Thanks for the reply and for being so accommodating. I like the designs, but I'm a bit undecided about it and kind of leaning on the side of not allowing the advertising or selling of products. But how about if we just ask the community whether they want to allow these lefty sticker posts here or not? I'm happy to go with the majority opinion.

Simple poll: Please upvote this comment for "Allow" or downvote for "Do not allow"

If you vote to allow, please comment what you think is a reasonable frequency of these types of posts.

Hi OP, concerns have been raised that you are are posting in the community to advertise stickers that you sell, rather than posting memes. If you want to make an argument for us allowing these posts, please do so below so we can make an informed moderation decision. Thanks.

I'm with you on this one Dessalines.

The issue for me is that you were the one insisting that it was "arrogant" of certain Spanish speakers to have the temerity to consider themselves American by virtue of living in The Americas, just because the USA enjoy cultural hegemony in the English speaking world. I guess if all you want to do is reify US cultural hegemony, then go for it I suppose. But English isn't a static language and cultural hegemony isn't unchanging either, it is constantly being contested. In the context of the US renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I do feel your position comes off as a bit racist even if it wasn't your intention. If all you were saying is "this is the commonly understood meaning of 'American' in the English speaking world if you exclude any additional content", then I agree that's true. But you can get there without claims of arrogance and without excluding the possibility of differing interpretations.

YDI. Seems like a really dumb take. AFAIK to many folks (not from the USA) North Americans are from Canada, USA, Mexico combined with the Central and South American countries, they are collectively known as The Americas. Everyone in the Americas is American in the same sense that all Africans are African despite there being many countries. The arrogance of USAsians co-opting the name of the whole continent of The Americas as though they are the only country that matters is kind of mind boggling.

I guess, do whatever fits your budget and/or conscience? I don't think we push a particular philosophy. Folks pirate for different reasons.

Agree with all of this.

I'm not protesting the ban, which was I suppose reasonable as you have described, though a simple removal would have been appropriate imo. I'm protesting the rule. I think I was fairly clear about that in the original post. I've commented elsewhere in this post about why I find this rule highly problematic, so I won't repeat it all again here, but the attitude that it's ok to protect religion institutions from fair criticism in the name of civility is what leads to church abuses in the first place.

If you want an established rule changed, you go about trying before breaking the rule. That’s just common decency in a forum.

Dude, have you ever tried speaking to LW mods about why their rules are stupid? The only thing they ever respond to is user protests because they dont like how the majority of their own users think.

It's literally the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Catholic church tbh :(

I agree with your assessment, but in my view the moment we start shielding religions institutions from proper scrutiny and criticism, that's exactly the sort of thing that enables and leads directly to church cover-ups of child sex abuse, for example. In a functioning democracy, religious groups should have no special privileges beyond what applies to civil organizations.

They’re calling Luigi supporters tankies because… The middle/lower class cheered for the worst of the bourgeoisie being taken out???

I know right, these mods are such social conservatives. They have no idea what the majority of their users think, or if they do, they disapprove of it. It's such a condescending attitude of "we know best".

ok let's add that to the list of remedies

I think the threat of a sanction still qualifies.

great cliffhanger ending tfkirp

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im ready to see the magic

Hi @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz, just letting you know we have a no Xitter link policy (see: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36484194), so if you could please remove or replace the xitter link with an xcancel or archive link, that would be appreciated.

There's a fantastic blog post about the development of the new TSforge method here: https://massgrave.dev/blog/tsforge

Definitely worth a read if you want a behind the scenes look at how exploits are developed.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36071456

Lmao, go for it!

Edit: let me know if it gets removed from LW :p