There is a spector haunting Lemmy, the spector of trans people that disagree with you.
Liberals on Lemmy are ridiculously fast to let fly all sorts of conspiracy theories if it means discrediting any trans people to the left of them. Worse still, is that this behaviour is reinforced by Lemmy mods, look at this ban Cowbee copped for the crime of being allegedly uncivil to this transphobe:
Every day, I’m glad for you fuckers building at least this tiny queer safespace on the internet. Death to the cis, etc.
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.
odd that they also accused me of being “aggressive” as well when i rarely comment there; sounds coordinated.
Absolutely. It’s a behavioral pattern.
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.
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Look, if we can have civil war, I don’t see why we can’t have civil disagreement that includes cannons is all I’m saying
Now this is the stuff that should be on dbos power tripping bastards comm, not people spamming they got banned from ml for being a shit head.
You can be the change you want to see, haha.
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!
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.
You mean SJW? Is that really the origin of that name? Wow.
The same people: “what do you mean blue maga, definition? Debatemedebatemedebatemedebateme”
Same admin who was butthurt over people hating on
in a different threadOn 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.”
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.
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
Yeah, I had to chuckle at that one as well. That’s just such a weird thing to say, even when you have
.“Enemy is weak yet strong” shenanigans. I somehow have a multifaceted reputation as being “contradictory,” yet “knowing theory.” Some other banger responses to my ban:
“Alright thanks good to know. Thank you for taking such action. I have rarely seen someone acting so innocent yet at the same time being so disingenuous.”
Which part was disingenuous? I spent the majority of that thread calling out transphobia, do they think I did that for personal gain?
“That guy is so annoying with his faux-neutrality/naivety. What a phony, good riddance.”
From the same person that went on a Sephiroth rant about how Hexbear is bigoted, then ran to MWoG to
CW: Transphobia
Complain about a conspiracy theory of Russia and China “transing the youths” to create radicals against the United States.
Incredibly, deeply unserious people.
Then at least let me, for a bit of a change, tell you that I’m glad that you’re a part of this community. You’re awesome!
Aww, thanks comrade
(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?
They sure do love their conspiracy theories.
ledditeur’s Ol’ Reliable:
why aren’t they slobbing my knob once I’ve simply declared myself an ally? They must all be fake trans
But seriously, Cowbee you have the patience of a saint
It helps when they make me look cooler when they talk about me, haha, though I’m overdue for a break from Lemmy.ml.
The meanwhile on grad thread about this is even worse, CW transphobia:
spoiler
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
On the bright side, some comrades are calling out how horrible that post is, though minimal.
Tagline worthy tbh
Would be especially funny if we could have it detect your username and pronouns and do it that way, but I don’t know how hard that is to accomplish.
0·5 months agoThe username part isn’t very hard, there are already taglines that do that, but the pronouns is a bit more difficult. I think the current taglines just use “they/them”.
Hm. I’ve seen some users explain why they (collective) don’t like to be referred to by they/them pronouns, so that might be a different discussion.
Oh yea, I’m kinda in that group.
I’m aware, haha. Knew some others were in that group too, I probably could have worded that better.
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.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.
Tankie influencer
Goals
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.
lol i read that he is a diehard
Definitely, lmao.
Did you post about your ban/removal on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
Nah, I’d rather not do that as the weirdos on MWoG are already relatively obsessed with me and I’d rather not give them ammo for me being “drama obsessed” or something. I could have done it earlier when they perma-banned me from Political Memes for calling out the moderators on removing comments explaining how the Democrats are complicit in Palestinian genocide, but didn’t for similar reasons.
I’m 100% fine if someone else wants to make a post, though, I’d just rather not do it myself.
Sephiroth
although he’s being an edgy bigot, i really hate this trend of calling anything with passion in it ‘sephiroth posting’ like come on
Fair, who do you suggest? I mostly used it because I saw others using it. It was impassioned but purely because they were getting flustered from getting called out.
Genuinely asking, I have no attachment to the phrasing whatsoever.
“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?
Wasn’t iamaqtpie the one who was complaining about anti-american bias earlier this week?
That guy is just an up-front chud
Also claimed Hexbear is more bigoted than sjw on the original thread I got banned from, so especially goofy.
Didn’t .world admins make a new rule to enforce flat-earthism? Maybe they are also enforcing transphobia now…
