I made it very clear what I wanted to talk about in my first comment.

Yeah I know, and my point this entire time has been that’s not what the rest of us were talking about, so it’s bizarre to see you ignore the topic at hand to divert discussion to yours.

Ironically, you’ve kinda made my point by trying to fight me with zero information to go on.

I find it interesting how much you don’t want to talk about those two subjects. Is that because you support blocking strikes and Israel’s genocide?

Nope.

Can’t help but notice that you haven’t mentioned you dislike child predators once this entire comment chain. I find that very interesting. Is that because you’re on the Epstein List?

Yeah, I totally get it, you’re trying to wrestle control of the wheel to divert the discussion into something you want to talk about instead. That’s called a “Red Herring.”

But look at how red this herring is! How can you deny this?

(X) Shaun!

It didn’t seem like a good faith question so I didn’t bother answering, but it seems at least one person in the shadows thinks it was, so I’ll answer it:

I was thinking of people who think the Uyghur genocide is fake news, the Holodomor was an accident and Ukraine ought to be a Russian territory again, and the DPRK is a wonderful place to live. If you disagree with that on the fediverse, there tends to be much gnashing of teeth from certain people who otherwise make sane political arguments about the biggest evils we currently face, at least in my country (e.g. Epstein Class Bad, Trump Bad, Fascism Bad).

As for your two points, I haven’t met anyone who supports genocide or the blocking of labor strikes, so I don’t know why you thought those up.

It didn’t seem like a good faith question so I didn’t bother answering, but it seems at least one person in the shadows thinks it was, so I’ll answer it:

I was thinking of people who think the Uyghur genocide is fake news, the Holodomor was an accident and Ukraine ought to be a Russian territory again, and the DPRK is a wonderful place to live. If you disagree with that on the fediverse, there tends to be much gnashing of teeth from certain people who otherwise make sane political arguments about the biggest evils we currently face, at least in my country (e.g. Epstein Class Bad, Trump Bad, Fascism Bad).

As for your two points, I haven’t met anyone who supports genocide or the blocking of labor strikes, so I don’t know why you thought those up.

A brief glance at their profile shows they mostly spend their time on the fediverse dropping incendiary comments in politically charged threads; we may never get clarification.

I feel like you over-specific’ed my meme into an apparent attack on me or my position(s)?

“Sorry, too busy attacking political allies for disagreeing with me on a point or two.”

I’d never heard about the em dash until it was used to sniff out LLM-slop, but now I have one more thing I aspire to use correctly in my writing.

I’m definitely not sure on how to use it yet.

No.

I understand your logic but I hate it (and am trying not to hate you).

RESIST

It’s also a snowball effect where they compete to escape the accusation of using ChatGPT or being “unc” or “boomer,” self-policing to ensure everyone writes like garbage.

I was once told “I write like someone who thinks they are good at writing.” That was met with rounds of applause by the people who can’t (or won’t) spell, capitalize, or punctuate anything.

To their credit, communication is a two-way street. If I’m writing such that nobody understands what I’m saying but me, it’s not “good writing.” But it does feel like we’re nose-diving towards Idiocracy and I’m not happy about it.

That and all proper English writing gets you accused of using ChatGPT, because ChatGPT was trained on proper English writing.

It’d be hilarious if this dude went to prison over this, because it seems like he finally crossed from “annoying and unethical but legal” to straight up illegal.

Shitty Piefed dev -> lemmy.world mod -> ex-reddit power mod -> Ghislaine Maxwell

makes about as much sense as

“We shouldn’t have people starving in the streets or paying $35,000 to visit the emergency room” -> socialism -> USSR -> Stalin -> Holodomor

Sure, the links are there, but what a silly series of connections to reach to in order to paint your target as the worst possible thing to confuse the impressionable.