• Nakoichi [they/them]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    Guys please don't use slurs you'll make us look as racist and homophobic as we actually are!

    • GinAndJuche
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      1 year ago

      It would be a good bit to keep asking for clarification on old timey inter-white slurs. Catch a permanent-ban for refusing to back down after calling a mod a squ*rehead or something.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          The term is stupid – all name-calling is. Good politics is made of ideas and coalitions and compromises. It’s hard to do, of course, it requires patience and humility, not shouting and grandstanding and undiagnosed malignant narcissism. But calling someone a gammon is not only a stupid waste of a two-syllable word, and meal. It is also, to steal leftist language, hate speech. There seems to be an idea, most recently spoken by Owen Jones, that when the left says something – whatever it is – it is not, and never can be, hate speech. So, let me – as a Jew, shall we say? – explain why it is.

          oh my god fuck oooooffffff lmao

        • GinAndJuche
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          1 year ago

          It should be illegal to publish something that poorly written. Thanks for teaching me gammon though.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        First Nations 🤝 Native Br*ts : Calling settlers "Fucking Colonials"

        I also get a special joy out of calling Southern US whites "Yanks"

        • GinAndJuche
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          1 year ago

          Nothing beats seppo. That actually sounds like a slur unless an Australian says.

      • daisy
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        1 year ago

        You sorning bedswerver.

  • buh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Posts must be (American) right wing

    when nazis and francoists aren't fascist enough for you

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Making a comment about how America is a shithole and trying to list all the reasons why, accidentally overloading the database when I hit 'post' because it's the length of a small novel.

  • quarrk [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I wish Rule 3 just went on for paragraphs

    Rule 3: No bad faith comments. For example, saying "America is a shithole" without further elaboration is bad faith. Saying "America has X problem because Y reason" is presumably in good faith. Saying "America is bad because of its neo-imperialism" is bad faith. Saying "America is bad because of its neo-imperialism which has characterized its foreign policy since at least WW2, either through its public statements and actions or through later declassified information such as its involvement in the 1973 Chilean coup or the 1965 Indonesian mass killings" is presumably in good faith. Saying "America is bad because of its monopolar position in the world economy" is bad faith. Saying "America is bad because, in spite of the world decolonizing in form, America has taken up the imperial mantle as a premier neo-colonial power, through weaponization of finance. It extracts surplus value from other countries through financial means such as predatory IMF loans, direct economic sanctions, and manipulation of the US Dollar" is presumably in good faith. Saying "America is bad because it starts wars" is bad faith. Saying "America is bad because its own capitalist decline requires constant expansion into "new" markets and does not have any purely domestic economy as such. Its domestic economy is a protected garden fertilized with the excess accrued from its foreign exploits. This nationalistic self-interest coupled with the self-interest of certain capitalist businessmen in power has caused the US to be the instigator or at least partial cause of the majority of world conflicts in the last century" is presumably in good faith. Saying "America is bad because it opposes unions" is bad faith. Saying "America is bad because it actively passes legislation and abuses state authority to break strikes and discipline labor, all while cutting taxes and regulations for the largest corporations, even under ostensibly pro-labor liberal administrations" is presumably in good faith.

    • OtakuAltair@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      This comment is nearly perfect

      Just needs a line break between each point

      Edit:

      Rule 3: No bad faith comments. For example, saying "America is a shithole" without further elaboration is bad faith. Saying "America has X problem because Y reason" is presumably in good faith.

      Saying "America is bad because of its neo-imperialism which has characterized its foreign policy since at least WW2, either through its public statements and actions or through later declassified information such as its involvement in the 1973 Chilean coup or the 1965 Indonesian mass killings" is presumably in good faith.

      Saying "America is bad because of its monopolar position in the world economy" is bad faith.

      Saying "America is bad because, in spite of the world decolonizing in form, America has taken up the imperial mantle as a premier neo-colonial power, through weaponization of finance. It extracts surplus value from other countries through financial means such as predatory IMF loans, direct economic sanctions, and manipulation of the US Dollar" is presumably in good faith.

      Saying "America is bad because it starts wars" is bad faith.

      Saying "America is bad because its own capitalist decline requires constant expansion into "new" markets and does not have any purely domestic economy as such. Its domestic economy is a protected garden fertilized with the excess accrued from its foreign exploits. This nationalistic self-interest coupled with the self-interest of certain capitalist businessmen in power has caused the US to be the instigator or at least partial cause of the majority of world conflicts in the last century" is presumably in good faith.

      Saying "America is bad because it opposes unions" is bad faith.

      Saying "America is bad because it actively passes legislation and abuses state authority to break strikes and discipline labor, all while cutting taxes and regulations for the largest corporations, even under ostensibly pro-labor liberal administrations" is presumably in good faith.

    • envis10n [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Do you have your secondary poster waiting in the wings? Just in case your posting keyboard breaks.