• Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    6 months ago

    Can we appreciate his references to "censorship" and a "pedophile witch hunt", too? I felt like I was hallucinating reading that, it was like a complete 180 of my previous impression of him.

    • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]
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      6 months ago

      a complete 180 of my previous impression of him.

      Honestly I don't get it. Davel has been on of my favorite members of the broader lemmy-lemmygrad-hexbear commentariat when it comes to knowledgable anti-imperialist takes in the posting trenches. He has consistently been among the best at having pertinent (even lib-denialism-proof) sources on hand and ready to go for when the libs, much in need of being owned as always, start clamoring for them, and then correctly pointing out their own debate bro perversion. I have unjokingly thanked him for his service before.

      It is so odd and discouraging to see him on the other side of that gulf.

      Truly, no one is immune to the occasional need of touching grass.

      • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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        6 months ago

        Yep, it was really strange, I thought it would be a simple matter of chopping Joker and being done with it, as a .ml user. Now I have made a Hexbear account, and while I won't likely abandon my .ml account I will be able to jump ship if I wish easily.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        Looks like he's been doing shit like this for a while given what Marcie said, including weird racist and misogynistic defense of that guy months back, basically saying "lol he's Indian he doesn't know better, misogyny is just what Indians do" while calling her the chauvinist

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      This has been happening concerningly frequently; people of established time on the site just absolutely crashing out on the worst possible hills to die on

    • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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      6 months ago

      I agree. I was happy only having a .ml account, but now I've made a Hexbear account and I'll probably stick with one or the other eventually. It was wierd and came out of the blue, Davel usually has good takes so this was very cringe.