This comment was in response to someone expressing regret about joining .ml if I recall correctly

Edit: I’m convinced all this guy does is camp out in front of his computer and wait for an excuse to abuse what itty bitty power he has.

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    1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

    I’m not seeing it, unless website admins are a marginalised class.

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          They won’t see it because they censor no-no words.

          These same people insist that like-minded adults talking things out will produce a stateless utopia. It’s funny, from a distance.

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      The lemmy.ml admins who do this kind of thing are proud tankies. Pro-Russia, Pro-China, Pro-North-Korea, authoritarian “communists” are a marginalized class, dontcha know?

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        I can somehow understand pro-China and less so, but still conceptionally grasp pro-Russia. But how on Earth can you really think NK is not a brainwash concentration camp?

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          Tankies operate on a very simple belief system.

          US bad > Russia don’t like US > Russia good

          same for north korea, cuba, anything

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            We could call that the Chomsky fallacy.

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          I remember seeing to mod in the post commenting on someone’s mention of North Korea. First he posted an image detailing the deaths caused by the US and South Korea during the Korean war, and that was it, no mention about NK specifically. Later he said that there was no proof that NK is brutally repressing its citizens. Then when someone said how everyone who fled NK said so, he said how they only do it for the shock value to get stories out and make money out of that, or something like that.

          Basically people like that find anything anti-US as good, and if you say anything bad about those countries, they’ll ask for proof and then call whatever you provide fake.

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            Later he said that there was no proof that NK is brutally repressing its citizens.

            lmao

            I also don’t see anything when I close my eyes and plug my ears.

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          Basically, “capitalism bad = anything anti-capitalism good.” And that’s pretty ironic to both support both NK and China for that reason, since China is an authoritarian capitalist state operating under the name of communism.

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        I’m actually glad MLs have ramped up the pro north korea talk recently. I was starting to doubt being against these users that claim to be progressive, but then I saw them defend a clear-cut present-day dictatorship.

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            Oh, I definitely wasn’t saying that to imply it somehow makes them better, more that I would hope someone of that level of importance to this shit would learn to just run/build it and stay mostly hands off, not to play in the dirt. At the very least hide behind a separate user name.

            So many open source projects get ruined because the creators/maintainers can’t stop themselves from getting into fights with their users or community.

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        ableism
        discrimination in favor of able-bodied people.

        That still doesn’t check out… unless you’re implying they have cognitive impairments that prevent them from moderating as effectively as other instance admins 🤔

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          Well yeah. If you couldn’t deduce that, you might be a victim of ableism yourself

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            Excellent deduction, Watson. Confirming the validity of my clarification that you had intended to make an insult. You’ll be a full-fledged detective in no time.

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      I think that technically speaking, under Marxist theory, admins are the oppressors/tyrants. The users are the proletariat. Of course the metaphor falls apart due to how easily the users can escape and the users don’t pay taxes or anything

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      Rule 1 and 2 are often swapped across different instances.

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    Defedding .ml has been one of the most benefitial decisions we have ever made. There’s so much less toxicity!

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    They banned me recently since I was writing a comment talking about how many “memes” on !memes@lemmy.ml are oftentimes not even memes and just unfunny pushing communist agenda and how I was thinking about blocking the instance. It got a bit too many upvotes from them and I ended up getting banned. So in response I made this meme and posted it to !linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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      Oh I got banned from one of their communities today for comparing shooting down Russian drones to skeet shooting

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            It’s the objective truth. Yes, the IDF could probably do more to protect civilians but at the absolute worst what they’re doing is comparable to the conduct of the Western Allies against Germany in WW2.

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              Israel dropping unguided bombs from 10k feet from prop airplanes is certainly an “entertaining” thought but so far removed from the reality of precision guided missiles hitting hospitals and snipers shooting unarmed civilians and journalists in the back that it loops back around to being funny in a very morbid way.

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              If you mean that Kaboom guy, then lol

              Dude believes that the 40 decapitated babies lie is the truth because IDF said so

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          Genocide denialism is probably one of the least objectionable reasons to get banned from a community.

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              Yeah. Unfortunately. All we can do is voice opposition to whichever one is achieving its goals at any given moment - Hamas in the immediate aftermath of October 7th, and Israel now.

              Maybe someday they’ll sit the fuck down and figure out that this conflict can’t continue forever. Well, Hamas and Bibi never will, but whatever representatives of the Palestinian and Israeli people emerge from the other side of this phase of our everlasting Israel-Palestine conflict.

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                The fault is on both of them, really. Israel had plenty of warnings from Jordan, Egypt, the US, the EU and their own security agency about an attack in October.

                Of course, there is always an attack, and Israel is also not allowed to stop an attack before it happens, instead only after it happens.

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          Saying, there is no genocide in Gaza in your opinion, or making an assertion about the subject? There’s a big difference between the two.

          Edit: Ah, yeah. That explains a lot.

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              “At least some of the acts and omissions alleged by South Africa to have been committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the (Genocide) Convention,” the judges said.

              A majority of at least 15 out of 17 judges voted in favour of imposing the so-called provisional measures, including the court’s president, Joan Donoghue of the United States.

              From your source. 15 out of 17 judges agreed to tell Israel to stop committing acts that “[fall] within the provisions of the (Genocide) Convention.” You realize that phrasing is the diplomatic way of saying “stop committing genocide,” right?

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              they both don’t target civilians and they do their best to keep civilians out of harms way

              Are you sure you’re up to date on the war? Because this is not as true as one would hope.

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          Thank you! Reading lemmy, you’d think the IDF was Hamas or something.

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              Yup, by not committing a genocide and reclaiming their homeland, they’re much worse than the invaders who already committed one.

              (Israel is the ancestoral homeland of the Jews, Muslims committed a genocide when they conquered the area)

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                Quick question - if Native Americans killed 1 out of every 50 US citizens in an attempt to drive them off of Native ancestral land, would this be:

                A. Ethnic cleansing

                OR

                B. Not ethnic cleansing

                ?

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    I dunno if scaring people off of their instance’s communities is a deliberate attempt at building an echo chamber or just genuine dumbassery.

    Honestly thank god the Lemmy devs made a platform that makes it so easy to avoid them.

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    Yeah, I’ve stopped any participation in any .ml community. I’ll use any other instance version even if it’s smaller. I haven’t personally blocked the server yet, but it’s getting closer.

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      That’s pretty much it to my knowledge but the purged the user so nothing is in the mod logs, of course

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    How do you see who actually performed the mod action? It always just says mod when I look at the log.