Also @liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works must be a UniversalMonk alt account because their Jill Stein shill comments are bleeding through lolol

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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    2 days ago

    For those who are interested in learning about some of the truth of Ukrainian nationalists, and how they were involved in Euromaidan and how Putin spun them up into something that was (a) Neo-Nazi and (b) definitely super important for politics in Ukraine:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Sector

    They currently have 0.00% of the government in Ukraine, and they don’t even like involvement with the EU, they just hated Putin’s involvement enough to get involved with some pretty EU-aligned politics in Ukraine which then eventually won the revolution.

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This reeks of protection money. At least Joey and Paulie were smart enough to wait for Vinny and his crowbar to leave the bodega before asking for a payment.

  • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Gosh, you guys are really paranoid about seeing me everywhere. LMAO

    I have no clue who liyunxiao is.

    I didn’t vote for Jill Stein. I voted for Rachele Fruit.

    Thanks, friend! :)

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Yeah. Usually, the bullshit accounts I do not block, because I think it’s worth talking with them and sort of shining a light that they are bullshit. At least for a little while. UM is different because he’s extremely upfront about being bullshit, so there’s nothing to prove by the interaction.

          There’s this weird kind of Stockholm-syndrome-by-proxy going on with Lemmy’s moderation. The old-school system was that the operators of the network were supposed to make sure it was going to be free of overt crap, and otherwise, let people do what they wanted to do. It turns out that there are a couple of technical features that make it pretty difficult to do that on Lemmy (bad moderation tooling, easy and anonymous account creation, distributed nature of the system making it hard to take a global look at certain types of abuse). But, there are technical features that make it really easy for moderators to enforce a weird little space where you have to be “polite” to everyone at all times, no matter what, and often also where only certain types of opinions that line up with the moderator’s opinions are allowed.

          And so, that first thing doesn’t happen as much as it should (although TBF they do filter out a large amount of crap), and that second thing happens all the time.

          • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 days ago

            distributed nature of the system

            Not a flaw, but a feature.

            In fact, that’s the principle of the fediverse: no one person or group controls everything, thus they cannot control the narrative.

            Thanks, friend!

      • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        replying randomly to one of my posts, using an alt I haven’t blocked yet. Dude has problems.

        So lemme get this straight. You name me in a post. And you are mad because I randomly replied to another post on another instance. And that means I have problems?

        Say wat, mate?

        Feel free to stop mentioning me in your posts if you are so annoyed with me, friend. Thanks!

      • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal!

        Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart’s on fire!

        If you refuse me, honey you’ll lose me, then you’ll be left alone, oh baby

        Telephone and tell me I’m your own!

    • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Wouldn’t it be fun if I had a bunch of alt’s? You know, spreading myself out amongst usernames so that you would never know where I was?! And that it would all be a direct result of you guys trying to silence me?

      Maybe you all should have just ignored me rather than try to silence and ban me! Sorta like, you ended up creating me because you provided me the inspiration to talk more and talk louder! Wouldn’t that be ironic and fun?!

      Yes, that would be fun. But no, the I am not NiteOwl.

      Thanks, friend! :)