SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

How the Liberal Left created the Conservative Right and extremism in the fediverse:

As someone who cares greatly about equality, and recognizes minorities and underprivileged groups deal with some unique and difficult struggles I realize the title to this post would seem a bit inflammatory. But that is not my intention, my intention is to address a very real problem.

As anyone on the fediverse knows there are generally two major groups of instances. Those that wont ban anything of any kind, no rules it's the wild west (red instances). Then there are those that ban anyone who shares any opinion that disagrees with their politics, even if you criticise both the left and the right in the same breath you will likely quickly find the instance or yourself banned.

However the unfortunate consequence of this pattern of behavior is to promote ever increasing support for red instances and to drive grey instances (instances that take a middle ground) into being red instances. Should be obvious why...

You basically have a spectrum of behavior with red on one side and blue on the other. With everyone crammed into the 0.1% of either end of this spectrum that means most new instances will start off, most likely, somewhere in the grey area, even if their just marginally shy of being red or blue in its full extreme.

The experience for an admin of such an instance is to quickly be overwhelmed with people from blue instances blocking and banning for things like criticising a democratic politician or something rather minor. By the end of the first few months a blue/left leaning instance will quickly find itself on dozens of suspend or ban instances as a result and find they only have a voice among the 99% red instances and the 1% grey instances out there.

Since this means they naturally wont have a voice among blue instances, and most people are on social media because they want to be social, this means their only incentive is to appeal to red instances (since that's where all their boosts and likes come from). Along with building animosity for how blue instances treat them and with the acceptance of red instances you will find all the incentive for the instances to move to be an extremist red instance with extremist no-rule policies quickly develop.

As such we see exactly what we are seeing now on the fediverse, an ever increasing number of red instances very quickly overwhelming and overtaking the blue instances.

Of course this is made worse by the fact that those ont he blue instances can only see other blue instances. so they will be under the mistaken impression that the red instances don't exist and that the blue instances are thriving and growing and dominating over the red instances. This ignorance just ensures the red instances grow unchecked and unchallenged.

As someone who's personal policy is anti-extremism, and with this pattern being one that generates extremism it is very VERY concerning to me.

#mastodon #fediverse #uspol #extremism #mastoadmin

Nice collection of bot accounts here

https://mastlist.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post.html?m=1

I'm especially excited to see updates from Mark Steyn in my timeline..

https://mstdn.foxfam.club/@MarkSteynOnline

She is literally the only decent candidate on the left and cant even qualify for the debate... the democrats pension for self destructive behaviors never ceases to amaze me.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/50974/tulsis-2020-campaign-urges-dnc-adjust-debate-molly-prince

Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support From Bill To Save The Earth After Learning That’s Where Israel Is | The Babylon Bee

As they say over at Instapundit, when did the Bee become America's paper of record?

https://babylonbee.com/news/ilhan-omar-withdraws-support-from-bill-to-save-the-earth-after-learning-thats-where-israel-is

I intend to use this joke on anyone I ever meet from now on named William!

#joke #jokes #mee #humour #Humor

Socialist playbook:
1. Raise minimum wage
2. Businesses will lay people off because they can’t afford to pay them more than their value
3. #Capitalism is blamed for layoffs, automation, etc
4. Working class wants more #socialism to “fix it”.

They know exactly what they’re doing.

Dean Cain Retweeted:

Calling people that are against illegal migration “anti-immigrant”, is about as intellectually dishonest as calling people that are against burglary “anti-charity”.

Original Tweet: https://www.twitter.com/realdeancain/status/1160320897431035906

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@Liberty4Masses The biggest threat America faces is extremism & a lack of respectful discourse. Both act together to prevent us from solving the problems we all face. As important as gun rights are, being able to have respectful dialog again as a nation is far far more critical.

This is why I sometimes like the Babylon Bee.

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@Lonestar The left destroys everything it touches.

Individual liberty is not everyone agreeing or everyone doing the same thing. It is people living their lives as they see fit.

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