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It can't. If it's common I'll back off on that one. It's absolutely a circle that cannot be squared as an authoritarian regime on stolen land dehumanizing and de-indigenizing levantine people by claiming they are arabian is unacceptable.
Look through that user's comments. Being pro-NK is in this comment is not an isolated incident. I disagree with the comment they're replying to as well, but that is WILDLY overcorrecting and normalizing a system of authority that amounts to monarchy. If you really don't see it, I don't know what to say as that's pretty shocking. It's like saying the nazis on 4chan aren't serious and are just posting for the lulz up until their terrorism took to the streets in 2014 when suddenly it all became WAY to real. If you're really chill with that, so be it, and continue on your way but I don't want to participate in a discussion forum where that manner of behavior is treated as fine as it de-legitimizes efforts to oppose authority.
That last one I had previously reported before it was fully downvoted. That you aren't seeing these things when they're being reported and that they're being left up is DEEPLY concerning to me. It seems like you're taking a hands off approach to a community that people have noticed they can post their auth-comm propaganda to with at least relative impunity. @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com even said they're getting concerned with this after he was specifically name dropped as being over-reacting AND was accused of "crashing out" which... either @alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com doesn't know what that term means in AAVE or it means something different in her understood dialect of English from German, but it is WILDLY inappropriate to say @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com started this fight.
Look. My overall conclusion is if y'all wanna moderate your comm how you want, that's fine. I've had it blocked for about a week because I don't need the energy of authority clogging up my feed when I come home and try to decompress from a day of organizing my community and training people on ICE alerting signals. !mop@quokk.au and !memes@slrpnk.net are much more my speed. All I wanted to say is that @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com isn't coming out of nowhere and the way the moderators of a community treat people will impact the tenor and temperature of that community. I've reached a place where I don't want to deal with all this, so I haven't been and I'll continue to won't.
Awesome, thanks.
I'm gonna ignore the middle part because I'm sorry, I can't take it seriously, and you are making a completely false equivalence. Are you genuinely worried about North Korean sympathizers blowing up the White House right now? I mean, c'mon. You've got real problems to deal with over there instead of imaginary ones.
I guess I agree maybe it could do with some closer moderation and we are pretty hands off. It was a clear violation of Rule 2 and it has been removed. Mistakes happen. I've also discussed with Alsaas and we are gonna recruit some additional mods to help make sure things aren't missed, because tbh I don't usually bother with the comments unless there is a report. I guess I'll be missing out on that bonus.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one, but I'm not gonna get into it here. Stay chill Quill.
Since the good faith trial period lasted so little time after I thought we made some forward progress and then realized this morning we hadn't, I feel the need to address this. This was not what I was saying at all. I'm not worried about NK sympathizers blowing up the white house, don't be absurd. I'm worried about hitting challenges trying to recruit people who are fed up with how awful everything is all the time to mutual aid projects and community defense groups because their only experience with The New Left is a bunch of online bullies bullying them. I'm worried about normalizing pro-authoritarian rhetoric in the spaces that I am working in to try to build a better world repeating all of the same mistakes of not just the last century, but of even just the last 15 years.
Unserious online nonsense has a way of making its way into the real world and then I have to deal with it. I already deal with it. There's a pro-genocide authoritarian in my town who believes that we, here in America, can't overthrow our shackles until every Ukrainian is dead because he truly believes all Ukrainians are Nazis. This makes it harder for me to get my neighbors to come with me to our community defense training because they're worried he might be there because the community defense group doesn't want to kick him out because he opposes Donald Trump. I can get hem to come with me to our mutual aid group to help distribute toys, clothing, and food, but his presence in my town makes readying ourselves to deal with ICE more difficult. The absurdity of course being ICE can't differentiate a Russian and a Ukrainian.
That's all I was trying to say. When you leave stuff like this alone it ferments into real world problems that someone else has to deal with.
If they're bringing that sort of thing up when it comes to ice watch stuff then it sounds wildly out of place, from an organizing standpoint. The marxists I know doing community defense/ice watch don't talk about geopolitics at all when doing local work- there are bigger fish to fry.
he doesn't talk about stuff at meetings but he won't shut the fuck up outside of them. should have made that clearer. but inviting my Ukrainian neighbors to come with is a non starter since they know he'll be there and they don't feel safe around him.
EDIT: also i wouldn't call him a marxist. he's an online troll came to life who wears an ushanka instead of a redhat. he has no deep political beliefs other than being a contrarian
doesn't sound particularly principled from how you describe, particularly if he's reveling in upsetting people irl. I'll consider myself lucky not having run into someone like that so far as it sounds pretty odious to have to deal with in a small group.
absolutely. online trolls come to life are the primary reason i don't take lightly to ignoring places where they find eachother and gas eachother up, regardless of the aesthetic they brandish. it creates real world risks that put vulnerable people in danger. for the last decade it's been right wing terrorists finding eachother and getting violent away from their keyboards. now, more and more what i see are left wing asshats making organizing difficult