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thanks; wonderful point.

I've noticed an uptick in concervative fuckery here lately. fuckin' mcgoo's

Also know as gaslighting

And I wouldn't want to be that "I LIVED AS A CAPITALIST EVERY SINGLE DAY CENK!" guy.

This is where the smart kids hang out. As Trump said, smart people don't like him.

Many of the Big Brains moaning about "Blueskyism" also smugly carp at "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

This is actually really profound because I think that more than left/right divisions right now, THIS is the division. People who see this for what it is and are sounding the alarms, and ppl who are like stop I just want to live my life in peace. And those ppl can be and are from the left AND right.

Exactly. Two different realities. I remember when this splintered and thought OMG, they are living in an upside world. It’s crazy.

The battle in America right now is not between Democrats and Republicans or liberals and conservatives, that’s just window dressing. It’s between liberals and authoritarians. You can be democratic or republican and still be a classic liberal. The modern GOP is illiberal.

Yes. The Gas Lighter in Chief is the main source of the division and much of the madness we're drowning in today.

It’s not that deep. When every post is about calling Americans “Nazis” and “facists” it’s hard to take it seriously.

My sister is maga. She dismisses my concerns as "deranged drama". Maga will never believe the truth about anything.

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That's a big part of it. This is also one of the few remaining media spaces not controlled by fascists. If they thought bluesky was irrelevant, they'd just ignore it.

There seems to be enough intelligence here that heads are on our shoulders and functioning. They aren’t up our behinds, or busy kissing other’s’ behinds.

Yeah, it’s not like the professional cynics have ever underestimated what this admin is capable of & willing to do. If any POV has been vindicated since 2016, it’s the POV of those of us who knew what he was then & what he is now. The rest is cope & denial.

If they hate us we are doing something right.

Bluesky allows everybody who follows this app to express their thoughts and feelings completely completely etc

Precisely, I have no idea what is meant by this post.

It's almost like that hobby has limits, and maybe they should find something else to do with their one precious life

Oh yeah, cos none of us issued any kind of warnings about Trump 2.0. Do the haters feel that those concerns were misguided or exaggerated? Probably yeah, if they’re already haters. But hey, if they’re listening: 🚨‼️ 📣A FARAGE GOVERNMENT WILL DESTROY THE UK IN THE SAME WAY!🚨

Maybe they just aren’t following users that discuss other things like mud and slime 😅

Mmmmmhmm We're not happy about it either!!

every individual in the regime as they seek $$$ and power rather than protecting and caring for Americans. There is plenty of proof of such avarice and one example is the refusal to put common sense gun laws in place. $$$ has been callously chosen over lives, beyond sickening. The reality 47 et 4/

That’s odd. They’re acting as if Americans don’t believe they’re living in a new “Golden Age” and they’re terrified people are going to point that out. youtu.be/MEyBTmV42X4?...

I fear you are right.

There’s no better indication of Blu Sky’s immense value than the fact that Nazis are concerned about its existence.

Bluesky is so much better than that Nazi bar down the street.

My husband says the same. I don't have the patience to sift through the steady stream of disinformation.

posts the elder freud picture here he has to stop getting away with it

Yes.

Listen to scholars on fascism and authoritarianism. Listen to or read survivors of Nazi death camps. Read books on WW2. Look who this administration doesn't insult and lie about. Believe your eyes and ears Trump Inc is destroying our democracy. It's just what are we going to do about it.

Foreign media posts on Bluesky.

Motives of people who post obviously include a desire to say something, not necessarily listen to something, but I have had meaningful discussions on BlueSky and have been corrected as well. So far it is decently fast with news and refreshingly decent in tone, unlike eX which is a sewer.

Same shit, different population. There is intelligence to be found on both.

Ask the geniuses over at The Argument @jerusalem.bsky.social

The subjectivity of immediate surroundings and circumstance is a hell of a drug.

Kinda feels like another species of "liberal media bias". It's discrediting the message by discrediting the messenger, and provides an easy way to dismiss what is being said without having to actually engage on the merits. I know MAGAs who dismiss anything not reported on FOX as fake news.

I believe he is referring to Project 2025.

I almost turned off @stephruhle.bsky.social tonight when I saw @peterbakernyt.bsky.social but stayed because you were on. You actually talk sense!

Get out of your bubble. There’s no mass hatred for bluesky out in the rest of the world, but there has been a drop in xitter and fbook users or time spent on those sites because of EM & Zuck dislike

Not a liberal doomer here, BUT the fake people (bots) are more numerous than realized here.

All the misguided exaggerating people have been right

This was my take on the hate...

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I prefer to assess the threat. I research if there is legal precedent for Trump or Miller or Bondi etc…to do whatever it is they’re threatening to do, and then decide if said idiotic threat/proposal is worthy of doom. It usually isn’t.

It’s also misguided envy for the successful, healthy community that has grown & thrives…..

Some are angry bc so many frustrated people turned on their heels and went to place where they have more control to what they see, can say and want to hear. They cannot force themselves (see a pattern there) yelling to our ears their hate towards world they see unfair towards them.

It’s “You’ve got Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS!” - at scale.

His supporters deep down know he is a danger to our democracy, society in general and to the world order. On Bluesky, we forewarn & heed the battle cry to defend & protect our country from him and his followers who want to destroy our way of life & our rights including right to even have opinions.

Thanks for that I blocked them. No reason to platform insincere people begging for attention.

Welcome to how women are treated pretty much all the time. “You’re being hysterical.”

My mental health isnt good enough to go on the other site. Sometimes you just have to remove yourself from toxic situations altogether.

My mother, born in actual Nazi Germany in 1941, is likewise very alarmed. She keeps saying "this is exactly how my parents described things."

Don’t let the bastards get you down!

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No it’s because the conservative right only allows like thinkers else those indoctrinated to obey without question might get an ounce of critical thinking skills and question WTF they have been indoctrinated to!

I wonder how most people here would react to that.

The neonazi snowflakes are adamant about not having to ever be questioned, it's part of their thing. Free speech for me none for thee is the fascist fuckin' way

I don't really think they put that much consideration into it.

Mostly this place is populated with naive and timid people who imagine MAGA is a passing thing

And thirst for justice.

Ed Davey is the leader of the 3rd largest party in the UK Parliament

The mind frame of sadists.

most of the criticism I've seen of bsky out in the wilds is that it's the last bastion of progressive-ish people who care more about the wording you use to complain about an issue than how you'd want to solve it

Too too many critical thinkers posting on Bluesky. Makes the control freaks very nervous. Hard to spew propaganda when so many people can think for themselves.

Is it hated here? I recently got back on X and holy shit, is that toxic! I feel like there's actually some intellect here.

We're in a full 10 years of "oh that can never happen" now.

It is getting harder every week to find media that is not being controlled or in the process of being bought up by the American government or some billionaire tech bro. A platform that promotes truthful conversation is the real threat I think.

In my experience though, the people on "default X" are even more wild though. They're in a constant state of frothing rage. Here, people are just sad.

Haters gonna hate. If it doesn't align with their ideology, they fault-find and hate. These are some seriously insecure people. Bluesky is doing fine.

American exceptionalism is a helluva drug.

Yep

Exactly

🤷‍♀️ we continue to be proven right day after day but whose counting…

Also the people into gaslighting can’t play here, line the creatures from War of the Worlds but look similarly imposing in their own element.

ok doomer

Yes, but they also need a foil because that is their business model.

A lot of this bullshit about “ the left is violent” is trolls seeing phrases like. “Not happy about issue xxx? light up your legislators! “ and rushing to See? See? That leftist just told people to commit arson!

Haters are gonna hate. As far as being labeled a liberal doomer, I’m A-Okay with that. It’s bad now, but I have hope that folks will use the best means they have to change things… And that’s your vote 🗳️. Let’s vote better. Next time. And every time. Don’t skip it. Uncle Sam needs YOU!! 🇺🇸

The ruling class really doesn't know why others unwaveringly protest office holders trying to re-instate Jim Crow, continue a genocide, demonize transgenders. Those "dismissing" Bluesky aren't dismissing our concerns. They see nothing wrong with the official agenda and want us to surrender.

It’s like yelling at the fire alarm for making too much noise while your kitchen is burning.

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The far left is a problem. I got swamped and attacked for defending Elissa Slotkin's speech from trans flags, commies, foreigner, and even moderate Dems We are destroying Western Liberalism, and these people attacked Liberals. You will miss Liberalism. Ironically, many of them help create this.

Correct. 💯 People with that sentiment are the other side of MAGA escalating pain & harassment. The naysayers cause people to ignore the inevitable. AND WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING. So ppl won't prepare or try to do their best.

They dismiss facts and reality so that’s no surprise. They are fascists, lock stock and barrel.

It is actually really easy. You can even rearrange your feeds so you don't get politics first.

They fixate on frivolous minutiae to keep the real demons at bay. So here we (still) are.

I think a lot of them have grown to perceive of “I opt out of my top reply being a person who cannot put on their own shoes” as sheer decadence.

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The other reason for hatred for Bluesky is that we don’t give them the pleasure of funneling their shit at the other place.

Though it is funny that the most divorced man in the world named his website Ex dot com.

It’s projection.

And pretty self-serving if your one of the many MAGAts whose dopamine hit is reliant on owning a lib.

Well said. Most on BlueSky read, listen to, watch & stream msm outlets & podcasts. What’s funny, and reminds me of the “both sides are extreme” argument by msm journos in the 00s re: MSNBC & Fox, is that msm journos STILL say both sides go to their echo chamber. When BlueSky is primarily msm driven

I’m clear that the hatred is due to the decentralized nature of this platform. They characterize things as left or woke when they are trying to control or undermine something. Look at the “woke AI” EO. It’s just a pretense to remove any ethical barriers from LLMs. Online hatred by power is a bluff.

Just be honest, you're trying to play both sides? Hatred against Bluesky is very telling/

Mastodon hates you all equally, so that's nice isn't it?

If you look over the past 4 1/2 years, the “doomers” have been spot on. If the threat they’ve been calling out since January 6 had been fully recognized we might not be where we are.

Maybe. But maga morons really dislike wit and Blusky is witty quip central. The quip is the lingua franca of the micro blog. But maga has no quip-ability. What they have is crap. Nothing clever. They hate people who are funny.

It's about depriving opponents of the opportunity to communicate and network.

Every pathway to autocracy is littered with people being told they are overreacting.

I am independent, former Republican, and love BlueSky so how does that calculate as liberal? I am opposed to X because of all the things Musk did to us period. I left the Republican Party because of its extreme far right direction & Trump’s craziness in first term. They are nuts!