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I'm trying to find moderate and intelligent people to have discussions with without political psychosis and all the arrogant I'm smarter than everyone who disagrees with me bullshit. It seems every community here is hard left who think things like this post are Nazi declarations because I'm not buying their nonsense. Any suggestions?

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[–] Rhynoplaz 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

arrogant I'm smarter than everyone who disagrees with me bullshit.

Says the guy who's asking where to find people who will agree with him.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can disagree on politics and still be rational and kind about it. This place isn't that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

They have one comment in their history and it's not kind so that isn't what they're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

just block hexbear dawg it's fine

[–] morphballganon 7 points 9 months ago

"Moderate and rational" is a contradiction when you are in a sinking ship.

Imagine a real sinking ship. Some people will sprint to the lifeboats and take off before they get overloaded. Others will try to plug the holes to slow the sinking. Neither of those are "moderate," but they are both rational.

The only time it is appropriate to be moderate is when there are no crises.

[–] pavnilschanda 6 points 9 months ago

What are your interests first? Then we can go from there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Question, are you looking specifically for ones on Lemmy?

[–] MGN22 -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, I'm still new to this and Lemmy is all Im aware of so far. Well besides places like Gab and Scored but that's the same issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

How about BlueSky? They recently removed their invite code requirement, so it's the perfect time to join.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I don't know. If someone says, "fuck Israel" and I reply "fuck Israel AND Hamas" I get downvoted to hell every time. Luckily, the points don't matter. I think it's just a sickness of the site, it is even more insular than back in the dark ages when I was on the other site. I'm OK with it as in most other ways this place seems OK. The Presidential election is basically democracy vs totalitarianism, so I can kind of understand the division there, in that there aren't real policy things that people are arguing over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

What is "moderate and rational" supposed to mean? Moderate isn't rational, moderate is paralysis

[–] jordanlund 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What topic though?

I'd like to think my comic book community is pretty rational, but it is all about comics. :)

https://lemmy.world/c/comicbooks?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Do you know why it's like that? By all means Lemmy etc is a shrill crowd, but also 99% of all posts like yours turn out to be a right-winger out to either troll or at least rant unproductively about people disagreeing with them. That desperate desire for moderate and intelligent discussion seems to go out the window pretty quickly when people disagree with 'em.

(Edit: probably do stay away from .ml though, they are exactly what you think this place is)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Hey, wecome, sorry for all the downvotes. Don't let it chase you away, there are dozens of us here -dozens!- who are more rational and realistic. I, too, was hoping for a more relaxed, less extreme political chatter, but alas, it's not here.

So, if you find any of that outside this space, please let me know, I'll gladly join.