The Haitian massacre did occur, but you’re making claims that white allies were killed. You specifically cited the Poles in Haiti who were among the population of whites granted amnesty and citizenship for their role in rejecting the French.

You were categorically wrong and are trying to breeze past it.

Raised with little religious zeal in a liberal catholic church. It was just a sort of background thing I ignored most of my life.

At 25 I was at the height of studying comparative religion and evolutionary biology. I saw it all as an integral part of how we have operated as a species, and then I pivoted out of academia and dug clams for half a decade.

I like the good religion can do. But it’s like the state: bridges are neat, but the police patrolling it can really ruin it for everyone.

I saw the thread without context trying to defend their actions and I just laughed.

“Boy golly, I’m just so new to this FOSS thing!”

Like, I still don’t really know the details, but this pattern has gotten old.

A good rule for Tuesday.

Oh I get that. I was once deeply involved in World War 2 strategy games, including development. I have spent more time reading slope armor debates and suffered enough Clean Wehrmacht myth arguments than a normal healthy mind can (or should) withstand.

I like to think I closed the loop at myself and didn’t subject normies to it.

It was used in Afghanistan and let me tell you, a lot worse than ‘cope cages’ were used.

Growing up I had a teacher that actually had a field trip centered around going to the Lloyd Center. It was weird then, feels weird now, but nostalgic nonetheless.

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Definitely just the name too.

They were, by most accounts, more akin to martyrdom. The participants in the ritual warfare all signed up, essentially, to die. The idea was not to kill your enemy, but take them prisoner for the sacrifice. It was sort of an honor, in a way.

Before the Aztecs it was mostly high ranking prisoners of war that were sacrificed in mesoamerica. (Think how warlords and rebelling generals are often executed when they lose.)

had some good and informative posts, comments, discussions

It was also heavily curated and controlled. You likely didn’t see any of the comments pointing out omissions and inaccuracies since they’d be hidden and the users shadowbanned.

Which is part of the reason keywords on an instance level can be a poor way to control and curate content. It’s just going to miss those who know how to game and bypass these systems and use it as a weapon as part of some kind of moderation arms race.

I should probably add there’s also been a community on my instance dedicated to portraying Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and .ml in the worst possible way, usually by taking a single comment or DM out of context. The user running it finally fucked off from the Fediverse just a month or two back.

Since that community is now being run by overt Zionists who are into spreading outright doctored screenshots, hopefully it’ll fall into long overdue irrelevance. If you ever see the term ‘tankie triad’ that’s probably one of them.

Hexbear originated from ChapoTrapHouse fandom which is a part of the so-called dirtbag left that explicitly antagonizes (neo)liberals. They also don’t use downvotes and encourage users to voice their opinions instead.

So every wave of redditor freaks the hell out when they get a handful of hexbear users clowning on some take like it’s a coordinated brigade attack.

I remember how in some of the towns I lived in there’d be these old closed down diners in residential areas, usually near schools and fields/playgrounds. Small corner stores, too.

The old infrastructure is still there in places. Just hollowed out and left to decay.

Not all communities are run the same way, nor do any intend to do so necessarily.

At a certain point some people are just trying to maintain a walled garden with curated content. Sometimes they can be real shit about it, too. It’s not exactly suited for the Fediverse, but neither are broad, everything-goes communities or ones trying to appeal to ‘everyone’.

Not who you’re commenting to, but for me it’s based on wasting/spending the time to read not only OP’s analysis about the Fediverse, but then looking into their comment history and public modlogs for their ‘perfectly polite’ takes that got them banned.

Which is far more than basing a conclusion on a single phrase.

People wearing the skin of decency usually gives reason for people to fight on social media. And sometimes people do the research so others don’t have to.

The context of the author is valid when judging their content.

A lot of the moderation that causes users public grief are usually just timeouts. Arguments over politics and ideology, etc quite often catch folks a timeout. Folks will debate a two day ban for a week.

And with the Fediverse: many community moderators are also admins of instances.

So with that in mind: moderation policies quickly convert drama between users to drama between instances.

You’re showing a screenshot of being told you’re not funny as evidence they’re saying you’re telling jokes?

This is why you keep the trolls around as pets, folks. Who needs AI?

Debate perving yourself so hard you’re left accusing anarchists of… centrism?

Classic blunder.

Why do you think this is continuing an argument and not providing the proof that the mod requested?

You can’t parse this? If they didn’t respond to a DM, they were letting you have the final word, which is usually the most important thing, right? Since, you know, you needed to screenshot it and make that public. Which makes this about more about continuing the fight that triggered the ban…