Here’s the thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/24345496
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This is only slightly related to MoG, considering dbzer0 is largely a tankie-apologist instance that caters to a tankie bar, and the thread only allows dbzer0 users to vote. This post here can serve as a neutral space where dbzer0 users can interact with Feddit users, and since MoG is referenced in the thread quite often.
Such anarchy!
Another report calling someone Zionist for being against guilt by association.
The Defed-iverse Wars, begun it has.
Since it was kinda off topic as a separate post.
Maybe they were just good at keeping on the mask, but it’s a bit sad because I remember a year ago seeing most of db0 openly clowning on tankies whenever they showed up.
Now Unruffled seems to be pushing to make the whole instance explicitly tankie/campist.
Db0 sometimes attacks Tankies, although self-admittedly, he is soft on them. Other times, he even camps with them.
They’ve both told me that they prefer spending time with tankies instead of liberals, and consider liberals the bigger threat than tankies are. Which is curious considering the history of MLs and anarchists with how the MLs often betray anarchists. I believe their accusations of calling this community a nazi-bar stems from insecurity of their own spaces, where they regularly defend prominent tankies.
I’ve never seen unruffled attack them though.
At least some of them are tankies disguised as anarchists. Just look at a specific someone from the lefty memes community. Constantly bringing tankie talking points, but claims to be an anarchist.
Any anarchist who leaps to defend authoritarian states is a tankie in disguise.
Yeah after looking at the history of Ukrainian anarchists I just don’t understand how anyone could be a bigger threat than tankies.
It’s because they’re both communist, so Anarchists keep trying to believe in “Left Unity”
Anarchists who don’t want to align with tankies are attacked for not believing in left unity, both by a few other anarchists and by many other tankies.
Somehow “left unity” always means everyone else adjusting to MLs and not the other way
There is a crowd of people who will call you a zionist for anything. Yesterday someone reposted a neo Nazi and used Nazi language in their post title. Me calling them on it? Makes me a zionist, obviously.
Yeah I’ve had the same happen. It’s very disheartening to see so many anti-zionists unknowingly repeat Nazi slogans and talking points. You point it out, you mention that ‘hey, probably not a wise idea to use zio- since it’s a term coined by David Duke’
and they call you the nazi. like bruh, i aint the one quoting the KKK. that’s why I call them antisemitic, since if a neo-nazi was using the same arguments and excuses, I certainly wouldn’t buy it.
You have defended Israel in threads before and labeling everything as antisemitism is a Mossad talking point.
To be fair, I don’t agree with dbzero defederating though. Every removed comment was grossly insulting. Hard to know without more context, since we don’t have the comments they were replying to but I doubt they were deserving of the replies.
Can you give any examples? My opinions on different topics actively changes, I’m not opposed to change or considering that I may be wrong or ignorant.
I don’t label everything as antisemitic, only examples that are collective or phrases and theories that neo-nazis and other antisemites historically used, such as triple parentheses or the zio-pejorative. The latter is particularly common on Lemmy.
It’s in the same vein as “Israel has a right to defend itself”. It looks okay on the surface but ignores decades of context and the fact that Israel fostered Hamas and let the attack happen. It basically implies Palestine was asking for it.
The choice of vocab is telling as well just like how Israel isn’t “defending itself” but simply killing civilians. If you rephrase is more truthfully, as in “Would Israel be committing Genocide if the 7th of October attack hadn’t happened?”, the answer is it doesn’t matter. No reason ever justifies exterminating people.
I don’t know the context in which IndustryStandard is replying. That was 5 months ago; my views on Israel have dramatically changed since then.
Gaza wouldn’t be in the state it is now if the 7th of October massacres never occurred, if Hamas, which Israel fostered, never carried out the attacks. It’d still be greatly oppressed, but not a smoking rubble with a starving populace. The reason absolutely does matter since that’s the excuse Israel uses to carry out their genocide, ‘Oh, those civilians were totally just collateral! It’s war! This happens despite us having the most sophisticated intelligence agency in the world’
Pointing out that Israel used the massacres as a proxy to carry out their extreme violence isn’t defending Israel. It’s not saying that Israel is justified, I’m not making any of those claims. Admittedly, I could’ve specified, so I’ll do so now:
The 7th of October massacres were the triggering event that allowed Israel to pursue a level of destruction that wouldn’t have been politically possible otherwise. Identifying that this is the moment the mask fell doesn’t justify Israel’s actions. The responsibility for the destruction lies with Israel, which is choosing to destroy Gaza. If these massacres never happened (which I need to stress, Israel’s intelligence was well aware of these attacks and allowed them anyway), would Gaza be in the state it is now?
“Hamas started it” is never a good look. It ignore a lot of context which is precisely what the person meant when saying Israel has always been an obstacle to peace.
More importantly, it’s fixating on the wrong thing. The massacre x 10 000 that is genocide kind of overshadows the rest of it. Using who “started” it as an argument just comes off as trying to justify it.
Like there’s a mountain of corps and half of them are children.
Here’s the comment link: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20723627
It’s really just that. Someone accused you of taking Israel’s side and you defended yourself by saying “Hamas did it first”.
“The massacre x 10 000 that is genocide kind of overshadows the rest of it.”
Even if you included the Nakba, there is no way the IDF killed 12 million Palestinians.
You combed back 5 months into their history to find this…? That’s …weird to say the least.
I never said Hamas started it. The conflict between Palestine and Israel has been going on for decades. I’m saying that Hamas’s actions on the 7th of October gave Israel the excuse it was looking for to carry out what’s happening now.
also im curious, can you link that comment?
Once outed as a repost of a neo nazi’s post, OP deleted the post, and also the “zionist” accusation was in a dm, so unfortunately not
uhhhhh… saying death to any country or group is inherently violent and extremist.
What gave me pause was this
Calling for the destruction of Israel must obviously mean you want to kill every last man, woman and child, rather than simply wanting to overthrow Netanyahu’s genocidal fascist regime. Because [bad faith] reasons.
I told them that it is not good to wish death on Israel or Palestine. Just because shitty people are in power, doesn’t mean the populace has to suffer because of it. It doesn’t matter which side.
that’s also what i told them, but that was enough for them to consider me a zionist and ban me. for a group that larps on about how much they oppose campism they sure do use it a lot.
Travel writer Rick Steves recorded a taxi driver in Tehran exclaiming “Death to traffic!” in English, explaining that “when something frustrates us and we have no control over it, this is what we say”. Steves compares the phrase to non-literal use of the word damn in American English.
There’s definitely a cultural translation issue here
but they are literal.
Death to the Republican party!
yeah that too
even though i agree with it
But I am saying death to the party, not members of the party. Calling for the Republican party to end doesn’t mean that the members of the Republican party need to end.
‘Death to Israel’ is not the same as ‘death to Israelis’.
No, you didn’t. Death to X is always ambiguous and can refer to anything, that’s why extremists use it. If you don’t want people to interpret Death to X as violent extremism, then you need to specify
Like how you already specified.
So when you agreed to him saying the Republican Party, and before his clarification, which way were you interpreting it?
Violence
Fascists get no mercy
This popped up in my reports feed not long ago.
Oh hey it’s me 😄
They banned me shortly after that but I wasn’t told why. I like the idea of Lemmy but there’s a lot of nutty people in here and it puts me off.
Zionazi is certainly a confused word.
What’s the context going on here?
I pointed out that many of the banned comments were grossly offensive like “kill yourself” and someone went into my comment history to prove that I’m a “zionazi”. It was a comment where I asked someone for an example of how the state of israel treats its Arab population as second class citizens.
The irony of these people is that they seem ideologically very similar to fascists like Ben Gvir and Smotrich. The only difference is which ethnicity they target for their hatred and ethnic cleansing goals.
This is projection, because borari stopped talking to draconic NEO a long time ago. DN just keeps tagging them.
They are accusing you of obsessing over them while shock they are obsessing over you.I’d like to note that Draconic can post here whenever
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dbzer0 seems like a silly place, let’s not go there
All because we don’t let them do as they like. Feddit is welcome to everybody who sticks to the rules. And the rules make it automatically difficult for people who follow hateful ideologies. I try my best to be fair to our community. Meanwhile certain dbzer0 users want us to ban people for simply believing Israel should exist, even if they are opposed to Netanyahu’s regime and want settlers out of the West Bank.
It’s telling that they ban you without allowing you to explain yourself. Ultimately, dbzer0 has a severe antisemitism problem, and I think we’re seeing some of their users realise that.
(not so subtle reminder that dbzer0 users are allowed to post in this community, as is everyone)
I explained myself on YPTB and to some dbzer0 users who were visiting here on alt accounts and they ignored 90% of it or weren’t interested in my reasons.
that’s been my experience with them. they don’t tend to argue in good faith.
And the rules make it automatically difficult for people who follow hateful ideologies
Way to tell on themselves. Imagine turning your need for calls to violence into a make or break issue for your entire instance? lol, lmao even.
If you look through the thread the admins use examples of troll comments calling for violence and threatening other users as evidence of censorship and zionism.
in the comment i posted in this sub they were called out
It’s also funny because some of the comments they cite as having been removed by the “Zionist” mods are literally just “Go fuck yourself you piece of trash!” followed by the actual argument. What do you think, were they banned for the first or the second half of their comment? Nuance seems to be completely dead on this instance, which is saddening to see because I greatly value the contributions of @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Seems like i’s a personal vendetta from one of the admins.
Unruffled and draconic NEO are the main drivers in the thread.
Two of the absolute worst posters on the Fediverse.
aw Draconic doesn’t seem that bad. what makes them one of the worst?
I have either blocked or avoided them successfully on the multiple accounts I have had over time while trying out different instances that my recollection is vague and I do not have examples. For me to dislike someone that much they have to be a hypocrite who abuses their power against multiple users other than myself, does not argue in good faith, and responds to people with what they assume they meant instead of what was said. Unruffled is right there too, baiting people into responding and then banning people for ‘not letting things go’ because they need to get the last word in.
db0 seems to comes across to me as misguided, Unruffled and Draconic_NEO come across as malicious and petty.
i’d love a neutral place for people to discuss their issues and come to a consensus instead of flinging shit between spaces. you can’t post in dbzer0 since you’re banned, so they can say whatever they want about you.
i’m unsure if you’ve banned any of them.
Actually, I was only banned from YPTB and Lefty Memes. I can still post on dbzer0.
oh, is there a reason why you’re not contesting in the thread? not worth the drama?
it’s important to note that the admins on dbzer0 act independently of each other. they don’t communicate or plan every single post, which sometimes leads to them publicly arguing about admin decisions, which is delightfully refreshing and transparent. I really like it.
but i wouldn’t hold any of the admins aside from unruffled for this post.
I would. I’m not sure how dbzer0’s governance works/is supposed to work because I, quite frankly, don’t care, but the other admins tolerate unruffled’s behaviour. They made them an admin and they’re choosing to keep them around. They might not be directly responsible for unruffled’s actions but they’re enabling them.
dbzer0 is an anarchist instance. db0 is the person.
Anarchists don’t believe in hierarchy, so all admins act largely independently from one another. i’ve spoken to db0 before about how hierarchies work in an anarchist online forum, but didn’t really dive deep enough to fully comprehend how it works. either way, db0 did say that the userbase can oust an admin if they are no longer happy with how they act. They don’t always tolerate unruffled’s behaviour and there have been some cases of back and forths between admins in the modlog where they unban and reban and unban and repeat
perhaps you can ask them about it in a good-faith approach?
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ETA - Also, when I said I don’t care, I meant it. I don’t judge people’s actions by their ideals and intentions, I judge by the outcomes. And the outcome is, well, this.
Do they ban any tankie communities or is Stalinism any more acceptable than Zionism?
They sometimes ban tankies. Never asked them if Stalinism is preferable to Zionism.
There is no context where that kind of question leads to anything good.
You’re forgetting the entertainment afforded those of us on the sidelines with
A lot of alt accounts in the thread and I got the feeling that these three are the same person.
