same, i wouldn't say i feel 'good' about anything our military does other than cease existing
Bombing children is kinda how the US military operates at baseline though
the world’s biggest democracy
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in which PugJesus makes a post about 'solidarity' and immediately bans any anarchist he disagrees with.
I get that tankiejerk is a circlejerk comm, but the hypocracy in this post was so rank I couldn't resist commenting. Obviously I was perm banned within minutes
PJ says:
but when someone says to you “I’m an anarchist, I organize to alleviate suffering at the grassroots level”, the correct response is “Right on, comrade”, even if you think state institutions are the optimal solution.
Me:
I’m an anarchist, I organize locally. It’s a big part of my daily life. based on my experiences I have found way more common cause with so-called ‘tankies’ than liberals when it comes to actually working to oppose the shit that’s crushing us.
[banned]
it turns out that he doesn't practice what he preaches at all. Obligatory:
they didn't even bother with a pretence of a primary the second time.
Round 2, this is a follow-up to this post
I asked quokka for an explanation, but did not receive a response until I mentioned it in the db0 general chat.
Here's the comment in /c/slop where I link my yptb post because someone mentioned that I had been banned for my original comment.
I did not include any call to action and I directed the conversation to YPTB because /c/slop is not for getting into it about specific moderators/admins on fedi.
As to what my 'goals' were by linking to it; we're on a discussion forum, signposting a conversation happening elsewhere is not what I would consider 'brigading'.
The post that I linked to was my own post in YPTB complaining about getting comm banned for pointing out the misogyny in the OOP post title
Posting links to other comments to direct discussion there is extremely common on fediverse.
Because this was a full account purge rather than a ban, this looks like pretty clear retaliation to hide criticism of the mod that I was calling out for misogyny, rather than addressing the issue in a serious way at all.
As stated by quokka in the above matrix message, on quokk.au there's apparently an unwritten rule that if you're posting a link on hexbear to anywhere it's grounds for total account deletion due to 'brigading' if one of their members doesn't like what you're saying.
It looks pretty unprecedented based on their modlog, the only people receiving such action previously were spammers
Meanwhile, there's an entire community out there where posts are linked to on other instances with sarcastic, hyperbolic paraphrases and clear calls to action. Worth noting that even the most egregious users there don't have their accounts purged on .ml.
The moderator that I called out (and I have to assume they were the one to report reported me) is an active participant there, and seems to see no problem with that type of behavior.
Looks like a clear double standard and retaliation for calling out the moderators overreaction to me pointing out a misogynistic post title.
https://quokk.au/u/Deceptichum
74 year community ban for 'homophobia'
here's the exchange that resulted in the ban:
I'm gay, trans, and an anarchist. I thought the post title was misogynistic, objectifying, and not a good example something that should be in a 'queer friendly' space.
Not everyone is okay with sexual degradation humor, misogynistic comments, etc, even if it's about people you disagree with. Pointing that out in this case got me called a homophobic tankie and banned within minutes of making the post.
inb4 cm0002 automatically reposts this
Drops his own gun next to the hand of the guy he's arresting, then hastily picks it up to point it at the people recording him. Incredible.
It is almost 20 months since Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the unprecedented Hamas-led cross-border attack on Israel on 7 October 2023
It is almost 20 months since the US-backed colonial occupation launched its extermination campaign in Gaza in response to the ghetto uprising on 7 October 2023
I'm inclined to agree, they don't want people starting to consider social murder as a crime worth seeking justice for, because the entire government is complicit in a vast network of social murder. An enormous yearly sacrifice all in the name of preserving 'markets' for housing, food, transportation, and healthcare.
This was easily more popular than either candidate in the last election. They should make it a national holiday.
buying a hospital (system I guess?) in order to sell off all the equipment and property and rent it back until they're bankrupt is just so cartoonishly evil, wtf
Oh boy liberal vs conservative, what a wide variety of political opinion allowed for by the "financial times"
Downvotes aren't gonna stop me posting this lil guy 🐢
damn right it's horrifying, and unfortunate that it's the world that we're stuck in. it's that context that makes me welcome the defeat of my own governments military, it prevents them from terrorizing anyone else on behalf of capital.