Greetings gamers and those who wisely abstain,
It has become clear to us that even in the short while we’ve federated, the situation with sh.itholefor.nazis is entirely untenable and we will be defederating immediately. Multiple instances of ableist and homophobic slurs directed at our users, overwhelming litigiousness against even the most innocuous comments by our users, and just a general ethos of reactionary behavior. We’re done and out.
One of the concerns with embracing TC69 thought on site bans with federation is that the user would basically be just hexbear-side hidden and blocked from our comms, free to post reactionary content without the fear of Lenin behind them. That was a silly concern. We will resume our pre-federation policies regarding site bans.
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This group are primarily a criminal element, whereas I'm referring to a generally unconscious group of politically de-activated workers. The best word you see for this is usually just "masses", but "the masses" has a different problem in that it often feels like it implies the masses can't stop being the masses by joining the politically activated groups (communists, fascists, etc).
My general point here is that you have the politically active, the politically aware, and then the politically inactive and politically unaware. These last 2 groups are what get referred to as "NPCs" by the right because they only view the politically active as participants in the "game", where the game being referred to is politics. People that exist but are not player characters, they exist to be influenced by the player characters.
I don't really disagree with others that this language has problems though to be honest, I just don't feel like an adequate replacement word has appeared that really captures it as well as this.