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We should try to be less hostile to people from other instances (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think we should try to be more careful, not to automatically assume that everyone who is asking questions here about China/Ukraine etc. is always arguing in bad faith. I've seen multiple people who were genuinely trying to ask something here and the only response they got was mockery.

I do understand that a lot of times people who come here are trying to troll or just be annoying, but we still should try to engage in them in good faith as long as there is no reason not to do so. Not everyone who isn't from Lemmygrad is someone hostile to our ideology, and we should try to be kinder to them.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think it is actually better here than on other instances. A liberal lurker who reads reasonable arguments might actually start to listen. But on another instance, you'd just get a dozen liberals dogpiling the "redfash tankie" and any lurkers reading will just side with the majority opinion, rather than weighing the two arguments being made and analysing them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Exactly this. And the record of the discussion on Lemmygrad can (a) be linked on other instances, to avoid having the debate amongst die hard liberals, and (b) serve as a Q&A for people searching topics on the Lemmyverse.

That said, I have started to have discussions with others (some from LG, some not) on other instances and I just ignore the wildly liberal comments. It's hard for the anti-communists to brand us as monsters when there are public records of us having calm, collected conversations with each other that display none of the toxicity of the extreme right and centre (as horseshoe theory wrongly predicts we would exhibit).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly. Conservative spaces are incredibly toxic, full of people wishing death on others for having the gall to be born a different skin colour or sexual orientation. Over here we are always in favour of minority groups, something libs claim we are not.

And the whole "Russian/Chinese bots" things falls pretty flat when most of our conversations are amongst ourselves as well. Why would China/Russia pay/program all these bots just to simulate conversation in the hope that some random US liberal will stumble upon a 3 week old conversation, start an argument and then get an angry response? Seems like a poor use of their time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the whole “Russian/Chinese bots” things falls pretty flat when most of our conversations are amongst ourselves as well. Why would China/Russia pay/program all these bots just to simulate conversation in the hope that some random US liberal will stumble upon a 3 week old conversation, start an argument and then get an angry response? Seems like a poor use of their time.

I mean, I've literally seen someone argue that Dessalines is being threatened with murder by CPC. I wouldn't put it past them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh sure, some of them would insist it is completely true, because it means we're all here as a show just for them, the most special and important person ever. It strokes their ego.

But others will look at that and (hopefully) wonder about it. It is pure conspiracy theory logic after all, and if someone starts making the most absurd claims, some will hopefully realise how nonsensical they are.