It's truly depressing seeing the continuous right-wing slide of Lemmy.world. It isn't surprising, of course, but they'd rather ban people calling out transphobia for being "aggressive" than address the transphobes, and that says a lot about their moderators actual stances.
Slop.
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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Your comment wasn't even that aggressive. It is fully within the bounds of civil discourse by their standards. You've clearly pinned them as transphobic in a way they can't even reconcile, so instead of dealing with this contradiction you've presented, they bury you. It's everything they claim places like Russia or China are about. The federation model of decentralizing services really does lead to little fiefdoms run by petty lords.
Edit: But we love our petty lords here, don't we folks!?
100%. They side with transphobes when it's Leftists calling them out, because it helps obscure the nature of their particular method of censorship. Now, censorship can be a good thing when combatting misinformation and bigotry, of course, but that's the opposite of .world's methods here.
Defederation is the most you can do to censor an entire group of people. It looks less obvious because you don't see removed comments, but it shuts out speech. Leftists are generally more up front and honest about what they censor and why, while .world and sh.itjust.works try to pretend that they don't censor at all.
Yet, they recently made that announcement about the site requiring "Civil Disagreement" in all communities. It leaves one to wonder how much of their actions are intentional, or if they truly believe they're acting in a civil and just manner.
Pretty sure they are "true believers." When their hypocricy is pointed out, they double down.
odd that they also accused me of being "aggressive" as well when i rarely comment there; sounds coordinated.
Absolutely. It's a behavioral pattern.
The meanwhile on grad thread about this is even worse, CW transphobia:
spoiler
"If we treat you like a human being, the Russians win somehow."
"how can there be 50% trans people that's so unrealistic"
- user who has never been to a gay bar
That part was especially baffling. Like, you're getting accused of transphobia and are defending it, and you wonder why trans people flock to explicitly trans-positive instances? Do they not see the connection there, that perhaps the queer side may indeed have a point?
"How dare those trans people cause their own transphobia instead of just sucking it up so we can maintain decorum with people who violently fantasize about hurting them!"
If it's such a small, niche issue, then why the fuck can't you just tell reactionaries to fuck off?
Yep, imaqtpie tried to tell me Hexbear is "more bigoted" yet is peddling alt-right conspiracy theories that
cw: transphobia
Foreign nations are "transing" the youth.
Unsurprising from the instance that maintains MWoG and NCD.
We're gonna wear this emoji out soon.
It would be worn into dust if you peaked into MWoG for any length of time.
Sometimes I get morbid curiosity, that Frisish user apparently has me listed as "tankie influencer" which is kinda cute. The biggest thing though is that it's overwhelmingly clear that any vague notions of being "left, just anti-tankie" is immediately overrun with defense of transphobia, anti-leftism, anti-DEI, anti-"wokeness" alt-right talking points, and it's abundantly clear that no user there actually has read Marx.
As an example, one visitor had recently read Anti-Dühring from Engels and was confused as to why a MWoG post was titled something along the lines of "banned for knowing Marxsim better than an ML," yet the body of the post showing the supposed knowledgable user's takes contradicted what they had read with Engels. The mod on MWoG proceded to talk down to them and claim the Bolsheviks were anti-Marxist for the NEP and that it was the SRs and Mensheviks who knew better, and that the Nazi led Hungarian revolt was a "real worker movement."
Very silly place indeed.
Tankie influencer is so based honestly.
Gotta sell tanks on XiaoHongShu now.
Didn't think people genuinely gave that much of a shit about me, it's kinda flattering. In a similar manner, the longer my Lemmy.ml mod log seems to get, the better it seems to prove my points about censorship.
he is an admin of sh.itjust.works
Oh I'm aware, they got really mad when I suggested that defederation is censorship. Here's a "fun" thread to read where they spell it out. Even accuses HB of being more bigoted than sh.itjust.works and had an edgy monologue like they were Sephiroth.
For clarity, censorship can be a good thing. Removing bigotry and misinformation is good. Suggesting that you aren't doing so is manipulative and dishonest, though, and clearly sh.itjust.works has bigoted admins.
huge thanks to Xi Jinping for personally coming to every trans girl's computer, installing Fallout New Vegas or Victoria 3, and watching the dominos fall in place. We owe him a massive debt for pushing Western civilization forward, we wouldn't have 100 Gecs or the People's Joker without him.
Peaked back into that thread, a gem: (no CW needed)
"Cowbee isn’t just another tankie. He knows his theory and will use it to dazzle you with bullshit."
Lmao
this goes beyond
This is full on brain scramblies
How do you think this and not realize you're only a degree or two away from quoting Nazi shit about how "The Jews are causing Social Decay"
They're centrists, they've got nuanced opinions, neither capitalism nor communism but rather a third position somewhere in the middle.
I think everyone forgots the secret program of Russia and China to forcetrans people. I had tens of people in my city growing up report Putin AND Xi Jinping coming over and injecting them will a new set of hormones. That is what happened to me too. I was talking to a friend online about the US political system being deeply transphobic and bigoted, and I heard the door being slammed on. I walked over because I thought it was the humble US police accidentally coming in to shoot me, then the door caved in. From the dust I see the silloettes of Xi Jinping, and Putin. They rush in, with Putin tackling me, and Xi injecting me. I scream in agony. I am injected with 2.5 mg of Estradiol cypionate in oil. Xi activates my now biological codephrase to be a communist agent, and tells me to repeat this injection weekly. Since then, every week on the dot, I have received 2.5 mg to inject myself with. They even find me when I'm traveling. I took a day off and visited my now girlfriend's house (she's also the leader of my local CCP chapter in my area (power dynamics)), and forgot to take my weekly injection. As I arrived to the entrance to the apartment building, who else was standing there, but Xi Jinping. I tried to run away, but it felt as if time had been frozen, and I couldn't move. He spoke some words in Mandarin I couldn't understand, and injected me with my hormones from 20 feet away. Suddently, he's gone. Time starts flowing as normal. Did I hallucinate all that? I do not know. I just continue on to meet my girlfriend.
I got about 4 sentences in and realized I was just writing fan fiction at this point but its funny to me so I had to commit
The rival nation state's devious, psychological warfare tactics of... helping people realize who they really are? Makes it sound like your rivals are the good guys.
This is just straight up rightwing transphobic conspiracy theory. If there is political dialogue in US hyperfocusing on a "hyper-niche" issue it is because of conservatives who revolve their life around bodies of trans people, yet somehow the "rival psyops" isn't existence of said conservatives who make legislation in entire states that affect 1 or 2 trans people but existence of trans people who "suddenly realized they are trans".
I'm finding that a lot of irl liberal spaces have been weird about transphobia this past year. I'm connecting the dots with his thread, civility is just "I'm transphobic but I'm not gonna say it".
Congrats, Cowbee, you've won a week's vacation from AskLemmy on .world!
Honestly, better for my mental health to not see constant unaddressed bigotry.
Just read the libs’ reaction to this interaction on sh.itjust.works (TW: lots of transphobia) and sh.it’s just absolutely awful. Just and endless stream of victim-blaming and doubling down on their transphobic crap.
It’s pretty much just the top comment that’s somewhat decent (except the last paragraph). The rest of the users (including the fucking admin) have no shame at all handwaving all the bigotry away, some even saying stuff that’s way more transphobic than Yerbouti’s.
Fuck this is depressing!
On the brightside, this absolute gem came out of it (no CW needed):
"Cowbee isn’t just another tankie. He knows his theory and will use it to dazzle you with bullshit."
This has to be the greatest compliment a lib can give. "Do not trust this trickster spirit, they will use a vast knowledge ancient magicks to trick you into disagreeing with the US State Department"
I know, I kinda want to put it in my bio but I'm not that self-interested. Wanted to share it because others might find it funny like I did lol
cowbee verified only leftist on hexbear
Truth be told I kinda hate that I'm getting some degree of enioyment out of the absolute terror I seem to strike in the hearts of the MWoG weirdos, when at the same time these people are genuinely defending and fighting for their rights to not only be transphobic, but enforce that.
The same people: "what do you mean blue maga, definition? Debatemedebatemedebatemedebateme"
Same admin who was butthurt over people hating on in a different thread
(also, who the fuck says “biological men” in the transgender context, its called transgender women)
Conservatives and other right wing that’s who. That’s why you hear tankie leadership saying it.
They really love just making shit up and expect no one to check, don't they?
Abbreviate shitjustworks and you immediately realise why there is absolutely no reason engaging with anyone on that particular lemmy. The abbreviation is not an accident.
Didn't .world admins make a new rule to enforce flat-earthism? Maybe they are also enforcing transphobia now...
@gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com and @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com are making transphobic comments in that post, yet no action on divionsbyzer0?
Not surprising given that one of the admins of that instance made anti-GSM comments
And in the same thread they accuse us of banning everyone who disagrees with us.
If Hexbear is transphobic then I'm J.K. Rowling 😭
This just in: Commenter on Hexbear community /c/slop claims to be Rowling herself, world-renowned TERF, and doesn't get her comment removed, thus showing that rule 4 is just for show /s