Now it makes sense!

BPR?

You are right that some of what I said and doesn't apply to you in particular, but was more of a general sentiment about what I felt was going on in the post and in general lately. Having read the thread again more closely I can see that I probably read you a bit wrong. So I will say sorry for making some bad faith assumptions.

I'm glad we could clear the air. There's been a bit of a disinfo campaign being waged against our instance lately by a few trolls with an axe to grind, so that probably colored my reaction a little. Every other political thread seems to end with people yelling "tankie" or "fascist" to each other like it's ever gonna achieve anything. No war but class war has got to be the best way forward. Personally I'm done with leftist infighting for now. Marxists aren't the real threat anyway.

Your username having no bearing on your display name directly led to confusion as shown by this thread. People who use it to display their username in funny fonts, or to append pronouns, are using it in a way that I do not take issue with. People who make it look like they’re somebody else just lead to confusion. It added to the discussion because that’s what this conversation was about.

My username was randomly generated. It's not some conspiracy. You can always use @unruffled@anarchist.nexus is that's easier to remember.

Still waiting for an apology for your mod abuse, that @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com overturned, but seems to be otherwise unbothered by.

I guess you'll be waiting a while. Honestly I'm getting pretty tired of folks like you jumping into our communities to froth at the mouth over tankies simply for existing, whether real (as in this case) or imagined (as in my case). It's nothing but shit-stirring and pointless drama.

For the record, I fundamentally disagree with tankies on their mostly uncritical support for AES / former AES states. And I've always had that position. It hasn't changed, no matter how bad faith trolls try to paint that narrative. Anti-authoritarianism is a fundamental principle of anarchism and it's one I live by. It's ridiculous I even have to make disclaimer like these, but with the amount of bad faith takes going on lately I guess I've got to keep saying it.

But having said that, you don't need to bring that shit into every single interaction with someone. That's just toxic behaviour intended to derail a conversation and bait a response, so no, I don't apologize for removing your comment.

I also disagree with a lot of libs on their governments' mostly uncritical support for Israel. The Dems are currently upset with our instance because they get the same treatment all the other authoritarian supporters get, so they are trying to spin this as us "being tankie". Just because their own party consistently votes for imperial wars and genocides doesn't mean they are bad as the tankies for supporting genocide right? And we all have to go along with their asinine electoralism to vote for the "lesser evil" or we're obviously working for the Russians or the Chinese or whatever other boogeyman US politics has decided to scapegoat for the abject harms of neoliberal economics right? And if we just keep voting for the lesser evil party they'll stop dropping/supplying bombs to kill brown people eventually, right? Well, no. I call bullshit on all of that. Anarchists see this with clear eyes. Campist takes are as bad coming from the Dems as they are coming from the ML instances.

And it's ironic that mouth-foaming haters like PugJesus are blind to the fact they are part of drumming up the exact same "red peril" scare that McCarthy was guilty of - a notorious time in US politics when Republican politicians were in full witch-hunt mode. But he's "vaguely leftist" so its ok right? And since he will no doubt read this because he's seemingly completely obsessed with me, no Senator Pug McJesus - I haven't done a 180 on tankies. When I say we have more in common with instances like ml and hexbear, I mean in terms of political theory: we all believe that capitalism, especially the neo-liberal form of unfettered corporate greed, is fundamentally incompatible with social, economic, and political equity. As anarchists, we do of course differ on details of how achieve the objective of a truly socialist economy, and whether or not nation states are required, but one thing we can agree upon is that capitalism and corporate greed are directly responsible for millions of preventable deaths each year, and vastly more misery and suffering because of totally unnecessary poverty that exists only because of the greed of rich capitalists. The Real Violent Extremists Are The Freaks Who Run The US Empire.

The details are that I removed this comment towards davel which seemed like nothing but a random insult that had nothing whatsoever to do with the post topic and seemed likely to just derail the conversation. I should maybe have noted it as off topic rather than just being needlessly abusive.

People who use the software as intended are abusing the software and suck? Gotcha. I didn't realise I wasn't allowed to use that feature, my bad I guess. Thanks for offering your considered opinion on my username, it really added a lot to the discussion.

Just a sense check here, are you asserting that Ada is a PTB for defederating from feddit.uk after their admins failed to take action?

Blajah Zone is specifically run as a safe space for trans folks, so it's an emphatic YDI to feddit.uk from me.

Given that the UK Supreme Court recently ruled that the legal definition of a woman in the UK is based on biological sex, and the supposedly Labour PM Starmer is running with it (wtf Starmer???), it's not surprising to me that TERFs and their supporters are coming out of the woodwork on feddit.uk.

Fuck TERFs and fuck Starmer for jumping on Trump's anti-DEI bandwagon just to pander to transphobic voters.

Just a quick update, lemmy.world has posted an update that explains their decision here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/16795373

TLDR is that the person who removed the community is fairly new to the mod team and didn't realize there was a bit of a history to this situation. Also, looks like they are sticking with the decision this time around though.

Please don't harass the lemmy.world admins/mods though - if you don't like the situation you are free to register here or on another instance. And if you aren't a lemmy.world user, then this doesn't affect you at all.

I'm proud of our community here, and it's their loss, not ours!

• updated the link

Yeah, it was a nice surprise for sure. I'm glad to have the lemmy.world crowd back, plenty of booty for all.

If you say enough batshit crazy stuff then sooner or later you're going to get something right by accident.

A repack is usually a cracked release from another source that has been heavily compressed to reduce file size. They often come with a custom installer that manages the decompression process and streamlines the installation process, so you don't have to manually install patches/cracks after installation, and can skip optional content. Trusted repackers like FitGirl will also check for malware/viruses in the original crack, so you can be reasonably confident the repack is safe to install. Having said that, always take your own precautions when installing anything from the internet, i.e. virus scan and only use trusted sources.