I’m not a fan of reddit. For me it was always a small group of Admins that imposed their control over everyone including the unpaid mods of groups. I’ve written about this before, but the other thing about reddit is what seems to be their ever changing reasons for banning people. And not just a ban for a week but permanent site wide bans. What I really object to is when a social media platform sells itself as politically neutral but really isn’t. There are Trump loyalist groups like patriots win and truth social that tell you exactly what they are. If you dare say anything negative about Trump you are banned forever. And that’s OK because you wouldn’t want to go there and at least they are telling you upfront what their deal is.

If Lemmy has this, I haven’t found it. But there should be a group for political discussion without labels. Regardless of your politics it is illogical to always defend “your tribe” since both sides do and say dumb stuff. The big secret is most people are not actually on the left or right. They are just living their lives trying to get by.

I also will never understand the name calling. If you have a different opinion it’s easy enough to have a civil discussion realizing that the other person just has a different point of view. That doesn’t make them a bad person.

Many years ago Saturday Night Live made fun of this whole name calling thing. Each week there would be a right vs. left debate of an issue. And the guy on the right always began his rebuttal this way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYRVUqNHD9U

So what we all laughed at then is now far to common and accepted today