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I love the fact that people with different opinions are all allowed here.
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[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun - 3 years ago (13 children)
SaidIt is not full free speech because of the pyramid of debate and the desire to "not become voat" (see /s/holocaustskepticism).
It's certainly better than reddit right now though.
I too like that there are people from all different sides here, I might actually gasp learn to talk to people with differing opinions and incentives again.
I do think it could be something special.
[–]BravoVictor 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (12 children)
That is the trick. Alternative sites have a balancing act. On one hand, they want to support free speech. But on the other hand, they don't want to become a cesspool that are only visited from the literal neo-Nazis ejected from other sites. I don't think Voat's quite that bad, but it does have a lot of "edgybois" who think it's fun and hip to call everyone the n-word. Those types of idiots shouldn't be banned, but too many of them also can really kill a site's adoption.
[–]PencilPusher55 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (11 children)
Curious. What is up with the go-to of bad online personalities being Neo-Nazi's? I think the far left (reddit) has been the most malignant, nasty, and oppressive personalities that I have run into.
[–]Zednix 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (10 children)
People have been taught that Nazis are the most evil thing you can be, not that being a Stalinist/Communist/Marxist is equally or more evil in many instances. They default to Nazi = worst evil because of the lack of knowledge about Marixsm and Stalinism.
[–]Mouldy_Badger 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (7 children)
TBF, the Nazis were kind of cunts.
[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Fair enough but from what I hear, that Stalin guy was a real jerk.
[–]Mouldy_Badger 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
He changed. OK with the Nazis, a cunt afterwards.
Russian history is a rabbit-hole, expect no sanity there.
[–]King_Brutus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (3 children)
I can tell you also that I have met very few actual outright "neo nazis" in my time online and FAR more out and proud "communists" and "marxists".
Just anecdotal
[–]Mouldy_Badger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
You need better friends. Neither should be an option.
[–]King_Brutus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
"met" is a loose term, I was mostly referencing online users. Unfortunately it seems communism and marxism are far more publicly acceptable and more people I know are trending towards them.
[–]Mouldy_Badger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
We're all dogs online
[–]Zednix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
They certainly were evil, but we don't get taught just how evil the Communists are.
[–]Lastrevio 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Well I guess Nazism intentionally wants to kill people while marxists don't but they end up killing people indirectly so this makes them not technically advocate for murder.
Stalinism/communism/marxism are all branches from the same tree. Stalinism/Communism is quite a bit more evil than Nazism, but that's getting into evil olympics. I guess the main problem is that in Western cultures we aren't taught about the disgusting evils of communism, only nazism.
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