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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
  1. I greatly prefer not interacting with these shitheads at all. As far as I'm concerned, these troglodytes are welcome to their hole. If I was offered "Never get another MoG-worthy screenshot again, but you also don't deal with MoG-worthy shite on comms where decent human beings freqeunt", I'd accept it in a heartbeat. I don't go to tankietown without an extraordinary reason, in the same way that I don't go to Stormfront. I don't even want to go to observe the animals, man, not even as a lark. Not for any concentrated period of time. I just want them to stop shitting all over my floor. A half-disbelieving scoff at an occasional screenshot in MoG is about all I can muster. I have enough fascism to fight in my life without adding these red-painted ghouls.

  2. I can grab stuff off Lemmy ez.

  3. It's less a plea to you specifically and more an open-ended grouse about tankies being treated with kid gloves by nearly everyone here due to the influence of the Lemmy devs, and the recurring fear of getting shafted in support if you oppose their grotesque ideology.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Alright, that's done.

Genocide denial is my red line. I'm a sympathetic ear to people talking positively about communism but when it becomes attempts to justify or dismiss mass murder I get The Rage.

In practice this is hard to enforce because I avoid places where they hang out so these days I don't see much of it.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Like I said, it wasn't necessarily meant as a request to you specifically so much as an open-ended grouse. But I definitely legitimately appreciate that you take the issue seriously.

Hopefully, Piefed will be the future of the Fediverse.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Yep, understood, but I agree strongly with what you said so took action on it!