• Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    The hypocrisy in someone posting about a national shutdown in protest of a forceful dictatorship-

    -then going on to delete most of the comments because they don’t like that they disagree with their narrative is- Well… you know……

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      I see things like this all time. It’s so crazy they never see that they’re doing exactly what they accuse others of.

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    Ya know eveytime I see these I wonder, “how did the Arabs do it?” They actually did something in Egypt. We can’t even agree to take the same day off.

    It didn’t do shit. Egypt is a dictatorial police state, the middle east is in shambles, thousands have died for just wanting peace and democracy.

    They fucking used tanks against bahraini protestors. Libya is a failed state. Syria entered a decade long civil war, and tunisia is the only one that had a good outcome[-ish].

    We still live like peasants in autocratic monarchies, totalitarian dictatorships and “democracies”, what the fuck is this user talking about?

    But if you are going to do this, you need some amount of leadership and coordination. 50 people losing their jobs as they said is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but it will ruin those 50 people’s lives.

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      Egypt got fuck ton of money from USA to restore (their) order. Libya was toppled by the USA. Syria was destabilized and invaded by everyone around it (and the USA)

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        edit: sorry if it wasn’t clear, but i was agreeing with you here.

        I was mainly talking from my point of view, how the arab spring went. It was the struggle of the people against their oppressors and they couldn’t handle not having powers. Egypt is struggling heavily currently even with US backing, and is ruled by a wannabe dictator. Libya is… libya, and i’m truly happy that Syria eventually won, despite the hundreds of thousands of martyrs, and dead.

        I blame the UK and france more than anyone for this, since after the Arab revolt they betrayed us, and created a bunch of puppet states with horrible borders (can’t forget funding the sauds, handling the balfour agreement horribly and killing the egyptians too) then literally never paid us back for the destruction. Though the US is responsible for modern middle eastern instability too, such as invading Iraq for no reason at all, and “saving” the libyans.

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            I’d argue it’s both. We’re still under occupation, it’s just both by western countries and ourselves. It’s a miserable truth that we all have to live with, fascism has been alive and kicking in the ME for a century [at least]. I often tear up thinking where did we go wrong but i always remember it’s the same parasites: authoritarians. They’d sell us all into slavery for a quick buck in a heart beat, they cannot be trusted around anything.

            I know it will all end eventually, but that will take decades, or even centuries. All for what? the british wanting to defeat the ottomans?

            This is the worst example of all i can think of, every time i think of him it’s just, what the fuck. Mazen didn’t deserve any of this. Everytime i think of him i want to cry, because i know he is not the only one who experienced this hell. May he rest in peace.

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    I saw that post in my feed and scrolled through all the deleted comments. Checked the modlogs to see what was removed and immediately thought- yeah, that post will end up here.

    PTB for sure.

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    The bastard deleted my comment. All i said was that it looked like a facebook chain post (1 like = 1 prayer, share for jesus).

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    To clarify, there’s definitely some outright flaming and incivility in there that warranted deletion, but there’s a lot of valid comments and constructive criticism that got removed, too.

    There’s no formal rules on this comm except “be civil”.

    There is also a fair amount of deflecting in the thread (“I’m not affiliated with the movement, I’m just sharing it”) in response to posts that stayed up - I feel like if you’re sharing something on your own community, you ought to be prepared to have a discussion about it. You thought it was worth posting, so there are probably reasons you thought that, right?

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      I could have embedded the screenshots instead I suppose, but honestly I struggle to remember how to do that on fedi sites because I don’t do it very often.

      I do have one post among the comments that were deleted, but I wanted to give a more zoomed-out overview of the goings-on rather than focusing on my own comment. If that’s not close enough to the desired format, then my bad… If that’s not what you’re referring to, though, I wouldn’t mind more specifics?

      • Unruffled is probably referring to the rules which forbid the deobfuscating of mod names here to prevent harassment.

        quick reminder regarding the embedding: the format is the same as linking stuff, but with an leading exclamation mark:

        ![alt-text for accessibility](url)
        
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            As far as I can tell, Fedia allows me to directly upload one image from the filesystem (not the clipboard) when submitting a new thread. I confess I was too lazy to open Paint and stitch together all the mod log images. 😔

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          🤔 Deobfuscating the mod name would require me to be an instance admin, right? My screenshots were taken directly from my instance’s mod log. I took that to mean the moderation actions were done publicly (not set to anonymous by the moderator). Since the rule didn’t say “Always censor mod names” I thought I was doing things right. I suppose it’s possible there is an inconsistency in how Fedia displays the mod log, but I do see anonymous mod actions in there from time to time, so I don’t think it’s a case of Fedia not respecting the anonymity settings…

          Anyway, I’ll go back and edit the images in the original post to use the embed format for convenience. (They show up as expandos here regardless.)

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      Your submission in “@[email protected] moderator shares a national shutdown proposal, deletes dozens of comments for being skeptical or critical” was removed for: No badjacketing.

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            Read their comments on that post, then. Right near the top:

            I disagree that the title is misleading, fascism is necessary to the ruling class, and an impetus to the organization of the working class.

            Organizing workers through fascism is still fascism.

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        A failed strike could entrench him more, so it’s definitely important to get all stakeholders on board with a strategy they believe in. The UAW was already working on a plan when they ratified their most recent contract.