Meme.
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CW self harm, transphobiaBullshit. Why don’t you show the context?
Oh here's the context for the transphobic comment too:
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It was in this post about donald trump posting an image of Joe Biden tied up
You opened up with this, which is pretty clearly trolling.
Marcie responded with a similarly pointed comment that also got removed for being uncivil.
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Then you dropped your transphobic/kys comment in response to someone saying that Trump could get shot for treason but the democrats will never follow through. This is expressing frustration with liberals who talk a big game but when the chips are down take no action. Not sure what you were trying to accomplish other than being needlessly hostile.
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Worth noting all of this is in the public modlog, anyone can look it up
I agree that 'ironic' homophobia is still homophobia, and should be removed, just like 'ironic' misogyny and transphobia.
Here's the transphobic part of the post of yours - the same one in the post above
Hexbear has done many surveys at this point of the gender of its users (most recent one linked here) As of this last one cis people are in the minority, I don't know why you would insert a comment like that if you weren't trying to be transphobic.
I took a little to think on this since you did give me a thoughtful response:
Me calling the jedi 'statist cops' was a really meant to be tongue in cheek - like this bit
re: 40k- ::: spoiler spoiler grimdark ie 'there is only war' I do agree that you can't have a binary view of any of the factions- they all have their internal motivations and frankly the reason why I brought up the Imperium in the first place is more because a common thing I ran into back when I played was that from a surface reading people would take away that the imperium are the good guys. I absolutely appreciate that there is nuance there and there aren't really good or bad guys in the setting.
As an aside I always had a soft spot for the Craftworld Eldar myself.
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re: Tankies/Ukraine
Re: Juche
The only bans I saw on your account were for being needlessly hostile- and they look like they all were extremely short.
Re: the homophobic comments, in your posts that got removed you were hostile for what looks to me like your misinterpreting a bad attempt at a bad joke (not even from .ml user, but .ee), though you didn't tell them to kys that time at least. You then went through the their profile responding to months old posts to try to continue things, again being needlessly hostile- if I had to venture a guess that was more of the reason for your ban 5 months ago. Plenty of other instances will also temp ban for behavior like that.
and then 8 months ago you dropped this gem: CW self harm, transphobia
The accusations of toxicity seem to be projection.
Along with racism, bigotry and transphobia sprinkled in.
Bold words, but I run into way more bigotry and racism while/after posting on .world vs posting in .ml spaces.
Nutomic is a shithead for failing to address his transphobia, if he ever posts in /c/transgender I'll ban him myself.
authoritarianism/dictatorship with a communism mask like the CCP or Russia.
Russia is not pretending to be communist, wtf are you on? do you mean USSR? if anything I've run into way more cutting critiques of existing/historical socialist states among actual communists in these spaces as opposed to carnival barkers with a tenuous grasp on history.
The racism allegations also kind of sound like projection in this context considering on of the main controversies I've seen about bans here are for banning people being weirdly racist and choosing to die on the hill of depicting the president of China as a yellow cartoon animal.
Most addicted city (over 100k visits total) Eglin Air Force Base, when I see someone going out of their way to be a cop about communists on the Internet it just makes me think you must get paid to be one IRL and just can't shut it off.
Re: the old republic, I can accept that explanation, though the Jedi are still statist cops in that context, just not for a state with explicit internal slavery. (I only saw the prequals + original 3 + rogue 1, so I don't know what the current narrative is)
re: Thoughtcrime- I actually liked G'Kar a lot in Babylon 5, and having psychic cops does raise all sorts of issues with how they then get used by the state as enforcers.
re: 40k I get that it's grimdark and no sides are 'good' but that doesn't preclude a lot of them from being evil- it's just that they rationalize the evil they do as a choice they are forced into. I always took a lot of the the imperial cult stuff to be unreliable narrators- so much of their tech they don't even understand and that's what they have to tell themselves to justify their inhuman behavior towards xenos or heretics. Taking the World eaters as an example, Angron was set up. Not only getting the nuralink, but the Emperor could have chosen to teleport down and help him lead his slave revolt against the nobility, but he was busy with Lorgar coming up with new reasons why women couldn't be space marines. I haven't read all the 30k lore out there, but a lot of the plot points stem from the Emperor failing to properly interact with (or even betraying in their eyes) his superhuman children.
So critically, if you can’t understand the motivations behind the two protagonist factions in two of the largest pieces of media in the whole of human history, media written not for it’s depth of political complexity but for it’s ease of digestion by (lets be honest) the lowest common nerd denominator,
I would argue that both of those factions can be interpreted as the antagonists, especially if you view it from the standpoint of upholding the status quo vs advancing the plot. The protagonist doesn't have to be 'good' nor the antagonist a villain. In terms of character development the chaos factions do end up pretty villainous, but they're also the ones challenging the status quo and advancing the plot while the loyalists are just reacting to that.
why do you think your understanding of the situation in Ukraine is going to be more reasonably concluded?
If anything I think the failure to be critical of what you see as the protagonist in a story belies a possible blind spot when it comes to criticism of states you may agree with (or share a material interest with) in the real world. That said I have all sorts of unconventional opinions about the conflict due having family impacted by this. For me at least that makes it hard to see the Russians as some monolithic evil when I can just pick up a phone and call my uncle (lived in Karkov, got out before the border shut down). The guy even used my chosen name the last time we talked!
I mean, fuck, Juche is almost cartoonishly evil.
The UA war is the most heavily propagandized hot conflict in history.
Every other war has also been heavily propagandized, including the Korean and Cold war, which is why you have the idea that something like Juche is cartoonishly evil rather than the product of its environment- I try to approach understanding any subject by reading what the people who believe in it actually say, as well as what criticism there is from people with a similar ideology, as often their enemies are often just preaching to the choir.
For example, the primary point of Juche is that each revolution must be carried out by its own people, rather than by a foreign power attempting to dominate the younger revolution towards its own interests. I would agree with this, and fun fact, Juche was actually coined as a term by Korean anarchists, and anarchists are still one of the leftist tendencies present in the DPRK to this day.
Participating in rallies is good step, though I doubt that will ever influence policy- even when Trump was in office the first time trying to get democrats to oppose war was like pulling teeth. I even got told to fuck off by my federal reps staffers because I showed up at their office to pester them about their supporting Trumps warmongering. I personally prefer to spend my time making sure the unhoused people around me have a warm meal every week instead.
Of everything you could choose to criticize the jedi for, of all the many things you could choose, Thought Crimes and Qui-Gon emancipating Anikan is what you go with? I mean, christ, I just said that to point out how cliché your response was, I did not think you’d actually roll with the idea I was comparing you to Darth Fucking Vader.
idk where you got the Vader comparison, but the system that the Jedi were upholding had slavery, freeing the one who happens to be valuable doesn't make them good.
They are the reactionary enforcers/janissaries for that particular empire.
also 'thought crimes' is like when you're getting prosecuted for having bad opinions, my issue is that they let these psychic cops just run around manipulating people's minds
Honestly there’s not much more for me to say to this. Between that and you revealing that you think the imperium is evil (which… uhm… buddy you’ve missed the entire joke) I think you’ve made your grasp of political nuance pretty explicit.
what's joke then?
opposing war with russia because you think Ukraine are the aggressors, or that any violence is to be opposed even self defence,
I think the causes America chooses to support are the ones which benefit it geopolitically, regardless of how "worthy" their cause. Palestinians are defending themselves against aggression where's their shipment of Abrams and air defenses?
I lost all my sanity points decades ago. I also purged my social circle back during the second intifada, and by opposing the Iraq/Afghanistan wars- categorically improved my mental health as a result- I didn't even have to cut anyone out of my life after Oct 7!
From my position, the jedi are evil!
statist cops who routinely perform extrajudicial executions, have largely unchecked mind control powers and freedom to recruit child slaves from pod racing without any sort of oversight
Next you'll probably need me to explain why the imperium of man is evil
You seem very emotionally invested in war with Russia, I don't think opposing that makes people tankies, nor do I see how opposition to war infantalizes the people getting killed by it.
Ukranians aren't a monolith and there were plenty of Ukranians getting killed by their government prior to '22.
if you’re living in the states then you are literally slapping new paint on the war machine every 4 years.
Yes that's what I'm saying and it's a little weird to be so invested in what color it is rather than addressing the material issues.
Have fun melting down over the election, I'm going outside.
you are incorrectly assuming that nothing can be changed because you are not willing to fight for that change.
I'm literally out there multiple days of the week organizing, we've fed thousands over the years.
In person organizing around addressing the material issues is what's needed, not slapping a new coat of paint on the war machine every 4 years.
“the thing you’re fixated on is the futile thing” The only way you can think civil rights are futile is if you have already given up.
I don't think you're fixated on civil rights, you're fixated on winning a carnival game that I'm trying to explain to you is a sideshow compared to what's going on outside the circus (and it has always been rigged).
Let me know if you need any help with your cosplay, I'm good with a sewing machine.
you’re fighting for futility, I’m advocating realistic change
I'm saying the thing you're fixated on is the futile thing, it assumes that this is a democracy (it isn't) and that it's "just special interests" (it's the capitalist class writ large, they just bicker over who gets the reins)
I don't think a qanon style campaign to stop the steal is realistic, but if you want to dress up like a fallout character and storm the capital in January more power to you.
the alternative you are suggesting is that because there are outsized special interests influencing you a selection, people shouldn’t have any say.
No, I'm saying that they never had a say, and you're imagining popular power that never existed. For most of the US existence only white men could vote for one, the franchise was eventually extended but any influence voting has always been overdetermined by the existence of the electoral college.
The fixating on a few times the election didn't go your way just looks like nursing bruised egos instead of focusing on productive work and developing a better understanding of our politics.
I didn't find any of the arguments compelling, I'm just not particularly enchanted by this electoral system because it's a fig leaf for a bourgeois dictatorship, and has been for some time. Just because you vote doesn't mean it's a democracy.
My position is that the fix has been in for a lot longer, there's been basically no US presidents that have actually represented the entire population, it's always businesses and settlers first (hence all the wars)
Gore actually won the popular vote, unlike this time
I'm not familiar with it, and I doubt many other people reading it got that either. It's a little ironic that you're this bent out of shape when other people don't get your joke but at the same time can't give other people the same deference.
I still think removing the homophobic comment -ironic or otherwise- was the right move, however you going into months-old threads to harass them about your current beef was also something begging for moderation.
I have, twice now, are you being intentionally obtuse? click on the spoiler tag if you want to see.