Kung Fury still has the best spine joke.

This user has a strange post history.

Communism / Lennism / Marxism was the left-authoritarians.

Fascism was the right-wing authoritarians.

See WW2 for details.

A lot of us were hoping to push gun control actually.

I’m glad you and me are together for voting.

But coming up with a strategy to win Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan is now harder than ever.

We probably just lost Pennsylvania over this. This assassination attempt was in that State.

Yes. Unironically.

Now is the time for me to point out how short sighted and annoyingly stupid some left wingers are.

We have a few short weeks before the DNC. We need to come together and determine if Biden quits and who should replace him if he does.

Who will be at the DNC? Far left fuckers. Do you want to give them the microphone in this political setting? Or do we just stick with Biden or Harris?

Seriously. Think about what this entails for short term plans.

Edgelords who are serious (or even joking) about this tragedy.

Tomorrow at the RNC, watch it. Every right-winger will be using this as proof of political violence and blame the left.

And the left will be angered and make more edgelords jokes and we lose the election in a few months. Well, at the current path anyway. None of this shit helps.

With luck, cooler heads prevail and people remember why we have a calm President like Biden in charge right now.

But now DNC will have this shit hanging over it. Just a few shitty protesters will make everyone in the country hate Democrats.

I bet that a lot of the leftists are Russian trolls.

Remember we live in divided times. Keep an eye out for the reasonable people. We need to stick together.

It’s easier than ever to spread distrust right now. And we have to deal with a foreign adversary who will 100% try to turn this violent.

Russians played the Black Lives Matter vs Blue Lives Matter and tried to make both sides distrust. It’s not just our base instincts at play here, but also foreign interference from our enemies at play.

You fuckers (erm… not you specifically. But more like the edgelords) are turning Donald Trump into the next Regan. We will literally never hear the end of this for the rest of our lives.

A successful assassination would have turned Trump into a martyr and only embolded the far right.

A failed on: this case, will only embolden Donald Trump himself and the religious right will now see it as a sign that he’s been chosen by God himself.

Good job fuckers. You are making us lose the election. And leftists are edgelording as if this was a good thing.

Hitler was deposed by USA and Soviets kicking Germany’s ass. Who is going to fight USAs army today if an authoritarian like Trump gets the reins?

Oh right. No one.

The far left are already fucking this up. Look at these dumbass edge lords.

I never trusted the far left to do anything after the bullshit that was Occupy Wall Street (aka: let the far right rally in 2012, 2014 and 2016). Far left attention seekers want chaos and encourage this shit while the moderates look on in horror as our political standing gets erased by this kind of bullshit.

And people ask me why I distrust ‘Chaos’ at the fucking Democrats convention.

I don’t fucking trust the left. Good job fucking this up so far. The rest of us will need to work harder to keep Trump out of office now, and the far left is making things worse.

I don’t trust y’all to come up with a reasonable candidate aside from Biden or Harris.

At least Biden / Harris are being adults today.

I mean, I don’t have much problem with people disagreeing with me. But I’m pretty openly pro-capitalist, though I’m not a dumbass libertarian.

I recognize the need for the “capitalist edge cases” (externalities, monopolies, etc. etc.) that must be regulated and fixed for the system to work. I also recognize that we’ve failed to regulate externalities (ex: CO2 emissions), and failed to regulate monopolies / anticompetitive behavior (see Google).

So I’m a “capitalism works, but only if we work to make it work” kind of person. I think at the moment, Reddit and many other social networks are falling into the well known and well studied failures of raw capitalism, but somehow today’s society has forgotten all the 1910s era solutions that we did (ex: Jungle, etc. etc.) where we regulated the hell out of the shitty behavior and fixed the most blatant problems, for the better of America.

We just gotta do the same thing today.

Overall, I accept that the commies / tankies were here first, and the history of Lemmy makes it clear why that happened.

Lemmy, the social network, started off as a leftist hangout spot.

From the perspective of “Open Source developers who are anti-Reddit pro-Fediverse”, it makes a lot of sense for Leftist/Communist and anti-corporation leaning people to hang out.

After all, the more extreme the viewpoint, the more driven to action (ie: write tens-of-thousands of lines of code and release for free) people get. In some regards, its the nature of Open Source + volunteer effort to attract a more extreme ideology. IE: Free Software is driven by ideology, not by money. So you get ideological people, especially when the software is small and niche.

The July 2023 Reddit Blackout was a big challenge for Lemmy’s old community and the new community, as the new community basically “invaded” a large scale leftist hangout spot. But hopefully we all learn to work together and the nature of our neighbors moving forward.

I think anyone here (likely everyone?) is at least on the anti-corporate anti-Reddit side of the discussion. Which is enough of an alliance to keep us together, for now.

It does mean that we’ll have to keep up with the far-left old-timers on this network who wish to push their viewpoints. But they are the legacy and the start of Lemmy in some respects, even as the hypergrowth (starting in July 2023) has moderated the community pretty severely.