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  • They may not be my friends, but they are my allies.

    You can be with us or against us. The two sides are fascism and anti-fascism. If you refuse to choose, the fascism choice is made for you.

    Fight for primaries, sure. Primaries are important and there are choices to be made. But when it comes to actually fighting the Nazis you’re either with us or against us.










  • Just speaking on my own here, if I’m allowed to do that. Not as a representative of LW.

    JL is generally a pretty good mod who has provided a lot of value to his communities. He’s right 90% or more of the time. He’s put a lot of work into Lemmy, and many people don’t appreciate how much work it takes to be a good moderator of something like !news. He’s great… until you question him. Then he goes full reddit-mod.

    In my opinion, being questioned is part of having authority.

    You can go where you want from all of that. I think there’s a decent range of opinions on those combinations that are valid.

    I’ll also say that at least half of Stamets post is bullshit if you read past the surface. JL is not actually racist. Read the article accusing him of such and decide for yourself. Not liking protests that block the roads of Seattle doesn’t make you racist.

    I don’t think he’s Zionist, but on Lemmy any mod who bans you for shouting “Death to X” is zionist or a fascist.

    He enforced a rule about not using link aggregators or news reposting sites (yahoo, msn) as sources. I think that’s a totally valid rule, but any time he enforced it the OP would assume he’s censoring their agenda. When all he really required was a valid source.

    But Stamets won’t be happy until he gets what he wants. He’s shouted righteously, and if you don’t follow him, you don’t deserve him. He’ll keep laying baseless accusations on top of his valid ones until you HAVE TO do what he says.

    The narrative here has run away a bit. There’s of course many seeds of truth here. I’m just asking y’all to be a little careful in how much of it you take at surface value. A few people have definitely made a mountain out of a… well… a hill here. And hills can vary quite a bit in size.