I know they’re going to say it is only jokes. Fuck that. I get y’all want to be edgelords, but this is the most dangerous thing that has happened this century. I would be surprised now if we make it to the end of the year without some people getting assassinated for real, and it will target overwhelmingly the leftest end of the spectrum.
Example, example, example. There are others.
Y’all are on the precipice of finding out firsthand the difference between “OMG I’m so oppressed, the police are racist and I’m struggling to pay my bills, civil war y’all” and “OMG I’m so oppressed, a gang of big violent fuckers with bats and boots and the support of the government just attacked my whole community, seriously hurt me, and burned part of my house down. They told us if they find us here tomorrow, they’ll kill us.”
Lemmy is effectively the left-wing equivalent of Gab or Truth Social. There’s a ton of extremists here, but they don’t see themselves as such because they believe their extremism is justified and that they’re on the right side of history. Ironically, that’s what all extremists think. Moments like this are the true test of one’s intellectual honesty. A rational, independent thinker should be able to condemn this kind of behavior even when it’s targeted towards their “enemies.”
The absolute hate for free speech I’ve encountered on Lemmy has also been perplexing, like it’s the whole point of a open federated platform. It’s the reason I blocked all the political communities, those discussions went nowhere with no ability to have a discussion deeper than sound bites repeated.