So, I haven't been on Lemmy for very long, but one thing seems to be true here, just like on Reddit: People don't understand nuance and are only drawn to extremes. There's sooo much going on between facism and unchecked capitalism and communism, but so many people here are just willfully ignoring that, apparently 🙄

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago

Lemmy was made by Marxists, and the FOSS community itself has lots of Marxists and Anarchists.

It isn't that people here are willfully ignoring nuance, people have legitimate views that are considered extreme outside Lemmy, because Lemmy's structure brings them here instead of Reddit.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

yes, lengthy, nuanced, disputations, are just what the four panel comics, on the meme forum, needs.

[–] ondoyant@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

or maybe you don't have some especially well considered, enlightened perspective, and people here believe the things they do for reasons that align with their life experience and education, just as with yourself. taking a centrist stance is not some objectively superior position from which to view politics. you aren't endowed with special insight for choosing the midpoint between ideologies that contradict each other.