I will say, banning someone doesn’t really stop them from viewing the community; it only prevents them from posting comments. I don’t often ban and usually try to communicate directly with people when I think they’re simply misguided. When I do ban or moderate in general, it’s to protect the community rather than punish any user. I don’t want to expose users to bigots or toxic people that won’t listen, and I put their safety over a single user’s posting privileges.

I hope this queerphobe in denial actually leaves for good and doesn’t pull some supervillain comeback.

Edit: goddammit

It’s so frustrating that people still want to interpret the censorship as just “going after those calling for violence.” There is nothing violent about girls kissing or using submissive emojis; they just didn’t like that queer stuff. There is no way to write that off as anything else. This person found queer behavior icky and wanted to hide it from view. Them claiming to care about bigotry was hypocritical virtue signaling.

I mean, us mentally ill people aren’t all authoritarian assholes

our entire instance is banned, so we technically made the cut

Removed by mod

op wouldn’t understand that; they love the bomb too much

Oh no! Chudfield 😭

I guess not falling for the post labor delusions of the ruling class really helps you focus on what actually matters

In my experience, it depends on if they genuinely hate all men or not. When you see the opposite gender as an enemy you need to defeat, you stop seeing them as people. From there, it’s easy to apply that toxicity to other people of your gender that you see as traitors to your cause. You start to judge everyone by their adherence to gender roles, even if you see yourself as smarter than others who uphold the patriarchy. That is the nature of an incel regardless of if their gender.

That said, I anecdotally find that sapphics are rarely incels, even if they get no bitches. It’s easier to not be consumed by your resentment of men when you don’t even need date them (note, that this is distinctly different from political lesbians who are only sapphic for ideological reasons; those people are trash). Even if one casually thinks all men are trash, they aren’t forced into conflict with men unless those men approach them first. I suspect it’s the same with gay men who are lonely; even when they are misogynistic, it’s not as much of a problem.

The Hindu nationalists financing the country that targets mainly Muslims? I’m shocked, truly shocked!

idk, the UK still dabbles enough to not not be an empire

Appealing to his ego and earning his admiration isn’t puppetry, but manipulation. Puppetry is when someone is forced to do another’s bidding against their will. Trump simps for daddy Putin and brother Netanyahu voluntarily, not because they force him.

there are plenty of very evil and very competent people in the regime pulling the strings and setting the long term goals and strategies

That’s the part I specifically don’t believe. Even the people like Bannon who have certain impressive skills, are ultimately short term thinkers that are liable to miscalculation due to arrogance. At the end of the day, they know not to speak out against any dumb move Trump wants to pull, as he has consistently purged such people and replaced them with insane yes-men.

Trump has never been puppeted, only manipulated and tricked by people appealing to his ego. He is uniquely adept at uniting fascist foot soldiers and oligarchic interests, but he has never been the billionaires’ perfect option. They tried to replace him before both the 2016 and 2024 elections, specifically because he isn’t their lapdog.

And now Trump is trying to apply last minute pressure after fucking around and finding out. People underestimate just how little strategy is involved in the US approach.

I think you’re overestimating this regime.

What an absolutely disgusting statement. Such drivel doesn’t even warrant the responses debunking it.

Typically the two go hand in hand

Considering what France has done in Africa, maybe they aren’t the right people.