My half-year-old alt [email protected] got banned a few hours ago. There's been an adminwave over the past hours banning pro-socialist viewpoints, locking posts, etc.
Just wondering: how long will it be until they flip the switch from "tankies are genocide supporters!" to "of course I knew there was nothing going on" as it happened with the WMD accusations against Iraq? How long until the Uyghur "repression" gets treated the way Nayirah's testimony is treated now (i.e. just forgotten from western discourse)?
It's exhausting trying to reason with libs, even bringing evidence such as the re-education camps closing by 2022 by western-media accounts, sharing news segments essentially saying "yeah, the camps are closed, but at what cost?", and getting banned because thought-termination is encouraged when the word "genocide" pops up? Haven't they learnt anything from the actual genocide in Palestine?
The same people who enact and celebrate these bans will cry rivers of tears at the moderation policy in Hexbear with topics such as transphobia, while themselves suppressing anything outside their western-manufactured Overton windows.
This is just a rant, but it's honestly depressing and exhausting trying to argue in good faith (I believe there needs to be an informed socialist presence in broader Lemmy and not just in Hexbear) and receiving either "ruzzian orc" accusations or outright bans. I just want you to have healthcare and to stop murdering brown children, for fuck's sake
I have to second it being exhausting trying to operate in good faith around people who are clearly not.
It's so cool being told that I'm working for masters at the Kremlin or whatever because I expressed a vaguely anti-war position or cited a source they don't like.
"Guys, are we sure giving 5% of GDP to military during the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the upcoming far-right wave in Europe is a good idea given the history of Europe's military interventions internationally?"
"FUCK YOU IVAN PUTINOV YOURE NOT DECEIVING ANYONE" banned