So you refuse to defend your spoken position with anything concrete, even though I’ve asked you about multiple specific examples that contradict your position.

I’ve given you my opinion. I don’t have to back anything up. I gave you my opinion. You gave me yours. I don’t care enough to go deeper.

Why do you think that your positions don’t deserve hateful responses?

Hate’s not the answer. But you do you, boo.

your chosen positions are steeped in hate

Nope. I don’t hate anyone.

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Meh, we just disagree.

I’m not burning anything down. I’m just having a conversation on Lemmy. Calm down

I don’t think things are getting worse. You do. It’s ok that we disagree. And I don’t think any of this should add to the “hate” problem that some see on Lemmy. Which is the point of OP’s post.

Hate isn’t the answer, even if someone’s mad about whatever political environment they are in.

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That guy is obsessed and really wants other people to hate you.

And he even followed me to this thread just now! LMAO

https://lemmy.today/post/26676768/15309798

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You’re being intellectually dishonest if you are claiming your statement is true.

Just because I said something that you didn’t agree with doesn’t mean I was being “intellectually dishonest,” and it’s rude of you to imply that.

Can I ask if you are a white, well off, man?

I’m not white, nor am I well off. Live in midsize city and never made more than $40K my entire career, and in fact made substantionaly less than that for most of it.

I lived through the 80’s. Try living then and telling me that life is worse now. lol

I don’t think any of that is any worse off than it was a few years ago though.

I see your a conservative on a left leaning platform which that’s got to be hilarious.

It’s definitely been an adventure. I was banned from a politics sub because they thought I was an alt username from some other banned conservative person. Not because of what I posted or what I said, but because they thought I was an alt of a entirely different conservative poster. Which I’m not, by the way. lmao

But yeah, I ignore all the peer pressure here.

Lemmy isn’t open to alternative voices… yet. But I think we’ll eventually get big enough to allow people of all viewpoints here–which many people here DON’T want, and that’s why the pushback.

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but if they get a hint that there other people that don’t like you then they dogpile.

Yep! And they’ll follow you to other communities just to downvote. It’s crazy how some here.

I still like Lemmy more than Reddit tho!

Yep, most smaller communities on Lemmy are awesome. Political communities are terrible and the people who are mad at ya in those, will follow you to non-political communities just to downvote and harrass. It’s toxic.

Yeah, the tech community here is pretty awesome. Politics community, definitely not awesome.

It definitely depends on what communities you’re in!