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I didn’t care enough to do more than a brief investigation

Apathy and lack of curiosity towards people who think differently from you is a virtue, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. Never change, Phil.

You missed the “/s”?

No. I understand your sarcasm. I'm confused by your sincerity.

Why do you think the OP mistook SLRPNK for Democrats?

I didn't think you were asking sarcastically. But I don't think you're serious.

You're attacking SLRPNK for being covert Republican operatives when you're simultaneously commenting in another YPTB thread that's calling us out for being covert Democrats. I should not have to do this much hand-holding with someone who genuinely wants information. The answers are right under your nose, but it benefits your grandstanding victim complex not to see them.

You used to be mozz@mbin.grits.dev, right? Ponder.cat's stylesheet looks nice. How does Lemmy compare to MBin from an admin perspective?

Ask this guy, I think he can guess at least one of them. Remember to tell him anarchist admins are the real authoritarians because we support our community moderators, and that we're bad for letting people into our space to use it for political propaganda, because they are making a pretty thin and implausible claim to being on our team.

I don't need to agree with someone on all points for them to be "on my team" - a diversity of politics, experience, and opinion is a strength, not a weakness. @mambabasa represents themselves, and in so doing elevates anarchism as an ideology that celebrates the lived experiences and politics of diverse sets of people.

@mambabasa and I differ in that he has often taken the line that !anarchism should focus on outreach while I have suggested more action be taken to prevent it from being dominated by non-anarchist voices. His gentle 10-day bans are a compromise between our divergent visions for the space, and a measured response to all of you as a group dog-piling on him in the now locked thread.

SLRPNK is an intentionally both an international instance, as well as an ideologically diverse instance. We give a lot of autonomy to moderators. Despite being administered by anarchists and having a significant membership that identifies as anarchist, we expect our anti-fascist moderators to follow the politics of their conscience rather than toe a particular anarchist line. Solarpunk is an internationalist movement, and should not be dominated by any one country or culture.

These two goals sometimes create tension. A significant portion of our international audience is from the United States, and some SLRPNK moderators have filled their community feeds with Democratic Party propaganda. I guarantee @mambabasa does not want Trump to win, and criticizing the hypocrisy of liberal politicians and the losing proposition of elevating electoral politics above direct action is not an endorsement of fascism.

Mambabasa’s posting history at the time I looked at it started with:

• Kamala Harris = genocide
• Kamala Harris = genocide
• Democrats = party of genocide
• Kamala Harris = genocide
• Democrats = genocide
• Greta Thunberg quote
• “Elect the Democrats” satire
• “Vote Democrat” satire
• “Vote Democrat” satire
• “Vote Democrat” satire
• “Don’t think, just vote” satire
• “Vote Democrat” satire
• “Don’t think, just vote” satire

His meme posts exist in the context of a local feed full of United States election centered news in what is supposed to be a haven for internationalists and anarchists. They're a reminder that anarchists are not edgy Democrats, and if that idea is offensive, you can unsubscribe and block !anarchism and !notvoting@slrpnk.net. Other people existing who don't share your politics and have their own spaces should not be so threatening to someone with confidence in their own ideology.

Thank you @db0. I co-mod !anarchism@slrpnk.net and administer on SLRPNK. I also support @mambabasa's moderation decisions.

This is a valid reading of the subtext. It puts the amoral and implacable collector bot in a more appropriate context as well.

It still has the solarpunk message that the modern world is headed for disaster and we will be forced to change whether we are prepared for it or not, and it doesn't celebrate the authoritarian aspects of the human society that serves as the underlying antagonist.

The process of going "mainstream" is typically when the political ambitions of the movement are stripped away while the aesthetics become defanged and made 'appropriate' for popular consumption. This isn't a victory for a counter culture movement, it's capitalism wearing a corpse of another ideology as a fashion statement.

For example, wearing an Indian warrior costume to a dress-up party doesn't get first nations any closer to getting their land back.

I just saw the title and assumed it was talking about The Wild Robot and was confused, the movie did really well.

The plot point that listening to animal sounds will decode a generative grammar is obviously fantastical, and it's a relatively basic fish out of water/found family story. But the world hinted at taking place in the background is absolutely fascinating. Extreme weather events on a disrupted planet, large-scale rewilding, advanced robotics in the service of agriculture, and geodesic biospheres drop into the story without exposition or explanation. Perhaps it gets away with its radical messaging because it remains in the subtext.

But have you considered the fact that yes?