Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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I can’t begin to count the number of times I’m glad I have this place as a respite from how godawful most of the western English-speaking internet culture and moderation is.
On the whole, you try to enforce basic ideological lines people shouldn’t mess with and you don’t treat politics like dirt to sweep under the rug. Those two alone already make it stand out from a lot of spaces on the internet. And you aren’t reactionary or liberal about it, which together with the other two, really makes it stand out.
This may sound exaggerative since it’s “just an internet forum”, but I want to say it’s like a little preview of what life could be like if I lived under an AES state. A world where the system itself says no to the worst tendencies and supports betterment in theory and practice of ideology explicitly. Like it’s a night and day difference in feel when you are a lone person trying to draw attention to a problem vs. when the system and community are on your side.
At the same time i find this to be a very open place that doesn’t stifle discussion in that obnoxious way that liberal/ultra-leftist spaces with purity fetishes do, which is very good for encouraging newcomers to ask questions and learn without feeling like they are in a sectarian echo-chamber. So long as there is no apologia for fascism, imperialism or genocide of course…
For sure.
Have a great week, everyone! One thing I’ve found handy is limiting social media use to specific times and places, helps me not be so phone addicted. For me, it’s been very nice!
As always, communism will win.
Wishing everyone a great week. I need to get off SM+YT. I finally have days off and I can’t go anywhere or clean anything… Like the first few days were fantastic. However, a neighbor did come help me get out of the house, gave me two fresh peaches, and helped me back in. They promised me a couple of ears of silver queen corn. Fur baby enjoyed getting outside for a while too.
Sounds nice!
Twas lovely!
In an act of pettiness I decided to appeal my Reddit ban and call the admins stupid for allowing Nazism and… it worked lmao. They unbanned me. But now I feel stupid for appealing a fucking Reddit ban.
You wont the battle but is the war worth fighting lol.
I don’t understand Reddit’s filters. I have reported actual Nazism and it does not get banned but I make a sarcastic comment and I get banned for 7 days immediately.
It took a month of mass reporting to take down a Steam forum post openly calling for a Second Holocaust to “finish the job” from some Nazi prick crashing out because some company was being scummy as usual while I got forum banned within the hour for telling the guy to follow his leader.
Telling one person to kill themselves? Steam mods say that’s completely unacceptable no matter the circumstances.
Calling for mass genocide on a global scale? Steam mods think that’s okay unless you literally harass them into doing their job.
I don’t care that I got a ban for it; I accepted that as a fair consequence for telling a fascist scumbag what he deserves to be told. It was the fact they didn’t do anything about the guy calling for killing all Jews everywhere until multiple people bullied them into taking care of it that left me livid. The moderation of nearly every major website online is almost exclusively dominated by the Far Right and their collaborators. Rules only apply to Leftists and the marginalized.
It’s so baffling how these same losers think mods persecute them when mods consistently let them get away with saying truly vile shit. I just recently got harassed on the Gothic Remake forums for asking the basic question of whether or not you could choose your character’s gender; immediately assailed by a flurry of transphobic and misogynistic abuse that went on for several pages over a span of two days before mods finally closed to thread for being “unproductive”. Nobody got banned. Absolutely hideous behavior. The worst part is one of the first response was from a moderator answering my question honestly - that same moderator was the one who locked the thread! They were there the entire fucking time, saw everything, and did nothing!
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with Steam Forums. That place is like a mini 4chan sometimes.
I’d bet they’re taking cues from youtube moderation: opaque algorithms rife with confusing rulesets and false positives.
It would make sense if they started ramping that up after the fallout from the mod protest relating to API changes, as a way to moderate more with less people.
Not to say it is unbiased at all. I’m sure it’s biased toward imperialist politics to one degree or another.
Reddit is the new heart of imperialist propaganda now that’s why. Just don’t bother with that cesspit comrade.
Funniest thing i saw today is a news article about “iranian” fans in the world cup protesting against iranian national team 😂 dawg they’re americans
There were like 9 of them too. And no pro Iranians of course because they can’t go.
Happy birthday president Xi! o7
If Iran end up playing the US this world cup I will watch it even if it is at 4 am. And if they win I will drive through my street honking like a mad man.
if usa faces Iran they will use every bit of fuckery to screw them over before the game even starts.
They’ve already been fucking with many different teams by pestering them with ICE and such when they enter the US
The Iranian team already has every possible inconvenience levied against them. They’re not allowed to stay in the US, and need to fly in from Mexico before their match, then fly back to Mexico after. They also get idiotic Iranian diaspora harassing and protesting them at their hotels.
A 15 year old in The Netherlands killed their parents. Tragic situation, of course. Only now people from their school talk about them struggling with identity, claiming they wanted to switch genders and later identifying as a dog.
So now this tragic situation becomes a right wing thing to demonize Trans people (even though there is no confirmation of this person actually being trans)
Went to an Irish pub yesterday to watch the Dutch game versus Japan. Lots of Dutch migrants in Belgium were there as well as lots of Belgian people. There is this really one sided rivalry of Belgian people against Dutch people so they were cheering for Japan lol. No Dutch person attending seemed to care (neither did my friend and I) except for one group of pretty drunk Dutch people who looked like they just attended high school drama class. They kept shouting HOLLAND HOLLAND and standing up and waving at people to do the same. The rest of the Dutch people attending just awkwardly ignored them. They also started chatting shit to the Belgian people and I really hoped they would get their ass kicked at one point. Proper NPC behavior.
Cultural exchanges are fun.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
Dutch politicians like to ragebait about how left wing activists are a danger but meanwhile we have fascists militias attacking refugee centers. Today a bomb was found in one. But I am the danger here of course.
Every time the temperature rises above like 23 degrees I wonder why I spawned into a swamp
Because why does it need to be 80% humidity
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11947624 once you’ve read an article about the usa fomenting ultranationalism/fascism among the ukrainian population you’ll never stop wanting to beat everyone who unthinkingly says slava ukraini to death with your bare hands or whatever bourdain said
i finally successfully made a reddit account for hobbies and tried to get reaccustomed to an onslaught of political illiteracy from the algorithm (and sparsely in spaces i otherwise enjoy) and good lord, i keep forgetting to most there is no neo nazi problem in ukraine, i keep forgetting to most stalin is a black demon and that the ussr was an evil regime
