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If I come across a group of people all using the same contrived name for an instance I'm on, I'm going to associate them all together. "tankie triad" mudslinging is why I'm responding with this dynamic that you've identified. Turnabout is fair play.
You made the original accusation of a .ml hivemind, hence my wide-ranging explanation, because that's what it took to convey my point.
If you're tired of being my interlocutor I'm happy to disengage. I was only explaining my objection to your original assertion, I provided my perspective.
I said that lemmy.ml has a consensus that genocide in Ukraine and Xinjiang is okay.
Check this out (search date range limiting is broken maybe? IDK, you have to talk to the developers):
https://lemmy.ml/search?q=xinjiang&type=Comments&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopWeek
As for Ukraine:
https://lemmy.ml/search?q=ukraine&type=Comments&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=TopWeek
IDK, maybe it's fair to say that they've realized that Russia is the aggressor in the Ukraine war at this point. They do seem to have developed some acceptability for the anti-Putin point of view, at least, I'll give them that.
You seem like you took "hivemind" as pejorative, which I guess is fair. But all I said was that lemmy.ml in general has a consensus view about Ukraine and Xinjiang. No?
Any conversation about Kamala Harris?
I have not very many things positive to say about her other than she would probably not be as catastrophic as Trump is.
Misogyny:
Ableism:

They'll censor calling Ukraine a genocide. I don't like hearing that kind of talk either. It's a war, they're terrible and a nonstop fountain of violence, but it's not an ethnic cleansing campaign.
Can you elaborate on what the issue with this one is?
one of the links included this:
Accusing China of doing a genocide was a Trump term 1 hobbyhorse carried over by Biden just like how they didn't cancel his tariffs from then either.