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I came into a bait thread and made a joke about someone posting a bait thread and then telling pretty much everyone responding to the bait to disengage.
It’s not that I have an issue with the rule, or intended to discourage people from using it, but because posting something incendiary and then dodging earnest responses to the bait with “disengage” is funny.
I am not dodging. As I’ve said many times in this thread, I’m using the disengage rule as a because I don’t want (not that I can’t) to argue in a fucking meme thread, but my autism compels me to, so this is my fucking coping mechanism to avoid wasting all my life rehashing 100-year old theory with 24 different terminally online tankies.
But yeah, it’s easier to say “oh you don’t want to argue for 2 weeks with 2 dozen different online theorists? owned!” and pile on, I get it. I don’t excuse you shaming people from the disengage rule though. be better.
PS: Not bait. This is my own space. Tankies don’t have to come here. I, in fact, don’t want to deal with them. I’m just too fucking tolerant for my own mental good. But apparently even letting toxic people post here in masse is not good enough. Saying I don’t want to argue in a meme thread isn’t good enough. Trying to protect my mental health and time isn’t good enough. Because the objective here is to just stop me from posting these sort of memes in the spirit of “left unity”, so the bullying is the point. And you’re part of that now, congrats.
Follow up question: if that is bullying then what does that say about the people doing the ongoing red scare smear campaign based on what server people are on?
I don’t understand why you keep bringing this up? Am I engaging in this myself? I don’t even have hexbear defederated (clearly). This line of questioning has “but what about Hamas?” vibes.
I brought it up because I’ve seen you engage in that in this very thread:
This just happened to be where I made my account 2 years ago, but clearly because of 'what .ml is" I can’t be trusted. I will grant that you left yourself wiggle room by saying ‘who knows’, but you did say it was a valid assumption based on server.
.ML is clearly run and administered by MLs, we all know that. Being there doesn’t make one a tankie or someone to be disregarded outright and I never accused anyone of it, but it is still a factor when trying to figure out someone’s motivations, because staying there is a choice. I still don’t think it’s correct for that person to jump to the conclusion you’re a tankie, but I understand why they did it. So neither did I call you bad from being from .ml, nor did I engage in “red scare”. In fact I explicitly said I take your word for your allegiances, even though you behaviour has been defacto in defense of “left unity” which many anarchists reject outright.
However, If you think the choice of home instance never has any importance, I’d beg to disagree and I can present many examples of instances where simply being in them says a lot about the person.
Just as “many” anarchists may hold your specific opinions, I know plenty from years or organizing who are not as dogmatic about being sectarian. As I said I prefer to work with people like that just as you seem to prefer spaces like the anticommunist snark comms
Well so long as you come out of this smug enough about your superiority as an anarchist, it’s all good.
isn’t that what you were just doing by claiming that I have “allegiances and actions” that leave much to be desired by “many other anarchists”
turnabout is fair play, and the extent of my ‘actions’ and ‘allegiances’ that you claim “anarchists” disapprove of is entirely limited to posts on the Internet and thoughts in my head.