Republicans have spent so long holding back the will of the people in Texas.

The dam finally burst.

I’ll consider it an official publication of the Texas Supreme Court, then.

We didn’t need congress at all when it came time to break the Leahy law to sell weapons for genocide.

Centrist democrats can be effective when it’s the only thing they want to do.

Why have people lost faith?

At that point in time, it would probably have been gentoo or maybe LFS.

He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs.

People have lost faith that there is any candidate willing to fix or even slow this.

I only remember the bit where Don Rickles overcharged me for an omlette.

See also: anyone on lemmy who gets mad when you say that genocide is bad.

Is she even a liberal though? She’s a puppet of fascists.

So a liberal.

She’s representing liberals like you perfectly.

AES is a DSA candidate, so it’s not like this is inconsistent behavior for centrist democrats.

And vice-versa.

They still score high with the points from only one z. Especially if you can play them off the end of something and use all 7 tiles.

I provided four reasons why this was relevant

After starting right out the gate with:

There is a decent argument historically that communism and other left movements are extremist, racist, and anti-lgbtq.

We’re talking about today. On a relatively new community. Frankly, I see no reason to tolerate the bigots you’re so keen on coddling until they take over and make this another version of reddit’s the_donald, complete with organizing nazi rallies. Particularly not with the vague and spurious “there is a decent argument” hand wavy FUD that you didn’t explain as a justification. Are a lot of people saying it?

Moving onto your 4 points, let’s look at how they worked so well over at reddit, with all the virtuous acceptance of intolerance and nazi-coddling they’ve done, shall we?

Group think

No, reddit has never had groupthink. Not for an instant. Thank god they let the bigots in otherwise they’d have groupthink!

Banning of other radical ideologies that you may agree with

Post anything on conservative even slightly counter to their bigoted orthodoxy and see how that goes. Hell, suggest that fascism is not amenable to reason and must be opposed with force anywhere on reddit and see how that goes.

You alienate those people from exposure to better concepts

They had abundant exposure to better concepts on reddit. Look how well that’s worked so far. Clearly the answer is to let them spread their shit all over lemmy.

You jump start compaction cycles for large scale propaganda organizations that could lead to actual violence

the_donald literally promoted and helped organize a nazi rally where Heather Heyer was run over and killed by a nazi’s car. On lovely ol’ bigot-coddling reddit. The sub was not banned for years afterwards. I do not want that for lemmy. I left reddit the instant an alternative that didn’t welcome bigotry got enough users.

Not everywhere has to entertain bigots. There’s already too many places that do. A community that welcomes bigots is unwelcoming to everyone but bigots. But holy shit, does it ever drive engagement.

Or a state-sponsored account

Oh, we’re throwing around wild accusations now?

I said “bigots” and you immediately jumped to “whatabout communists?!”

Moderators who coddle bigots.

Bigots.