Same. There has been a man in Texas apparently using one of my early Gmail accounts for tons of important things for a decade at this point, to the extent that I know his name, address and phone number, and could definitely gain access to his cell phone and car insurance accounts if I wanted.

I know he doesn’t have access to the account, and I see all of his e bills and password reset attempts every few months, so I’m not really sure what his problem is. I kind of assume it’s an elderly person who pays for things with checks and doesn’t notice that he can’t access any of his online accounts, and then occasionally the kids try to pay a bill for him and try to reset the account passwords but can’t.

So if you are reading this, Mr Alvarez of Waco TX, don’t worry - I’ve got you covered and your greedy kids won’t add lines to your cell phone plan on my watch!

But I want to discuss politics and worldnews. I’m just not allowed, because wrongthink.

Literally spoken as a leftist who has gotten bans for not being a Maoist bootlicker. My accounts with this name across multiple instances are the on a short leash for daring to question ML dogma.

And you’ll eventually get banned from it for not praising Stalin hard enough

This attitude is a very slippery slope, unfortunately.

Open source devs being in a parasocial relationship with their projects uwu

Stories like this really mess with my sense of reality, knowing how easy it would have been for a handful of people to insert this kind of written history into a few places as a joke.

I feel attacked

It does seem like your goal here is to limit what other people can see, rather than curating your own individual experience. Do you believe that I should have similar influence on what content you are allowed to interact with?

Why do they always send the poor?

My experience with hexbear has been pretty fucking far from them knowing political theory, outside of one very specific niche they can kind of articulate as long as you don’t ask them to reduce any of it to fundamentals or first principles.

As far as I can tell, their one trick is quoting books they haven’t actually read, assuming nobody else has read them either. I’ve literally had this same interaction three or four times at this point, over books which don’t say the things they think they say. Like multiple people arguing that some Chomsky work supports their orthodox ML theory.

You can literally get them to argue against the works they are trying cite by quoting them. It’s amusing for a bit, but then it’s just sad.

So are you saying that China didn’t abduct a child in an attempt to exterminate Tibetan culture? Surely there is no way to defend such things and this should be a very easy thing to condemn?

Bolshevism is pretty fucking far from benign considering it is the origin of authoritarian leftistism.

It is trivially easy to find examples of them wanting to nuke the US or kill all liberals or defending Soviet and Chinese pogroms, etc. I don’t understand how that’s really any different from saying “kill all Jews” or advocating for slavery tbh. As far as I can tell, the line exists because edgy redfash are mostly marginalized so nobody takes them seriously?

Meh, I don’t really find the open mass murder fetish benign at all. I don’t care what color your fash is, it’s still abhorrent.

I’ve had like three accounts banned from .ml for saying, among other things, that the US revolution didn’t involve kidnapping children. Trying to have any world news discussion here is completely impossible, and that’s one of the more active areas on Reddit. No wonder people try out lemmy and then bail.

That’s how it was originally. They spun lemmygrad off to an entirely different serve because they made a halfhearted attempt at going mainstream, which seems to have lasted about 5 minutes

ml seems to be coming a bit unwound. They have been super ban happy lately but enforce the rules very unevenly. Hexbears can post pig shit gifs, but citing mainstream political science gets you banned pretty reliably if you do it under the wrong gaze. It really is starting to look more and more like fediverse cancer.

I’ll allow it

I bet I’ve spent more time in China than you have.