Recently user alaksaball has identified themselves as a member of the Party of Communists USA. The user also promoted the event "RageAgainstTheWarMachine" as well as PCUSA's official twitter account on this website. When questioned by other users about engaging in the promotion and platforming of fascists and reactionaries, alaskaball responded with hostility and name-calling. As anticipated, the event "RageAgainstTheWarMachine" was attended by prominent neo-Nazis and featured speakers who espoused homophobic and transphobic views, and used homophobic slurs and anti-trans rhetoric as official speakers at the event. Furthermore, user alaskaball has promoted the official Twitter of PCUSA, which has frequently platformed Jackson Hinkle who is on camera at the aforementioned event using homophobic slurs. User Alaskaball's personal feelings towards LGBTQ people are irrelevant, as the user continues to platform an organization and events that are in direct contradiction of the standards of this website, and is therefore unfit to moderate communities.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    bc it’s a pinned discussion with people with mostly the same opinions including about the event, so it’s a bigger than just that and probably needs broader discussion

    I don't think this is true at all. For one, shipwreck didn't support the rally at all, mostly treating the success of the rally as an indictment on the impotence of the US left. I haven't seen anything from SeventyTwoTrillion supporting the rally either. Shipwreck is a frequent poster there and SeventyTwoTrillion is the OP of the news megathread, so that's already two main posters.

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        72T literally posts articles from antiwar.com the grayzone and the valdai group so I’m pretty confident that they privately support it lmao, I’d be interested to here their stance on it though

        SeventyTwoTrillion posts from multiple news outlets, mostly filtering out Western MSM like the BBC. I wouldn't see that as him supporting the ideology of those news sources. Like, he posts the most from RT, which is easily worse than the three ideologically wise. That's just the nature of the beast.

        Good on Shipwreck, but basically every poster that was pro rally was from the news thread sphere, so one user not while good on them is less significant

        The main culprits were World_Wario_II, who just got banned, ednice, and alaskaball, the subject of the OP. I don't think the mods/admins here like people naming names, so we'll have to agree to disagree. Suffice to say, we both have our own lists of names.

        Also W Wario II and ednice were the two most agro posters in the whole thing and they were and are regular contributors, and neither 72T or Alaskaball ever bother to ban W Wario any time they make a new alt when if they’re reading the thread every day for a year they should know what poster the ban evasion user is and consciously choose to not get rid of them

        You mean Z_Poster365/Spectre_of_Z_poster/World_Wario_II? My understanding is that mods don't ban alts as long as the alts don't go around parading that they're alts of the banned account. I don't know how they're going to handle some dude who keeps on creating alts because they keep on getting banned.