Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don’t know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.
So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it’s not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.
This is what my last reply would have been.
(Yes I’m being snarky, but that “I’m so mature” bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)
In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.
‘tankie’ is routinely used as a pejorative for communists (and anarchists at this point) who aren’t aligned with us imperial ‘foreign policy’
I’m sure you feel that way.
Sir, I have literally no idea who you are. But I’ve seen various mentions of the fact that you’re either an admin or a dev.
Do you genuinely believe this dismissive behavior is going to do you any favors? Because you’re making this look worse.
Skavau acts this way, so I would say they do.
I’m an admin or a dev? That’s news to me…
Of my own instance yeah. Do you genuinely think that’s what they were asking?
Good to know that I was mistaken.
Eh could still be a plant. You really can’t take someone’s word at face value when it comes to that. Actions speak louder than words and all that jazz.
True. To be fair, you might also be a plant.
It’s possible you’re even my alt.
I think your actions and behavior in this thread make you look much worse. And this comment definitely isn’t a good look on you. In the best case I would say you’re at least a contrarian and a troll, which I know is a possibility considering your less than stellar modlog history.
i would love to hear your opinion tbh
My opinion of what, specifically?
you seemed very sure of yourself, maybe you should just say what you think instead of being evasive and condescending
I don’t think most people use tankie as a perjorative for communists broadly, and I don’t think Rimu uses it that way either (which is what you were implying, right?)
But like I said, I’m unsurprised that you feel like they do.
i said:
you are now saying:
that’s a different claim; my claim was that ‘tankie’ is used as a pejorative against anyone on the left who’s not aligned with us imperial ‘foreign policy’.
you say that you don’t think it’s used as a pejorative for communists broadly
the fact that there are communists who have views which are aligned with us ‘foreign policy’ is not something that is in dispute on my end; you’re addressing a different claim.
we are here because i raised rimu’s documented goal of excluding ‘tankies’ through platform design. what does that exclusion mean if not targeting anti-imperialists?
Which you did in defense of this claim:
So either it was created out of an anti-tankie (and nazi) ideology, and being anti-tankie == being anti-communist (unlikely), or it wasn’t created out of an anti-communist ideology.
excluding anti-imperialists while catering to pro-US leftists is still anti-communism in practice; even in the cold war there was an acceptable vs unacceptable left.
historical US anti-communism looks exactly like that in fact, revolutionary anti-imperialists get targeted while liberal-compatible communists are permitted and promoted.
I can’t take the stated desire to exclude nazis seriously when rimu has not spoken out against the platform being promoted as a place to be free from ‘degenerate roaches’ (referring to predominantly gay/trans ‘tankies’). all energy seems to be directed leftwards and he’s even posted and commented in the comm where that type of language has been long-permitted.