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‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter sends shockwaves across the globe
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I mean, sure, that's the worst thing we've seen all week so far. But look - Harris didn't do enough for the proletariat!
So. Y'know. This is the Democrats' fault.
You gotta put /s or face confusion.
Fun fact, detecting written sarcasm is one of the more, let’s say, rare elements of verbal fluency.
Lemmy.ml genuinely believes this. They will still insist that not supporting Harris was somehow the right decision.
probably too much of a sweeping generalization there. I would say (with zero evidence other than my interactions) that after the great reddit migration, those who might say this are likely in the minority.
I cannot defend this other than "the feels", but hey... I think lemmy.ml got moderated a little with the influx of cooler heads.
Maybe I shouldn't generalise, but when I have seen Lemmy.ml posters, they often take quite extreme positions. E.g. insisting it would have been wrong to vote for Harris (even as a lesser-of-two-evils), insisting that Chinese imperialism and Russian imperialism are justified (only western imperialism is evil, apparently). Stuff like that.
there are long standing radicals on the .ml instances, to be sure. I would place the bulk of the current lemmy.ml userbase between Democratic Socialist and Social Democrat (with a strong, vocal splash of authoritarians mixed in there somewhere).
lemmygrad.ml and hexbear are often otherworldly - interesting to watch, ocassionally interesting to engage, but always entertaining if you can pick out the salient arguments from the confusion. love federated systems :-)