My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a “tankie” instance, but it was nothing specific.
After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.
Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.
Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.
The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.
We need some Andor emoji’s. I really want some “Syril-Shocked” or “Syril-Cop-Surprised” stickers to drop in comments.
“The Ukranian perspective”
You mean being wrong and stupid?
You know something doesn’t exist in a society when it’s illegal. If it ever happened why would there be laws against it? How could laws ever represent anything but good faith zeitgeist of pure order and benevolence?
This is amazing, I initially thought this was a bit.
Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.
Tagline material right there
We got the best mods, folks!
Thank you, moderator of that community, for your service
That’s a lot of words to say “I’m a fascist sympathizer who spreads Nazi propaganda and I got banned for being a fascist sympathizer who spreads Nazi propaganda”
I love our mods
which seemed to be free from anything overtly political
lol.
The liberal doesn’t like ”political” content!That was genuinely the funniest part to me
which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk
gamingcirclejerk, famously apolitical
comm which seemed to be free from anything overtly political
looks inside
participated in a post about a political decision in a game
I once again ask what I said in reply to their comment, what the fuck does Holodomor have to do with language suppression? This dipshit was so low effort and yet they thought they presented some bombshell.
Also I love how posting a law that bans displays of anti-fascism and the denigration of nazi collaboration is somehow impossible to construe as fascist.
Isn’t this the game where the shotgun burst pattern is a swastika?
Oh my God how do y’all stand these people for more than a moment lmao. They take online posting so seriously. Everything’s a matter of life or death civilizational collapse and scary foreign devils attempting to beguile our pure little minds away from glorious Western consensus.
Also if you’re a self described leftist stop trying to be one of the good ones. You’re never going to be a model minority for liberals. They don’t care. You’re not winning anything by claiming to be a leftist, but not like those scary Chinese, but rather like the good nice white Swedish. It’s not gonna work. In fact the whole exercise of denouncing the West’s enemies before calling yourself a socialist is demonstrating your obedience. You’ve showing that you’ll always play a little game before saying anything of substance, you’ll eagerly waste your own time. It doesn’t go anywhere
Furthermore not even the political stuff, these people are insufferable nerds who should get stuffed into lockers while I point and laugh. I don’t even understand the urge. If I got banned from a forum of genocide denying fascists, I’d simply go about my day no longer burdened by the ability to look at the opinions of a bunch of deranged fascist lunatics. If I were in a protracted conversation with someone online, upon discovery of a contentious opinion of theirs (genocide denial, bigotry, etc) I’d simply tell them I had sexual intercourse with their father and then I’d send an image of a pig shitting on its own balls. Then I’d never interact with that person again. Why do liberals believe they need to defend their honor online? Being on an internet forum at all makes you a little weird goblin (myself included), so just embrace it.
Also if you’re a self described leftist stop trying to be one of the good ones. You’re never going to be a model minority for liberals. They don’t care. You’re not winning anything by claiming to be a leftist, but not like those scary Chinese, but rather like the good nice white Swedish. It’s not gonna work. In fact the whole exercise of denouncing the West’s enemies before calling yourself a socialist is demonstrating your obedience. You’ve showing that you’ll always play a little game before saying anything of substance, you’ll eagerly waste your own time. It doesn’t go anywhere
There’s a reason the “dirtbag left” upsets liberals so much, by refusing to play their games, refusing to engage in the complex liberal ritual of dancing around a topic while never explicitly condemning it OR committing to it, it just breaks their brains, it makes them so mad that someone could actually stand for something, and not just empty token gestures, and not sacrifice their own morals in the sake of “civility” either. They hate it, because it is a reminder that they are not the inherently good people they think they are, and that liberalism is a path of failure and destruction, not centrist enlightenment.
I’ve been thinking about it, and honestly I’m not so sure this is always the case. There’s definitely cases where being flippant and uncouth goes to our detriment, even when someone is engaging in bad faith. Like, it’s one thing for the opponent to make a bad faith attack then do a rebuttal with a
at the end, and it’s another to respond to their bad faith attack with nothing but emotes. If the context of the conversation can lend credence to their argument, the lack of a serious counterargument can speak volumes. The onlookers get the wrong message.More concrete example: someone here says that it’s a shame Al Qaeda seized control of Syria. Lemmitor comes and says Assad was using chemical weapons so regime change was justified. They get nothing but PPBs in response.
Will an onlooker have their beliefs about so called “tankies” challenged? Or did we just give them license to keep dismissing us? Wouldn’t it be helpful if on top of being rude, we could be ruthless and actually thoroughly debunk their claims?
I miss how Egon would do this relentlessly, I think that kind of dunking is a lot better than (only) namecalling.
Edit: I checked the original thread this is referencing and nevermind, everyone did a good job of actually engaging in the conversation with good sources and solid points.
Oh, yeah, I didn’t mean just “hurl insults until they go away” is effective, but treating their attitude and opinions with the respect it deserves is very effective. The dunk is an important part of that, and what I was thinking of. I haven’t really seen any examples where a lib says something ignorant and the only responses are insults and PPB, that isn’t just several lines deep in a comment chain already (where others have tried and failed to explain things to them.) Not saying it doesn’t happen, just that it wasn’t what I was thinking of, I was probably imagining the same scenario you do, where people call them out for their ignorance, attempt to educate them and refuse to coddle them.
oh I should ask Lemmygrad about assad
I’ll give you this awesome interview with Vijay Prashad as a primer.I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I am asking for just one “hexbear bad!!!” thread that wasn’t written by a user who was caught spouting fascist apologia
it really is like clockwork, I usually make the effort to check the modlog and I’m rarely surprised
Ukraine is literally using israel as an example and btw the donbass uprising happens because azov started killing russophone ukrainians.
I banned them! I’m the one who called them a fascist sympathizer!
It’s funny because @Rose@lemmy.zip isn’t actually banned from hexbear overall, just the game comm.
So if they think the mod decision was somehow wrong, they can come here and file a grievance with one of the admins.
Like me
I hope they organize a brigade from that thread and come try to argue with me!
God forbid like three or four brave souls decide to go on an expedition here to try and win a political victory over us on!
I’ll let them stand on their soap box and see how many comments it takes for them to start saying slurs
Removed by mod
Crazy bit
Tbh it stop working after you see it 3 times in one thread
Listen, jackspoiler
Nice job.
Hell yeah
lol
to a real oneRemoved by mod
Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.
Based mod alert.
Mods! Mods! They’re questioning western hegemony and propaganda narratives! Mods!
oh he took action, he banned their ass lol
