I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

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    Comming from Reddit, I find it really peaceful, but IDK how it was before. Except for the people at Hexbear who bullied me for liking South Park. The socalled “dirtbag left” is basically the proudboys pretending to be far-left.

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      Liberals just can’t fathom the possibility that socialists walk among us, therefore they must be cryptofascists or paid shills of foreign States.

      I assure you that we have been here all along, despite two red scares and a cold war to try to purge us.

      It’s pretty insulting, considering that American socialists helped bring about the weekend and the eight hour workday.

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        There are socialists, and then there is a fairly new wave of terminally online toxic assholes borrowing socialist rhetoric.

        There is a difference between activism and empty virtue signaling. A huge portion of the online left is more interested in letting everyone know how pissed off they are than actually making the cultural gains necessary to improve anything.

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          Plus they think the stupidest shit matters.

          Earlier I saw people complaining about the Hogwarts game because of JK Rowling. Yeah, don’t play the videogame based on the book series that was written by a transphobe. Cause somehow that means the videogame and it’s developers are all transphobic too?

          Someone should tell them transphobic people breathe oxygen, maybe they’ll suffocate themselves as activism.

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        There’s people who are constructive and try to be polite who have different world views, and then there’s the people who just insult and spam racial slurs. The second category gets a block on offending users and a block on an entire community if it’s repeated

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      I do not know what you are talking about, you were the one who came put swinging, they reacted like I would expect,

      Also proudboys are Fash, guess who is the most anti-fash

      Also ypur political annalisis seems to go from “is like trump suporter” to “Is like proudboy” not very nuanced

      P.S. I only found this because I had to track down said hexbear post because of the smearing you do with it while convenently not linking it… so for context https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/3197853, it was not for “simply liking southpark”

        • Track You? No I found this as I was trying to find context to your claim you kept making on Lemmygrad that seemed far feched, but as I said I was giving you the bennift of the doubt, this one poppoed up when I searched the page for Hexbear.

          To bully you, also no I am adding context to your constant claim that is blantantly false, I do not understand how someone with a Doctorate in something and 42 years of life still thinks that providing context to a smear is bullying, but smearing a comunity of people, who is one of the most inclusive and welcoming groups on the internet, is not bullying.

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          And what agian id the deff of dictator, I could easily argue Troudou, Mary Simon or Charly III could be dictators of canada, and Biden the dictator of the US

          Also with the bullying, repeated malicious name calling check, constant, and at this point with how many times we have explained to the post I have to assume intetional and malicious miss understanding, Constant calling us facists, and agian, as was explained to you before Communists are not Facists and we dont support trump, nor do we “enable” him, and calling us all “privlaged white boys” agian I would love to direct you to our demographics survey

          But the behavior you have been demonstrating is the behavior consistant of a bully, not I, not my fellows from Lemmygrad, not those from Hexbear, so I would recommend, as one human to another, that you take a seat, and reflect, because clearly something is stuck in your craw, and I genuinely hope it gets

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      It’s never a bad idea to instance block them. They’ll endlessly bully you and gang up like a bunch of school children. The only thing that stops it is to stop responding.

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      Considering a lot of them are anti-Semitic, defend USSR invading Poland, some even homophobic. They’re literally just larping fascist pigs

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        Still conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, I see. First of all, anti-Zionist Jews and non-Zoinist Jews exist.

        There is no fediverse instance more queer-friendly and than Hexbear; what are you even talking about?

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          There is no fediverse instance more queer-friendly and than Hexbear; what are you even talking about?

          I am guessing that the reasoning is as follows:

          1. The short twentieth century’s people’s republics were frequently heterosexist in some way
          2. Many on Hexbear defend the people’s republics (within reason)
          3. Ergo, Hexbear is heterosexist

          This reasoning does not apply when defending dictatorships of the bourgeoisie such as Imperial America and the British Empire, because