Curious if anyone has the original Universal Monk comment handy.
And here I thought Lemmy was too small to have prominent trolls. Thanks for the head's up.
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What do you think was trollish about OP's example? Looks to me like someone was mad that the guy posted an AP News article. So is posting AP News articles considered trollish now?!
Good. Lemmy should not be a safe space for fascists.
sEriOus ConSerVative ComMuniTy
Literally an oxymoron and trust me, I know because I have seen more of it than any of you combined.
It’s mostly all based on: we must make leftist cry. Such seriousness, the very core of it is fundamentally a joke.
No wonder right leaning instance is just shitposts and memes galore. This is basically what modern conservatism is.
No wonder right leaning instance is just shitposts and memes galore.
A conservative visiting lemmy would say the exact same thing. The difference in my mind is that right-wing memes mostly leave me thinking, "No one says or believes that. Fuck you on about?"
Same thoughts I have talking to conservatives IRL. Having only been presented with the most outlandish fruitcakes, they've brainwashed into thinking there are legions of fucking nutcase left-wingers out there.
For left-wingers making fun, yeah, the memes more often reflect what the right actually says and believes.
(Yes, I'm biased, but I try really hard to be objective.)
As a budding radical centrist I hate every cuck winger with equal passion. The left however has some merit to protect the minorities and at least in theory aims to reduce inequalities. The far left are bunch of unfunny idiots however
Internet exclusive breed of far left ohhh these are people that should be branded with red hot iron
radical centrist
So... Half-racist? I'm not sure compromising with bigots is something to crow about.
No. It’s more like hating and bashing everyone equally.
It is a radical oppression of radicalism and rejection of demented idealism that I deliver in short precision strikes to the unsuspecting.
No. It’s more like hating and bashing everyone equally.
I can respect that! You and me are closer in spirit than apart, friend. Lemmy loves to say I'm conservative, but I'm actually a socialist. And I voted socialist in the election. Which is what started all of this and why Lemmy is still mad at me.
Attention Lemmy: Me voting socialist in the election did NOT make Trump win. lol
Jeez, Universal Monk is still at it? Christ almighty.
Monk needs serious help.
Hm, so other bans are going to follow?
For what though? What would you ban him for exactly? Because he was accused of being me?! That's the road you guys are gonna go down?! lol
What's the actual lore here?
Universal Monk was a prolific poster around election time; he had tons of alt accounts that all posted stuff purposely made to divide the left.
After his accounts all got banned for trolling and evasion, he started up the Donald J Musk accounts and repeated the cycle, this time posting far-right fascist content and trolling people with lies, disinfo, and general unpleasantness.
It's been an open secret for a while that they were the same user based on the MO, but apparently he fucked up and reused a comment.
Tbh, it appears to me the guy is in serious mental health crisis. Social isolation isn't great without mh support and tends to exacerbate issues. I'm wondering if it's simply not affordably accessible to them or if it is and they broke so completely they failed to see the necessity. I remember a post they made about breaking up with their gf and that's when the alt-right accounts became highly visible to me.
He also posted about being happily married; there's really no way to know the truth about a serial liar like UM.
Although he has serious "50-something-divorced-guy" energy. If I had to guess, his kids and ex hate him for being a right-wing scumbag and this is how he takes out his anger.
The only thing we need to guess, impo, is he's in serious mh crisis and pushing him toward suicide or mass shooting isn't a solution. Ignore or block should leave him the option of seeking professional help or spiralling of his own doing, not ours.
It also leaves open the option to keep being a racist, transphobic, fascist troll though, which will leave the door open to becoming a Nazi bar.
I understand where you're coming from, but it's not my responsibility to play nice with the people who are attacking the people I love and those like them.
Trolls should be made to feel unwelcome until they change their behavior.
I saw, and was suspicious of Donald J. Musk. Umonk again! What a dweeb.