pretty sure that it is!

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Life is not just about the immediate struggles, but also about poetry and distant horizons.

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Can tell you right now that routinely in my city (in America) car drivers lose their shit at cyclists doing critical mass type things. The motive you suggested may exist and it may all have been a pretext, but it’s not unexpected when it comes to roadways. They don’t allow cyclists on the highways around me at least.

I’ve been doing antiwar protests since Iraq- absolutely massive and totally ignored by the government. It was a bit radicalizing.

I’ve always considered myself an anarchist. These days I get called a tankie just for being opposed to wars and vocally opposing my own governments complicity in genocide. Somehow the meaning of tankie got flipped to mean the people opposed to sending in the tanks. Most ml’s I’ve known are the first people to shit on Khrushchev anyways.

I’ve been having fun on XHS

Biden didn’t want to provoke the Turks and so Greece is also a tier 2 country

The same folk tend to enter lgbtq and trans spaces to gatekeep definitions there–where they also get banned and then complain about it.

It was really uncanny how many of those power users were bent out of shape over trans people in trans spaces wanting to respect neo pronouns.

these memes are always so tortured, the reason I comment in these threads is because it’s funny content and routinely the actual reasons people are mad at .ml is getting banned/censored for being bigoted

I certainly don’t mean to bodyshame bald people, I meant more Tate going and living in Romania to do sex crimes only to return to England looking like he’s been living in a coffin full of dirt was the nosferatu maxxing trend

Nosferatu-maxxing, it’s this cool new trend

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.

Many such cases 😔

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 had a friend in college who I was briefly interested in, she was nice but I found her to be way too conservative for me to really feel comfortable with so in hindsight I’m glad she ended up dating ( and dumping) one of my other friends instead.

For some reason the bank won’t let me take out an 8 figure loan to start my international piracy business. I’ll be starting up a gofundme.

They can call Obama a piece of shit as far as I’m concerned.

The issue is the application of a thinly veiled racist caricature though. Call Xi a dictator, piece of shit, whatever, but evidence it and don’t rely on racist tropes and I doubt you will catch a ban for it.

I’m aware of where the meme came from, personally I think it’s bad taste to be yapping about uyghurs in a thread about the Gaza genocide.

If people were gleefully calling Obama “Tigger” after that, and constantly doing that instead of having a real argument or something to say I think that would start resulting in bans for racism too.

the Winnie the Pooh comments are racist though, it’s not hard to have substantive critiques of China without constantly falling back on trying to equate the president with a yellow cartoon animal (or in your case, calling a moderator that). We don’t have to get into it, but they almost always hand out temp bans for that. For example yours is already expired.

From my experience as an anarchist user who ended up volunteering to moderate in these spaces, most of the censorship happens when people are either being racist or aggro/sealioning. While users definitely tend to be more positive when it comes to China in places like hexbear than in more heavily pro-west spaces they are still critical of its shortcomings.

An example here: >80 up voted post with one of the highest comments criticizing the poor standard of care for trans youth in China

Here’s a thread criticizing Russia for being a cringe misogynist capitalist oligarchy and lamenting that the progress for women’s rights and LGBT rights that happened under communism wasn’t preserved. Again it’s a positive orientation because they are opposed to the west but also one of deep disappointment in their failures on social issues.

To me at least this type of commentary is a valuable perspective and is also stuff which often gets filtered entirely under the more advertiser-friendly moderation styles.

At the end of the day I value being able to at least hear dissent, I’m surrounded by the mainstream narrative in my daily life already anyways.