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I was an ass?
I know, it seems to be very inciting for some inexplicable reason.
It wouldn't surprise me to be honest. Thanks for sharing the article.
Dear Mod Abuse Hotline,
Today, I removed some comments from a user (let's call him "FelixCrass" to safeguard his identity) in another community I moderate (context).
Then, he went and made a mean post about me.
Thank you for your support.
The reason you were moderated is because you were the one being the asshole:
You are an excellent example of thesis that aggressive veganism and a long term vegan diet could be linked to mental disorders.
The only reasonable way to interpret this sentence is you were calling @mathemachristian@lemmy.ml a crazy fucking vegan. Just because you said it in a more pusillanimous tone doesn't change the meaning.
You are a perfect example of extreme veganism being a mental condition.
Imo its perfectly reasonably for him (and me) to call you out for ableism here. He paraphrased you to highlight the ableism which is implicitly contained in your insult.
Ok I think that's fair enough, thanks.
Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
FYI It's not appropriate to use this comm to target a user who has not taken mod actions against you. Please edit your post accordingly. If you wish to report a user, you can do so using the normal channels. This comm is specifically for complaining about power tripping mods/admins.
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While this has been an interesting read, I think it's probably time to call it quits on the slap fighting.
Admin here. I'm sorry you had a bad experience and that this post got necroed again. The YPTB community tends to be quite combative in nature, so I agree it's probably a good idea to give it a miss if internet slap fights aren't your thing.
I'd like to also take this opportunity to point out the disengage rule, which can be very helpful to short-circuit this type of situation. While it's too late this time around, hopefully you can put it to good use in future.
FYI, I'm issuing a warning and a community ban to @eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com and @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com. It's not ok to gang up on and bad-jacket other users, especially Flotilla members, just because you disagree with them. Lurkers can also be legit users.
Also, as very little of this comment thread was at all relevant to the post topic, I've now removed most of it.
If we didn't remove those shitty arguments, the community would be overwhelmed by libs wagging their fingers at leftists. It's a leftist community, not a community for Dems to badger leftists about voting for the Dems because "we have to be realistic" and "we are stuck with what we have, wygd?" type arguments.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41340318
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7264202
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7243721
Since the New Year is here, what better way to ring it in than with a new Flotilla member and a drink o' rum?
Over the past couple of days, Qk from Quokk.au reached out to us about the possibility of joining up with the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla. This was really cool news for all of us, and imo they will be a great addition!
Yes it is, let's call it FAF for short. Lol.
For the full deets of what that means exactly, check out db0's original post on the topic Announcing anarchist.nexus and the launch of the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla.
But in short, it means:
Fire away if anyone has any questions, but make sure you read the FAF announcement post first, because it explains a lot!
N.B. Quokk.au will be holding its own vote on joining the flotilla at the same time as ours. I'll add the linked post once they are both posted.
Edit: here's the Quokk.au post
Happy New Year mateys!
We, the admin team, decry all forms of settler-colonialism, and we recognize that Zionism is a pro-settler-colonialist position.
Therefore we propose that should no longer be accepting of any Zionist accounts on our instances.
Please upvote for agree, downvote for disagree.
Note: we only count votes by instance members of dbzer0 and anarchist.nexus, plus a few vouched-for external users.
Hi mateys, I've kept things simple in the above text, for brevity, but in fact it took the admin team quite a while to get to this stage. We have discussed the policy change extensively, and a variety of different perspectives emerged. I will attempt to sum them up below as best I can:
The "this isn't that complicated" school of thought goes something like this: If someone is consistently posting comments that mirror Hasbara talking points (e.g. justifying the genocide in Gaza, consistently painting Palestinians as terrorists and Israel as the victim), then they should be instance banned. It's just not acceptable for Zionists to be allowed on our instances.
The "slippery slope" / "purity test" school of thought is that banning people for having an "unpopular" political opinion would potentially mean banning half the fediverse, if more and more of these policies were enacted over time. To attempt to mitigate this we are keeping the scope of this rule as narrow as possible, and I also don't think many of our users will be affected. Also, we typically don't have frequent policy changes, and I have no reason to expect that to change moving forward.
Another important discussion point was "how do we decide whether someone is pro-Zionist or not?" We can't always be 100% sure of someone's true intentions, we can only go on what they have posted and that is subject to interpretation. I don't feel there is an easy answer to this one, except to say that we would have to be pretty certain before issuing a perma-ban.
The "geopolitics don't matter" school of thought is that trying to be on the "correct" side of every issue is kind of pointless because nothing that happens in lemmy chat forums will ever make an ounce of difference in the real world. Don't bother moderating users over political/ideological differences, just let people argue if they want. While I can totally empathize with this sentiment, I can also see the case for taking a clear stance on this topic in accordance with our values and the overwhelming support for the Palestinian cause among our users. Personally, I am advocating in favor of the resolution.
Please add your comments below if you want to provide your own thoughts on the topic, or have any questions.
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While I've absolutely no doubt the CIA does all sorts of heinous shit around the world, I just don't buy the theory behind so-called color revolutions. If the CIA were able to incite populist revolutions on a whim, there would be a LOT more of them. Sure, they do their very best to encourage them, but you need more than just guns and money to build a movement big enough to topple a government. You need a lot of people.
IMO in most claimed cases of 'color revolutions', the local sentiment was already there, just waiting for an inciting event. I do agree that US sanctions can help create those types of conditions, but once that happens its looking a lot more like a standard US regime change operation rather than a color revolution created by CIA psyops tbh.
But more importantly, from an anarchist perspective, it's suspiciously convenient and self-serving to immediately blame every popular uprising against AES authoritarian states on the CIA, rather than on whichever oppressive regime is actually running the country. Iran is a perfect example of that. Cuba has also been under sanctions for decades without turning into a vile theocracy that treats women like property. So long as governments treat their citizens well, like Cuba generally does, a "color revolution" will never be possible there.
Btw, the theory of color revolutions was an invention of infamous conspiracy theorist, and perennial presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche. There’s a good (quite long) video on this topic here if anyone wants to go down the rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFyn_KSy80.