P_K was always trash. When he went on one of his “Marx is wrong!!!” sprees on the sub, a bunch of users pushed back and surprise, he hadn’t read capital, couldn’t seem to accurately describe value theory, got mad that people quoted Marx at him when trying to explain shit, and generally refused to listen to attempts to present critiques of mainstream economics.

Now he’s actively promoting neoclassical theory and pinning what sounds like borderline georgist shit with land value tax (I’m not punishing myself by watching this video).

READING BOOKS IS HOW YOU LEARN THINGS IM GOING FUCKING CRAZY AT THIS STUPID BULLSHIT

People avoid these questions because they can be divisive.

No, it’s because organising requires a set of more specific questions that need to be asked if you want meaningful answers, and contexts in which someone might encourage you to “organise” in general are not the same as specific questions about what to do in a specific area or at a specific time.

What’s actually happening is people are incapable of understanding the difference between general encouragement and specific conversations and debates. Now it looks like people want to have the same insufferable pushback against “read theory” but against encouragement to organise, which will be weeks of unbearable discussions and bad faith arguments built around strawmen so people can dismiss those who generally encourage learning and action.

“You’re common” Ah, so it’s bad to be common then? We should look down on people who we might refer to as “commoners”?

Is the person who wrote this a fucking feudal lord?

Bad faith accusations of transphobia based on downvoting alone, in order to defend an objectively dumb and overbroad moderation policy, is itself shitty and undermines actual action to tackle transphobia.

Nobody learned anything from several years of bad faith accuastions of anti-semitism I see. The mods of LabourUK used fighting anti-semitism as a way to repeatedly imply users criticising Israel did so specifically because of actual or latent anti-semitism. This lead to people being repeatedly being banned for trying to push back on “labour is institutionaly anti-semitic”.

Assuming opposition to this policy inherently shows transphobia, when literal trans users have been banned merely for downvoting the announcement thread where it is declared innately transphobic to think this is bad policy, is bad faith dogshit on par with the moderation I saw in places like LabourUK.

“Any disagreement with this policy is inherently transphobic” - someone who doesn’t realise they’ve made my point for me.

Sorry I don’t have blind trust in the moderators and admins here, because leninism is thinking mods can’t be bad.

It’s as much Nathan’s responsibility to be willing and capable of actually engaging with Marx and Marxist works. Instead he’s quote tweeting randoms to say nothing else except “old books bad”.

That the 30% of productive ants are weighed down by 70% of non-productive ones, or that a small minority of ants assumed to be more productive deserve most of the rewards. Randian/Fascist shit.

Literally one of the main features of Lemmy that’s meant to make it better than reddit is a public modlog where a reason is meant to be listed for a ban, with the username and the specific post for which that users was presumably banned. In other words, transparency was meant to help make this place even just slightly better than reddit.

Voting patterns are not public. So now the reason being cited for bans is entirely private, and outside of obvious shit like someone with the username “transhater88” being banned, cannot be checked or verified by anyone else on the site. It also depends heavily on inference, i.e. the private discretion of the moderators and their assumptions about a particular users reason for downvoting e.g. anyone who downvotes the stickied thread is automatically transphobic, despite multiple trans people saying they’re not comfortable with the policy and those users having had their accounts banned.

Good job.

595 of them were kerry posters.