• RoomAndBored [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    GarbageShoot appears to have gone to decent lengths to respond to your comments in good faith, including linking to threads that address your questions. Instead, you reply you’ve ‘glanced at it’, then divert back to moaning about how people are dog piling you. Then, you close your most recent comment by saying you’re ‘engaging earnestly’ with OP.

    We didn’t come down in the last bloody shower mate, you deserve every drop of the PPB.

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      1 year ago

      I read GS’s thread, what do you want me to say? I have more personal, firsthand experience with China than anyone commenting there? I have family there? I speak the language? I have an actual stake in Chinese society? I think we’ve seen conclusively that none of that matters if you do a wrongspeak.

      GS even admits that the brigading is obnoxious then goes on to defend it. Like I said, this is well beyond my ability to truly care, I was just really hoping that lemmy would be a place people could discuss these topics instead of just trolling, and then having double standards when someone else gently pushes back.

      Edit - improper pronoun

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        GS even admits that the brigading is obnoxious then goes on to defend it.

        Dogpiling and brigading are two different things. Brigading is (at least loosely) coordinated, dogpiling is something people do when they are there, coordinated or not. The algorithm just happened to put this thread near the top on Hexbear, which is only federated with a handful of instances, as can be seen by the fact that I was the very first person to comment on it (next was op, then myself again, iirc). It is categorically false to my knowledge that this thread was “brigaded,” a bunch of people with similar opinions on this issue just all saw the thread.

        And it is obnoxious, but “obnoxious” doesn’t mean “evil,” especially when you were speaking so derisively about the people you had to have seen made up the bulk of the thread when you made your first comment. Honestly, what did you expect? In most political communities you’d get a very similar reaction, and I’d prefer a single emote to a “Crimes of China” copypasta filling up my inbox.

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            Scare quotes are used for discussing definitions, as in, uh . . . “socialism” is not “when the government does stuff”. I was not meaning to convey that you used a word that you plainly did not, just highlighting that me agreeing to something being obnoxious does not mean agreeing to it being seriously wrong (which in common parlance might be called “evil”).

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        Again, learn what federation is or go back to reddit. No one is “brigading”

        You also can’t say you were pushing back when you were trolling right out the gate and every other comment is in reply to you.

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        We’re all concerned about cross-straits stability and peace, and we all have varying stakes in it. That does not detract from the point that the original article is misleading at best.

        Your original comment addressed neither the topic, nor those of the linked thread.

        Rather, your original comment bemoaned ‘brigading’ (a non-concept on a federated site) and then provoked respondents with ‘You seem upset’.

        This isn’t ‘wrongspeak’, this is no zuo no die. You demonstrated from the outset that you weren’t willing to sincerely engage with any replies, and the replies matched your tone and manner accordingly.

        I’m gunna go trim my pubes now, have a good day.

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