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Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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Leftism is inherenty tied to technology, especially new.

I don’t know, there has always been a huge libertarian contingent of the tech industry as well. I’m not sure which is bigger. I hope the leftism.

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novibe@lemmy.ml
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I feel that comment is on the vibe of “liberals are leftists”.

Edit: “that comment” as in the one above the one I’m replying to…

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Flying Squid@lemmy.ml
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Libertarians are not leftists.

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irmoz@reddthat.com
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Ayn Rand style, “Don’t tread on me” objectivists, no. But they just co-opted the term. Libertarianism is pretty much anarchism, which is incomoatible with right wing beliefs, no matter what an-caps try and tell you. A right wing social order necessitates hierarchy, which anarchism is diametrically opposed to.

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markr@lemmy.world
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Depends on which libertarian ideology is being expressed. Left libertarians - anarcho-syndicalists libertarian socialists, anarcho-communists are all libertarians. The right wing of anarchism aren’t leftists, the left wing are.

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MBM@lemmings.world
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Yeah crypto bros aren’t exactly leftist, neither is the hypercapitalist Silicon Valley crowd, and I’ve encountered plenty of other tech enthusiasts with worrying opinions.

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