Hi again,

Ok, so good news.

The user has agreed to delete the comment in the morning (it would be 3am for them now as they messaged me about an hour ago) so that should also give Mr Kaplan time to restore it.

So if you check in about 8-10 hours, hopefully it will be deleted.

It will need to be restored only so that the user can delete it themselves. I have asked them as their instance admin, so I anticipate they will comply. We will need to give them a reasonable amount of time to respond though.

I think this is the only viable way to get this done easily, given the way federation works, so I think we should give it a shot.

Just a quick update. This is more complicated than it might seem at first glance. I spoke to a couple of other admins including Mr Kaplan from LW and apparently the only mechanism in Lemmy to federate out a removal of a modlog entry is for them to restore the comment, and then have the OP on anarchist.nexus delete the comment themselves.

I have reached out to the person who posted that comment and asked them if they are willing to delete it. If not, then I think the only alternative would be to reach out to every single federated instance admin to purge the comment manually. And I don’t like your chances of reaching them all. This particular scenario has not been catered for yet in the software, unfortunately.

So, I am just waiting to hear back from the user. If they agree to delete the comment, then I will contact Kr Kaplan again to have the comment restored, and it should then be deleted shortly after that by the OP.

It’s not harassment when the mod is a known ptb. It’s just that most instances actually respond in good faith to criticism. Whereas LW just doubles down every single time on behalf of the ptb mod.

There is no such difference when the nation state you are supporting is full of genocidal Zionists.

A deeply moving piece.

On what basis, mf?

I’m honestly embarrassed by the comments on this post. Is this really the best advice we can offer a newcomer to Lemmy? This internecene warfare between instances is not doing us any favours.

If enough public toilets were actually provided, this would not be a problem that needs solving.

This seems like a CLM situation. Those comments should be restored. There was no misandry here.

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Krishnamurti

tldr - price

It was the UN walkout. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-netanyahu-united-nations-gaza-1.7644362

So the argument is that identity politics has effectively supplanted class politics? I think it’s perhaps a factor if not the whole story. But I don’t think they are mutually exclusive. It’s just that the Dems decided to focus on one and not the other.

Seems like a bad call to me too, PTB. I’ll reverse the ban.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26473218

It’s because Goat and PugJesus are continually talking out of their arses about our instance, and completely misrepresenting or just straight up lying about what we say. PugJesus even somehow managed to arrive at the conclusion I am a “genocide denier” after I posted the comment below and banned my account from all his communities. He’s been malding for weeks over his 1 week temp ban on db0. He’ll never be over it, apparently. And despite us peacably coexisting with him for years, suddenly we’re all “tankies” just because we called out his toxic bullying towards one of our users. Those two have been flaming all over lemmy about our instance for weeks now. PugJesus even set up not one, but two, personal grudge communities to whine about being moderated, in addition to dozens and dozens of invective-filled bad-faith posts. It’s funny how none of them had a problem with dbzer0 until PJ had a meltdown, right?

To be clear, if I haven’t been already, I 100% condemn China’s actions towards the Uyghurs. Is it technically a genocide? Depends what definition you’re working with, but to my mind it meets the definition.

Apparently the above statement wasn’t clear enough, so I’ll reiterate. Yes, China imo has been committing a cultural/religious genocide against the Uyghur’s, as they have done with Tibet and will likely do to Taiwan at some point. That sucks. And yes, all genocide is bad. But as the libs love to say when they are talking about the Republicans, you gotta consider which is the worse partygenocide and where to focus your efforts.

The Chinese aren’t dropping grenades from drones onto groups of innocent Uyghur civilians, shooting teenage boys in their genitals, or bombing their hospitals. It’s more like an authoritarian version of cultural assimilation. And no PugJesus, that doesn’t mean I’m denying or even minimizing what’s happening there. But to say the nature of the two genocides is the same just because they share the same label is a brain-dead take. It’s like saying the Falklands War was the same as WWII. I mean, in one sense that’s true, because they were both wars, but in a very obvious sense the scale and level of harm was much higher in one compared to the other.

That’s the point I was making about Gaza. Yet repeatedly, whenever the Democratic party’s material support for the genocide in Gaza is brought up, all the turbolibs can say is “what about the Uyghurs?” as though that’s some sort of gotcha. But on this particular topic, the Democrats are not the lesser evil. Biden had every opportunity to stop this genocide and chose not to.

And see the following link for evidence of more recent Democrat complicity in Israel’s genocide https://anarchist.nexus/post/538. The Dems will never stop supplying arms to Israel unless all the existing party leadership is kicked out.

You can’t polish a turd—as the saying goes—but you can sprinkle glitter on it.

Well that was an uninspiring read.

At several sessions, a leader of the donation portal ActBlue shared a “fight song” that the party could adopt, putting its lyrics on screens so that the crowds could sing along.

D-E-M-S, we rise!
Stronger together — blue skies!
Lift your voice, we’re bold and true,
Onward, Democrats — We shine blue!

So what I’m taking away from that is they stand for aviation? and being loud, shiny and blue? Checks out.

Thank you for your service.