Well... now you've got your second badge of "honor" I guess.

Thanks for the explanation, but if you look at the context, neither of them were employing the disengage rule, the word was just being used in the normal way.

Also I am going to say let’s disengage. We’ve veered terribly far off topic. If you have beef with Feddit, then start a thread elsewhere and maybe one of the other admins can properly explain everything.

[...] I agree, it’s pointless to have this discussion with someone who evades the core point of the criticism with strawmans and false dilemmas What I told @mathemachristian@lemmy.ml still stands, and nothing you say here will change it.

Disengaged.

While I've absolutely no doubt the CIA does all sorts of heinous shit around the world, I just don't buy the theory behind so-called color revolutions. If the CIA were able to incite populist revolutions on a whim, there would be a LOT more of them. Sure, they do their very best to encourage them, but you need more than just guns and money to build a movement big enough to topple a government. You need a lot of people.

IMO in most claimed cases of 'color revolutions', the local sentiment was already there, just waiting for an inciting event. I do agree that US sanctions can help create those types of conditions, but once that happens its looking a lot more like a standard US regime change operation rather than a color revolution created by CIA psyops tbh.

But more importantly, from an anarchist perspective, it's suspiciously convenient and self-serving to immediately blame every popular uprising against AES authoritarian states on the CIA, rather than on whichever oppressive regime is actually running the country. Iran is a perfect example of that. Cuba has also been under sanctions for decades without turning into a vile theocracy that treats women like property. So long as governments treat their citizens well, like Cuba generally does, a "color revolution" will never be possible there.

Btw, the theory of color revolutions was an invention of infamous conspiracy theorist, and perennial presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche. There’s a good (quite long) video on this topic here if anyone wants to go down the rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFyn_KSy80.

AACAB?

The reason you were moderated is because you were the one being the asshole:

You are an excellent example of thesis that aggressive veganism and a long term vegan diet could be linked to mental disorders.

The only reasonable way to interpret this sentence is you were calling @mathemachristian@lemmy.ml a crazy fucking vegan. Just because you said it in a more pusillanimous tone doesn't change the meaning.

You are a perfect example of extreme veganism being a mental condition.

Imo its perfectly reasonably for him (and me) to call you out for ableism here. He paraphrased you to highlight the ableism which is implicitly contained in your insult.

Ok I think that's fair enough, thanks.

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While this has been an interesting read, I think it's probably time to call it quits on the slap fighting.

Admin here. I'm sorry you had a bad experience and that this post got necroed again. The YPTB community tends to be quite combative in nature, so I agree it's probably a good idea to give it a miss if internet slap fights aren't your thing.

I'd like to also take this opportunity to point out the disengage rule, which can be very helpful to short-circuit this type of situation. While it's too late this time around, hopefully you can put it to good use in future.

FYI, I'm issuing a warning and a community ban to @eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com and @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com. It's not ok to gang up on and bad-jacket other users, especially Flotilla members, just because you disagree with them. Lurkers can also be legit users.

Also, as very little of this comment thread was at all relevant to the post topic, I've now removed most of it.

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.

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