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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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Especially amusing is the accusation towards the "mod team" when the mod team consists of...
One user.
Or that the feed is 'heavily curated'. BEHOLD, HEAVY CURATION!
I would assume that the warning against anti-authoritarianism is in good faith, though. ZombiFrancis always makes sure to cheerlead for anti-anti-authoritarianism, whatever that might be.
I've been called all kinds of things for elaborating why I think we should engage in electoralism as lefties. Even if someone was baiting them it does not take much for them to bite. If I was more into being cynical I would say they are the ideal representation of the left by J Edgar Hoover or something. The lack or wanting to organize seems like something he would want to inspire on to them.
Or that the feed is 'heavily curated'.
The projection is strong with them
MOG is run by fascists and zionists, didn't you know? See replies in this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/23289942
And why are anti-authoritarians accidentally attracting the company of supposed anti-lefists? Imagine accidentally admitting in the subtext of your post that your understanding of leftism is that it's inherently authoritarian.
Honestly, the one unifying factor across all of the .ml defense squad is that they seem to have no idea what the words they're using actually mean. They love making posts that sound fancy, but are truthfully vapid, and often meaningless. Or, in cases like this, completely miss the denoted meanings of their arguments.
This community is on my Local feed so every so often for the past few years when I see a thread that's really overreaching to demonize a someone for acknowledging historical events, I have pointed that out.
Thusly, every so often OP tries to start a personal fight with me, usually resulting in deleting my posts or banning me anywhere they can. Goat has reversed it a few times, unprompted, too.
Like I don't really care for .ml moderation and think its counterproductive. But I just think the beefs are more interpersonal than anything. This is more or less proof.
So for context, I have expressed distain for the Roman Empire, so I am a literal demon to OP. I recognized Batista was a brutal dictator, once too. Cited a primary source, even.
Check my post history and my modlog history. I haven't ever account hopped, either.
Imagine accidentally admitting in the subtext of your post that your understanding of leftism is that it's inherently authoritarian.
You mean that shaping society to fit some narrow, preconceived notion of utopia by any means necessary somehow involves coercion by force? What a shocking surprise! /s
There's a very good reason why Horseshoe Theory is verboten in those circles.