Modlog: https://sh.itjust.works/modlog/25693?page=1&actionType=All&userId=21053985 , banned by @goat@sh.itjust.works

For context, goat started calling dbzer0 users tankies, and got into a few arguments.

More context:

It started (to my knowledge) with this comment, goat pinged db0 after he downvoted a comment

a note on the uyghurs (click to show

For the record, I believe that the Uyghurs are mistreated by the CCP, and are experiencing cultural erasure and Human Rights abuses, but there’s a lack of evidence that it’s a genocide specifically (especially since it seems to target the religion, rather than the ethnic group).

Goat banned IndustryStandard, leading to this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52160152/ leading to goat commenting this:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52160152/21070262

He mentions this:

We constantly encounter bots, spammers, alt accounts, trolls, and doxxers, so I need to be vigilant by regularly checking who’s interfering and from where.

Which I find ironic, since there was some vote manipulation happening, which goat did nothing about (and could be behind), but I’ll get to that later.

After some more arguments, goat started calling dbzer0 users tankies, saying that letting tankie users engage on dbzer0 comms means other users are tankies:


source

He said that it’s different for LW (lemmy.world) and SJW (sh.itjust.works, not the other word). He then poster the “Tank Man” picture to !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, as he expected us to retaliate (being tankies, according to him). We did not, in fact, retaliate: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21089819

He also posted this in tankiejerk: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52268655, https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20733015.

He also may have done vote manipulation, and at the very least allowed it.
Take, for example, this comment: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21091723
Per lemvotes, it was downvoted by the following users:

The relevant ones here are:

They have all downvoted exclusively arguments against goat and others, and were made almost at the same time.

After a bit more arguing (I’m not posting the specific comments because it’s tedious, and they’re easy to see by scrolling through goat’s profile.) goat decided to ban all dbzer0 users from meanwhileongrad, I think this comment marks when he decided to do this, but I may be wrong.

note on the post that comment was in reply to

I think this reply (by unruffled) was taken out of context. Unruffled is absolutely not defending what’s happening to the Uyghurs, they’re saying that a lot of people have a double standard, where they will not hesitate to condemn the Uyghur genocide, but hesitate on the gaza one, especially when the gaza one is more severe and urgent. To quote them directly:

Yes, that’s exactly what I was saying but of course they misrepresented it. You know exactly what Americans are like. They couldn’t give a shit about the uyghurs, except as a way to China bash and feel superior. I also explicitly said later in the comments I agreed it was a genocide. They’re just doin’ the usual bad faith takes.

Feel free to quote me lol

Since this goat had been banned from dbzer0 for being hostile: https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=63615

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    I’ve been watching this drama with great amusement.

    It seems like goat is trolling an entire instance and I think that’s just the bee’s knees.

    Not that I have a problem with db0 I think you guys are cool and aren’t HilariousChaos which is cool too.

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    PLEASE DELETE THIS POST IMMEDIATELY OR I WILL CONTACT THE AUTHORITIES

    GDNW

    THAT STANDS FOR GOAT DID NOTHING WRONG

    STAND STRONG GOAT I LOVE YOU

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    I was banned for that trashy community for calling him out here about his hypocrisy towards the genocide in palestine

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      It’s a waste of time & effort to comment. They censor anything left of the Council on Foreign Relations, anything that questions this week’s TV news narratives. They’re the most centristest Western chauvinist around, who will never notice their chains.

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    I think @goat@sh.itjust.works has always been like this but it seems in the past he was able to hide it and make himself seem more genuine and less reactionary to others. Though now it seems the mask has fully come off. PTB for sure.

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    and are experiencing cultural erasure and Human Rights abuses

    If you believe that, then you believe there is a genocide. Because cultural erasure is genocide.

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      A genocide committed by CHINA.

      AUSTRALIA have concentration camps in East Timor. Maybe do something about what your own country’s doing.

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        AUSTRALIA have concentration camps in East Timor. Maybe do something about what your own country’s doing.

        Source on that? If you’re talking about Australia’s immigration detention centres, which are indeed heinous human rights violations, I don’t think we ever had one in East Timor. If you’re talking about the secret interrogation centre that was exposed a few years back, well that was during the peace-keeping mission back in 99/00 and hasn’t existed for a quarter of a century…

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          The fact that so many of these are empty and stupid anti-communist smears is fascinating. Vietnam did genocide against South Vietnam, collectivization of farmland in the USSR was genocide against land owning peasants? Really?

          Deeply unserious, to the point of actually being genocide denial. Genocide is the crime of crimes. This “cultural genocide” invention actually equivocates the crimes of the worst regimes in history with what are, ultimately, not even crimes. Look at Xinjiang province and compare it to Gaza. It’s fucking night and day.

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            This “cultural genocide” invention

            It was “invented” in the very same book that coined the term genocide. Cultural genocide has been a part of genocide since the very inception of the concept of genocide. I shouldn’t have to explain that multiple things can fit in the same category without being equal. Playing whataboutism games as an excuse to deny ongoing genocides is a supremely bad look.

            We’re more than happy (at least those of us on the left) to admit Australia’s “stolen generation” was an act of genocide. I’m not as well-informed about it, but my understanding is that Canada’s “residential school system” has been even more widely recognised as such. The concept of cultural genocide is pretty well established and widely accepted in leftist circles. The only exception to this seems to be tankies trying to deny China’s own examples of it in Tibet and Xinjiang.

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              The stolen generation, the residential schools, these don’t exist in a vacuum. Canada and Australia ran extermination campaigns to reduce populations before they started taking children. They’re genocidal because they’re part of a broader campaign of genocide, you can’t just divorce them from the broader genocide as a separate crime.

              That’s what I mean when I say cultural genocide has always worked alongside ethnic cleansing and mass murder campaigns and extermination. They’re not separate things. Divorcing it from them as it’s own unique crime of “cultural genocide” makes no sense and essentially devalues the power of genocide accusations.

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                Let’s try a hypothetical then. Without any mass murder or extermination campaigns, if a group forcibly enacted birth control on another group, would that be genocide? How about taking all children of that group and raising them outside of their ethnic background, therefore forcibly erasing their cultural and ethnic identity? How would those differ from other acts that don’t involve direct violence, like starvation campaigns? I agree with you on the point that using the term "cultural genocide"does devalue it though, but I just also personally believe that anything that seeks to erase a cultural, ethnic or other identity is genocide.

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                “Actually nuh uh, because, you see, I said so”

                How profound. Do you have anything of value to say, or are you too belligerent to unconditionally repudiate your wrongness and humble yourself?

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                  The genocide convention doesn’t actually cover this. The threshold for the crime of genocide is high, it is the crime of crimes. “Cultural genocide” in the absence of extermination/mass murder/ethnic cleansing does not meet that threshold.

                  It’s not just me that says so, the UN says so. The ICJ says so. They don’t call it genocide because it isn’t genocide.

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            Y’all are having a gun fight? Seems to me you’d have more to worry about than arguing online were that the case. In fact it seems more of an internet squabble than a gun fight, but tbf I’m not in your location, maybe you are posting comments in between mag changes.

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            Oh yay, the tankie supreme has joined the conversation. To share…a link to a search page? The irony of thinking a Lemmy search page is a useful link, in a comment that criticises Wikipedia.

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        The definition of genocide by the UN convention:

        In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

        (a) Killing members of the group;

        (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

        © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

        (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

        (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

        If the target is to destroy a group as a group and any of these acts are committed, it is genocide. Mass murder is the “prevalent” act, but it is not a requirement for genocide.

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          And yet the UN and ICJ don’t call it genocide.

          That’s because there is no evidence of intent to destroy their ethnic group. That’s why mass murder is basically necessary, because that’s what shows intent. Transferring children to different families can be done without intent, I’m sure you can imagine situations where someone has their children taken that are unrelated to genocide? I know I can.

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            The ICJ is a court and as such slow. As for statements showing intent, there is a plethora of statements, from comparing Palestinians to biblical “Amalek” (Netanyahu), over saying it is “unfortunate” that the world won’t let Israel just starve all people in Gaza to death (Ben Gvir) to public broadcast employees saying they want to commit another Holocaust in Gaza.

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        Suppressing a culture destroys that culture. If people cannot express their culture, it will eventually die out as the people become assimilated into the culture of the empire that is supressing it. That’s what makes it genocide. You kill off a culture even without needing to kill actual humans. (Which is to say nothing of the forced sterilisation, which is a far more direct form of genocide.)

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        That’s a much narrower definition than the UN uses, which is what matters in terms of international law. In particular, the intent doesn’t have to be to totally destroy the group, so suppressing its numbers still counts. It’s a semantic argument, but for a word so loaded as genocide, letting people dodge accusations by picking a different word isn’t helpful. Obviously, this one isn’t the most serious genocide going on right now, as there are Israeli cabinate ministers explicitly saying it’s their goal to kill all Palestinians, but that’s not a great defence for crimes against humanity.

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            Because of how the UN works, a statement from the UN that something isn’t a genocide isn’t necessarily evidence that it’s not a genocide under the definition the UN gives. Obviously, there’s the massive elephant in the room of not upsetting member states in a way that might make them less likely to engage (especially when they’re as capable of ignoring the UN as China due to their power and having a permanent veto on the Security Council), but there’s also the fact that the UN’s got lots of subcommittees and working groups that regularly put out statements that contradict each other. A few weeks ago, news was going around that the UN had released a report saying there was no evidence of a genocide against Palestinians, and it was true that they had, but it was from a body whose job was to represent Israel, and it contradicted hundreds of other reports saying there was overwhelming evidence of a genocide.

            The Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights is a pretty big deal, though, so if they say whether or not something’s a genocide, it’s worth paying attention. However, the report you linked doesn’t make a statement one way or the other - in fact it doesn’t contain the word genocide even once. It does list an awful lot of things that the Genocide Convention includes in its definition, though. A report that presents a lot of evidence of genocide but little against, and says crimes against humanity are happening while stopping short of making a definitive claim of genocide isn’t something that says a there’s no genocide. The people who’ve shown you that report and said it says there’s no genocide are misrepresenting it to push an agenda. Several countries recognised a genocide based on the evidence the report gave (although obviously they weren’t all without an agenda of their own).

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        You’re whining about being called a tankie and banned, while repeating tankies talking points.

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          There is a plausible case that there’s genocide happening, but I don’t think that’s the correct word to describe it.

          The UN and Amnesty International both defined it as Human Rights abuse, not genocide.

          The tankie talking point is that nothing bad is happening to the Uyghurs, which is blatantly false.

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            The tankie talking point is that nothing bad is happening to the Uyghurs, which is blatantly false.

            Bad things have absolutely happened to them. They suffered violence from Salafi-Jihad terrorists[1][2] and suffered mass unemployment from the West’s (led by the US, ofc) embargoes on Xinjiang cotton, the region’s main export, which only adds tinder to terrorism potentially re-igniting. Given the last 25 years of the US showing the world that it doesn’t give a rat’s about Muslims, and given that it considers China to be its greatest adversary/enemy, one shouldn’t uncritically accept its professed motive: to protect poor, oppressed Uyghurs.

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        It’s brigading. They encourage users (like the one who started this whole mess) to go to tankies instances (and now db0) to harass them.

        Most of the time in their content, it’s an user who commented on MeanwhileOnGrad, went to the instance and then got banned.

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    the dude who has admitted on Lemmy to being a former member of several neo-nazi forums because he finds nazis “interesting” is being an asshole. that’s shocking.

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      many anarchists used to be members of authcom communities because they found it interesting. i don’t think what our worldviews were when we were young defines who we are

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        Is that true? For what value of “many”? My impression is that—in the Anglosphere anyway—“auth” communists who once were anarchists is even more common. We’re fed a lifetime of anti-communist propaganda, and comparatively little ant-anarchist, and I think that people seldom arrive there along a straight path.

        I’d like to see a breakdown of anarchists per capita by country. I think it’s predominantly a Western movement, but I don’t have data to back that up.

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          Not sure this is a sizable dataset, but I can be added to the pile of anarcho-communist -> Marxist-Leninist. It took far more reading and research to overcome my anti-AES bias than it did to accept anarchism as an alternative.

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          comparatively little ant-anarchist

          “comparatively” doesn’t make it actually little. Assuming they don’t think you’re unserious, walk on a street and tell someone you’re an anarchist and they’ll think you’re a terrorist. Tell them you’re a {insert popular alt-right party here} member and they’ll just think you’re weird and avoid you. Tell them you’re a communist and they’ll probably have a tamer response thinking you’re just deluded. You’re not gonna arrive at anarchism along a straight path either.

          I think it’s predominantly a Western movement

          “West” has a lot of definitions; let’s just say Global North. The places where anarchist movements hold the most power (hah) are probably areas of Spain—Global North indeed—and the Global South’s Rojava and Chiapas, under the DAANES and Zapatistas respectively.

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            Minor tidbit, the Zapatistas directly and explicitly reject the label “anarchist,” they see their own movement as organic and self-driven more than anything. Not saying you can’t use them as an example of anarchist-adjacent structures, but they quite clearly dislike the term being applied to themselves.

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              That’s true. It’s also worth noting that since they are states that hold power, they obviously all have some distance from anarchism, the ideology against power and states.

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                I mean, that also applies to the Spanish anarchists as well, who employed labor camps and had some degree of hierarchical structure. At the end of the day, anarchists do have to make compromises with what authority they consider valid and what they don’t. I’d say the Spanish anarchists had their own “state” as well, and this applies to all anarchism in historical example. There’s a difference between the idealized, perfect anarchism, and the anarchism forced to reconcile the need for some hierarchy, especially when defending itself from outside forces.

                Ultimately, while they reject the label of anarchist, the Zapatistas do have a fairly horizontalist approach, which is why I said they can be considered when discussing anarchist-adjacent structures, their merits, and any problems they may run into.

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        lemme know when those authcom communities are advocating purging the western world of anyone who isn’t white and enslaving the rest of the world in a christian theocracy.

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          “Kill all Jews” and “kill all kulaks” have both killed enough people that this is a distinction without a difference.

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                The 1930s famine was a combination of dramatic weather problems in pre-industrial agriculture, kulak’s killing their livestock and burning their grain in order to resist collectivization, and mismanagement. The Communist Party of Ukraine hid how bad the famine was getting from the politburo, which made the problems even worse as it delayed aid. It wasn’t intentional, and after the 1930s famine the USSR was food secure outside of World War II, when the Nazis took Ukraine (the USSR’s breadbasket) and intentionally attacked farmland.

                Mao faced similar issues with famine, large-scale weather problems coupled with mismanagement. Neither famine was intentional, so framing it as “mass murder” erases that once both countries industrialized, life expectancy doubled as compared to pre-famine, pre-socialist conditions. Famine was just incredibly common before industrializing farming, and the communists, when in power, provided high quality healthcare and land redistributiob, education, etc.

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              There are plenty of important differences, but “will not lead to mass death and forced labor, including along ethnic, religious and national lines” is not one of them. I get your instinct to want to say it is, but the number and scale of genocidal or genocide-parallel crimes committed under Stalin speaks for itself.

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                  I mean, I made my case in my comment chain with _cryptagion, so if you believe my characterization is wrong can you provide an explanation of why?

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            “If you change the word “Nazis” to “black people” then you see how rascist antifa are!”

            • an idiot
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            Kulaks were not a “people,” they were owners of private property, specifically farmland, who had serfs work the land. They lived off of the exploitation of others. They were the feudal rough-equivalent of the petit bourgeois class. So of course they weren’t going to embrace socialism or land collectivization, or having to work a day in their lives.

            This is what happens to all of us who’ve lived a lifetime of anti-communist propaganda. Unless you take the time & effort to go back and examine all of that received wisdom, you’ll continue believing that Kulaks were a people genocided by the evil Slavic Bolsheviks. And then we have to—as patiently as we can muster—explain the same basic things to people over and over again.

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              Kulaks were an economic class. If someone thinks otherwise any discussion on the topic is going to get misconstrued real fast.

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      He’s a master debater. He needs to masterdebate everyday otherwise he get depressed and can’t sleep

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        on how many trash alts are you gonna make that stupid fucking adolescent joke? did you consider at all the first ten times you made it that maybe people weren’t laughing because you’re a fucking idiot?

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      i wonder if the idiot has been banned from those same forums, me thinks they have for being too much of a troll for them,. other forums will tolerate alot less than lemmy and reddit, they ban much more freely,.

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    1. Trying to wipe out a religion (and not a specific religious belief) is cultural genocide
    2. Db0 is a shithead
    3. The db0 admins ban users for voting, and I believe in holding people to their own standards, so goat confronting db0 for voting is fine in my book
    4. Just move instance if you don’t like the consequences of using db0
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        The term is deeply tied to both eugenics and fascism, Nazis would label modernist art, queer people, Jews, disabled people, and leftists as “degenerate”. There really isn’t a reading that’s not describing people as subhuman.

        Using it assumes there’s a “pure” social body and that some people are contaminants. It’s a pretty clear indication that the user is operating from a worldview fundamentally at odds with anyone that values solidarity and liberation.

        “degenerates” as a pejorative is almost exclusively used in crypto-fascist and red-brown spaces.

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          oh dear I’ve been using it as a synonym for scumbag since i was born while railing against using “brainrot” as an insult

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            It’s quite literally a fascists favorite insult, half their deal is railing against “degenerated culture” because kids have iPads instead of 7-6 jobs or reconquering Rome or whatever

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          Oh God and I’ve been using it to talk about people who can’t watch a sports game without being in 4 different gambling apps…

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          “degenerates” as a pejorative is almost exclusively used in crypto-fascist and red-brown spaces.

          Completely ridiculous. A word doesn’t belong to alt-right losers just because it becomes popular on 4chan for a bit. I’ve used “degenerate” and heard it used many times. No need to fence off our language, just so you can have a shallow easy make believe reason to ascribe someone to a hate group.

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              All I’m saying is treating the word as a dog whistle is dumb. It not a code word for “undesirables” or wtv fucked up shit the nazis and 4chan are using it for. Normal people use it with the new agreed upon definition.

              Part of me also thinks it’s caving into 4chan and the like. It’s encouraging their definition even though it hasn’t been valid for a few decades already. They don’t get to define the word and I won’t stop using it because of them essentially.

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                  Simple as.

                  Like I’m going to give grown-ass adults on a pseudonymous social media platform the benefit of the doubt ten years after Gamergate.

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                  Except it’s literally not the fucking dictionary definition.

                  Per oxford:

                  noun noun: degenerate; plural noun: degenerates /dəˈjen(ə)rət/

                  an immoral or corrupt person.
                  "get out of my house, you degenerate!"
                  
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                Normal people use it with the new agreed upon definition.

                It’s “normal” in the sense that fascist ideology and terminology are normal in a fascist society.

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                Normal people use it using the new agreed upon definition.

                That’s the old, pre-fascist, pre-eugenicist definition, not a new one, and no, we don’t use it, because we haven’t been living under a rock for the last ninety years. We know what a dog whistle is.

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                  Languages evolve I guess. I know blink 182 had a song named “degenerate”. If I enter the word in chosic, I get 7000 hits (songs with the word in the lyrics). I find the expression “degenerate gambler” is kind of common? Idk.

                  Just trying to show that the word is common and lost it’s ties to nazis and fascists a long time ago. Just a regular but harsh insult imo, but wtv.

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            well even the new definition/common usage includes implications of degeneration, whose meaning we would all know even without learning about Hitler

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            A word doesn’t belong to alt-right losers just because it becomes popular on 4chan for a bit.

            Pretty sure 4chan is the capital of alt-right losers.

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            “Degenerate” implies there’s a pure blood line and that mixed breeding literally made it degenerate.

            What do you think the word means? “Degeneration” is inherently a conservative concept. It means “used to be good but isn’t anymore”

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              “Degeneration” is inherently a conservative concept. It means “used to be good but isn’t anymore”

              No, the idea of things declining is not a right-wing idea.

              Capitalism degenerates into fascism for example.

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                Yes, if you use a word in a different context it sometimes has a different meaning. But the context on the table is humans, and dehumanization.

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            I’ve used “degenerate” and heard it used many times.

            self report

            If you’re referring to other people as subhuman people are going to come to conclusions about your worldview.

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              Sorry but you are just out of touch. Its a normal word used by the population at large. Thinking using the word “degenerate” means being a crypto fascist is top tier silly.

              Try as hard as you might to lump me in with them because of the use of a common word (lol), I will never be any kind of fascist.

              I actually think the short form “degen” is popular amongst the younger generations.

              In any caze, it’s asinine behavior. It’s weak. You’re basically just looking for the easiest way to write someone off, like above. Instead of actually thinking about what I was saying, you just gave a trite remark. You protect yourself by turning everyone you disagree with into another fascist that can’t possibly have a point.

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                If you’re referring to other people as subhuman then people are going to come to conclusions about your worldview.

                You protect yourself by turning everyone you disagree with into a fascist that can’t possibly have a point.

                The post here is about the goat (and associated clowns) that specialize in turning everyone they disagree with into a ‘tankie’ that can’t possibly have a point.

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                  Actual definition of degenerate when referring to a person:

                  “an immoral or corrupt person.”

                  The post here is about the goat (and associated clowns) that specialize in turning everyone they disagree with into a ‘tankie’ that can’t possibly have a point.

                  Yes, the behavior is dumb in both cases. I’d argue what you are doing is worse since your decision hinges on non sensical surface analysis of the persons vocabulary.

                  I’ve also been called a tankie and I hate the liberal use of the word. It kind of shows just how off base your assumptions are.

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      Since db0 is math, and math, by definition and practice is both truth and fact, then we have MoL denying fact, as to be expected.

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      TBH I didn’t think goat’s obvious bullshit needed or deserved a response.

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          I haven’t seen their comments, so I have no opinion on them. I’m pointing out that being banned from .ml isn’t the ‘pwn’ parent commentor seems to think it is. If anything, it’s somewhere between a coming of age ritual and a mark of honour for an account.

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    Db0 is a bit of a power tripper NGL. He is very accepting of everyone’s beliefs as long as they don’t contradict his own.

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      Don’t involve me here. I haven’t even done anything in this drama cycle. You just have an ax to grind against me.

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        Federate hilarious chaos so I can engage with the piracy com without switching accounts and all axes will be discarded.

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            I’m a bit confused about who Lemmydb0 federates with, why is hexbear ok but that instance not? I thought they shared users when hexbear almost went down.

            (for context I have only used lemmy.world and shitjustworks, both of which defederate with both instances. I’m not really knowledge about anything regarding the specifics.)

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              Hilarious Chaos is a Nazi instance, not anywhere close to Hexbear. The closest instance to Hexbear is Lemmygrad.ml, because both Hex and Grad have the most Marxist-Leninists.

              dbzer0 is federated with Hex because Hex is also an anarchist instance, Hex is federated with dbzer0 and Lemmygrad.ml, and to my knowledge none of these three are federated with HilariousChaos

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            Hc is not a Nazi instance its against rules. I haven’t seen any Nazi activity I would be very surprised if u could find any.

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    Whatever man. irrelephant, you are pretty free with your own mod activities, don’t respond when questioned, and basically don’t discuss what you do. So why would anyone care if you don’t like some shit? Why talk to you about it, when you won’t talk about the shit you do as a mod?

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        Just look in your chat log. I’ve a pretty unique nic, as do you.
        But you don’t respond to public questions in your comms either.

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            I guess my instance purges old direct messages? I had no idea they went away after a time. I don’t have it either.

            Ya took down my silly cat pic in that dead-ass iiitttttt com. Off topic. Didn’t reply to me.
            It’s old news. I just said screw you and stopped posting to your comm.

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                I dd not agree. You did not reply. And not replying seems to be your default in public as well.

                Like, you moved the comm to another instance. There was a lot of subsequent discussion of that. People wanted to know what the comm was even about. Thats about the time you nuked my cat pic. No - comment.

                You seemed to be mining the old comm and recycling content. Nope, you had no comment.

                I have no issue in general with you or your comm. I still read it.
                But its fun watching you whine about another mod.

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                  The comm isn’t mine, I just mod it. I try to reply to stuff, but I can miss things (like that DM).
                  I’m pretty sure I explained the comm to most people who asked about it.
                  I restored the cat picture, but I think it should have been left removed.

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      It’s almost like the Lemmy mod structure promotes authoritarian abuse and is extremely flawed. I feel like more leftists should understand it’s more about the systems than the individuals.

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        You’re not wrong, but in this case they were complaining about me removing this post (which I restored, because why not), and not answering DMs they sent, which I did not receive.
        I didn’t even ban the person.

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          Well no. I banned you.

          I was the last poster in your old comm, and the first one in the new comm after your migration. Whether you even realized it, that’s what you lose when you don’t communicate.

          And I stopped posting after our encounter.

          I’ll now contribute there again. Because, why not?

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          Haha OK it was a broader point: I’ve never seen or heard anything about your modding so I know nothing. But it is a common issue both on Reddit and here. The issue is that there is no structure to provide users with actual power to influence their communities other than voting on content. And moderation supersedes this power.

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        It is better than centralized reddit bullshit where regime whores enforce right think.

        At least here we see these rifts in public.

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          Sure, a little better I’ll grant you. But I think there’s still a lot of room for improvement. I am not trying to trade an empire for a kingdom. That’s not much progress to me.

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    Can you explain how deliberate culture erasure isn’t a genocide?

    I’m gonna stay out and not take sides but you make a not to mention you don’t believe it is a genocide.

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        If the reports of forced sterilization and birth limits are true then it seem likes that dolus specialis is met, but … maybe I’m too generous with calling genociders genociders.

        Especially since I’m not THE authority which gets to label one as such I think I’d always err on the side of calling something that walks and quacks like a genocide a genocide.

        Anyways, thanks for the response, it’s reasonable even if I think it’s wrong,

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    Hmm quite the spicy thread you have here. May I taste?

    Hmm honestly a bit too elaborate, seems like I need a PhD in lemmy to follow all the ramifications…

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        Yep, the second the anarchists weren’t in 100% lock-step with the cryptofascists, the cryptofash started lumping in the anarchists with the Marxists as “tankies.” I called this a long time ago.