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Anyone else who considers themselves pretty progressive feel like they're purposely being pushed away from this site by ml users and other barely literate trolls? Usually users who barely speak English, but spend 8-10 hours per day shitting on the US left, and (they think stealthily) promoting Donald Trump?
Just me?
I think you might be mistaking criticism coming from the left with criticism by the right. ML people are likely to the left of you. The general criticism from the left is that the current Democratic party is so-not-left that it's enabling Republican power and often collaborates with it. A recent example was passing the CR bill. I think the intent is to shift people who believe the current Democratic party is doing all it can to understand that it isn't, and that it's far from enough, and that supporting the mainstream Democratic party wing is going to produce more of the same insufficiency, ultimately leading more Republican power, perpetuating the poor-to-rich wealth transfer till it comes to a violent end of some sort. To be clear, the violence has already started but it will get worse as more people get poorer.
I don't consider tankies to be left of me. They are authoritarians, so left/right becomes irrelevant to me.
I am well aware of who I am referring to here.
Do you have any examples?
I haven't seen anyone here shit on Sanders, and he represents the US left.
But regardless, ml users shouldn't push you away from this site because you can just block whole instances.
Dude, it's all over this very thread.
Here is one: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24040381/13749415
Check out the other comments they've made in this thread for more Sanders hate.
I am aware of the blocking mechanisms of this site, I just don't have an interest in using them to silence opinions I disagree with.
bloomcole's all over this thread doing exactly that.
Maybe stop spending time on .ml
I don't go on ml, the stuff (and users) just show up in my feed sometimes. I'm not a fan of the idea of blocking every user and instance I disagree with.