MindTraveller

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[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bold move, admitting to being so disrespectful of mental illnesses that you think they're your weapons.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Blahaj is a cool place despite Ada. Ada asked trans people to come, and a bunch of cool transes arrived. But Ada has consistently gotten in the way of that with bad takes, heavy handed moderation, and defending transphobes.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think it is. You wanted a rational explanation for Ada's behaviour. And I understand that. I understand wanting to think the best of other people. But Ada's behaviour is not rational, and she hasn't earned the trust she has from her communities. We need to stop rationalising her behaviour and thinking the best of her. And that's what the point of that post I made was, and that's what her subsequent comments in the thread demonstrate. A lot of people on Blahaj are making excuses for her when they shouldn't.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know if you have psychosis

That's a lie. He said something he didn't believe to cover his ass when he realised he'd done something wrong. Since then, he's completely denied that that conversation even existed in the first place. He's lied even more once he thought he could get away with it. I disagreed with his religious views, and he said "Please take your meds." It's a joke, and the punchline is that I'm crazy because I disagree with him. He backtracked it, and said he doesn't know if I have psychosis, which is true, but he said it to support the lie that he never called me crazy. And as you can see in the other threads I linked, FS called me crazy because he thinks everyone who disagrees with his religious views is crazy. He broke the rules of his own community to say that people of other religions than his are suicidally deluded.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Ada has wonderful intentions. And she is incompetent, and Blahaj is not safe for trans people as a result. It looks safe for trans people, but when you look at the record of her actions as an admin, it falls apart. It's security theater. It's fake. She thinks it's really a safe space, and she's wrong. She's fooling herself and she's fooling a lot of trans people who are vulnerable because of her decisions. She deleted !soulism@lemmy.blahaj.zone, a trans community, because of her confusions.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

No, there's no real person similar to Obvious_Troll. I made them up. Ada said in a private message that she didn't realise I made them up and she just assumed they were real. Then two months later, I said they didn't exist, and Ada got confused again. You're jumping through hoops to explain a person being completely mentally incompetent. This person you made up whose name is similar to Obvious_Troll, they don't exist. You're defending a fictional person you made up, just like Ada defended a fictional person I made up.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 months ago (23 children)

Ada defended a fictional transphobic troll by confusing them for a real trans person twice. In a row. She's confused. She can't tell fiction from reality when she logs into Lemmy, and she makes moderation decisions based on her misunderstandings.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We're not talking about me. We're talking about Flying Squid. Flying Squid calls people who don't agree with his religious views psychotic. Nobody else in the thread was as big an ass as he was. He thinks mental disorders are an insult for him to use against people who disagree with him. And he has a record of breaking the rules on various communities, even ones he's supposed to mod, in pursuit of his religious agenda. He chose to do that because he's a bad person.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 months ago

No, killing is still wrong when it's pointless. You need to pay attention and take this discussion seriously. Killing that doesn't benefit murderers is better than killing that benefits murderers, because murder shouldn't be profitable.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yes. I would rather the animals' deaths be entirely pointless and bring zero revenue to the animal killers.

 
 
 
 

The community c/libertyhub@lemmy.blahaj.zone states in the sidebar it's a community for leftists and post leftists, but if you actually look at the posts the mods are making, it's almost nothing but trolling and telling people not to vote in the general election.

This rhetoric is especially dangerous to trans people, who this instance is supposed to be a safe space for, and West Bank Palestinians. If the USA elects a fascist president, there is guaranteed to be multiple genocides of society's most vulnerable groups, in addition to what the US is already doing in Gaza.

The mods on Liberty Hub openly troll their users and ban people for advocating left wing or harm reducing positions. The only action that is allowed on the sub is advocating political inaction in the face of genocide, taking a centrist position with regards to open fascism.

This community has absolutely no place on Blahaj Zone and should be removed by the admins.

 

Remembering how if you didn't realise the full stop was part of what he wanted you to say, he'd just yell at you over and over and over again

 

"You do, you know," said The Lady. "Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods."

- Terry Pratchett

 

Episode 4 did Obi-Wan Kenobi completely dirty. In the first three movies and The Clone Wars, we see that he's an honourable, compassionate, brave person. He killed Darth Vader and left him for dead. By all rights, he should have continued to fight for the rebellion instead of moving to a desert and being alone for 20 years.

You expect me to believe after being a general in the Clone Wars and defeating multiple Sith, Obi Wan proceeded to do absolutely nothing while the emperor oppressed everyone? As soon as he heard Darth Vader was still alive, he should have hopped on his ship and gone to kill Anakin! The version we see in A New Hope is an old loser hiding from his own mistakes in the desert.

Obi Wan is supposed to be determined, a warrior, someone who always accomplishes what he sets out to do. Not a coward! I grew up with the original trilogy, and these new movies completely ruined my childhood. Why did George Lucas feel the need to crap all over us Obi-Wan fans who loved his original three Star Wars movies? And all in the name of sUbVeRtInG eXpEcTaTiOnS


This is a joke about The Last Jedi.

 
 

There's this game I'm trying to download, and it's big enough that it's going to take several days of continuous downloading to get. I have about half of it so far. I want it to download during my scheduled auto update hours, and pause in the morning when I wake up. Sounds simple, right?

Problem is, it won't. I can either drag it to "up next", in which case it downloads immediately, or I can drag it to "unscheduled", in which case it won't download at all, even if I leave my PC on all night. I can't click and drag it into the scheduled category. How do I get it in there so it'll download when I'm asleep, but won't hog the pre-bedtime bandwidth?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MindTraveller@lemmy.ca to c/leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

(Seizing the state and then slowly reforming it is still slowly reforming it)

 

Alright, just started watching Steven Universe. I'm 4 episodes in. That poor boy. All he wants is to be part of a family, and all three of the crystal gems are horrible mentors. Pearl likes to think of herself as responsible, but she cannot relate to Steven and is utterly failing to provide a system of structure that he can understand. Amethyst gets along with him, but she acts like she's the same age as him and can't provide him any of the guidance a kid needs. And Garnet is barely even trying. Greg is the best mentor figure Steven has in his life, and he's homeless with no future. At least he's actually taught Steven to have a positive outlook, but he's still not parent material.

That poor boy is getting wrapped up in big ideas of how he's going to save the day and have the perfect family, because the reality of his life is unbearable. I saw this show on the TV a few times when I was a kid and it bummed me out, but now that I'm a grownup I can see how traumatised that boy is and how badly he needs a responsible parental figure who can relate to him. All of the adults in his life suck! Watching this show is miserable, because I'm watching a kid who desperately needs a family be failed by the family he has.

I like traditionally grimdark settings like Warhammer 40k, but watching Steven Universe gives me the same feeling I imagine non-grimdark-fans must feel seeing a setting like 40k. Overbearing, unrelenting misery. It all sucks and it isn't getting better. On occasion 40k describes the life of civilians in that setting, how oppressed and abused they are by the fascist governments they live under. The fun of seeing evil soldiers who chose a life of violence killing each other fades away. Suddenly, we're seeing the perspective of the innocent. Their suffering. It's depressing and heartbreaking in the same way SU is.

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