PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
- Comment on YSK that in 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons. Europe and the United States promised they would defend Ukraine if it was ever threatened. 1 week ago:
The US is providing about a quarter of Ukraine’s defense budget at this point, the EU another quarter, and Ukraine the remaining half.
For the size and money disparity between the countries, it is surprising that the US is doing so little. The US military industrial complex has a bad habit it gets into where it often will give enough aid not to lose, but also not enough to win. Dan Ellsberg called it “The Stalemate Machine” and explained how it works in pretty heartbreaking detail.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
Zing!
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
I feel like you need to be directing this calming energy at this guy. I’m perfectly calm, I was making jokes.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
And you confused not wanting one user to dominate your feed with “this fuckwqd” “this shitty behavior” “shitty, bad faith action” “Then every single post from every one of these account is very heavily upvoted. Oh, that isn’t suspicious at all” “also an Ai simp” “Maybe some kind of probation could help?” “reflects extremely poorly on lemmy/threadiverse in general that this type of behaviour is tolerated at all let alone encouraged” and so on and so on.
You guys need to chill the fuck out lmao. He’s posting stuff. That’s what Lemmy is for. I get the complaint about doing it from different accounts if he’s going to be a heavy poster of this perfectly normal content he is posting, I can agree with that part of it. But you guys can’t be going fucking mental like he’s trying to summon Cthulu in the basement and must be stopped at all costs, and then all of a sudden turn around like “calm down bro you’re overthinking it’s just not that serious” when people are trying to figure out what caused this towering issue about it.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
Well, but multiply that by the number of people who for one reason or another you just don’t want to see their content, and then multiply again by the number of instances you have your own accounts on, and I think it’s understandable for people not to want it to be multiplied again by some number of alt accounts for each poster.
It just shouldn’t be on the individual to have to invest effort every day into that kind of thing. If it’s one account, and you just don’t vibe with it, then fine. But if it turns into an ongoing project, I do get the irritation even if the amount of effort you’re being randomly required to activate at random times is quick and trivial. Like if you just got randomly resubscribed to communities sometimes that you had unsubscribed from, and then had to unsubscribe from them again, that’s not a lot of effort to do, but the amount of effort is not the point.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
I don’t think he’s going out of his way to aggravate them. I think he’s encouraging other people to not interact with them and calling attention to some of their bad behavior. I so think that makes sense. Some people care a lot about the truth, and it’ll really aggravate them to have people being hostile and dishonest all over their social network, posting propaganda, attacking or banning anyone who disagrees with them, just generally being cocks. They’ll want to “fix” it or at least draw attention to it as a problem. That makes sense to me.
Maybe it is a little extra to even care about these weird text-only networks to that extent… but I do get it. It makes sense to me. He’s not just doing it for no reason. And yes, that is important in or out of fascism. Having at least one little electronic network where people can talk about these things and not have to be banned or attacked if they say the wrong thing does seem like an important thing, maybe more so the more that truth is under attack on the outside.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
I do feel like there’s a legitimate complaint to be had that since you’re doing heavy / automated posting, it would be good to pick one and only one instance/user to do it from just to be polite to people who don’t want that, and have it blocked.
I feel like all the weeping and gnashing of teeth that OP is doing isn’t necessary, since you’re obviously not intending it badly, but I do feel like there’s a grain of legitimacy somewhere in there.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
Yes, but in addition to the history memes and other good and unique content, PugJesus also isn’t a tankie, and sometimes even argues vocally with tankies. cm0002 is the same.
I suspect that’s what’s actually behind this: Some kind “Mean Girls” effort to damage someone’s reputation because they are giving wrongthink to the community. Maybe I’m paranoid. At face value, though, the whole thing of “HOW DARE YOU PUT MEMES IN MY MEME COMMUNITY EVERY DAY ARGBLGRBGLRBG I’M SO ANGRY NOW” makes so little sense that I think it’s safe to assume that something else is the reason.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
“Hey this guy’s a big piece of shit. I can’t even tell you what a piece of shit, I’m so angry, he’s total garbage, he’s the absolute worst and fuck him, we need to get rid of him.”
“What? I’ve never found this specific person you’re going after to be a piece of shit. Why do you say that? (specific questions and sarcasm)”
“Woooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww”
You seem lovely lol
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
You said so yourself: ban evasion is annoying.
Is cm0002 banned somewhere? Are they using new accounts to evade those bans in places they’ve been banned?
But, like, we are in a “rant” community. The original poster seems annoyed.
You don’t have to understand it at all. This isn’t yptb.
I do feel like if your “rant” is very specifically directed at some other specific person, and also seems factually untrue in a few different respects, then it’s worth asking some questions. Just because it’s a rant doesn’t mean it’s exempt from people having a reaction.
Why come to a rant community and be sarcastic and condescending?
Because it’s my way of making a point. In some societies, when someone aims criticism and vitriol at another human being, other people are allowed to defend that person or ask questions and see if it’s justified.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
Is that what PugJesus is doing? I thought he had one account on lemmy.world and then made one on piefed.social and posts more or less the same stuff from both which is generally pretty benign at least in my worldview.
I do kind of get what you’re saying, sure. Overall I think the problem of people making new accounts to get around ban evasion is a serious problem. I even checked out https://sh.itjust.works/ to see what you’re talking about, and yeah I get it, there’s a bunch of meme posts from cm0002 high up in the feed and I get how that could be annoying if that’s not your thing. I guess I don’t subscribe to the meme communities, so maybe that’s why I’m just befuddled by the idea that someone could be this bent out of shape about those particular users.
That’s what’s confusing to me about it: There are users on Lemmy who go out of their way to be obnoxious and make it difficult for people to block them, or post content that’s malicious in some way. I don’t see anyone on your list as being like that. They’re just posting stuff. IDK, you can also try out scaled sort which aims to give a more balanced feed without the “big name” communities dominating so much.
I guess I do agree with you, actually, about it being a problem overall people making new accounts and making it difficult for people who just don’t want to see their stuff. That’s why I asked cm0002 why he’s made so many accounts, I kind of get that aspect of it, you shouldn’t have to answer anyone’s questions if you just don’t want to see someone’s content. I just don’t get where this vitriol comes from about it. Like in the link I showed, he’s posting memes in a meme community and then people are upvoting them, and so they show up. I don’t get where the “ARGH HE’S RUINING LEMMY MAKE HIM STOP MAKE HIM STOP” part is coming from in that equation.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
Yeah, me too, I hate when people post things lol
Like every time I see a history picture in the feed I’m like ARGHH FUCK THIS GAH GLU BO and I start chewing the furniture
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
You literally wrote “every single post” in bold face lol
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
Oh, that’s a good point. @OP that is one reason for making it not work the way you describe, it makes it super-easy to destroy any user just by making new alts with their same name and then having them be obnoxious. IDK what the fix is really, it is a real problem that people can make alts to do ban evasion.
@cm0002@lemmy.world I should ask also, are all the described alts actually you?
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 1 week ago:
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- Definitely not every post of theirs is upvoted (see links below). Do you have one that you feel like the voting for was probably fraudulent or something?
- He is vocally against lemmy.ml and reposts their content sometimes to encourage people to move off that server. What’s your take on that? Does he repost anything outside of that one example that you know of?
- Do people ban this person? Literally all he does is post, as far as I can tell… like I looked over the user pages 1 2 3 4 5 and it’s just kind of normal stuff to me.
- It’s a little weird that he has so many accounts. @cm0002@lemmy.zip why do you have so many accounts? It is a little weird and makes it more difficult for people who want to block you, I get that part of what OP is saying, just all the rest of it like you’re doing some kind of wild out-of-pocket thing by posting the stuff you post seems all the way out of left field to me.
- Comment on Croutons 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s not supposed to happen unless you eat 2 whole bags or something
- Comment on Croutons 2 weeks ago:
I frequently do this.
I buy salad stuff, including a small bag of croutons. I make precisely one salad with it, including the croutons. Then I keep eating the croutons because croutons are delicious. Then over the next few days I use up the rest of the salad stuff with no croutons.
Every time I do this. Croutons are great man. Maybe Wesker has just been consuming substandard croutons, if they’re too hard they are awful but good croutons are not too hard.
- Comment on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani admits he wants to take aggressive action on socialist agenda: ‘It is a mandate’ 2 weeks ago:
And goodbye to news@hilariouschaos.com I guess lol
New York Post is “news” like a pint of dishwater is life-giving pencillin
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 3 weeks ago:
Sure. Like I say, the actual point is fine, and you’ll see it not being banned in any number of places in this comments section (and your whole thing about how they were deleting any criticism of Kamala before the election is absolute pure self-delusion). I do feel like having your comment deleted for calling all the other commenters shitlibs (or threatening to break someone’s skull or whatever else) shouldn’t be all that hard to understand, and it’s weird that you are insisting SO HARD that it must be because you said something bad about Kamala or that she was less than perfect.
You do understand that this whole post is saying something bad about Kamala, right? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 3 weeks ago:
Saying things that are not true, and swearing to them and getting super-passionate about it and all assuring each other that that’s how it happened, is like the bread and butter of some communities. Some people respond a lot more positively to simple confidence than they do to calm evidence and argument.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 3 weeks ago:
The mainstream consensus of lemmy.world and all the rest of the “normal” Lemmy instances is that the Democrats aren’t very good (for obvious reasons). I am extremely sure that I will be able to check the modlog and find that the actual issue was that the Democrats came up in some capacity, you were abusive towards other users or something similar, and then you were banned.
The .ml grouping of instances actually model this behavior, I think unintentionally: They are so flagrantly mean and hostile to anyone who ever doesn’t agree with their way of looking at things that it causes some kind of issue, and then they get to retreat to their cadre of like-minded people all agreeing that everyone is unfair all the time “for no reason.”
I was confident enough about it that I typed that all out before seeing your modlog. Then I checked.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=3896921
I predicted this months ago, I knew Kamala would loose. Did I vote for her? Yes. Did she deserve to loose? Also yes. Her political campaign couldn’t stand up to even the smallest bit of criticism. Thats why world and twitter users were busy calling anyone who critiqued her or even questioned her a “russian bot” or “tankie”. She made absolutely no attempt to gain votes and promised nothing to the voters, instead she basically said “Im not orange man, vote for me”. Now shes lost the NeoLibs are desperately trying to find a scapegoat, some blame protest voters and non voters, some blame the working class, some blame Muslims, some blame Jews, some blame Trans people, and furthermore some blame POC or any other minority that they can think of. This is exactly why Kamala lost, her campaign couldn’t stand up to scrutiny and now yall are coping to distract yourself from the fact that the slightly better corporate puppet lost. Cope and seethe ShitLibs
Yeah sure the critique of the Democrats was the reason you got your comment removed… If you look up and down in this comment thread, you will see at least a dozen people saying what you said. None of them are deleted. Because they’re not being unhinged and hostile about it, their comments critiquing the Democrats are allowed to stay. Imagine that.
I realize that this factual critique will do nothing to sway you lol
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 3 weeks ago:
The same mods that scream about ml censorship will ban you if you critique neoliberalism.
I’m a mod who whines constantly about ml censorship. Can you point to a single time when I have ever banned anybody for critiquing neoliberalism?
This weird strawman where .ml pretends that everyone else on Lemmy is just a mirror image of them but tryannically enforcing neoliberalism instead of Stalinism is so fucking bizarre. Nobody here likes either of those things, it is on par with “the libs will have your kids peeing in litter boxes” MAGA fantasy.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy.ml blocked? 3 weeks ago:
There are lots of them, it’s a little of column A and a little of column B
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to make a FAQ entry for this or something lol
Long story short, no. The centrist’s candidate did win, no thanks to the communists, and Hitler with his growing street army was held at bay until the centrist’s candidate died, and then long story short the end came soon after, with the social democrats still denouncing Hitler in the hauntingly half-empty parliament with the communists after the communists had been disappeared from it. For all the good it did. But at least they were able to recognize that Hitler was the enemy. The communists could not. They were still holding anti-social-democrat rallies, and sometimes collaborating with the Nazis. Also, so was Stalin! Beyond the obvious military alliance he was also selling out German communists (who were loyally doing their best to destroy German civil society on his orders) to Hitler’s secret police, because of course he was.
No less a person then Leon Trotsky explained this in a good amount of detail and was able to see it coming even at the time and tried to prevent it (again, for all the good it did). I’ll let the World Socialist Web Site explain:
https://www.wsws.org/en/special/library/foundations-ger/10.html
73 - The KPD had been established as a response to the betrayal of social democracy. But it proved just as unable as the SPD to weld together the working class and lead it into a struggle against the Nazis. A ten-year campaign against “Trotskyism” had politically corroded the party and transformed its leadership into a willing tool of Stalin. It repeated all the opportunist and ultra-left errors, against which Lenin and Trotsky had fought ten years before, and hid its paralysis and fatalism behind radical phrase-mongering. Until 1933, Trotsky tried relentlessly to correct the wrong course of the KPD. His writings on Germany from these years, which fill two thick volumes, prove his genius as a Marxist and political leader. Banished to a remote Turkish island, forced to rely on newspapers and reports from political friends, Trotsky demonstrated an understanding of German events and their internal dynamics that remains unparalleled to this day. He foresaw the events clearly and precisely and developed a convincing alternative to the devastating course of the KPD. The KPD responded not with arguments, but with slanders, violence and the entire weight of the Moscow apparatus.
74 - At the heart of the policy of the KPD was the thesis of social fascism. From the fact that both fascism and bourgeois democracy were forms of capitalist rule, the Comintern drew the conclusion that there was no contradiction between them, not even a relative one. Fascism and social democracy were the same―in the words of Stalin: “not antipodes, but twins”―the social democrats therefore were “social fascists”. The KPD rejected any collaboration with the SPD against the rightwing danger and, in some cases, even went so far as to make common cause with the Nazis―for example, when it supported the referendum initiated by the Nazis in 1931 to bring down the SPD-led Prussian state government. Occasionally it called for “a united front from below”. But this was not an offer to collaborate, but an ultimatum to the SPD members to break with their party.
75 - Trotsky decisively opposed this form of vulgar radicalism. He recalled that Marx and Engels had protested fiercely when Lassalle had called feudal counterrevolution and the liberal bourgeoisie “one reactionary mass”. Now Stalin and the KPD were repeating the same error. “It is absolutely correct to place on the Social Democrats the responsibility for the emergency legislation of Brüning as well as for the impending danger of fascist savagery. It is absolute balderdash to identify Social Democracy with fascism”, he wrote. “The Social Democracy, which is today the chief representative of the parliamentary-bourgeois regime, derives its support from the workers. Fascism is supported by the petty bourgeoisie. The Social Democracy without the mass organizations of the workers can have no influence. Fascism cannot entrench itself in power without annihilating the workers’ organizations. Parliament is the main arena of the Social Democracy. The system of fascism is based upon the destruction of parliamentarianism. For the monopolistic bourgeoisie, the parliamentary and fascist regimes represent only different vehicles of dominion; it has recourse to one or the other, depending upon the historical conditions. But for both the Social Democracy and fascism, the choice of one or the other vehicle has an independent significance; more than that, for them it is a question of political life or death.”[3]
76 - Trotsky fought untiringly for a policy of the united front. This would have made it possible for the KPD to use the contradiction between social democracy and fascism to unite the working class, win the confidence of the social democratic workers and expose the social democratic leaders. In an article written at the end of 1931, entitled “For a Workers’ United Front Against Fascism”, he explained: “Today the Social Democracy as a whole, with all its internal antagonisms, is forced into sharp conflict with the fascists. It is our task to take advantage of this conflict and not to unite the antagonists against us.” One must “show by deeds a complete readiness to make a bloc with the Social Democrats against the fascists” and “understand how to tear the workers away from their leaders in reality. But reality today is―the struggle against fascism.” It was necessary to “help the Social Democratic workers in action―in this new and extraordinary situation―to test the value of their organizations and leaders at this time, when it is a matter of life and death for the working class.”[4]
77 - The refusal of the KPD to accept such a policy led to the German catastrophe.
I have recently unlocked a new lore tablet wherein I learned that many of the Lemmy communists also hate Trotsky for some reason. I thought he was fine, he was one of the few Bolsheviks who seemed like he did more thinking than killing and so I liked him (what little I know of him). But I guess it makes sense, since Stalin thought he was enough of an enemy to hunt him down and have him killed. And a lot of the Lemmy communists seem to like Stalin? For some reason? I still don’t understand that part. How it is that “Gavin Newsom is abusive to the homeless people” (which, he is) represents a reason not to support him even against literal Hitler, I have trouble wrapping my head around “Stalin killed millions of people and allied with the Nazis and fought alongside them” being not a deal-breaker, but I don’t think there is that much critical thinking being applied to it TBH. Where the affinity for Stalin comes from, I genuinely do not know, but if you want to enlighten me I would be happy to hear.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 3 weeks ago:
I don’t care if you vote or don’t vote
Why do you ban content from your server that says it’s a good idea to vote, then?
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I was seriously curious what they were going to switch to after the election, a lot of them have pretty much just gone silent except for general “we all hate Israel amirite” messaging, and maybe individual issues they wanted to weigh in on. A bunch of them jumped in to make sure everyone knows Graham Platner is a POS and a Nazi, which to me was fascinating.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 3 weeks ago:
Riddle me this
Where did all these people go who were so supportive of the Green Party and PSL and all that? During the election, there were super important parties to vote for, who represented a chance of real change not these dumbfuck Democrats, and a bunch of people on Lemmy were rallying behind them and saying they planned to vote for them and basically never shutting up about it. What happened to those parties and all that advocacy for them? Why, after the election, did it pivot right back around to focusing purely on the Democrats (or on how important it is not to vote just in general as a general rule)?
Also, there are people existing outside the two-party system, Bernie Sanders is one. Do you support expanding out efforts like that to try to break into the two-party oligarchy fest?
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 3 weeks ago:
I made a couple more, just for you!
(Infighting is when you reply to infighting I guess, lol)
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely true. And yet, whenever US politicians do buck the trend and become vaguely left and give strong criticism to Israel and stop us arming them, this same group of people calls them “Zionists” or throws paint on their campaign offices, and tries to insist that leftists shouldn’t support those politicians, either.
Almost as if it was always about creating division in the left and not about Israel in the first place…
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 3 weeks ago:
The narrative was vote Biden and move him left.
Whose narrative was that? The narrative was, Trump is trying to end democracy and put Hispanics (and later Democrats) in concentration camps, so vote for his opponent. Seems like that was kind of borne out by the future events.
Are you still pissed off that people were suggesting voting for Kamala Harris, watching the state of the US and the world right now? Are you proud of advocating for not voting?