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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Modlog: https://sh.itjust.works/modlog/25693?page=1&actionType=All&userId=21053985 , banned by @goat@sh.itjust.works

For context, goat started calling dbzer0 users tankies, and got into a few arguments.

More context:

It started (to my knowledge) with this comment, goat pinged db0 after he downvoted a comment

a note on the uyghurs (click to show

For the record, I believe that the Uyghurs are mistreated by the CCP, and are experiencing cultural erasure and Human Rights abuses, but there's a lack of evidence that it's a genocide specifically (especially since it seems to target the religion, rather than the ethnic group).

Goat banned IndustryStandard, leading to this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52160152/ leading to goat commenting this:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52160152/21070262

He mentions this:

We constantly encounter bots, spammers, alt accounts, trolls, and doxxers, so I need to be vigilant by regularly checking who’s interfering and from where.

Which I find ironic, since there was some vote manipulation happening, which goat did nothing about (and could be behind), but I'll get to that later.

After some more arguments, goat started calling dbzer0 users tankies, saying that letting tankie users engage on dbzer0 comms means other users are tankies:


source

He said that it's different for LW (lemmy.world) and SJW (sh.itjust.works, not the other word). He then poster the "Tank Man" picture to !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, as he expected us to retaliate (being tankies, according to him). We did not, in fact, retaliate: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21089819

He also posted this in tankiejerk: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52268655, https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20733015.

He also may have done vote manipulation, and at the very least allowed it.
Take, for example, this comment: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21091723
Per lemvotes, it was downvoted by the following users:

The relevant ones here are:

They have all downvoted exclusively arguments against goat and others, and were made almost at the same time.

After a bit more arguing (I'm not posting the specific comments because it's tedious, and they're easy to see by scrolling through goat's profile.) goat decided to ban all dbzer0 users from meanwhileongrad, I think this comment marks when he decided to do this, but I may be wrong.

note on the post that comment was in reply to

I think this reply (by unruffled) was taken out of context. Unruffled is absolutely not defending what's happening to the Uyghurs, they're saying that a lot of people have a double standard, where they will not hesitate to condemn the Uyghur genocide, but hesitate on the gaza one, especially when the gaza one is more severe and urgent. To quote them directly:

Yes, that's exactly what I was saying but of course they misrepresented it. You know exactly what Americans are like. They couldn't give a shit about the uyghurs, except as a way to China bash and feel superior. I also explicitly said later in the comments I agreed it was a genocide. They're just doin' the usual bad faith takes.

Feel free to quote me lol

Since this goat had been banned from dbzer0 for being hostile: https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=63615

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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 88 points 1 month ago (67 children)

the dude who has admitted on Lemmy to being a former member of several neo-nazi forums because he finds nazis "interesting" is being an asshole. that's shocking.

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[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Is this the same goat who caused a stir a few months ago because they wouldn't shut up about "reverse racism"?

Edit: I couldn't find the reverse racism stuff, but I put together everything I did find https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52444570

[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 month ago

Sounds like the guy running a nazi bar might in fact be fitting in with his clientele a bit too well.

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago (3 children)

goat started calling dbzer0 users tankies, saying that letting tankie users engage on dbzer0 comms means other users are tankies

Tankie used to mean something, damn it!

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

yeah in 1950s CPGB meetings

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the 1950s, in the UK, "Tankie" was used as perjorative among members of the Communist Party of Great Britain, to describe those in the party who supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary.

The term has been so warped that now the people who coined it would also be considered Tankies by the liberals who love to throw the word around

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[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

I won't stand for this slander

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 month ago (44 children)

for additional context, I made a thread about this exchange on hexbear, documenting the issues with the culture on MoG. Specifically the use of 'degenerate' as a pejorative being a red flag.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

TBH I didn’t think goat’s obvious bullshit needed or deserved a response.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Since db0 is math, and math, by definition and practice is both truth and fact, then we have MoL denying fact, as to be expected.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 40 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Two notes on your Uighurs note:

1- You can absolutely have religion-based genocide. Our old friend ISIS has one under its belt.

2- The Uighurs are absolutely being targeted for their ethnicity. I mean, even the official excuse is Uighur separatism. That's why characteristics of Uighur culture and language unrelated to religion are also being targeted. It's also why the other Muslim groups in China (and there are many of them; Uighurs aren't even the largest Muslim ethnic group in China) aren't targeted like the Uighurs are. The goal is to make Turkic peoples in Xinjiang either cease to matter or cease to exist; the fact that those groups tend to be majority Muslim is a geographical coincidence.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (21 children)

The idea that "the goal" is to eliminate Turkic peoples in Xinjiang is absurd and not even what the fed-adjascent propagandists claim.

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[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Here I am once more asking libs to install xiaohongshu and look for Uighur culture and language being celebrated and shared among chinese people on a chinese app. It's so easy to debunk this stuff yourself, try it.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 38 points 1 month ago (39 children)

and are experiencing cultural erasure and Human Rights abuses

If you believe that, then you believe there is a genocide. Because cultural erasure is genocide.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If that comm is just banning people for being from dbzero maybe the dbzero admins should just block that comm

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I think almost everyone involved in this drama is being extremely rude and unreasonable and needs to take a break from Lemmy for a bit. But yeah this is obviously petty and ridiculous.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have the L*dditors finally figured out goat is a cryptofash or do they still treat goat in good faith?

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was banned for that trashy community for calling him out here about his hypocrisy towards the genocide in palestine

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (41 children)

huh, turns out having a vague, poorly defined label anyone could use to deride and write someone off as a pinko commie at a moment's notice was a bad idea, who could've possibly seen this coming shocked-pikachu

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