Flatworm7591 comments on Banned from leftymemes for "Tankie shite"

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

It can’t. If it’s common I’ll back off on that one. It’s absolutely a circle that cannot be squared as an authoritarian regime on stolen land dehumanizing and de-indigenizing levantine people by claiming they are arabian is unacceptable.

Awesome, thanks.

I'm gonna ignore the middle part because I'm sorry, I can't take it seriously, and you are making a completely false equivalence. Are you genuinely worried about North Korean sympathizers blowing up the White House right now? I mean, c'mon. You've got real problems to deal with over there instead of imaginary ones.

That last one I had previously reported before it was fully downvoted. That you aren’t seeing these things when they’re being reported and that they’re being left up is DEEPLY concerning to me. It seems like you’re taking a hands off approach to a community that people have noticed they can post their auth-comm propaganda to with at least relative impunity.

I guess I agree maybe it could do with some closer moderation and we are pretty hands off. It was a clear violation of Rule 2 and it has been removed. Mistakes happen. I've also discussed with Alsaas and we are gonna recruit some additional mods to help make sure things aren't missed, because tbh I don't usually bother with the comments unless there is a report. I guess I'll be missing out on that bonus.

it is WILDLY inappropriate to say @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com started this fight.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one, but I'm not gonna get into it here. Stay chill Quill.

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago

I’m gonna ignore the middle part because I’m sorry, I can’t take it seriously, and you are making a completely false equivalence. Are you genuinely worried about North Korean sympathizers blowing up the White House right now? I mean, c’mon. You’ve got real problems to deal with over there instead of imaginary ones.

Since the good faith trial period lasted so little time after I thought we made some forward progress and then realized this morning we hadn't, I feel the need to address this. This was not what I was saying at all. I'm not worried about NK sympathizers blowing up the white house, don't be absurd. I'm worried about hitting challenges trying to recruit people who are fed up with how awful everything is all the time to mutual aid projects and community defense groups because their only experience with The New Left is a bunch of online bullies bullying them. I'm worried about normalizing pro-authoritarian rhetoric in the spaces that I am working in to try to build a better world repeating all of the same mistakes of not just the last century, but of even just the last 15 years.

Unserious online nonsense has a way of making its way into the real world and then I have to deal with it. I already deal with it. There's a pro-genocide authoritarian in my town who believes that we, here in America, can't overthrow our shackles until every Ukrainian is dead because he truly believes all Ukrainians are Nazis. This makes it harder for me to get my neighbors to come with me to our community defense training because they're worried he might be there because the community defense group doesn't want to kick him out because he opposes Donald Trump. I can get hem to come with me to our mutual aid group to help distribute toys, clothing, and food, but his presence in my town makes readying ourselves to deal with ICE more difficult. The absurdity of course being ICE can't differentiate a Russian and a Ukrainian.

That's all I was trying to say. When you leave stuff like this alone it ferments into real world problems that someone else has to deal with.

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