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Congratulations! You just had a run in with DJM/Universalmonk/BarryGoldwater/ I lost track of the rest of his alts.
I suppose I should count myself lucky that I haven't heard of/experienced this dude before, what's their deal?
UM used to post a ton of conservative bullshit, then would get offended when it was downvoted into oblivion, then would go off on unrelated rants and would message people heinous bullshit. We're talking posting and commenting like it was a full time job. That account got banned, and he created a bunch of alts on other instances to get around it. It was always suspected that DJM was an UM alt, and then was confirmed when he posted one of UM's rants word for word. Once you know what to look for it's pretty obvious. Most of the accounts I know of were created on the same day, have the same style of weird AI created avatar (pretty sure they're made using the Dream app by Womble), and all have some sort of vaguely libertarian sounding quote in their profile.
I think there's a few posts about UM on fediverse lore as well.
That explains why they accused OP of having alts, every accusation and all that.
Lemmy.world has been pretty good about blocking the alts as they come up because they like derailing threads, baiting users into breaking rules, arguing pointless semantics, rule lawyering and/or making everything about themselves.
What’s the evidence these are the same people?
I was thinking more about this today. Why would I have two completely different personas on opposite sides of the political spectrum? Why would I post hundreds of socialist and pro-union articles, then suddenly switch and post conservative content under another name? What'd be the point?
Why would I go to all the trouble of sharing so much socialist, anarchist, third-party, and pro-union material if I were conservative? If I wanted to post conservative stuff, I could just do it on my main—and I have, occasionally, when I found something interesting.
DMusk doesn’t even post in places I have been banned, so “ban evasion” doesn’t hold up as an excuse either. I wish I would have made these points in all my discussions yesterday.
Notice how this is never answered. There is no evidence, because it's not true. Why interrupt a good Universal Monk hatefest with logic? lol
They hated UM because he spoke the truth.
Actually weren't you around back in the day of the original hate too?! Have I lied any of my responses to people here?! I have always advocated for third-party voting, independent thoughts, seeing both sides of arguments, allowing opposing opinions, etc. All my posts are public!
It used to be, 'Universal Monk is from russia. He posted an article about the Green Party. He's in Putin's pocket. He'll be gone right after the election! Just you wait and see!' One time a guy posted a chart of all the exact times I posted, looking at the time and decided that I was in Russia in the middle of the night, posting shit to match time zones up with Minnesota daytimes and make it look like I worked 9 to 5 or some shit.
Now they're saying I'm conservative and all my thousands of posts about piracy, anarchy, socialism, workers rights, etc is just a ploy! A ploy to...to..... to.... to... Wait! A ploy to rule the world? No. Oh! A ploy to get rich!! No, no one has even heard of Lemmy. Oh I get it! A ploy to spoil the election! Oh wait, election is over, and the number of non-voters far outweigh any third party voters
Oh! It's so I can ban people for downvoting as I cosplay Don Musk. The fuck are people here thinking?! lol
On another account on another instance, I swapped to db0 as I liked the way the admin team handles issues, and is pro-piracy.
I remember seeing your posts and going "This guy is at most egging people on who already hate him." I never once got the idea you supported Trump. You could argue voting third party in a swing state is "Pro-Trump" but if the state is above 60% one party, your vote does not matter on the federal level.
But yeah its just funny people will actively blast you, Return2Ozma, TokenBoomer, EnsignCrab for being right about things, giving accurate quality sources, and then claim because they didn't also go "Trump is evil too by the way" while posting other things, they're somehow single-handedly responsible for Harris' failure at being popular in a national popularity contest.
At this point the people who simp for any political party have been abused into a form of Stockholm syndrome that their favorite out of touch rich person in office likes them more than the other out of touch rich people in office. My area hasn't changed much from my governor or my president. Its still a rural shithole that has only gotten worse due to the people living here and the management refusing to do something. It has gotten worse, but not because of the political party changing hands.
Genuinely is funny that you have entire groups of people who hate you, write scripts to track you, gather logs to "document your evils" of posting things online, and you just keep going on.
GREAT point! Now that you mention it, that is where all the talk about me being conservative started. The problem is, people keep repeating that label without the original context. So when someone sees those comments—without knowing the backstory—they just assume it’s true. Then it spreads. A new person comes along, asks why everyone’s talking about me, and others just repeat the same line. As we are seeing happen in real-time in this very thread.
Really good insight, mate. Honestly, I should’ve pointed that out in my replies, but I’d kind of forgotten where it all started. Still baffles me that people think that, in spite of the fact that I created and moderate Socialist Workers Party communities, started anarchy spaces, and run several socialist groups.
Right?! Even tho the election was several months ago, they're still mad that I "threw" it. Me. One guy who voted socialist, ruined all of America. Hmmm, lets overlook the fact that non-voters outnumbered all of us third party voters by a huge fucking margin. Even if all third parties voted Harris, she would have lost. But nah, fuck that logic. It's my fault! lmao
They never give proof, not even IP addresses. They claim similar writing styles but they aren't similar at all, beyond using the same language.
Edit: Downvoting another user wanting proof isn't proof.
Where's the proof they aren't the same person?
Have you ever seen Donald J Musk and Barry Goldwater in the same room together?
Doesn't matter, because I'm not musk or goldwater. Maybe they are the same guy, I don't care. OP only mentioned the musk mod, so again, off-topic.