Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I’d been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I’d blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I’d had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a “meme” implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you’re saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell…

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      no, i’m not; I’m saying the democrats are genocidal losers who you’re emotionally invested in making excuses for

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        the reason inflation/affordability was even an issue that Trump could reference stems from their genocidal and feckless ‘foreign policy’. Energy prices would not have been nearly as high if they had found a way to de-escalate with russia and reigned in israel. instead we’re on the path to world war 3 and you’re insisting we keep voting for those fucking losers

        Two comments ago in case you forgot.

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              2 hours ago

              oh, a return to form. let me spell it out for you

              i don’t drive a pickup

              i oppose all wars that aren’t the class war

              the democrats spent all their political-economic capital by participating in a genocide and a proxy/sanctions war against a rival world power and major energy producer

              the result of that proxy war was rising energy costs and an increasingly destabilized energy market due to infrastructure and supply disruptions.

              those disruptions compounded with attacks on red sea traffic due to the genocide. rather than address the problem, they doubled down, tried to use force, and failed. some ‘prosperity guardian’

              then the democrats went on to lose the election on affordability and genocide.

              maybe they should have tried negotiating and/or not been such genocidal assholes

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                  1 hour ago

                  dawg i take the bus.

                  also you have it backwards it’s the democrats who are locked in supporting israel, i want them to stop that.