I was just perusing the modlog when I noticed something interesting. Apparently posting news about Gaza/Palestine is not allowed on !worldnews@sh.itjust.works. I decided to check the side bar and didn’t see anything. The only pinned post also does not indicate that this is not allowed

edit: the mod in question is @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone . sorry for not originally tagging. i hadn’t realized it was a rule that this must be done. i thought it seemed inappropriate since i was trying to initiate a conversation about a community’s rules and culture rather than start drama about an individual

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    sh.itjust.works is a Nazi bar. There are some good users, but they have the most zionists, pro-imperialist users, mods, admins, etc.

    PTB.

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      Typical Liberal hellhole, they constantly hit left and demand everyone give in to fascism and then claim somehow everyone else is dividing the left

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          Honestly wonder if mwog was made specifically because of a slight they received on a grad comm or simply because they love attention

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            The latter, goat’s a cryptofascist.

            Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

            -Jean-Paul Sartre

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              I’m not a cryptofascist.

              If anyone’s a cryptofascist, it’s you, defending Russia and supporting Putin’s goals of reimplementing the USSR through imperialism and the war against Ukraine. You’re even doing so in this very thread.

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                If Putin actually wanted to reimplement the USSR, then it would already be socialist. You’re absolutely a cryptofascist, you cape for Israel, attack communism and communists, and host a Nazi-bar.

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            MoG was created to highlight hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse.

            Extremism should always be called out wherever it may be

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      You were legitimately celebrating the hamas attack on Israel just the other day.

      In that thread you literally used the Hamas red arrow that is taken from the Nazis.

      It’s weird how yall point the finger at each other when you’re all gross as fuck.

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        I’m a communist, and I support socialist states. I don’t hide my positions, I have always been honest and forthright with them. You’re a zionist stalker that revels in drama farming.

        China isn’t imperialist as it isn’t driven by international extraction or export of capital, nor is it dominated by a financial oligarchy. The user I reported for being racist wasn’t criticizing the CPC, they made a racist rant about how Chinese people live in filth, eat fake meat and fake tofu, can’t build anything, and more. The moderator of that comm sided with the racist that sounds identical to how the French spoke of Africans during colonialism.

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          Ah, why is it you defend Russia? Russia is an oligarchy that finds its riches in oil and fossil fuels. They’re not at all socialist.

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            I don’t think Russia has a good economic model, nor would I want to live there. I do think it’s forced strategically into trade with socialist countries, which is why it has a good relationship with countries like Cuba, and is working against western imperialism, which is the largest obstacle in the way of socialism worldwide. Additionally, support for socialism is rising over time:

            So no, I don’t somehow think Russia is socialist still, but at the moment socialist countries benefit massively from Russian trade and from temporary alliance against the west.

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              Again with this stat? Maybe you should look for polls on how many Africans want to be back under colonial rule and see how wack this is

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                Are you still doing the thing where you equate two entirely different and incompatible things like doing Mad Libs is acceptable logic? Like, someone could say “solar energy is a good thing” and your rhetorical response would be “what if I replaced solar energy with ‘racism?’ Then wouldn’t you be saying racism is good?”

                My point is that Russia has a rising socialist sympathy among the populace, which is true. We can point to their reasons being that capitalism has, by and large, been devastating for Russians, while socialism worked well. Colonialism, on the other hand, has been disastrous for its underdevelopment of Africa, and many of these liberated countries are under neocolonialism or imperialism to this day.

                You really need to check your rhetoric, you were called out for this faulty “Mad Libs” logic already.

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                  These things aren’t different wtf?!?

                  You’re talking about people that hold nostalgia to past regimes. This is the case in many African countries today. I’m trying to point out the idiocy of your statistic.

                  If you’re using that as a justification of return to the USSR, i can equally use it as justification of return to colonialism in Africa

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                    what does it even matter, this has nothing to do with anything, cowbee supports socialism?

                    what exactly is your argument, that its bad that they’re supporting socialism because some people support colonialism?

                    cowbees argument is essentially they are bad but they help socialists and they may become socialist again, how is it relevant in any way that africa supports colonialism?

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                    No, these are entirely different things. You’re essentially saying that it is useless to take public opinion polling on whether they prefer socialism or capitalism because some people would say they prefer colonialism over neocolonialism or imperialism. Citing the fact that Russia has increasing support for socialism as proof of Russians having increased support for socialism is perfectly valid.

                    Taking your logic at face value, if someone said “I like chocolate,” your equivalent counter would be asserting that that’s the same as saying “I like fascism.” It doesn’t logically follow, the point is about Russians supporting socialism, which is increasingly true.

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              Oh, Cowbee, you and your statistics! How disingenuous you are.

              For starters, that sample size is minuscule at only 1000.

              And unsurprisingly, more countries think the dissolution was a bad thing than a good thing. Of course, Russia thinks the USSR was good, they were the oppressors. Life under the Soviet Union was grossly oppressive for the peasants, and especially if your country was the victim of Russian imperialism. You couldn’t speak ill of the leaders, you had zero representation, and you faced the risk of your livelihood being ripped from you at any point. Your indigenous culture was even suppressed because it was considered anti-Soviet behaviour. There you go defending imperialism again, Cowbee.

              And mind you, this is a survey before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine!