Is Lemmy getting more radical lately?

Can you think of anything that happened in the past month or so, perhaps involving US politics, that might have a tendency to radicalize people?

Its not really just Lemmy tho. Its everywhere.

People are just mad these days and that event in NYC ignited their anger they always had.

I think most people are more like saying "LOL" at what happened rather than "Lets kill [insert person name here]". I mean, nobody really asked for it, nobody gave the pepetrator the "okay" to do it, the person just did it. People aren't sympathetic because the dead person wasn't such a nice person.

Remember how people celebrated Bin Laden's death, this is like that. Different nationality, same killer mindset that they had in common.

First shots in defense of the working class have been fired in the class war and most of us are surprised it took this long.

As someone who’s father was killed by health insurance companies, the assassination of the UHC CEO brings out some really passionate bloodthirsty emotions in me. And I’m just one person….

The assassin is my hero. Too bad if it hurts your sensibilities. Fuck him, fuck his family, no sympathy. I hope there are many copycats, there are many deserving targets.

Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable. They have it coming.

Is Lemmy getting more bootlicker lately?

Slaves cheering when a slave owner dies seems pretty normal, no?

The recent killing of the UHC CEO seems to have pushed all the right buttons in activating people's bloodlust and mob mentality. But I actually looked at some of the threads on reddit after being a bit taken aback by the reaction on Lemmy, and redditors were being just as violent. So I don't think it's Lemmy getting more radical, it's just the flavor of the week right now to celebrate violence, as long as it's against the bad guys.

what is the opposite of "radical", in your opinion, and was lemmy like that before "lately"?

I think it's America that's getting more violent. You see the same thing on other platforms.

There is definitely a trend towards calling for death and violence against billionaires and other powerful figures that I've observed over a while.

I say it's getting less radical when 20 years ago a country got invaded, a million killed, based on nothing but lies and no one bat an eye on any forum.

Yes and no.

There are more calls for violence, yes.

But a lot of people on Lemmy have a lot of catching up to do in understanding the world, nuances and getting rid of outdated and harmful thinking stagnated by clinging onto certain ideologies and belief systems.

That would be way more 'radical' than just violence alone.

Lemmy started as tankie safe-haven, and those memes are all over, not just on lemmy.
So I'd say, no.

What communities?

Not that much, but I blocked some pretty nsfw instances…

Yes, it's an extremist echo chamber and have been for a while. Basically since the Great Reddit Exodus faded out and almost everyone went back to Reddit. Except a disproportionate number of far left extremists decided to make Lemmy their home.

Tankies, who are so far left that they make a full circle and are almost undistinguishable from far right are the most obvious, but generally the mood here is kinda radical.

If you're tired of it, just block every political community and everyone who posts political stuff into other communities. Not sure how much of Lemmy will be left, but perhaps it's worth trying?

Just yesterday I read a post about a woman being stalked by a supposed Nazi. At least 5 comments were quite literally 'buy a gun and shoot him', those had by far the most upvotes. When I said I hope theyre joking, I got downvoted and told you dont joke around when it comes to Nazis.

So yeah, maybe Lemmy is becoming kind of radical.

Yes, but, see everyone else's statements.

Also, lemmy.ml is widely seen as a very radical instance. The polarization and downvoting for contrary opinions is far worse around here.

Radical but not logical. Make a post about a violent criminal who murders someone. And then poll the community if that criminal should get the death penalty. And I'll bet the majority would say no and be against the death penalty for all convicted criminals. But those same people have no problem cheering on the murder of someone that they don't like. If a person can live with this contradiction I'd guess that they just aren't thinking for themselves but following a crowd.

Lemmy seems to have more crazies on it lately who are advocating for murder of innocent people just because they don't like them.

Reddit sucks and now Lemmy is going down the tubes. Hopefully these people either get banned or Lemmy servers that advocate for senseless violence get shut down.