Is there a lemmy commuity for moderate political discussions?
Basically I'm looking for a heterodox political lemmy community where moderate opinions are valued and the level of discourse is pretty good. Where people are there to talk and there's not as much venting.
I consider myself pretty far left and I find a lot of people here both insufferable and unable to hold a discussion without insults. And that's coming from people to the left of me.
It's hard, and I'm quickly going back to not talking about politics online. I'd hoped Lemmy would be a little better.
It also annoys me to no end that I have to defend Biden from people who have no political perspective.
Like the crime bill they attack him for that passed both houses with large bipartisan support.
It means NOTHING to retrospectively say the country was on a wrong path. He can't fix having done that, he can only do better. And by my liberal standards he's done fine.
So apparently this almost socialist is a moderate here. What the hell?
Yep. It's quite frustrating, because I want to support the concept of the community and what it supports tech-wise, but frequently I find myself clicking off the site because I've seen something political so eye-rollingly crazy I don't feel like sticking around.
I consider myself pretty far left and I find a lot of people here both insufferable and unable to hold a discussion without insults. And that's coming from people to the left of me.
I'm a mod on Politics and World News. Every day it's one slapfight or shit storm or another.
I fucking hate all these trendy uses of country codes. I just assumed it was based out of Malaysia or something.
I've also noticed that users of shit.just.works are apolitical assholes, which belies that they aren't apolitical in the first place. And it's a stupid name.
Yeah. Asking for moderate political discussion on Lemmy is like going to the model train expo and asking where the spot for G.I. Joe's is. It's a pretty unapologetically hard left site