"Westoids" lol
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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Can we not increase the visibility of someone this disturbed?
I understood the purpose of this community to be to catalog and pick apart the poorly constructed hypocrisies of the tankies that plague this platform, and, sure, find solidarity in having some laughs at their expense while we do it. This guy's posts are just sad and hateful. Deleting his posts/banning his accounts just to screenshot the things he says, repost them and make fun of him really seems to defeat the purpose of deleting them to begin with. There's no argument to deconstruct, and no misrepresented opinion to catalogue. They're just a sad human spreading vitriol instead of getting the social/emotional help they desperately need.
I feel like, as a community, we should make an effort to simply ban and move on from people like this.
While I partially agree, relegating them to the shadows hasn’t helped stem their numbers. IMHO, it’s time for scorched earth now. Quietly sweeping their shit under a rug hasn’t helped.
Public shaming is the only recourse for this shit. Will it stop this degenerate loser from trolling? No, but it might stop the next one from making the same choice.
River to sea was banned on which instance?
wtf is river to sea?
Pro Palestine slogan. "From the river to the sea Palestine will be free"
Ahhh. I’d never heard it (read it) before.
Should be noted: it implies just Palestine to control the area, not a 2 state solution. It has been argued by some that it is thus just "Death to Israel" reworded (or "Death to Palestine", Israel's government uses a similar phrase), and can fall under some hate speech laws some instances have to follow. So it is a bit more complicated than pro Palestine phrases being banned.
You can make of that what you will, and they are right to criticise to a point, but don't follow it with "Death to Westoids", that's just silly.
The river goes into the sea
Yanks is an unending source of hilarity.
Yeah. I really wish they’d get the help they need.
How many accounts have they gone through so far?
A thousand maybe two?
He’s up there with Universal Monk numbers for sure.
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