this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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No, you intentionally misinterpreted what I said by placing too much of a focus on the words "NATO" and "IMF" when the point was clearly about the line "It is in the Left’s interest for these organizations to be demolished." I pointed out NATO and the IMF as they were the subjects of this line, ie the organizations the line refers to, as shown in Lemmy.world's quotations:
and Hexbear's original text:
Rather than engage with the points I raised, you tried to pretend that since IMF and NATO weren't bolded that my point about Lemmy.world wanting to emphasize those lines no longer mattered and wasn't worthy of discussion. That's why you were temp-banned for a measly 5 days from one community. Not about your argument being "hard to counter," I refused to engage with that kind of trolling behavior.
Why should I engage with anything you said if you're going to bend-over backwards to avoid answering a question I asked first? A conversation is a two-way exchange, and you clearly weren't interested in that, only in debatelording.
I didn't "intentionally misinterpret" anything. I thought you were talking about that one line, and thought it was funny that you called out the only line without any actual bold in the formatting. I then said proceeded to move on and answer your question regardless of the perceived gaff.
When you decided that was your hill to die on, I gave you the concession because it was completely irrelevant to the discussion and invited you several times to engage with my answer. You refused.
I answered your question. 3 times. I linked you to it. What more do you want?
Now you're here claiming that I said there was no bolded text at all. I see why other comments here are talking about your reputation.
You never conceded, you insulted me the entire way through, and played coy. Your response, which you linked:
Was not an answer. I asked why Lemmy.world admins highlighted specifically that the Hexbear news mega stated that it was in the left's interest to demolish NATO and the IMF. You responed by asking why Hexbear included it at all, which is found simply by reading the Hexbear thread. Hex included it for anyone unfamiliar with Hexbear to learn more about Hexbear's stances. Lemmy.world saw it, saw Hexbear's stances, and decided to defederate before federating.
Additionally, a single user saying I have a "reputation" after you displayed such bad-faith argumentation means very little.
Not mutually exclusive. Stop whining about insults, you've insulted me this whole time as well. No one cares.
Yes it was. The answer is that Lemmy World wanted nothing to do with an instance obsessed with political rhetoric, that has identified them as housing enemy ideologies.
You can sub in any political ideology and that answer holds true.
Good thing there's a whole community of users here. Man, you love fishing for little gotchas :)
Lemmy.world is fine with political trolls and drama farming, though. Hexbear was deemed off-limits before it even federated. They highlighted what they took issue with.
This isn't going to go anywhere, I'm disengaging.
In your mind, sure.
After telling a bold-faced lie about me. Cool hypocrisy, bro.
They made pugjesus a mod over there
Meanwhile the several trolls who were made mods of popular communities, and several trolls who actively spammed the same repeated talking points and thought terminating cliches for months before suddenly going away in December of 2024: