The moderation of Lemmy is equal parts inconsistent and arbitrary. That said, it’s all unpaid volunteer work so you gotta cut em a little slack.
The moderation on any platform is inconsistent and arbitrary, it’s done by humans after all
with lemmy it’s at least driven by volunteers as you say, and we have the option to switch or create our own community/instance if we don’t like the moderation 👍
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I got banned from a sub for saying a video of a russian soldier shooting himself five feet from his troop was sad. I dont like Russia right now, but that is still sad and fucked.
The removal of a Russian army function is not sad, but the death and suicide of a human being is very sad. If the person saw desertion as an exit strategy, they might have saved and turned their life around, but there probably were reasons that they didn’t see that as viable or desirable.
They were like laying there all half dead already. It was just a video of the end of a life we don’t know.
I saw that too and it fucked me up.
Fuck Russia and Putin for putting his own people in that position.
I have seen that video, I do understand your feelings
Whoever says Hamas and the IDF are the good guys must love the mass killing of civilians happening right now.
Still have never encountered nobody literally saying ‘Hamas are the good guys’. But I guess any purely causal pondering on understanding what takes a human being into joining terrorist ranks is banned in this society. I don’t wanna understand, just bomb it flat.
With all the bad transphobic takes I’ve seen on this platform in the past couple of days, I think there’s a real need for gender studies
I noticed this too, did we get raided by terfs or something?
Can you please provide urls to posts saying hamas are good guys?
Anyone saying they’re the bad guys is armchair quarterback-ing a people’s fight against annihilation.
If YOUR people lived in a militarily patrolled, constantly surveilled, walled off piece of your former homeland, from which you couldn’t leave to go visit a hospital without your oppressor’s army’s approval, and that same army tried to calculate food rations to keep you only just above starvation to keep you passive, and could arrest without cause and indefinitely hold you….would you really say that a group of your people were wrong for lashing out? Now on top of that, the civilian populace can be given permission by that same government to take arms and evict you and your family from your ancestral home. Are you wrong for lashing out?
What a fucking joke.
Raping women and little girls isn’t “lashing out” or “taking arms”. Neither is murdering children. Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has been, and still is, abhorrent. But let’s not pretend that rape and child murder are a necessary part of struggle against oppression. Hamas aren’t the only bad guys, but they’re definitely bad guys.
I don’t think anyone is contesting that.
But I think when people say things like “what did you expect to happen [given the Palestinians material conditions]” or even “not all Palestinians are Hamas” all they hear is “Jews bad! America bad!” Because, basically, they’re programmed to.
lashing out
This is soft selling war crimes. Shame on you.
All war is crime.
The real question is can an occupying force claim self defence?
i agree with the general point, but calling people at a music festival an occupying force seems disingenuous.
Who do you blame for the deaths of innocent German civilians during World War 2? I blame Hitler, but it sounds like you blame the Allies for fighting back.
Like many things in life, the answer isn’t “either this or that.” Plenty of blame to go around.
Many deaths because of Hitler, but what about Nazi leadership? When you consider things like the firebombing of Dresden it turns into an even greyer shade of grey.
Considering nuance takes more effort, but ultimately it’s more rewarding than black and white thinking.
FWIW I didn’t downvote you.
I don’t really understand the down votes, so I must not have made myself clear in my last comment. My point was that Hitler and Nazi leadership caused all of that to happen. If Hitler hadn’t been such a monster and invaded the rest of Europe, Dresden would have never been firebombed. Similarly if Israel hasn’t tried to genocide Palestinians, there wouldn’t have been an attack on the music festival.
Horrible things happen during war. The only way to prevent that is by not starting one to begin with. I agree that Hamas has done terrible things, but the blame must ultimately lie with Israel.
All war is crime.
You’re an idiot.
That’s a whole other discussion, but what are the Palestinian people to do under an illegal occupation that aims for genocide? That said, Palestinians are not Hamas, and Israel did a lot to support Hamas to thwart the Palestinian Authority. The history is long and complicated, but I just asked for links, since I have not seen those posts.
Right. Why not peacefully protest? I’m pretty sure that the desperation needed to throw a rock at a tank is incomprehensible to entitled Americans who have never missed a meal out of necessity. There is very little real support for the Palestinian genocide, but a strong false narrative. This article has some descriptions of the day to day struggle of Palestinians living under apartheid.
Chivalry is dead long ago
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My opinion is the legal opinion
I haven’t looked at the lgbt spaces on Lemmy. Are they as bad as Reddit was?
Where people don’t understand what a definition is and say everyone is whatever they feel like that particular Tuesday?
I left so many spaces when they got taken over by people who just wanted to collect labels without understanding what they meant, and instead just morphing labels to mean whatever they wanted.
Mods will be mods… Doesn’t matter the platform. Gotta gate keep those opinions.
Saying Hamas are the good guys is an opinion, albeit a shitty one.
Saying gender studies aren’t studies is just factually wrong.
Pretty easy to see why one would be treated differently from the other even if most people won’t agree with the first
Even if they’re both wrong, aren’t they also both opinions? People can have (an express) opinions that are factually wrong. I think the community should just downvote those kinds of posts instead of them being removed by mods.
An opinion that is just a factually wrong idea isn’t an opinion, it’s just a false belief that something is true
Actual untruths should be removed by mods, they only serve to trick the uninformed into believing false shit. Down votes mean very little, many times someone who’s 100% factually right gets down voted because the community just doesn’t like what was said
Yeah but I’d rather not have the mods remove anything - it’s the ol’ “how do we fact check the fact checkers” conundrum.
One instance of an object or subject, can be viewed completely differently relative to your position in space and time. The observations of how something is functioning can be completely different from one observer to another, yet they can both be correct at the same time.
So how exactly do you tell the truths from the untruths without proving intentional manipulation in the first place?
Che confusione sara perche ti amo
Gender anything is navel gazing masturbation, and I’m fucking tired of hearing about it.
So if we arent open to understanding something as important to being human as gender, why not toss out all other fields that also study human social lives. Bye to anthropology, sociology, etc.
Fight hamas, fight gender, so fund gender studies.
fight gender
But I like gender. Some of my best friends are gendered.
Which of the following best describes your gender:
- male gender
- female gender
- fight gender
The first rule of fight gender is we don’t talk about fight gender.
Remember when you could just be fight gender without injecting hormones and cutting your bits off?
Gender studies might help us understand why and how though. I’m trans myself, but I do not like gender. Most of the time, gender is not actually what we’re talking about. I try to replace gender with ability, recognition, variance etc. whenever possible and not erasing.
As it should be.
What is the connection between saying Hamas are right at defending their country and this gender identity study shit, you’re clearly missing something.
