• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Being a European, I am seeing extremists of both sides picking at each other.

    No normal people left anymore?

    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The US doesn’t have a left wing party. We have a extreme right wing party, and a center right wing party. This both sides shit is stupid as fuck. “We want to ban gays” is extreme. “We want gay people to have rights” is not

      • DharkStare@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I saw a comment on another post by a European explaining American politics to another European.

        “Their left is our right, their right is our far right, and their far right are literal flag waving Nazis.”

    • ArghZombies@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I guess if you’re mostly happy with how something is then you’ve no reason to bring it up.

      Nobody is writing long articles, posting tweets or appearing on TV shows to talk about it being quite nice that they can currently go and buy a beer from a shop. But someone could easily decide that they want to rile people up about the easiness of buying beer. And it all goes from there.

    • Overzeetop@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lots of them, but normal doesn’t sell advertisements or make headlines. I see by the downvotes (or whatever Lemmy calls them) that you’ve been visited by the Reddit groupthink. It feels weird when it happens. Some of us just want everyone to get along…which feels radical in its own way.

      • Forty@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Groupthink my ass. How about it’s not some idiot conspiracy and he’s just straight up wrong? Tough, I know.