Now it makes sense!

BPR?

Still waiting for an apology for your mod abuse, that @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com overturned, but seems to be otherwise unbothered by.

I guess you’ll be waiting a while. Honestly I’m getting pretty tired of folks like you jumping into our communities to froth at the mouth over tankies simply for existing, whether real (as in this case) or imagined (as in my case). It’s nothing but shit-stirring and pointless drama.

For the record, I fundamentally disagree with tankies on their mostly uncritical support for AES / former AES states. And I’ve always had that position. It hasn’t changed, no matter how bad faith trolls try to paint that narrative. Anti-authoritarianism is a fundamental principle of anarchism and it’s one I live by. It’s ridiculous I even have to make disclaimer like these, but with the amount of bad faith takes going on lately I guess I’ve got to keep saying it.

But having said that, you don’t need to bring that shit into every single interaction with someone. That’s just toxic behaviour intended to derail a conversation and bait a response, so no, I don’t apologize for removing your comment.

I also disagree with a lot of libs on their governments’ mostly uncritical support for Israel. The Dems are currently upset with our instance because they get the same treatment all the other authoritarian supporters get, so they are trying to spin this as us “being tankie”. Just because their own party consistently votes for imperial wars and genocides doesn’t mean they are bad as the tankies for supporting genocide right? And we all have to go along with their asinine electoralism to vote for the “lesser evil” or we’re obviously working for the Russians or the Chinese or whatever other boogeyman US politics has decided to scapegoat for the abject harms of neoliberal economics right? And if we just keep voting for the lesser evil party they’ll stop dropping/supplying bombs to kill brown people eventually, right? Well, no. I call bullshit on all of that. Anarchists see this with clear eyes. Campist takes are as bad coming from the Dems as they are coming from the ML instances.

And it’s ironic that mouth-foaming haters like PugJesus are blind to the fact they are part of drumming up the exact same “red peril” scare that McCarthy was guilty of - a notorious time in US politics when Republican politicians were in full witch-hunt mode. But he’s “vaguely leftist” so its ok right? And since he will no doubt read this because he’s seemingly completely obsessed with me, no Senator Pug McJesus - I haven’t done a 180 on tankies. When I say we have more in common with instances like ml and hexbear, I mean in terms of political theory: we all believe that capitalism, especially the neo-liberal form of unfettered corporate greed, is fundamentally incompatible with social, economic, and political equity. As anarchists, we do of course differ on details of how achieve the objective of a truly socialist economy, and whether or not nation states are required, but one thing we can agree upon is that capitalism and corporate greed are directly responsible for millions of preventable deaths each year, and vastly more misery and suffering because of totally unnecessary poverty that exists only because of the greed of rich capitalists. The Real Violent Extremists Are The Freaks Who Run The US Empire.

People who use the software as intended are abusing the software and suck? Gotcha. I didn’t realise I wasn’t allowed to use that feature, my bad I guess. Thanks for offering your considered opinion on my username, it really added a lot to the discussion.