Obviously, the history of Lemmy does have a history that skews left. Why lie about it? But I believe that the left is also supportive of free speech, and that does not mean that they have an obligation to include me on their left wing instances or something, but they at least have some kind of obligation to entertain the thought that it is possible to be on Lemmy, on an instance that is welcoming of all sort of content, and post conservative content without being some troll.
I suppose this strikes home with me simply because I hate the idea of being thought of as a bad faith poster.
It’s fine to hate me for my political stances, sure, I get it - I was young and thought all my detractors once were evil…
But, plz, for the love of God, there can be Lemmy instances in the Fediverse that are conservative, and not everything is about annoying you.
Of course, but long before the Ukraine war started, I posted stuff from RT, or Xinhua, or whatever it was, because I felt that some of the best news stories are those that come from sources critical of Western interests that do not fall cleanly into our own left/right dichotomies due to their divergent interests.
I will read a story from any source, even those that are not super credible, partly because I have found so much error by omission or distortion in “credible” sources.
This is where I consistently find myself more radical than even the most die-hard revolutionary leftists – I am just as open to narratives offered by foreign news sources hostile to Western oligarchs as I am to establishment news stories. You would think this would be something that would endear me to the far left who, once upon a time, looked with enormous skepticism towards rags like the NY Times that previously functioned as mouthpieces for the CIA, but…
Times have changed.