Hey! I really appreciate you looping me in on this.

I am just trying to sort out whether you are (1) posting this stuff because you think it’s true (2) posting it because “doing battle for your team” so to speak is the pattern of behavior you see, by fun conservative commentators you’re trying to emulate (3) posting it because you’ve independently decided that you don’t give a shit whether it’s true as long as it “feels” like a win for your side.

For the things I post, I’ll usually post them because I either 1) think that the content is probably both relevant and true, 2) it portrays a relevant perspective, or 3) is just plain interesting

If any articles I share make false claims in a community like @[email protected] then I’m more than happy to remove them. For places like @[email protected] I’m not as careful and I hope it’s clear that the stuff over there or at @[email protected] aren’t always going to be 100% true or objective.

Now as far as my behavior is concerned @bdonvr@[email protected] if I’m no longer welcome here I’ll leave. Many of my communities here are continuations of my old Lotide communities, and I only left that software because it’s abandonware now. I’m sure at this point there’d be other Lemmy instances I could go to if you don’t like what I post here.

Edit: Also, the point of Rule 6 was to reduce spam, as my communities were starting to get brigaded by leftists basically saying “fake news” verbatim in the comment sections of certain news posts. I don’t like those types of rules, but it seems necessary for now since it keeps happening. It’s a neutral rule, so if anyone says “fake news” on an article from a center or left leaning source I’ll remove that comment too.

Edit 2:

No this is a thing in blue states, and not at all related to being a citizen or immigrant. I think they call it “equitive justice” or “progressive prosecution”, either DAs will refuse to charge a POC for a crime due to their race, or judges will waive bail for the same reason.

Where did you read this? Can I find out more details about why you think this is happening, and read for myself the argument that it is happening?

This was something I noticed during BLM riots particularly, and in some blue areas afterwards like in New York (though not as prominently since the riots), there’d be cases of somebody stealing something or hurting someone, caught on video, and the DA would refuse to place charges on the individual. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out why else they would do that.

Now to be fair I think there was some overlap between the BLM riots and me still watching Steven Crowder so maybe some of the stuff I observed at the time wasn’t entirely accurate or correct (I stopped watching him during the Summer Of Love because I noticed he wasn’t as truthful as he claimed to be during his coverage)