Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

[dozzi92@lemmy.world]

If you block political words and Linux this place is a ghost town...

... Except for LotR memes of course.

[feelthepower@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Lemmy world is basically still Reddit. so that one

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Honestly liberals probably fit into lemmy fine. I’ve seen my fair share.

But your view of “normie” is heavily american centric. Your normies are probably far right in much of the world.

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

Your friend is confused. Leftism is inherently anti-capitalist so she can’t be a leftist unless she wants to ditch capitalism.

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

Most people in say America define Left Right on the current political spectrum, with Democrats on the left and Republicans on the Right.

It's like when people talk about work, we know they're not actually talking about Force times Distance as defined by Newtonian physics, we understand they are talking about their job.

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

Americans do not get their own definition for philosophies.

[cidvicious@sh.itjust.works]

I seriously doubt most normies would enjoy Lemmy. But sh.itjust.works seems pretty middle of the road.

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

It's the same in most countries. In Canada, we put the NDP on the Left, Liberals generally centre Left, Conservatives on the Right and the Bloc... well, they do Bloc things.

Similar set up in most places. In common conversation, Left Right mean a standard political spectrum.

If I said I went to work, have I redefined Newtonian physics?

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

Thanks, I'll check it out!

I just love the idea of non corpo social media but to get the network effects to scale we need the normies...!

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

press x to doubt

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

No, it isn't. Unless you are Eurocentric and ignore most nationsliberalism is where the left starts though liberalism isn't "leftist". The right is authoritarianism. This is true all around the world.

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

Those were definitely words!

Can you give a couple examples of countries where the major left party/parties is/are anti capitalist?

[257m@sh.itjust.works]

I don't think you understand leftism. Economic leftism (Socialism, Marxism, Communism) is inherently anti capitalist. The social spectrum of left and right is pointless. I am not necessarily a Liberal but I would define myself as a leftist. I do not consider liberals to be inherently leftists.

[lauchs@lemmy.world]

Like I've said repeatedly, in the popular context and most common words used by people, Left wing has different definition.

To re-use the example above, if I said I went to work, have I redefined Newtonian physics? Or would you understand that work has different meanings depending on context?

[apollosarrow@lemmy.world]

As you’ve seen from other comments the short answer is that it doesn’t exist. Honestly the most civilized place I’ve come across is on Tildes, which is not federated and an even smaller community. But it has the charm of earlier reddit days where people actually liked speaking with one another.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

yes you would. you would see straight up imperialism apologia which is ok to their democrat audience i guess.

fuck i remember a post on r/arab getting nuked from the frontpage without a trace when they posted a video of the us bombings in iraq. a few similar ones but this is the one of the worst i remember.

the us has no significant left wing movement. maybe among the minorities.

[gbu_28@lemm.ee]

Imperialism isn't unique to right wing

[hmmm@sh.itjust.works]

Linux

Linux isn't politics.

i use arch, btw.

[rooty@lemmy.world]

Lemmy.world is pretty moderate left wing, your Democrat volunteering friend sounds like a crypto conservative.

I don't know if you've noticed, but global politics have taken a nasty turn, and mincing words to appease the appeasers tends to end in a "and then they came for me" scenario.

Instead of finding a milquetoast community where you can trade lukewarm takes while Reichstag burns to the ground, why not try to engage with people you might not see eye to eye, but may broaden your horizons and even change some of your attitudes.

[rooty@lemmy.world]

Linux isn't politics

A wild Richard Stallman has appeared!