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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy copium batman, imagine excusing malware and checks notes literally aiding in denying rights to LGBTQ+ people.

Let me guess, you pretend to be centrist by day, and you wear

By night?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You got me, I guess? But don't tell my POC SO that I've been happily married to for >10 years.

Seriously though, this is the kind of extreme take I'm pushing back on. I strongly disagree with the Lemmy devs' politics, yet here I am on their platform. I've even contributed bug fixes. I strongly disagree with Eich's politics, yet I use Brave as my backup browser. Why? It meets my technical requirements. Firefox is my main browser though.

I'm not a centrist either, whatever that means, but I guess of you average out my extreme takes it could look that way. Conservatives call me socialist, Progressives call me far right, so I guess the middle of that is centrist?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I made the mistake of responding to Lumiluz on a different comment thread. They haven't responded yet, but based on this communication here I will just ignore any reply. It's strange we live in a world where you can be accused of being a KKK member due to unrelated tools one uses to browse the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's not strange, people love jumping to extreme conclusions if there's even a whiff of something they don't like. Name calling is unfortunately very common.

I'd prefer more fact based discussions, but here we are.

The crazy thing is, I very much dislike Trump, but I get labeled as a supporter if I dare say anything positive about him or anyone who supports him, or in this case, not vehemently oppose everything a Trump supporter touches. I find that ridiculous, but here we are.

Anyway, hopefully someone finds what I write useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For what it's worth, I agree 100%. I'm awfully tired of this whole "everyone who disagrees with me is a nazi/KKK" extremism. It's a great disservice to the severity of those atrocities.