This comment was in response to someone expressing regret about joining .ml if I recall correctly

Edit: I’m convinced all this guy does is camp out in front of his computer and wait for an excuse to abuse what itty bitty power he has.

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    1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

    I’m not seeing it, unless website admins are a marginalised class.

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          They won’t see it because they censor no-no words.

          These same people insist that like-minded adults talking things out will produce a stateless utopia. It’s funny, from a distance.

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      The lemmy.ml admins who do this kind of thing are proud tankies. Pro-Russia, Pro-China, Pro-North-Korea, authoritarian “communists” are a marginalized class, dontcha know?

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        I can somehow understand pro-China and less so, but still conceptionally grasp pro-Russia. But how on Earth can you really think NK is not a brainwash concentration camp?

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          Tankies operate on a very simple belief system.

          US bad > Russia don’t like US > Russia good

          same for north korea, cuba, anything

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            We could call that the Chomsky fallacy.

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          I remember seeing to mod in the post commenting on someone’s mention of North Korea. First he posted an image detailing the deaths caused by the US and South Korea during the Korean war, and that was it, no mention about NK specifically. Later he said that there was no proof that NK is brutally repressing its citizens. Then when someone said how everyone who fled NK said so, he said how they only do it for the shock value to get stories out and make money out of that, or something like that.

          Basically people like that find anything anti-US as good, and if you say anything bad about those countries, they’ll ask for proof and then call whatever you provide fake.

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            Later he said that there was no proof that NK is brutally repressing its citizens.

            lmao

            I also don’t see anything when I close my eyes and plug my ears.

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          Basically, “capitalism bad = anything anti-capitalism good.” And that’s pretty ironic to both support both NK and China for that reason, since China is an authoritarian capitalist state operating under the name of communism.

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        I’m actually glad MLs have ramped up the pro north korea talk recently. I was starting to doubt being against these users that claim to be progressive, but then I saw them defend a clear-cut present-day dictatorship.

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          Doesn’t really matter. And knowing about how bad the lemmy back end works and the absolute lack of admin and mod tools its just further evidence of their inability.

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            Oh, I definitely wasn’t saying that to imply it somehow makes them better, more that I would hope someone of that level of importance to this shit would learn to just run/build it and stay mostly hands off, not to play in the dirt. At the very least hide behind a separate user name.

            So many open source projects get ruined because the creators/maintainers can’t stop themselves from getting into fights with their users or community.

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        ableism
        discrimination in favor of able-bodied people.

        That still doesn’t check out… unless you’re implying they have cognitive impairments that prevent them from moderating as effectively as other instance admins 🤔

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          Well yeah. If you couldn’t deduce that, you might be a victim of ableism yourself

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            Excellent deduction, Watson. Confirming the validity of my clarification that you had intended to make an insult. You’ll be a full-fledged detective in no time.

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      I think that technically speaking, under Marxist theory, admins are the oppressors/tyrants. The users are the proletariat. Of course the metaphor falls apart due to how easily the users can escape and the users don’t pay taxes or anything

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      Rule 1 and 2 are often swapped across different instances.

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    Defedding .ml has been one of the most benefitial decisions we have ever made. There’s so much less toxicity!

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    They banned me recently since I was writing a comment talking about how many “memes” on !memes@lemmy.ml are oftentimes not even memes and just unfunny pushing communist agenda and how I was thinking about blocking the instance. It got a bit too many upvotes from them and I ended up getting banned. So in response I made this meme and posted it to !linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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      Oh I got banned from one of their communities today for comparing shooting down Russian drones to skeet shooting

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            It’s the objective truth. Yes, the IDF could probably do more to protect civilians but at the absolute worst what they’re doing is comparable to the conduct of the Western Allies against Germany in WW2.

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              Israel dropping unguided bombs from 10k feet from prop airplanes is certainly an “entertaining” thought but so far removed from the reality of precision guided missiles hitting hospitals and snipers shooting unarmed civilians and journalists in the back that it loops back around to being funny in a very morbid way.

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              If you mean that Kaboom guy, then lol

              Dude believes that the 40 decapitated babies lie is the truth because IDF said so

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          Genocide denialism is probably one of the least objectionable reasons to get banned from a community.

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              Yeah. Unfortunately. All we can do is voice opposition to whichever one is achieving its goals at any given moment - Hamas in the immediate aftermath of October 7th, and Israel now.

              Maybe someday they’ll sit the fuck down and figure out that this conflict can’t continue forever. Well, Hamas and Bibi never will, but whatever representatives of the Palestinian and Israeli people emerge from the other side of this phase of our everlasting Israel-Palestine conflict.

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                  Well, yes, but the one most ‘in swing’ at any given time takes precedence in terms of attention given.

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                Yeah. Unfortunately. All we can do is voice opposition to whichever one is achieving its goals at any given moment - Hamas in the immediate aftermath of October 7th, and Israel now.

                The goal of hamas is and always has been to kill all jews, the goal of Israel is to exterminate hamas… So yeah we should stick to hamas because Israel has more military power!/s no we should be for the destruction of hamas and keep civilians in mind.

                Maybe someday they’ll sit the fuck down and figure out that this conflict can’t continue forever. Well, Hamas and Bibi never will, but whatever representatives of the Palestinian and Israeli people emerge from the other side of this phase of our everlasting Israel-Palestine conflict.

                Since the Palestinians believe in Inherited refuge status, wich is total BS and many aren’t even descendants of refugees, its not exactly possible to work with them, the hamas approval in Westbank and Gaza is very high, its not like the civilians dont have their part in that all, hamas terrorists don’t just spawn from thin air. And there have been times of peace, always broken by terrorists.

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              Nah man its Hamas vs Israel and only hamas has committed genocidal acts and has the goal of genocide on all jews, thats one reason why talking with them doesn’t work at all. Don’t get me wrong, Israel should have done more for the civilians in the early war, but somethings are just impossible to handle, especially regarding the risks. This war is 100% the fault of Hamas and the other groups like Islamic jihad or rather Iran and Russia that are the puppeteers behind them, hezbolla as well but they are known to cause problems in Libanon and everywhere around. Israel has a pretty “good” relation with the actual Lebanese government and the Egyptian government. *good in means of goal oriented, not necessarily friendly.

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                The fault is on both of them, really. Israel had plenty of warnings from Jordan, Egypt, the US, the EU and their own security agency about an attack in October.

                Of course, there is always an attack, and Israel is also not allowed to stop an attack before it happens, instead only after it happens.

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                  Ok but… Who attacked? Shure it was preventable and im definitely hating Netanjahu for not taking action before it happened, but the offense came from Hamas, they could have just not tried to commit a genocide. You cant push the blame of this on Israel regardless of if it was or wasn’t preventable by a preventative military action, they are the victim of a attack. And a preventative strike would have resulted in basically the same, everyone blaming Israel for defending their civilians from genocidal maniacs.

                  In my opinion, they should absolutely have done a preventative action against that, but just like on “9.11” warnings where ignored for one reason or another, likely disbelief that hamas would be capable of pulling it off at all.

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            If its about a actual genocide maybe, but its about the made up stuff from gaza, where people scream genocide despite there very objectively being none, there is a war, it definitely cost civilian lifes but that doesn’t mean its a genocide. A genocide is what hamas did on 7th October, what Russia did in several separate locations in Ukraine, what China is doing to the Muslims or what Turkey is doing in the east (Armenia and Syria and Kurdish people)

            A genocide isn’t waging war, a genocide is actively hunting civilians and making life impossible. Israel does not do that, they do the opposite.

            Btw the death numbers from the Gaza ministry of health (a hamas lead institution) include the civilians killed by hamas and their actions (i don’t count the entire war as their action, there are some sources that do, but thats not right either) about 20% of the rockets hamas launched into Israel failed and hit gaza, killing hundreds of civilians. Hamas dug very elaborate tunnels (military facilities) under living areas, thats not just a war crime but significantly contributes to destruction (hit one thing, cause a chain reaction due to collapsing tunnels)

            This is very objectively not a genocide.

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              A genocide isn’t waging war, a genocide is actively hunting civilians and making life impossible.

              Yeah, that’s what Israel is doing

              I don’t know what else you get from Israel’s actions and stated concerns. In a year, they’ve killed a greater percentage of Gazans than Coalition forces killed Iraqis in all ~10 years of the Iraq War. And Coalition forces in Iraq were (rightfully) accused of being metaphorically trigger-happy.

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                UN isn’t a credible source for anything Israel related. (and especially not the ministry of truth) And also, its a very different kind of war and furthermore this are the numbers from the Gaza ministry of health, wich is a hamas institution and wich does the thing mentioned above.

                I don’t doubt that there are many casualtys, many civilian casualtys as well, but that doesn’t mean its a genocide.

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              A genocide is what hamas did on 7th October

              Okay, so you’re just making shit up as you go along.

              One attack cannot be a genocide.

              An ongoing campaign to deprive an entire population of food, water, medicine, electricity, and any route to escape is pretty fucking obviously within the UN definition of genocide.

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                Hamas has stated clearly that their desire is the extermination of Jews globally.

                In 2017, they changed it to just Israel, but Hamas forces don’t actually use that charter.

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                  … does it matter what they say or doesn’t it?

                  You’re not trying to have it both ways anywhere near as badly as this schmuck, but you are trying to have it both ways.

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                Have you ever in your life read and understood the genocide conversations? Cause this comment speaks otherwise.

                Id recommend you to educate yourself:

                Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people,[a] either in whole or in part.

                The Political Instability Task Force estimated that 43 genocides occurred between 1956 and 2016, resulting in about 50 million deaths.[1] The UNHCR estimated that a further 50 million had been displaced by such episodes of violence up to 2008.[1] Genocide is widely considered to be the epitome of human evil.[2] Genocide has been referred to as the “crime of crimes”.[3][4][5] Incitement to genocide is recognized as a separate crime under international law and an inchoate crime which does not require genocide to have taken place to be prosecutable.[6]

                In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.[7][8]

                -Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide)

                As you see Intention is a big part and a war doesn’t constitute intention to kill civilians.

                Furthermore your claims are just untrue.

                Israel does allow and help to deliver food and water, they even build a temporary Port with the help of USA, they also returned operations of a water treatment plant that was left inoperable by hamas (the “government” of gaza) in fact the war was caused by said group. Furthermore the civilian camps are in fact mostly safe, there have been instances of misfires, that is sad but does happen, or Hamas attacks.

                Oh and the claim of prohibiting any way to flee doesn’t make sense, Israel had kept civilian corridors open for weeks, yes they aren’t allowed to leave Gaza, but thats because the probability of hamas hiding among civilians isn’t just high its a certainty.

                So By definition, you are wrong.

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              As far as I’m concerned, it’s genocide vs genocide, as it has been since ancient history.

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          Saying, there is no genocide in Gaza in your opinion, or making an assertion about the subject? There’s a big difference between the two.

          Edit: Ah, yeah. That explains a lot.

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            Its literally by definition and finding of ICJ. Genocide isn’t a opinion or feelings thing ist about hard facts. And saying there is a genocide in Gaza is like saying Ukraine commits genocide in Russia.

            Its a war. Nither Israel nor Ukraine started the wars, they both don’t target civilians and they do their best to keep civilians out of harms way. There is a lot of fake news about Gaza, but that doesn’t change the facts.

            https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/key-takeaways-world-court-decision-israei-genocide-case-2024-01-26/

            Just because the accusing party throws truckloads of accusations, doesn’t mean they are true, the court found that some accusations have truth to it, but the majority is either untrue or irrelevant. Israel also followed the order to improve the humanitarian situation, despite the accusing parties claims of the opposite. They literally build a port for humanitarian aid with the help of usa and restored operationability of one of the water treatment plants.

            A genocide looks waaay different. A genocide is what Germany did in the nazi era, what China is doing to the Muslim minoritys, what Turkey is doing in Syria, Armenia and parts of Turkey. But a war isn’t genocide.

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              “At least some of the acts and omissions alleged by South Africa to have been committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the (Genocide) Convention,” the judges said.

              A majority of at least 15 out of 17 judges voted in favour of imposing the so-called provisional measures, including the court’s president, Joan Donoghue of the United States.

              From your source. 15 out of 17 judges agreed to tell Israel to stop committing acts that “[fall] within the provisions of the (Genocide) Convention.” You realize that phrasing is the diplomatic way of saying “stop committing genocide,” right?

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                No that doesn’t mean stop committing genocide, it means do more to prevent a genocide from happening, wich they did.

                Just a reminder that the court couldn’t do shit even if, because its a UN institution. Furthermore UN and Israel have a very very hard time, wich furthers the proof of no genocide. The smallest bit would have been called genocide by them, it was not.

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              they both don’t target civilians and they do their best to keep civilians out of harms way

              Are you sure you’re up to date on the war? Because this is not as true as one would hope.

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          Thank you! Reading lemmy, you’d think the IDF was Hamas or something.

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              Yup, by not committing a genocide and reclaiming their homeland, they’re much worse than the invaders who already committed one.

              (Israel is the ancestoral homeland of the Jews, Muslims committed a genocide when they conquered the area)

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                Quick question - if Native Americans killed 1 out of every 50 US citizens in an attempt to drive them off of Native ancestral land, would this be:

                A. Ethnic cleansing

                OR

                B. Not ethnic cleansing

                ?

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                Not only that, but they tried and try to kill all jews in Israel, and the wish of Iran, the known big daddy of all terrorists in middle east is to kill all jews in the world. Literally the spiritual successors of the Nazis

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    I dunno if scaring people off of their instance’s communities is a deliberate attempt at building an echo chamber or just genuine dumbassery.

    Honestly thank god the Lemmy devs made a platform that makes it so easy to avoid them.

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    Yeah, I’ve stopped any participation in any .ml community. I’ll use any other instance version even if it’s smaller. I haven’t personally blocked the server yet, but it’s getting closer.

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      That’s pretty much it to my knowledge but the purged the user so nothing is in the mod logs, of course

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    How do you see who actually performed the mod action? It always just says mod when I look at the log.

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