I've pointed a couple folks to Lemmy.world and it's uhhh, pretty hard Left for them (as one girl, who volunteered for the Democrats said "I just got yelled at because I can't be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.") We're much farther Left than reddit which itself was definitely Left of centre...

I don't know if decentralized open source social media actually attracts many mainstreamers but assuming we want to grow the fediverse, I'd like to have somewhere I can point people to without feeling very nervous for them.

Thanks!

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have to say it again:

Fascists promise to do fascist things
Americans elect fascists
Fascists do fascist things
HOW COULD DEMOCRATS DO THIS???

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

It's a bit more like:

Capitalism creates the material conditions that promote fashism
Democrates aren't fashists, but they keep capitalism
The material conditions that promote fashism end up happening and fashism props up
Fashists end up getting elected

The point isn't that the Democrats are fashists, but that they would rather continue support the thing that litterally empowers fashism rather than doing anything else. Kinda like a person who refuses to get vaccinated and spreads a disease to everyone else.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And I have to say it again: libs created the material conditions to let it happen. Obama bailed out Wall Street instead of Main Street. People aren’t born fascist. They become it. Twice Obama voters switching to trump is great example of that and as usual democrats say nuh uh im not listening!!!!!!