@LondonCalling Good notion but nah this was from when they first set up a Mastodon server, they imported all their old users and statuses to inflate their numbers.
It's true the instance is growing, and perhaps more rapidly than other instances today, but that's not quite what I'm looking at.
@emsenn @LondonCalling@todon.nl is it seriously growing? That's sad and disturbing.
@Wetrix Just an FYI but a quick perusal of your profile shows that from my perspective, you're close to tipping alt-right yourself. That's great you find sites like Gab disturbing, but sites like NaturalNews.com are similar (and in fact, that one maintains a presence in the Gab community) in the important ways, and serve to normalize alt-right content and act as a funnel into further right views.
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@Wetrix Your conservativism can certainly inform your resistance, but if you are not resistant to the current rise of fascism, it doesn't matter what you call yourself: you're a collaborator. (And the same is as true for any liberal who calls themselves such but doesn't do anything to curb the authoritarian nature of state power.)
@Wetrix (Sorry for the spiel, but you were receptive to the first bit of unsolicited criticism, lol.)
@emsenn yeah it's all good I'm always up for good convo 😁
I have to get some sleep but I'll be on later! Have a good one 😎
@emsenn never thought of it that way. I'll have to ponder that 🤔
If someone takes an ideology like Islam for example and they practice there religion peacefully they aren't supporting extremists just by existing though.
@Wetrix Except the money they donate goes to communities that without that money wouldn't have the resources to engage in terrorism. Just as money to the Christians funds child molestation, money to the U.S. gov goes toward bombing brown kids, and so on. How closely related the support is varies, but it's always there. 1/n
@Wetrix If Google includes news about the president's announcements to create new concentration camps, is that "censorship?" Is Google being "fascist" by not removing negative news results by our president?
I would hope the answers would both be obviously "no," but those are the claims of NaturalNews' article. "Don't trust what you read, the president does no wrong, private citizens and corporations taking actions is 'fascism' and 'censorship,'" and so on. That's supportive of fascism.
G'nite!
@Wetrix Good to hear that site isn't reflective of what you normally read.
I'd say that in a time when the government is becoming totalitarian, it's important that everyone who isn't actively fascist stop supporting the fascists. That means I don't think there can be "normal" conservatives, when our government is acting so abnormally: your "normal" conservativism supports and legitimizes the extreme form, and that means concentration camps and stochastic terrorism. 1/n