It's over having a community wide hard line on pronouns. Even if a suspected troll is using neo pronouns (or any pronouns frankly) that's not a license to misgender them.
The user that sparked the recent controversy (drag) has a history of being pretty volatile/offensive but that's still no reason to compromise on neo pronouns.
I for one would rather put up with someone 'trolling' while using neo pronouns (until the inevitable ban for saying something shitty) rather than tolerate anyone getting misgendered in a trans-inclusive space.
It means 'fuck Joe biden', there was some NASCAR thing where people were chanting 'fuck Joe Biden'. It was being reported on and the reporter relayed it as 'lets go brandon' and it became a meme on the right.
The meme in this thread is about how American conservatives completely miss the nuance of why people on the left actually oppose both them and centrist Democrats. It's easier to do childish shit and just assume that everyone to their left is some form of liberal who loves Joe Biden. The good news is they're not getting younger.
/all + new + comments is like my main use case, yet it's frustrating because I can only view a tiny amount of comments at once, and only the first page of them. Hoping that gets fixed at some point.
The instance tribalism is ironic; most of the people complaining about .ml have also been banned from other communities for similar behavior (racism, misogyny, etc).
I mean they never even got banned from .ml, but here's a sample of other places they've been kicked out of, so this isn't really making the case for authoritarian mods on .ml tbh
weird, looks like you got banned for the same thing on lemmy.world, (hostility, repeatedly calling people "kids" in a derogatory way, and trivializing the ongoing genocide), but only had a post removed for similar behavior on .ml.
More often than not someone when complains about getting banned and I bother to follow up in the modlog it turns out that they got like a 3-7 day ban for acting like an complete asshole. Then they proceed to vague post about it months later despite the ban being long over.
Can you elaborate about unwritten rules? Most of the bans I've seen has been for pretty clear rules violations, there's some stuff which might fly on reddit (like xenophobia, sexism, racism, transphobia), that will catch a ban here. Having rules against bigotry actually getting enforced is probably a confusing occurrence for some redditors. Even people behaving hostile will generally only catch a temp ban to cool down, permanent bans are more for people who are being bigoted.
I have had plenty of issues with at least one of the admins, despite that I have yet to be censored for saying as much. The red-baiting disguised as legitimate concerns rubs me the wrong way though.
In the current environment Ded Moroz is going to get tracked on NORAD but only because they're trying to shoot him down, and then claim that his balloon sleigh was full of surveillance equipment
I'm inclined to agree, they don't want people starting to consider social murder as a crime worth seeking justice for, because the entire government is complicit in a vast network of social murder. An enormous yearly sacrifice all in the name of preserving 'markets' for housing, food, transportation, and healthcare.
Our population is too fat to join the military yet we are facing a war with China, Russia, North Korea
and Iran before 2030.
Bold words from someone named "life is burger"
We must end the war in Ukraine with negotiated settlement. It is the only way.
NGL this would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath, also what I take from this is he just wants to stop fighting Russia so the focus can be on fighting China
Focus on strength and winning. Masculinity is good and men must be leaders. Strength is a
deterrent and fear is the product.
I think I'll stick with HRT if masculinity and strength leads to self immolating in a rented cybertruck
Gross, corporate social media platforms have been circling the nazi bar drain for a while, it's just becoming explicit now.