I’d describe myself as politically “center-left” and I go on the streets against the far-right in my country… Not “left” enough for the lemmy community hexbear(.)net, I guess, which banned me for “facism”.
“Advertisement”: Go to hexbear(.)net if you want to be able to say “Death to Israel” or “The situation in Gaza is like the holocaust” without getting banned. No, you even get a lot of likes and no one will say anything against that. No one will share arguments against yours. Why? Because those people will instead get banned.
At least, I have an explanation now… There is no one arguing against what is posted there, because everyone who tries, is getting banned.
Yep, that’s some hardcore leftist echochamber. I’ve had a whole bunch of communities there blocked up until you could block entire instances, now they and lemmygrad are completely gone. Plus I’ve blocked about 50 of the most prolific users from either community who kept pushing their vitriol on other instances.
Except, they’re not really leftist; most of them support authoritarian regimes, like Russia and China. I’ve engaged with them about the war in Ukraine, for example, and their opinions on the matter ranged from “Ukraine should just let Russia win, because war is bad” to “Ukraine is full of Nazis, so go Russia”. If I had to make an historical comparison for them, I’d say that they’re basically like Mao’s red guards - kids with a little schooling under their belt who were nevertheless dumb enough to join a cult of personality for a bloodthirsty maniac.
Right, some angry clowns. I never tried to dig deep enough to understand what ideology they really support in the end, just know that every interaction I had was deeply unpleasant and hateful.