The narrative that Russia has been losing is grade A propaganda.

When you take something like 20% (numbers could be wrong, I don’t have a lot of time to research and most of what I could find were western and outdated sources) of a country and have been consistently making major advances for the last few months, while your enemy hasn’t even broken 50km in a month (again numbers could be wrong). That’s what you call losing, of course.

And, mind you, this peace plan dropped just after Pokrovsk had fallen and Ukraine stopped being able to hold Russia back whatsoever across the front.

-Palpatine’s goal is to create the empire

-How do?

-Have a career as a Nabooian politician and a strong advocate for Galactic Republicanism

-Create a plot to assassinate the Queen of Naboo, when it fails unleash an attempted takeover of Naboo using the Trade Federation.

-When that fails, convince the Queen of Naboo to abdicate the throne and become a senator.

-Convince people associated with the events on Naboo to support your rise to Chancellor.

-By golly it worked.

-Need more power in government

-Get the dumbass Gungan to argue for emergency powers for the Chancellor after you start the clone wars (Galactic Civil War).

-Use the Galactic Civil War to keep prying more and more power into your position.

-Also Use the Galactic Civil War to keep the Jedi distracted, so other parts of the plan can go into effect

-When the Jedi realize you’ve been a sithlord the whole time, because you told the guy you groomed since he was a child, kill off the Jedi and the leadership of the CIS, and declare yourself as the sole leader of the Republic under even more special, even more emergency situations.

-Empire? Created. Jedi? Dead. Hotel? Trivago.

It’s a story about the rise of Fascism.

That there’s a person who’s only familiar with the movies, and flat out does not understand the point of Palpetine’s slow rise to power.

what could they possibly mean? all I see is a fire? Are the liberals at it again?

That is unironically evil.

They probably think it’s the funniest shit ever, but it’s just heartless behaviour. The kind of shit a cartoon villain would do.

They were banned nearly a month ago, and I’ve barely noticed a difference so I don’t think there’s a lot to worry about.

IMO removal of this sort of user just makes the instance healthier, because people are more likely to stick around when they’re not subjected to a user’s reactionary nonsense.

I don’t see a need to remove it, but we could put some new moderators on it instead.

cw: violence

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/526595

I was wrong on the “gore”, but the context of the upset is still there. It’s a picture of a Japanese soldier executing an American soldier with the text “United States is a Chinese Colony”

Their caption was “M8 wtf”, but they failed to include any content warnings or context to the image. So, effectively, they posted sinophobia.

if you look in the modlog, you’ll see why. I was the one who did the ban.

But to sum, they posted an image of a rotund master chief, as stated by someone else in the comments. Then tried to complain about “wokewashing” in gaming, a far-right dog whistle about how the “woke media” is ruining gaming because they… ya know… depict women as human beings, include people of colour, and have gay characters. Specifically, they were complaining about Concord. A game that was released and then instantly pulled from markets because the far-right complained about it.

While I was investigating this, I found that they had a habit of posting/commenting reactionary things without context or reasoning, and getting things removed from communities for it. Including the N-word, sinophobia and gore, etc. That kind of behaviour can’t stand, and it had gone on for too long.

This reads like a man who is grasping for anything.

This reads like a man who is slowly losing his mind.

“woe is me, because we legally gave up our nuclear weapons as part of international treaties Russia is liberating ethnic Russians who we were bombing en-mass. why us? pls give us membership in NATO and turn this into a world war, I promise you’ll benefit”

Everyone gets at least a little bit of nerves.

Try to remember that you’re surrounded by people who will render help if something happens, and any injuries sustained will heal in time.

There’s not really “good” advice to give, because everyone’s different. Take some time to find something that works for you whether that’s a pre-protest warmup, meditation before or after, breathing exercises, ideological or philosophical motivation, etc. Something is going to help you slow your heart rate and keep your head about you.

All of this time they’ve been telling us that Russia, China, The DPRK, etc. are all “paranoid nations”. Turns out, it’s just projection, it’s the west that’s paranoid.

Russia’s main goal in geopolitics is the ending of American dominance in international politics.

To be blunt, if you’re not a Western imperialist, this is something that should not only be supported, but actively worked towards.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that China and the DPRK both want the same thing, and are both willing to work with Russia to achieve it. And it’s no surpirse that the only governments that oppose a multi-polar world are the US and its puppets.

Despite having a capitalist government and reactionary policies, Russia is deserving of critical support.

to be fair, i’m dyslexic and kept reading it as “Transradical”

had my eyes have actually worked, the ban would’ve been sooner.

I’ve gathered enough from our community and the creator’s responses to make an Admin verdict. I’d like to thank the people who commented on this post and on the creator’s posts, it was a great help.

@SocialistMonk@lemmygrad.ml will be banned from Lemmygrad and their communities will be removed. I intended to give them a chance to explain “Transracial” and “Woke-free” and possibly make a change, people make mistakes after all. But they’ve shown a total misunderstanding of the impact that those statements can have. Include their Trotskyist community and the case becomes even more shut. They don’t deserve to be here.

It’s been removed.

If you can provide me with evidence that the !swp@lemmygrad.ml community is linked to Trotskyism, I’ll go ahead and remove it. I would do the google myself, but I’m a little too busy at the moment.

The other is this political one that isn’t just pro-democrat

Why would you think that a community that’s Pro-Conservative (or even just Pro-Liberal in general) would be welcomed on a Communist instance?

It might be suspect, but it’s important to give people a chance to either make their case or shift to our community’s concerns before we damn them.

But I do agree with the “woke-free” part of the concern, that feels like a dog whistle. I will be scrutinizing this account and their communities.

@SocialistMonk@lemmygrad.ml please engage with this post at your first convenience.