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Massive turnout at Democratic lawmakers’ town halls as Republicans hide from voters
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Nice! Where was the turnout during the nationals?
I'm tired of these news, of we follow what's shared here we would have destroyed the Republicans, and they are useless and everybody hates them...
But here we are.
Yeah, realy opened my eyes to how much of an echo chamber this is.
lol. I don't know if anyone will even see this comment.
Apparently questioning a NotTheOnion "Kamala Harris terrifies flailing Trump to the point of incoherence" story was enough for some lemmy instance to ban me, which I only accidentally learned about from another ban. All that because I dared to ask a question in a "Russia vs. Ukraine" meme thread and bring a dose of reality to a discussion.
So I learned quickly to not bother discuss simple reality, let alone anything else, with uniparty followers.
Many of the election season posts have been scrubbed of btw. Very organic!
I looked at your two links. The threads and your posts in them paint an entirely different situation to what you're presenting here for what occurred. I see why you were banned and it had nothing to do with "bringing a dose of reality to a discussion". You know that too though.
Reading trough your comments, I think your and my idea of what kind of echo-chamber this is are quite different. Or they are not. I don't know.
I agree with many positions posted on Lemmy, they aligne with my world view. Some don't. I try to be aware that this is a left space and the opinions about topics here are very different then from the right.
In my experience they are much more based on facts tough. The right seems to belive what ever the talking points are they are beeing fed and then just reproduce them. I don't see that so much here, albeit it can happen in regards to some topics.
You have voiced opinions that don't aline with the gebral opinions here. Since you don't back those up with any evidence what so ever I understand why that got you banned.