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New community: Liberal World News! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Come on, mate. Saying "Non-capitalist outlets defend authoritarian regimes and push conspiracies" hardly matches your mission statement from your sub:

This group is meant as a companion-piece to the !worldnews community and act as a productive and useful addition to the “lemmyverse” as resource for discovering world news.

You might be concerned about this becoming a echo-chamber, which we are painfully aware and concerned about. We can’t claim to be perfect ideal people or guaranty that this will be a perfect community for world news.

But gosh darn we will try out best!"

Bashing alternative views surely isn't your best, no?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I don't get what you are trying to communicate. Could you explain it differently?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Your grandparent comment:

And others will defend authoritarian regimes and push conspiracies.

basically says "non-capitalist outlets defend authoritarian regimes ...". I think that's bashing anything non-capitalist / tilting towards propaganda and believe systems. There are many non-capitalist arguments that don't have anything to do with authoritarian regimes or conspiracy theories.

Your mission statement says that you want to be productive and avoid becoming an echo chamber.

Those two statements don't align as far as I'm concerned, since you basically set yourself up as an echo chamber.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Well, I beg to differ. But that is your opinion and I respect that regardless of how misrepresented I feel about how you portray my position.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Maybe you have time to explain how I misinterpreted your position?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You are trying to throw stones at a wall in hopes of getting bricks to talk.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I don't believe all 'non-capitalistic outlets defend authoritarian regimes'. I believe there is a giant majority community on Lemmy with lemmygrad who will go to any length to defend authoritarian regimes. They are also highly conspiratorial and believe that all of mainstream western media is propaganda, and that there doesn't exist a true democracy in the west. They will also dominate the threads in addition to some becoming annoyed another narrative is portrayed leading the person sharing the other narrative getting all posts downvoted and most interactions tainted by their wrath.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago (1 children)

All of this sounds quite loaded from an ideological point of view. You may not believe that non-capitalism supports authoritarians, but that is what you wrote.

It feels that your are on a mission to defend western mainstream media, but it seems that your main point is that you don't like others attacking it. The arguments you don't like, "dominate the threads" because lemmy started with people on the left end of the spectrum. Calling it "conspirational" and complaining about getting downvoted misses the idea lemmy presents.

You can get downvoted on a comment to eternity. It won't show up in your karma and you are free to engage in the next discussion as you please. People won't care about your internet points.