• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I would disagree. I would say they’re passionate more than knowledge. They’re also easily manipulated because of that passion. They are more similar to radicalized pockets that existed on the right pre 2016. They are the bending of the reed left as the_Donald was bending it right. The goal is to snap the reed.

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                  4 hours ago

                  I think it’s similar to how immigration is maintained as a key target on the right. It’s a right leaning issue. On the right the topic of immigration is made out to be a bigger issue than it is. Because it serves a purpose to pass new laws and actions that people normally wouldn’t support.

                  You need to think about it for even a minute. The right have a lot of invested interest groups online. The left do not. There is a lot of money being used to push messages and ideas across the Internet. Lemmy isn’t a tiny digital space. These groups that target Reddit are going to be here on lemmy. They don’t target moderate Lemmy they go for the dumb radicals. The ones with more passion than brains. That is .ml

                  So these issues are left positions in the same way immigration concerns are a right leaning issue. But they’re strategic left issues that when pushed serve the goals of the invested interest more than it helps the left. Places like .ml are being groomed to become the poison pill for the next election cycle. They’re drip feeding them right now. It’ll ratchet up over time.