Academia is like this eventually. Or so I am told

OP is very politically aligned with the “triad”. Speaking of which though i still think y’all should have called it the tankie troika, i mean its so obvious.

Incredible.

My fault

It isn’t used as a homophobic slur and it wasn’t my point that it is or that you were using it that way. The point was that the mod percieved you as engaging in common rhetoric that IS homophobic. It wasn’t about the word itself, or even you as an individual. You were banned because of where the type of argument you were using comes from and to preserve the specific social milieu desired by the creators of that community. Yes, it is overzealous, but it is also their prerogative. I do wish they were more explicit about it however.

I’ll do my best to explain their perspective as someone who mostly shares it. Since 2016 there have been a lot of memes and commentary from liberal Americans insinuating that putin and trump are in a homosexual relationship. This is largely seen by the left (various kinds of anarchists and communists) as homophobic because it wields sexuality as a rhetorical weapon. Yes, trump and putin are homophobic and I can see how calling them gay would be funny because it might get under their skin but we shouldn’t contribute to the culture of calling people gay to hurt them.

This got a lot worse when liberals decided republicans were “Russian assets”. Depicting trump as the servile sexual partner of putin became popular as a more specific form of humiliation. Not only does it imply trump is serving the “evil foreigner” but it also, again, uses sexuality and violations of heteronormative gender roles as a point of insult. This is homophobic.

The mod saw your use of meatpuppet as engaging with this rhetoric as it implies subservience and, to a small extent, sexuality (because of the meat part).

The argument that you intended all of this is admittedly loose but [email protected] has very sensitive moderation. This is primarily because it is an explicitly leftist community that critiques capitalism and the role of liberals within capitalism on a majority liberal server. They run into a lot of people who do not fit in the ideological framework of the community and ban those people in order to preserve the culture of that community.

Is it power trippy? Yeah, a bit. The goal is to get you to disengage so you won’t be a nuisance.

That’s kinda why we advocate for destroying the system instead of lesser eviling our way into barbarism

My god, the evil foreigners have opinions on our politics! Who gives a fuck where they’re from. You got banned for being a nuisance.

You also forgot the first rule of a united front, it has to be explicitly anti-fascist. Democrats are not anti-fascist, anti-fascists do not support fascist states like Israel. A united front has hard red lines that cannot be crossed DESPITE its ideological hodgepodge. You are only part of the united front so long as you do not cross those lines.

That’s hilarious, I couldn’t have been more obviously wrong

My fault, I genuinely thought wine was an imitation. Honestly I don’t use it much

It IS an emulation. Wine only allows us to run windows applications not windows itself

Wrong

Depends on the map, time, culture, and location depicted. Often they are just decorative but sometimes, especially when depicted in streams, near coastlines, and in bays/harbors they denote nonvisible underwater obstacles that could harm your ship. They can also denote particularly harsh waters and ship graveyards.

Banned for “numskull” is crazy glad it got corrected lol

Correct

A newt?

Thank your for your service

Perspectives on recent history left of establishment democrats are not accepted there. I keep my posting in that com to premodern history for a reason. Piefed is a strictly liberal ideological project and their moderation reflects that.

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic

Haha, you should try using the median income to adjust for outlier skewing. Also while it is true that constant capital becomes variable capital if you follow the production chain you should keep in mind that much of this production is done in the imperial periphery (and therefore not necessarily reflected in GDP per capita). Their exploitation is directly responsible for the purchasing power of our wages, in a way an hour of our labor purchases many many hours of theirs. If you are going to eliminate constant capital through the means suggested in your process, then you need to include the wages of workers of the periphery (often below the value of their labor power) in your average.