zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They bomb entire neighbourhoods to rubble as a distraction mechanism for their teams to go in.

Those human shields had it coming. /S or I guess they're human bait now?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

The media isn't taking the numbers at face value, unless you're also making the claim of the UN and UNICEF because they use the same numbers. The fact is, given the wide destruction, the actual numbers are much worse. If you can't admit that last point then I assume you're not familiar with what percentage of homes have been destroyed or how many dead journalists and their families have been murdered.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Maybe the Palestinians themselves devalue their own lives compared to Israeli lives.

You should just stop right there. If your logic depends on saying "they actually don't value their lives as much as others" then please stop and ask "what the hell is wrong with yourself?". People who think like this probably value their life least of all. /s

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Come on dude, I just mentioned Blahaj. Don't pretend only .world has a problem with .ml . And again, the two complaints of censorship raised by the two are not the same. The majority of communities wants moderation to at least attempt to be objective towards history.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago (12 children)

And? I was over at Blahaj when this stuff went down so admittedly things played differently in different parts of the fediverse. Even so, the details of how things escalated should not distract from the behavior that is central to the conflict: ML engaging in censorship motivated by personal ideology instead of making an attempt to be objective.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

Many other servers asked them to clean house but they refused, hence the defed. Wild how the ones deleting and banning users are the victims of censorship here 🙄

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago

If I do, it’s uncodifiable

Things can still be codified and justified without an appeal to power. Lots of software is written that way today.

a clause that no one is allowed to use logical fallacies to defend it.

I don't understand why that would be a necessity or desired.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

When I say antisocial behavior I'm not talking about ideology but historical actions like banning people posting literal facts about tiananmen or any other historical event. When responses fail to acknowledge actual history that is brought up, then it is likely working from a reactionary framework.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Is that why Hexbear and Lemmygrad were blocked? Hexbear being one of the largest and most active overtly trans-positive instances, and Lemmygrad being the largest explicitly Marxist Instance?

Blocked for being antisocial? Yes. If it was about being trans then Blahaj would have been blocked a long time ago.

If anything, I'm complaining about bad communist tropes dominating the media representation, and by that I mean leninists.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago

There's plenty of theory to draw from, like the Cynefin Framework or Wardley Mapping. But like the left, there's no real consensus on what we ought to be doing but no shortage of opinions.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago (20 children)

That's bullshit; being communist isn't a free pass to be antisocial. History has an example of literal pedophiles organizing under the banner of communism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens#:~:text=Until%201987%2C%20the%20Greens%20included,dealing%20with%20child%20sexual%20abuse.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Sure, but is that how we talk about our institutions? Things I hear that buck anarchism while supporting American democracy:

  • The Constitution should be interpreted with "originalism" or at the very least venerated
  • Police sacrifice X, therefore it's okay if they do extralegal Y

I'm not saying there aren't systems of accountability that legitimize various institutions. It's that the stories we tell to legitimize an institution comes in many different flavors, and those based on authority from power/position (ie "our founding fathers were smart people") are not accepted by anarchists. Edit: Imagine how different our legal framework would be if it reflected that mentality?

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