Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared
Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared
Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared
I sometimes forget just how many tyrants use this platform.
The very purpose of the fediverse is to make censorship impossible as it's decentralized, open source, and easily accessible to all. Meaning that anyone, anywhere can utilize these tools to launch their own platform on their own terms without fear of being censored. This applies to everyone, not just some.
The very existence of this instance, which is clearly just a parody, is enough to send a good chunk of the freedom lovers here to quickly take the mask off and turn into Mao where they want to take down the instance, infiltrate it, and censor it. The fact they can't is proof that fediverse is working as intended. I, for one, welcome people from all over to use the fediverse. Having a social media that's controlled by the people instead of corporations is a big plus for me.
Most people here strongly seem like they wanted a more leftist Reddit.
Bluesky as well, but for X.
The concept of an entirely new ecosystem, free of authoritarian control, escapes people.
Of course we do not all have to federate with one another and share content, but to infiltrate and deny their existence entirely... is just another form of control. The accusation becomes revealed as a confession, now where have I heard that before...?
At some point the division becomes not Left vs. Right but extremist vs. non. Though I admit to lacking a fully matured understanding there as to whether that is justified or not, it's just that I am saying that this distinction exists.
based-pilled take
Maybe we can infect a few and switch them to socialist. We can't kill them all.
Congratulations, you are being rescued! Do not resist.
them: yaaah safe from the censorship of the fediverse
me: defederates
🦀🦀🦀
🦀🦀🦀
Beware of what? It's no different than any other instance and capable of being subscribed to, scrolled past or blocked.
Stop advertising for them and let them have their federated echo chamber, just like the communists, socialists, leftists and others have.
it's kinda funny though
Stop advertising for them and let them have their defederated echo chamber.
FTFY
They're welcome to it.
As far as I'm concerned, this is the entire benefit of lemmy/piefed/etc... They can have their space, and any other instance can choose not to federate with them so we aren't forced to listen to them, unlike the alternative, where an algorithm forces them into everyone's face.
Rather than telling them they don't have the right to speak, we simply have the ability to shut our window and not listen to them.
Let them bitch at each other.
I disagree with them being welcome, if we have more fascists over here eventually we'll get overrun. Best to shut that door immediately.
Them making their own space actually lets us much more easily reduce our exposure to them - without their space we get them everywhere and each of us have to ban such users individuals to avoid their poison, whilst if they're congregated in a server we can just ban that server and/or its forums.
In terms of the NAZI bar metaphor, this is more like the NAZIS setting up their own bar and congregating there rather than trying to take over other bars - everybody else can very easilly avoid even looking at the NAZI bar, much less going there and listening to them spreading their ideology - yeah, by default the sound of their activities does leak to the street, but in Lemmy we're the ones who can chose to close the door, not them.
Compare that with, for example, how the Zionists captured news@lemmy.world and even up to a level the server itself, by seeking moderation and admin positions there: subverting an existing large traffic forum and the biggest Lemmy instance is way much more pernicious than what the other kind of NAZI are doing by setting up their own - easily avoided - corner.
I mean "welcome" in the most generic, passive aggressive Canadian sense of the word. Shutting the door is exactly what the strength of federated/defederated social media is all about.
but I'm on Lemmy.World and I'm too stupid to understand everything.
Thank you, now I love lemmy even more.
And further it ‘should’ help build support for Lemmy et al’s right to exist
Except if you are on lemmy, if another instance user reposts their shit, your instance will get to see that because the devs don't want to completely block their own propaganda.
That's why I moved to Piefed, and the propaganda about my country has plummeted for some reason...
I've always wondered why conservatives insist on coming to the fediverse when conventional networks are more appealing to them and their ideals nowadays. Or is that still not enough?
Ideals don’t matter to them, what matters is spreading their propaganda far and wide.
Bingo. These are the same people who will say that most political violence comes from the left while removing a study showing the opposite: a study about a statistical trend that has been well known and documented for longer than I've been alive.
They don't care. Their beliefs shape shift to fit whatever is most expedient in the moment. They will openly lie to your face, without even trying to hide that it's a lie while they smile and say they're being honest. The people who gaslit the nation about project 2025 only to have cabinet members gleeposting about implementing it on social media.
Truth is irrelevant and reality is an inconvenience. Hypocrisy is as dead to them as the corpse of civility they prop up whenever it suits their narrative.
A lot if it is sowing dissent and breaking discourse as well.
Same reason why tankies don't just move to China, or why some Canadians had Trump bumperstickers: the point is to take over and wield authority as a weapon. Of course they try to invade and pollute every space they can and muddy waters wherever possible.
And they've been incredibly successful in doing so.
When I was a conservative piece of shit, in my younger days, I had the most outlandish bumper stickers you can imagine. Probably more outlandish than you can imagine, actually, 99.9% likelihood. There were quite a few. I knew I was being an ass and I loved when it offended people, because I was miserable. Someone was paying attention to me. I was getting a reaction. I existed! Anyway, yeah, it can be as simple as "they get off on ruining your day cuz they're miserable pieces of shit." Speaking from experience.
Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you are feeling less miserable now.
People can change. Even if that baby thinks they can’t.
Good job being less of a piece of shit and congrats on the happiness. Any advice for helping people out of there?
they want attention, which is why magat are so desperate for trump to recognize them.
"They turned potoooooooo into a conservative!"
Potoooooooo: "...i got better."
They go everywhere because even if a bunch of people are like “fuck off nazis” there will be a few people that are like “oh hey you have some good ideas”.
That’s why they’ve been recruiting online since the beginning of the internet. Capture whoever you can that’s sympathetic and keep bolstering numbers by any means necessary. Worked out pretty well for them
Maybe us commies and socialists need to do it the same way, work against them.
Free platforms like the Fediverse would actually suit conservative ideals of freedom quite well.
If they cared about ideals, that is.
Since when do conservatives follow conservative ideals of freedom?
That's a reason why it won't work - see Reddit's r/Conservative which lists every post as "approved speech only" aka "flaired users only".
If those were the ideals, the Kimmel and Colbert firings never would’ve happened.
thats why they also favor discord too, have thier own echo chamber, and allow adminstrative controls like with facebook, and not having something like reddit ban system hovering over thier shoulders, plus propaganda mods that keep them from speaking out of line(like with r/conservatives)
They need an audience to perform for. When ever you see a social media "safe space" for conservatives (Voat, Truth Social, etc.) they almost always wither and die. They need people to blame for being everything wrong with the world as well as react to their terrible takes, otherwise there's no point in shouting their outrage and anger on the internet.
That's fine. But how do they feel about beans?
Because this place isn't censored for their side, they're trying to break it.
Ideals? You mean diet fascism?
They don't want their own spaces as much as making other people's spaces are theirs too - aka "This is why we can't have nice things"
What's the problem of those right-wing dipshits having their own instance? I'm trying to understand this perspective you all seem to have here.
Someone please elaborate the hesitancy of us accepting MAGA extremists having their own federated community?
Nobody is saying that they can't, mostly what you'll get is calls for defederation.
Calling for defederation is a matter of simply not accepting content or voting from the targeted instance. Everyone has the right to spin up an instance for whatever they believe, but everyone else also has the right to not pass your content through their servers or display it to their users
This isn't to call to shut them down, this is to raise awareness so people can update block lists, instance admins to investigate/check with their users/mods on what they want to do
They can have it. We just don't want to federate with them, which doesn't prevent them from having their own instance all for themselves.
They're totally allowed to, just as we're totally allowed to defederate or block or whatever. The question is why are they here, when they have taken over all the mainstream places and don't really need a federated niche community.
Because I don’t want to interact with them outside of very specific, and sporadic, questions. Their presence is an active detriment to me. Let them go back to truth social.
Because they are trolls whose purpose is to actively harm everybody else. They do not deserve our tolerance.
Why would we want to talk to MAGA assholes who want to eradicate most of the userbase?
They're allowed to make an instance, the software can't stop them. They're not required to be federated with.
Just like how you can say anything you want, you're not required to have someone listen to it, or not have someone speak their mind about it back to you.
Before Trump, the "traditional" social media was likely pushing the Democrats' agenda (like the Twitter files under the guise of more moderation. Now the tactic is being used by the Trump administration just more in the open and in more traditional media (Jimmy Kimmel). Big media is such an easy target for govt influence when it's all ad supported.
I'd bet they see the writing on the wall that the government has too much influence in social media. So this time they don't want to be caught with their pants down when Democrats come back into power. The other thing I feel is on the horizon is the end of the ad supported internet. I've said it before, be prepared to do it yourself or pay for it. I guarantee the guys behind this instance is in the do it yourself camp.
Disclaimer: I am libertarian and view both DNC and GOP as different sides of the same authoritarian coin. Right wing flavored, left wing flavored, both are disgusting when it's authoritarianism.
They're insecure, hateful little twats, and the only comfort they feel is to spread their hateful insecurity around.
(imo)...because the AI/bot deluge is slowly but surely becoming more obvious by the day.
even bootlickers want to feel like they're talking to real other bootlickers
Funny rule
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
Bye.
I hate how maga people call themselves patriots. They are the most unamerican people ever. Everything they stand for is in direct opposition to the America ideals.
They are so immersed in the Conservative Propaganda Machine that they are literally living in an alternative reality from 2/3 of America, and the entire rest of the planet. They have created all these imaginary enemies attacking them on every front, and they think THEY are the ones living real life, and the rest of us side with their imaginary enemy.
And for some reason, the "intelligent" people that we have elected to protect us from such silliness, has decided to pretend that the MAGA nonsense, treason, and corruption, should be respected, and indulged.
Yes I'm aware. I'm a trans person living in the deep south trying to escape. Fuck them.
they are literally living in an alternative reality
Hmm, reminds me of a country that starts with R that the current US president's trying to save.
They have created all these imaginary enemies attacking them on every front, and they think THEY are the ones living real life, and the rest of us side with their imaginary enemy.
I think that their ENEMY is actually poverty, i.e. many people struggle economically to make a living. This is due to the progress of time (automation leads to fewer jobs), but since time itself is invisible to many people, they try to find a material, outside enemy. And that's why they blame (brown) immigration and queer people, because they appeared at the same time (in public, in the case of queer people) as the decline of living standards. So people see that and conflate correlation with causation, and blame these groups.
What's important to me is whether people think about the situation and try to make good conclusions and proposals. What matters to me is whether MAGA actually tries to improve people's living condition, instead of just mindlessly trying to hurt people. If they actually try to improve things, i can talk to them and find meaningful paths forward. If they're just trying to hurt people, such a thing is impossible. So to me, it very much matters why they're doing this. That's what i'm researching, and also how to make meaningful plans that are in their interest that actually bring the country forward, instead of just creating more difficulties.
They remain 'united' through fear. The most effective method to disarm them is to aggressively change their algorithms.
Which is why the opposition should reclaim the flag. It has become a religious fetish to MAGA, and the Left has to take it back, and reintroduce it as a symbol of Freedom, not treason pedophilia, and corruption.
They do the same thing with religion, they try to grift it while being exactly the opposite of what Christians believed in the past. The church has always been against slavery, even in like the 1500s, they aren't perfect, but they are way away from Nazis. In America protestant white Christians poll as the group that hates human rights the most. They are also probably the least likely to help the poor or volunteer in a hospital or something. It's just another grift for their fascist bullshit. Hitler did the same thing. He pretended to care about whatever his crowd cared about. It was all about power and always was.
The best way to defeat a huge baby is to take its blankie and become the baby yourself.
see what you're missing is that they stand for amerikkkan ideals
Most of America has disagreed with them for idk 150 years now.
Nah, truth be told, MAGA is about as American as apple pie. Historically speaking, that is.
Theory vs Practice
Christianity in bible vs Christians
Communism in theory vs "Communists" in practice
Its like every ideology ever. People preach their scripture, but never actually practice it.
Everything they stand for is in direct opposition to the America ideals.
I beg to differ. The "american ideals" are to be economically prosperous, to open and run your own business, to take what is other's (indian land), without regrets or looking back.
What i'm saying is that's exactly what Trump thinks he's doing. He's not actually helping american businesses but he and his voters probably think that's what he's doing. So, the people themselves see it as very american.
The American ideas are freedom, liberty, and justice for all. It's democracy and freedom from religion. It's about rejecting kings and arming the common man.
You should check out the history and current reality of USA sometime.
What is that supposed to mean? America was founded by people who basically invented the concept of human rights as a legal term. I think England had a few rights in their constitution like the right to a Jury trial and stuff. America wasn't perfect. People don't understand that no slavery wasn't really an option before the industrial revolution because slavery was the industry. Not that it makes it okay, just that you'd get conquered by literally everyone else if you didn't have them. This is why every ancient society had slaves. It's not just because they were evil, they were in ways, just like modern humans are in ways. It's that societies which couldn't defend themselves were enslaved themselves or absorbed into someone's religious authoritarianism. Yet there is also ways they are morally superior to us, like, you used to be able to retire, to own land, to warn real money as a normal person that didn't just evaporate away. Most governments used to only have a couple hundred laws at most, now there are hundreds of thousands of laws for governments to tear apart your life with.
We have progressed in ways sure, but also regressed in other ways. Modern humans are monotheistic. Much of the world polices which imaginary God you are allowed to worship. Humans have about as much dignity these days as slaves did in the classical world. Maybe a few more rights, particularly for minorities.
The U.S and France was the first country to actually escape full blown theocracy in 1500 years. The U.S and France were the first country where most people were equal under the law. Yes they thought Africans and Indians were less then human, but it was progress. The U.S abandoned slavery as soon as it had industry, so did Britain and most other countries.
The past 150 years, after the civil war has been a steady progress of states losing power, particularly in America. Your average American for the last 150 years despised government surveillance, they despised even the state and enforcers of the state. They despised taxes. They were almost unanimously in their support for free speech, protest, and free media. Hillary Clinton is the first candidate to even suggest censorship without getting laughed out yet it still cost her the election, Trump is losing much of his support because of the anti American agenda he has, but America has become quite stupid in recent years.
Much of this is because of economic hardship. Psychologists have known for some time that when people are hungry they develop mild schizophrenic type symptoms, like finding patterns where there are none, superstitious thinking, having a heightened sense of fear. This is essentially a way for animals to survive when things get hard. Americans are becoming dumber and more schizo because 40% of Americans don't have jobs, and our country has no welfare, 90% of the country has no liquid of excess wealth. 50% of the country is in poverty. We are entering the phase of hyperinflation. For the past 10 years or so inflation has been around 7-15%. By the end of the year, we will be spending 600 billion on interest payments on U.S bonds, with much of it coming up to be refinanced within 5 years. That is about 1/4 of all tax income, and about 1/8 of the federal budget.
Yet our state is more concerned with mass surveillance, imperialism, mass migration, more taxes on the poor, less for the rich. Maybe things wouldn't be so bad if the rich people of the world weren't doing nearly everything in their power to destroy America, because they hate liberalism.
Why do they hate liberalism so much? Because they see the world as being overpopulated which is true. They see humanity as a mold on the earth, which is also partially true. They hate the old world where the little guy is not being managed. If ever there was a time to unify, it is now. They will use religion or anything else to try to get there way. If you have even a single bit of hate in your heart or a weakness in your moral character, they will use it against you. Any stupid regis belief you have, they will use it against you. The right move right now is to vote Democrat, at least for your own sake, and to try to break up the power of the state and the rich so we can put them on trial some day. They are trying to decide us because people are waking up. They are taking advantage of our psychology and human nature to divide us. This is what I mean by weakness in your morality. Not religious morality. That won't cut it anymore. It has too many flaws, I mean true morality, as you know in your heart what is right. Most people do if they listen to it. This determines the future. The way your neighbors see you. We cannot survive unless we get our neighbors out of this mind control cult of the state. We have to get them to stop watching their propagandists, and eventually we all need to stop voting for their politicians and giving them false legitimacy. It's hard right now because they are going after our basic humanity. Trump is literally trying to classify my people as subhuman and terrorists, but in between voting for Democrats, we need to reach out to our conservative neighbors and tell them, if you can stop voting for them, I can also. If you can see the humanity in me, as someone you are told to hate, we can unify and fight the true enemy, and actually gain both of our freedom.
This is just universal monk jerking themselves off.
I'm so glad we can always rely on Satan's Maggoty Cum Fart for honest and reasonable assessments of situations.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
I can believe that. The shitstain avoids having a life like the plague
They post like they boof meth.
Lol
I’ve noticed a significant uptick in rightist trolls on the fediverse since the devil called Charlie Kirk home. Absolutely nowhere is safe from fascist infiltration for long. Hopefully the half decent instances defederate from those cesspits en masse.
That's because they are fucking bored and have no real personality or hobbies.
There are some original style old school websites that are niche and small that are fine. Too small to be worth the bots' time.
Eg if you like miniature painting, going to a small, dedicated website forum just for that, is more likely to be genuine than anything like Lemmy or Reddit. And truly it is more decentralized.
1 month later: why is our new instance filled exclusively with incels and edgelords and fuckwits?
1 year later: President Trump signs executive order requiring everyone to federate with MAGA
1 year + 1 day later: turns out all instances are running on non-American servers.
Exactly this.
We shouldn't even entertain them. They should be utterly destroyed.
damn, i gotta check out that place later. i wonder how MAGA will interact with the fediverse. like, how can you be anarchistic and bootlicking at the same time?
edit: this is hilarious.
bootlicking: check ✅️
"especially towards Americans"
well, at least this one i can understand. Now i have to think about What the Turtle said to Achill, somehow.
this gotta be a troll account. Why is there an "antifa" community on the https://maga.place/ instance?
Rule 2 seems to negate most of the defining characteristics of the MAGA movement, no?
I think a couple troll accounts sprang up on instance after my post, the actual admin though is seemingly a serious right-winger with all the trimming that entails. But does seem to be allowing those to exist ig for "free speech" lol
"No hate... transphobia..." wow the admin surely follow their rules
I'm pretty sure it's just a joke.
Maybe they're the anarchist equivalent of the ACP.
Probably a meme instance / parody
That's actually a very good joke.
Why would they not just stay on Twitter, Truth Social, reddit or Facebook? Those places are tailor-made for MAGA 🤔
They want to spread their diareah everywhere
In the novel Snow Crash, the residents of the white-supremacist micro-state franchises visit other places because they have no non-whites to attack at home.
is that the Network State that Peter Thiel is trying to build?
There was an SNL skit a while ago with a similar vibe. A bunch of white nationalists having a meeting and one guys describing his vision for a white utopia and the other guy is like "yeah I just got back from Vermont and it really sounds like you're describing Vermont"
They probably get bored in their echo chambers and eventually want to try their five or six canned lines on someone new.
100% a parody instance: https://maga.place/post/2245?scrollToComments=true
Even mention Epstein+Trump like that would be a site-wide shadowban posted on /r/conservative.
It's good though. It's plausibly pro trump.
I can't believe there's this many people talking about an instance with one user.
Debating the big issues here guys.
Hates fediverse, still wants to be part of it.
Exactly!
“We hate the fediverse! Join us on our Lemmy server in the fediverse!”
It's their "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" attempt. We'll use it on them instead.
"Deny, defed, disunite".
Hot take (?):
It's fantastic that there is a branch of MAGA who hates the corporate Internet as much as we do.
MAGA who hates the corporate Internet as much as we do
Or they were too toxic for Reddit and were banned over there.
That's literally how Lemmy got its start - from people who left Reddit not so much by choice, as later waves did, but rather by being so toxic that even Reddit wouldn't put up with it.
Nor too hot or too salty. I'll have it.
And that's how you turn em! Find common ground and work from there.
Doubt you'll convert anyone over the internet. Its only when you meet in person, you can really have the human touch to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8Oxe6OxJc (Bernie visits maga voters and turns them blue)
There's branches of conservatives who fled reddit long before we all did. But then they were all openly nazi too. Voat was one site and I forget what the other nazi reddit clone was called.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Still should defed them immediately
Instance owner is probably a nutjob tho
Yeah, and I dont give the instance long for the world.
safe from the madness and censorship of the fediverse.
Sounds like they explicitly don't want to federate. Unless it's a parody site, I guess.
It's entirely possible it's a spectacularly successful trolling mission by one person.
Seriously, look how many people are up in arms about an instance with one user.
it is a parody seemingly, according to @gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de's comment
Let them federate with Hexbear
I don't even think there'd be that much disagreement.
"Oh, do you hate 'libs' and love Putin too?"
You clearly haven't seen their posts about this instance then.
Or ever actually interacted with them.
Them? Is one guy
We don't know their pronouns.
Probably the same person.
I bet it's yet another joint run by the Internet Research Agency or its successors.
Another hive of pedophiles. Wonderful.
good thing they want to be free from the fediverse, because the fediverse should definitely be free from this shit.
defederate fascists.
Wonder if they know about the Epstein files 🤔
Good to see maga entering the fediverse take away power and capitol from corporations
They already tried to take the capitol...
If I wanted to make a honeypot to get these fucks arrested this is how I’d do it.
we should start a fediverse tv show called fedi-deathmatch and its just 5 ppl from maga.place and 5 ppl from hexbear.net having a debate
I hope they meet hexbear soon
They are the same people. As in bad faith actors/bots
That will be a war for the ages
they would befriend them ala Red Scare podcast out of spite
isn’t this free promotion of it? Edit: idk maybe it’s me but I just deal with these when they appear naturally in my feed
Yea, but it's not like they're going to get a whole lot of conversions from here, probably mostly right-wingers who were already here and a couple troll accounts Lmao
Would probably have been better to quietly report those to other big federated places, so they can defed.
you're also free to block instances that are offensive, as are instance admins can block extemist instances that are disruptive.
Call themselves "patriots"-
Then actively support a rapist that shits on the constitution on a daily basis.
MaggotPlace
Conservatives and their pussy-ass safe spaces.
Pretty fuckin woke, if you ask me
The most idiotic, worthless, meaningless, unabashedly moronic space in the Lemmy universe has appeared! Great.
Does North Korea also have a fediverse instance ?
lemmygrad
Omg that explains alot
How about "israel", saudi arabia, etc.?
I can’t find it. Oh well. 🤷♀️🤣 I won’t subscribe and there’s no algorithm to push its shit on me. And then there’s blocking. They’ll learn!
I don't know how studied fediverse mods are on how the right infiltrated reddit moderation but I really hope you guys know. and that moderator actions are visible to eachother
We have the modlog, all mod actions are not only visible to other mods and admins but to everyone.
Though there definitely could be some improvement and there have been changes made by dessalines to make it less useful allegedly to protect themselves, it still should be able to prevent that kind of shenanigans
good! 🙂
I bet they use Windows
There are more comments in this thread alone than this MAGA site will probably ever host. (Trolls and spammers motivated by this thread don't count 😆 )
And honestly? The biggest takeaway from these comments is how many users don't understand the difference between a protocol and a platform.
An instance of stochastic terrorists. Fantastic.
🤡
Hey I found the OFFICIAL ANTIFA HEADQUARTERS?!?!?
Good, the more people on this protocol the better. If they behave then they shouldnt be defederated. But most maga beliefs are already breaking every rule.
If the fascists behave?
There is already a ton of open fascists on this platform. Our instance is defederated with some but not all of them. This is due to rule breaking behavior
Any guesses on what our "American patriot" friend ArtemZ means by the last character of his name? I've got my suspicions.
ZAMBONI, BAYBEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Sic the tankies on them
let_them_fight.gif
Laughing at the 1 user count
Fuck off with your advertisement, seriously fuck you
I don't think it's particularly helpful to allow it to fester in secret
What instance is that community on
Edit: oh lmao its on maga.place
Wait, what are the 12 things to do before one calls the cops?
Here is copied pasted version
Calling the police often escalates situations, puts people at risk, and leads to violence. Anytime you seek help from the police, you’re inviting them into your community and putting people who may already be vulnerable into dangerous situations. Sometimes people feel that calling the police is the only way to deal with problems. But we can build trusted networks of mutual aid that allow us to better handle conflicts ourselves and move toward forms of transformative justice, while keeping police away from our neighborhoods.
Don’t feel obligated to defend property—especially corporate “private” property. Before confronting someone or contacting the police, ask yourself if anyone is being hurt or endangered by property “theft” or damage. If the answer is “no,” then let it be.
If something of yours is stolen and you need to file a report for insurance or other purposes, consider going to the police station instead of bringing cops into your community. You may inadvertently be putting someone in your neighborhood at risk.
If you observe someone exhibiting behavior that seems “odd” to you, don’t assume that they are publicly intoxicated. A traumatic brain injury or a similar medical episode may be occurring. Ask if they are OK, if they have a medical condition, and if they need assistance.
If you see someone pulled over with car trouble, stop and ask if they need help or if you can call a tow truck for them. If the police are introduced to such a situation, they may give punitive and unnecessary tickets to people with car issues, target those without papers, or worse.
Keep a contact list of community resources like suicide hotlines. When police are contacted to “manage” such situations, people with mental illness are sixteen times more likely to be killed by cops than those without mental health challenges.
Check your impulse to call the police on someone you believe looks or is acting “suspicious.” Is their race, gender, ethnicity, class, or housing situation influencing your choice? Such calls can be death sentences for many people.
Encourage teachers, coworkers, and organizers to avoid inviting police into classrooms, workplaces, and public spaces. Instead, create for a culture of taking care of each other and not unwittingly putting people in harm’s way. If you’re part of a group that’s holding a rally or demonstration, don’t get a permit or otherwise cooperate with the police.
If your neighbor is having a party and the noise is bothering you, go over and talk to them. Getting to know your neighbors with community events like monthly block parties is a good way to make asking them to quiet down a little less uncomfortable, or to find another neighbor who is willing to do so.
If you see someone peeing in public, just look away! Remember, for example, that many houseless people do not have reliable access to bathrooms.
Hold and attend deescalation, conflict resolution, first-aid, volunteer medic, and self-defense workshops in your neighborhood, school, workplace, or community organization.
Street art is beautiful! Don’t report graffiti and other street artists. If you see work that includes fascistic or hate speech, paint over it yourself or with friends.
Remember that police can escalate domestic violence situations. You can support friends and neighbors who are being victimized by abusers by offering them a place to stay, a ride to a safe location, or to watch their children. Utilize community resources like safe houses and hotlines.
Because I feel nice today, I went back to this instance to get the link for you, haven't read it myself: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/may-day-collective-solidarity-defense-12-things-to-do-instead-of-calling-the-cops
Look at this way; Fediverse becomes even more popular
1 user
Instance binned!
thanks.
Good call!
Admins: ArtemZ
Forgot to switch from personal to work account? :D
In all honesty, let them have it. Let them out themselves, let them put it on record. Let them burn themselves for the future.
That's how it always begins. I disagree. Fascists will never peacefully claim a place or burn out. They need to be barred and removed.
I say we collectively defed from them.
Okay, I agree. I reflected on my original statement today and changed my opinion after talking about it with my peers in the real-world.
Meh. I'd rather they have their meeting places out in the light like this than hidden away in the dark web or something.
Just block, defed, move on. No need to feed their narrative of being the last bulwark against the bad guys by dogpiling them. People are allowed to be wrong and you won't change their minds by storming in all righteous at them anyway. That will just entrench them more.
If you truly want to turn them, there's plenty of studies and research done on how to actually influence people and change minds. Some of it is even in leaked classified intelligence agency field guides, which is a fun way to end up on a list!
Also, I think it's a good thing that I sometimes wonder that maybe I'm in the echo chamber. Maybe my mental health is fucked up because I surround myself with angry liberals. I feel like it's almost good to read differing opinions.
I never end up agreeing with them so I guess that's good but questioning yourself is probably good.
maybe I’m in the echo chamber
I always try to have that in mind when I talk to my SO. I usually say "I've read X and lemmy but lemmy is VERY left bla bla". Not to invalidate what I read here, but to be mindful of my sources.
There's no echo chamber when you're surrounding yourself with people that don't want to kill and harass others for simply being themselves. You're not in one.
Fascists on the other hand, are certainly in an echo chamber.
So are they not part of the fediverse if they don't link up with other instances? 'Cause if not, then all they're saying is they censor things too because they are part of the fediverse...
Aaaand blocked. Thanks for the heads up!
I also ended up doing the same thing, because I refuse to do business with an organization that would support clear-cutting of forests, especially those located on the east coast of the land down under that are known to have koalas inhabiting them.
Eww gross.
Cut the cancer out
The US just can’t seem to get over the Confederacy.
I think we failed in the re-education process and should have adopted something similar to post WWII Germany and crushing out nazism.
That's because we didnt hang all the confederates.
We had a reconstruction program as well as military governors in a handful of States down there after the Civil War, grants was pretty checked out and his administration was super corrupt, and his successor in the 1876 election, Hayes lost. They had those military Governors send competing slates of electors saying they won and there is a big brewhaha and it was decided they would allow the Republicans to steal that election with Hayes as president for ending reconstruction.
What is the actual instance so we can avoid, block, etc., please?
maga.place
Oh, I found it too. Thanks.
gross.
I went to maga.place and it's so edgy! Some 13 year old is having a good laugh at their own jokes.
I know it's brand new, but as of right now it seems like a waste of time to even talk about it.
Could be a different story a week from now, but until then who cares.
yes but also, never underestimate a fascist's and troll's malice
they'll always try to infiltrate everywhere, and upon being asked and their stances exposed, they feign ignorance and will leave the discussion if pushed far enough... but they will always try to seize the room.
we should report, defederate, and give them no publicity except for among mods willing to defederate with the fascists.
Begone, goose stepper
Is there a handy list somewhere to defed from? I don't expect them to gain any traction unless they had an existing user base before, but would be nice to keep communal running tab.
Artemz... feel like that name is familiar...
Sounds Russian to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artyom - it is. And the Z in their username is actually capitalized. Hmm, I wonder why.
i wouldnt be surprised, since r/cons is controlled by russian mods.
It's certainly of Cyrillic descent but I mean that name in specific, perhaps from Lemmy or the Fediverse? Or... fuck were they the guy who made a fake STALKER multi-player port as a scam?
There's a community on my home server, hoping more fascists come here... Of course, all posts are locked, and only approved posters can contribute to their "Free Speech Home" lol.
I thought they already had a few instances: Reddit, X, (Un)Truth Social, FB, and soon TikTok.
I like Untruth Social lol
That's like a leftist trying to start a clique on truth social lol
At this point, they’ve become another flat earther movement.
Cut it out
Hmm. Where’d I put the popcorn?
created by a lad called Artem — what’re the odds
Hey, I hope Lemmy.zip federates with them! I sometimes listen to the tankies, I don't see why I should not read the fascists as well.
1. Stand MAGA for. Make ass great again ?
Or "Minors always granted access"
Make America Great [Depression] Again!
Make America Go Away
Per number 3, sounds like it's welcoming to counter culture
Get it crossposted to !fediblock@lemmy.dbzer0.com