Anybody else think all these lib instances that are shidding and farding because they're outnumbered by our powerful posters won't be here in a year? These people are all just temporarily annoyed redditors and they'll be back on reddit before Christmas.

Their reason for removing your post was really "imagine being this braindead?"

They're certainly not encouraging us to act in good faith.

That's a from me.

Also, I have a family member with an intellectual disability, so it sticks in my craw when someone tries to defend it as innocent. It's fine if someone throws it out and then gets corrected (think of the Chapos, they quit using it after all), since for a long time it was "acceptable." But to try and defend yourself after correction....

That's all I have to say for that second comment being removed. These people think leaders like Nelson Mandela are "tankies". Like even most libs can recognise why people in Africa have aligned with communists. Holy hell, even the current US Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken, can recognise that history.

The African National Congress party, which has governed South Africa since white minority rule ended in 1994, had strong ties to the former Soviet Union, which trained and supported anti-apartheid activists during the Cold War. Nelson Mandela, South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, who died in 2013 and was a global icon, was regarded with suspicion by Washington during the Cold War and was even on the U.S. terrorism watch list in that era.

"The Soviet Union was supportive of the freedom forces in South Africa, and of course unfortunately, more than unfortunately, the United States was much too sympathetic to the apartheid regime, so that history also doesn’t get erased, you know, overnight, it's a process," Blinken said.

Imagine being to the right of Antony Blinken and the journalists at Reuters.

Can't wait for some liberal to say that Mandela made the wrong decision and should have aligned with the US and NATO during apartheid. Or that Mandela was wrong to look up to Fidel, Mao and Che. I'll just leave you with some quotes from Mandela:

"I read works by and about Che Guevara, Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro. In Edgar Snow’s brilliant Red Star Over China I saw that it was Mao’s determination and non-traditional thinking that had led him to victory."

“The revolution in China was a masterpiece, a real masterpiece. If you read how they fought that revolution, you believe in the impossible. It’s just miraculous.”

"From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orchestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution."

"Within that international support for our struggle the Soviet Union and other socialist countries stood out. The governments and peoples of the socialist bloc gave material, moral and political support to our struggle in a manner and on a scale that we will never be able to repay."

"Hexbear is like the Donald" - an instance blocking comments that are critical of their bigoted content

Nelson Mandela was a communist. Was the final recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union. And (re)wrote a book titled "How to be a Good Communist" while in prison where the first lines of the book reads:

A Communist is a member of the Communist Party who understands and accepts the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism as explained by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin , and who subjects himself to the discipline of the Party.

His remarks on receiving the Lenin Peace Prize after finally getting out of prison are here: http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/2002/021028_lenin.htm

I think this part is relevant:

As we remember the support from the Soviet Union and the socialist states, it is fitting that we also pay tribute to our historic partnership with the South African Communist Party.

We remember how South African communists came to the material support of the ANC at a time when the police were raiding our offices almost on a daily basis, depleting us of our resources to pay our full-time officials. We can never forget those concrete acts of solidarity.

The SACP has been trustworthy and dependable allies over decades as part of our movement in all its formations. Our relationship with the Soviet Union and the socialist world had much to do with their presence in our ranks.

Of course, liberals leave all of this out when praising Mandela.

yeah that fucking tracks for enjoyers

Banning comments critical of ableism is way beyond anything that a hexbear has ever done. This is absolutely damning stuff. This isn't a random user or something. It's ~~an admin~~ a mod over there.

The mod team on blahaj are absolutely atrocious. Other than Ada, who seems to actually engage in good faith and tries to foster at least some level understanding, their mods respond to our mods wanting to talk by leaking DMs and general bad-faith attitude. When Ada requested that direct DMs from our mods not be shared, there was some shitty scribbling and effective refusal to comply, and now also this modlog?

Everyone's a lib, that's fine. But the blahaj mods are just actively playing troublemaker at this point and don't seem interested in any kind of actual good faith interaction. They never have seemed it.

tfw the seemingly anti-bigotry libs are deep down just as reactionary as fascists

Another interesting snippet of the modlog. They're an "anarchist".

You hate r-word because you think it's ableist.

I hate r-word because it reminds me of imageboard culture, and also think it's ableist.

We're mostly the same.

Well now what do we have here? Caught in the act and no gold to pay the fine

This is a good example for why we need more tea and less "we're working with their admins". Obviously their admins don't care.

Hexbear is like 4chan because Hexbear is mean to people. Blahaj is not like 4chan despite using 4chan suffixes.

Let's just say that 196 is a serious point of contention in what should otherwise be a good relationship with blahaj. Our brave admins are working on it.

(disclaimer, I'm not trans) yeah, my general attitude on blahaj at this point is "fuck 'em." I understand that there's a desire to bolster and grow the trans space on lemmy, but these people suck, and frankly I feel like the cool ones that we'd want community with would just make accounts here anyway if the two were de-federated.

I understand also that most of the problem originates specifically from their 196 community, but if the broader blahaj instance chooses to allow them to act like this unchecked, then there's no reason for hexbear to go out of our way to appeal to their instance.

Isn't this instance neoliberal? Why are we federated with these fucks in the first place

seconded

Yeah at that point we should pull the trigger first that is unexcusable behavior.