo chambers.

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.

— @IamRageSparkle, 2020, on the microblogging site that later let the fascists in.

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

— Karl Popper, 1945

They’re blocked because they’re tankies, not because they’re left (I’m not even sure tankies can be considered left wing, as much as they claim to be).

(And others because of trolling; and others yet haven’t been blocked, they defederated themselves.)