Oh, thank goodness! I always wondered what happened. I wish him the best!

Yeah, don’t fucking come here. Not now, not in the future. We can’t be trusted again for a very long time - longer than just an election or two.

if Progressives are supposed to vote blue no matter who, then Centrists can too. If someone like Mamdani beats Newsom in the 2028 primary they can suck it up and vote for him.

They should. But like the many left-abstainers in 2024, it remains to be seen if they will.

If someone like Mamdani runs in the 2028 primary (Mamdani himself being sadly ineligible), they will have my general and primary vote. God forbid a shithead neolib like Newsom gets through.

But ‘Blue No Matter Who’ is an expression of desperation against the fascists in the GOP, not a magic formula, as much as we wish it was.

Hey, what happened in March 1958?

Can anyone tell me what the initial relations were between the US and the Cuban revolutionary government?

Anyone?

Peaceful protests won’t get rid of the regime. What they’re good for is connecting, organizing, demonstrating opposition is a viable size to uncertain bystanders who fear being part of a tiny minority and getting crushed, and generating enthusiasm for further, more ‘strategic’ work.

It’s funny that they’re so frightened when the release of the files will change next-to-no-one’s minds.

It’s like they don’t even understand what bootlicking depths their own cult is in (PROTIP: it’s the same bootlicking depths every GOP congresscreature is at)

As you can probably guess from the downvotes, titling a post “New Comm for Lord Of The Rings Memes at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social” only to ambush the reader with eight paragraphs of instance drama gives a very bad first impression of you and, more relevantly, the community you’re creating, which kind of defeats the point.

I mean, 4 of the 8 listed downvotes are of people who openly have a problem with me to begin with.

The comm and the basic reason for its existence is at the top. All the drama is contained after “Why leave Dbzer0?”

Actually, I rarely use the spoiler tag, but it would probably be useful here.

And as the original announcement in the dbzer0 comm has been deleted by the admins, it feels especially relevant to keep it here now.

Also there are people out there who tend to subscribe to more than one community about the same thing, so you could count on those subscribing.

That seems strange to my eyes, but I’ll take your word for it.

And, predictably, the db0 community post has been removed.

That’s the thing - I presume most people who say “Nice, LOTR memes” are probably already subbed to the Fediverse’s largest LOTR memes comm. Without the context that there is an issue here with the instance, why would someone whose thought process is just “Nice, LOTR memes” join a new, seemingly redundant LOTR memes comm which does nothing but state that it’s for LOTR memes?

I was arguing that denying sexual violence on Oct 7th is unacceptable. They were arguing sexual violence on Oct 7th was Israeli propaganda.

Like a supermajority of some countries believing that Hamas killed no civilians on Oct 7th, ideologically motivated disinformation spreads very quickly and very easily if it is not disputed.

Why would I link to a comm I’m banned from and trying to move away from?

I provided context for why there’s a new LOTR memes comm despite there already being a well-established one, and, for that matter, why the moderator of the current LOTR memes comm felt it necessary to create a new one beyond some lark.

Oh damn, that’s a fantastic feature! Thank you for telling me!

Mm. It looks like it wants the original comm locked. Even if I could, I don’t think I really would want to. Some people doubtlessly will want to remain on the old comm, and that’s fine, considering the circumstances of the move.

The reason for leaving the other comm is what differentiates the two - you’re absolutely right that I failed to describe it though, I keep forgetting that acronyms are not always instantly recognizable lol. Fixed.

I mean, Piefed is still part of the Fediverse. It’s not like I’m going to disappear. My comms and user profile are just going to be hosted on another instance, bit by bit.

There’s also a block function even on Lemmy you can use, though I’m given to understand that the block function is much better on Piefed.

Yeah, Piefed isn’t being developed by genocide deniers, so I feel much more comfortable with it.

You banned me from unrelated community for pointing out you are spreading Israeli propaganda,

Again, if that was the reason, putting aside the fact that your own source disproved you, why would I pick one comm at random to ban you from?

Again, take out your anger on something other than anti-fascist posting next time.

You mean you were spreading Israeli propaganda and get upset to the point of banning me when it has been pointed out to you, sweetie 🤣

I literally quoted the links in your own source, which you apparently hadn’t read, and your ban was handed out because you immediately went and downvoted a bunch of anti-fascist posts without any other rhyme or reason.

If I was banning you purely for responding to my comment, why would I ban you from tankiejerk, specifically, when I mod a dozen other fucking comms I could have also banned you from? The Tesseract ban-all function is very easy to use, I promise. In fact, my tech-incompetent ass used to use it because I didn’t know how to access the “ban-single” function.

Maybe take our your anger at having your own source read to disprove you on targets other than anti-fascist posting next time.

That you?

https://lemmy.world/post/33330562

Yep, not that I can respond to any of the accusations due to being banned! I guess maybe you should’ve thought about not denying sexual assault and then going into an anti-fascist comm to downvote a bunch of posts immediately after being called out for it!

Rich for you to complain about being banned 🤣

I mean, I didn’t deny sexual assault verified by the UN, but I guess “downvoting someone” is a bigger crime in your eyes.

That’s from the blog post, which cites the article I linked - which says nothing of the sort.

But I understand that facts aren’t important when there’s a narrative to peddle. Misinformation is okay as long as it’s against Bad Camp, huh?

If you actually read the article, and what it links to supposed ‘disproving’ the claims of sexual violence, it leads to…

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/israel/hamas-israel-sexual-violence-rape-war-oct-7-rcna217401

She added that the U.N. special commission appointed to investigate "found patterns indicative of sexual violence against Israeli women at different locations. The Commission was also unable to independently verify specific allegations of sexual and gender-based violence due to Israel’s obstruction of its investigations."

In March 2024, a report compiled by Pramila Patten, the U.N. Special Representative on sexual violence in conflict, stated that it had found “reasonable grounds” to believe some victims of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 were raped and sexually assaulted.

There was “clear and convincing” information that some of those taken captive were subjected to sexual violence, the U.N. team of experts said in their report, including rape and sexualized torture — violence it said “may be ongoing.”

… oh.