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  • STALIN–“Comrade Molotov–the most dedicated to our cause. He should give his life for the cause of the party.”

    MOLOTOV–Coming to the speaker’s tribune completely admits his mistakes before the Central Committee, but he stated that he is and will always be a faithful disciple of Stalin.

    STALIN–(interrupting Molotov). This is nonsense. I have no students at all. We are all students of the great Lenin.

    VOICE FROM THE FLOOR–We need to elect Comrade Stalin as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

    STALIN–No! I am asking that you relieve me of the two posts!

    -Speech by Stalin at the Plenum of the Central Committee, CPSU, October 16, 1952.

    Get back to your post, soldier.

  • I see absolutely no need for this @CARCOSA@hexbear.net. This is just adding fuel to a very silly fire. Granted, it didn't need to be started but also it's very very silly. It would also be very very silly if we lose the top admin every single time something doesn't go smoothly. You probably feel bleh right now, but push onwards and that feel will pass.

    +1 reject the resignation

    I move Carcosa be reinstated immediately as there was no vote on this decision.

    • But we got back the original top mod @TransComrade69@hexbear.net

      • And so we can have both? Both of you have contributed in very real ways to the site over the years. We don't need to have just one top admin. We don't need that kind of hierarchy. Go take a break, do something kind for yourself, take care of yourself, and then hop back on that horse and get back to contributing to this community in the ways that only you can. Nobody is asking for you to step down. We just want to shitpost. Hexbear can handle all of these things at the same time, we are capable of it.

      • Getting tc is great but there's still no need to lose an admin over a comm closure being slightly mishandled. Let's put this in perspective, it's NOT as big an issue as the slop eaters have memed it into and I am a slop eater lol

  • I think this was the first time I've seen a problem with how the site was being managed, so that's a pretty good track record overall.

    I think it would be a shame to lose a historically quite good admin over this.

  • I also really DO NOT want Carcosa to resign 😬😬😬😬😬

    Repeating other sentiments about Carcosa being level headed

    I think self crit at most rather than resignation or stepping back from decision making over 1 "bad" decision. Seems very impulsive considering how many good/correct decisions were made over the last 4 years which easily could have been inflection points to losing the balance of intersectional Marxist interests and degrading the community into a state of decline.

    Based on the last 4 years believe Carcosa should stay an admin and stay in decision making.

  • I've had my criticisms of the way this was handled and of the behaviour of some mods in response, but I think it's a real shame that Carcosa seems to feel the need to step away. Their effort here doesn't go unrecognised and I hope they'll be back, when they're ready.

    It really feels like we've lost one the people who was actually willing to talk to the community, does self-crit, and even admidst the storm was consistently willing to engage. Exactly the sort of person who should continue being one of the admin and mod team.

    • i mean it's a puppetshow version of how real organizing happens, right? an organization flourishes through the efforts of a small number of people who are contributing the majority of the time, effort, and resources, and even if the structure is pretty horizontal or the administrative group is transparent and open, detractors will inevitably focus on how their outsize control and influence signifies that they are separated from the rank and file.

  • I agree. They clearly were trying their best to balance different interests, and were unfortunately put in an unwinnable position. Their leadership has been a big net positive to the site.

  • I disagree with the Inciting Decision, but even more strongly disagree with Carcosa stepping down over it. They have shown time and again that they're an excellent leader and admin, and the site will be diminished if we lose that. A mea culpa about how the decision was made is fine I guess, and self-crit is always great for anyone with any power, but losing one of our most competent and caring admins is not going to make this better.

  • Please do not resign @CARCOSA@hexbear.net. My brief interaction with you earlier this year was overwhelmingly positive and meant a lot to me because I think this site and the associated cytube mean more to me than I care to admit.

    Additionally, these recent decisions seemed to be the initiative of multiple users, and you simply presented their will to us - I feel we have not heard the full story.

    Thank you for all you've done here and I genuinely hope you will reconsider in favor of continuing.

  • Carcosa is what I would consider a Rightly-Guided admin. They've always been responsive and judicious from everything that I've seen.

    We've had controversial policy changes before, even larger ones than this and they're never easy.

    Ultimately I accept the reasoning behind closing dәnk and drec; I think anyone who's that attached to them has probably been engaging with them to a level that can be characterized as mental self-harm. I was talking with a friend just yesterday about how sometimes it seems like we're constantly fixated on people whose opinions we will not change, and have this morbid commitment to locking ourselves in the dialectic of opposition. This is not just rent-free, this is a whole public housing project in our brains.

    Give me one thousand cases of a misguided person who's half-right but stumbles into incorrect conclusions, before even one case of a wilfully ignorant, egotistic Australian college student trying to be edgy while having a 9-year-old's understanding of the world.

    Also I do wish that other people across the lemmyverse would see this instance as a fierce bastion of altruism, like I do.

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