It wasn’t a hostile discussion or anything, i didn’t even go full “the kulaks deserved it” (although the mod that single-handedly banned me did go full “the kulaks did not deserve it”). I just laid out plainly and calmly that revolutions are inherently authoritarian, that Luxemburg said “the revolution will be as violent as the ruling class makes it necessary” and that there’s one Trotzki quote i 100% agree with: “If the October Revolution hadn’t succeeded, the world would have known a Russian word for fascism 10 years before Mussolini’s March on Rome”. Basically the whole “Jakarta Method” train of thought laid out clearly and without calling anybody names.
Note that this was on an explicitly left-leaning server that does not allow cops and troops to join. Also after several days of another poster starting destructive, aggressive bad faith arguments in the politics channel until a number of users went “disengage” on her and the channel had to be frozen until recently, when she immediately started being hostile and arguing in bad faith again, which got her not one, but two warnings from the same mod without further consequences. Meanwhile, when i defend AES without attacking anybody, that’s apparently too much for her to handle. No advance warning, no “sis, you’re talking to me as a mod here”, not even a notification that i got banned.
The best part is that according to screenshots a friend just sent me, she’s now completely going off about “authoritarians”. The nerve some people have.
Sorry for posting pointless internet drama here, i just needed to vent.
I have trouble letting shit go when I see it online but more and more I’ve gotten used to simply picking my battles when I see shit that Id isagree with that I know I’ll get written off as a tankie if I speak up about. I’m active in a few servers and none are really satisfying to me. The one with a mostly ML admin team has… other problems and the rest are either just like the server you describe (“left leaning” but filled with “anti-authoritarian” brain worms) or worse are outright liberal. I just avoid politics altogether, or only discuss the stuff we agree on. I value the social engagement too much I guess.
yeah that’s probably for the better. idk, i knew this mod has Dune-sized brainworms, she’s called me out for “internalized transphobia” in the past for quoting Leslie Feinberg. She’s a total bellend, an absolute dingdong, a neverending wellspring of bad takes. This wasn’t our first discussion about communism vs her liberal carricature of anarchism, and she seriously told me last time that tankies want to put her up against the wall. That person just can’t be trusted, yet she’s the most active mod on one of Germany’s biggest trans servers, and by far the biggest one that does not tolerate chasers, transmeds and similar scum. It fucking hurts to have the door to that slammed in your face like this.
Yeah its a shitty situation. I know a few trans people who are radlibs like you describe. I maintain friendships with a few by just… not talking about geopolitics lol, and a couple others have cut me off. Never been banned off of anything though for it thats pretty shitty.
she’s called me out for “internalized transphobia” in the past for quoting Leslie Feinberg
No, seriously. Because Feinberg has this terminology where she uses Man / Woman for gender identity, masculine / feminine for gende role and performance and male / female for biological sex characteristics. And talking about biological sex even as a reified, constructed cluster of properties that have zero bearing on your gender identity is apparently transphobic because terfs talk about biological sex too much.
That there’s a difference betwen properly understood biology and the naive biologisms and the bioessential determinism of terfs is completely lost on this person. Like, she doesn’t get that. I’ve tried to explain it and she called me out for ableism and classism in response to that. Fuck i hate her so much.
