Happy to have provided a little amusement while I did! o7

Your reliance on hostility, bad-faith caricatures, and aggressive profanity to “win” a performance is why I blocked you in the first place. By setting up a false binary where any attempt to discuss specific historical structures is automatically labeled a “noble savage” trope, you created a framework that leaves no room for actual historical specificity or nuance. There was never room for a genuine conversation.

“By setting up a false binary”

Excuse me, but you were the one who fucking opened up with

What ever intertribal conflicts happened, they never reached the level of disease spread, displacement, and systematic violence aimed at cultural erasure

Which is utterly and completely wrong on its face, and doubled down on it by vaguely asserting ‘culture’ as a reason why it didn’t happen, despite the ample evidence of intertribal displacement and systematic violence aimed at cultural erasure.

I’m sorry that you’re still clinging to notions of a ‘noble savage’ that dehumanize Native Americans in the hopes of providing a neat and comfortable foil to colonialist atrocities. I’m also sorry that you don’t know a single goddamn thing about Native American cultures beyond this noble savage caricature.

You never attempted to discuss specific historical structures, you dismissed a vast amount of historical evidence that any student of the Americas beyond the high school level would be aware of. And, on top of that, you blithely regarded the position as fundamentally not culturally chauvinist to insist that a particular culture engendered pure and noble virtue, unlike those other, evil, colonialist cultures.

Thinkers who argue that culture is not merely a passive byproduct of an economic base, but an active, creative force that shapes human behavior and historical outcomes on its own terms.

Which does not actually address the issue that your assertions had, nor my objections. Since my objection wasn’t “Culture doesn’t affect anything” but rather “These are all things that quite verifiably happened, and the core reason for them not happening on a larger scale is material, not moral or cultural,” especially as your incredibly unserious assertion was on a vague ‘Native American’ culture, as if there was such a monolith, even just within the continental US, wherein the only real commonality was a chalcolithic or pre-chalcolithic level of material technology. India and fucking pre-Iron Age Germania had more in common than that.

I have a lot of rage, tbf, but it’s not why I wound down participation. I wasn’t tired of arguing or overwhelmed by shitheads on the Fediverse - I’d mostly kept to places that shitheads didn’t congregate at by the time I left Piefed.

It was basically just a policy disagreement with Rimu over admin/coding stuff that affected my experience as a user. That’s all.

When my user experience got more irritating on a technical level and promised to stay that way, I decided that I didn’t want to deal with it and couldn’t move all my communities again. It was just exhaustion.

On the Old Place I was never more than a lurker and occasional commenter. I only ran the comms I did because the Threadiverse lacked alternatives, and I didn’t want the only topics I cared to comment on to wither for lack of activity.

I’m sorry that you took so much offense to being called out for an argument that blatantly contradicted its own premise?

Ok, but this is good actually, there’s a lot more accounts voting a dozen times a minute for hours than people actually reading a thousand comments a day and responding accordingly.

By Rimu’s own data, there were about five users who were above the ‘cap’ of 240 a day. None of which he suspected of being bots.

Sorry that you can’t do basic math, or understand that an upvote is precisely so one doesn’t have to type a response.

Zionism is when you think Israel is a pariah state. How interesting.

Funny, I remember you swearing up and down that I would support the war on Venezuela when it happened. How did that turn out?

Fucking idiotic, the way people projected their ideal enemy onto me.

I can get along fine with just about anyone, dog, human, etc so long as they’re not demanding I share their exact perspective on every country in the world and denouncing me as a fascist otherwise.

Cute way of describing Uyghur genocide denial.

I often defended anarchists as comrades, but I’m not one myself. Plenty of good anarchists on the Fediverse. I’m sad to leave them.

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You don’t know what fascism is, do you?

Palingenetic ultranationalism, accompanied by a totalitarian and repressive state apparatus, including genocide of ethnic minorities, isn’t fascism according to you?

I guess genocide is just good praxis if it has a thin coat of red paint.

Must be while you’re not fighting Trump.

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I’m sorry you think there’s something wrong with reporting genocide denial. But considering that you spend much of your time as an .ml admin removing anyone who doesn’t bootlick fascists, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

And last time I checked, PJ isn’t a transphobe.

Or a Zionist, but if fascist bootlickers didn’t have lies, they wouldn’t have anything.

“Supporting Nazis is when you acknowledge and oppose genocide” isn’t a new one, but every time a fascist bootlicker like you trots it out, it always astounds me all the same.

Rebuilding comms is the hard part. Building a userbase so posts aren’t being shouted into the void. It takes months of activity.

Maybe you can convince the UN to re-open the case they closed on the matter.

You mean this one?

Keep simping for the regime that stonewalls UN investigators; after all, bootlicking is all Nazi scumbags like you know how to do.

Typically people leave after saying goodbye but ok.

Imagine going to a farewell party and being surprised that the person leaving is attending, lmao.

And then you reply and we get into the whole thing where I keep asking you to provide a shred of evidence to substantiate your beliefs, and you reply that one must not test our Lord God the State Department and that blessed is he who believes the US government without having seen and skepticism is the tool of the devil, blah blah blah.

Cute, considering that you’ve been in numerous disputes on that matter, and were provided with reliable sources which you rejected as “Adrian Zenz” despite the fact that the vast majority of the evidence provided in said sources had nothing to do with Zenz.

But hey, genocide deniers aren’t here because you listen to evidence. You’re here because you’re fascist bootlickers who love the slaughter of minorities, as long as it’s by ‘your’ camp.

So, for both of our sakes, I will now block you again.

Don’t know why you felt the need to announce that since pretty clearly blocking me is apparently meaningless to you, but okay.

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I’m just wondering what the statute of limitations is here. Are you still gonna be in your farewell thread next week? Next month?

I’ll probably check up intermittently as long as it’s active, and when it’s inactive, I won’t be here. Sorry that you think it’s regulated by some law?

Don’t worry, I’ll block you again soon. I know you can’t resist engaging with me.

Cute coming from someone who unblocked me specifically to engage with me. :)

I responded to your dogshit any time I see it, regardless of whether or not you had me blocked, so I don’t know what you think that blocking me changed, lmao.

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