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  • To clarify, there's definitely some outright flaming and incivility in there that warranted deletion, but there's a lot of valid comments and constructive criticism that got removed, too.

    There's no formal rules on this comm except "be civil".

    There is also a fair amount of deflecting in the thread ("I'm not affiliated with the movement, I'm just sharing it") in response to posts that stayed up - I feel like if you're sharing something on your own community, you ought to be prepared to have a discussion about it. You thought it was worth posting, so there are probably reasons you thought that, right?

  • Ya know eveytime I see these I wonder, “how did the Arabs do it?” They actually did something in Egypt. We can’t even agree to take the same day off.

    It didn't do shit. Egypt is a dictatorial police state, the middle east is in shambles, thousands have died for just wanting peace and democracy.

    They fucking used tanks against bahraini protestors. Libya is a failed state. Syria entered a decade long civil war, and tunisia is the only one that had a good outcome[-ish].

    We still live like peasants in autocratic monarchies, totalitarian dictatorships and "democracies", what the fuck is this user talking about?

    But if you are going to do this, you need some amount of leadership and coordination. 50 people losing their jobs as they said is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but it will ruin those 50 people's lives.

    • Egypt got fuck ton of money from USA to restore (their) order. Libya was toppled by the USA. Syria was destabilized and invaded by everyone around it (and the USA)

      • edit: sorry if it wasn't clear, but i was agreeing with you here.

        I was mainly talking from my point of view, how the arab spring went. It was the struggle of the people against their oppressors and they couldn't handle not having powers. Egypt is struggling heavily currently even with US backing, and is ruled by a wannabe dictator. Libya is.... libya, and i'm truly happy that Syria eventually won, despite the hundreds of thousands of martyrs, and dead.

        I blame the UK and france more than anyone for this, since after the Arab revolt they betrayed us, and created a bunch of puppet states with horrible borders (can't forget funding the sauds, handling the balfour agreement horribly and killing the egyptians too) then literally never paid us back for the destruction. Though the US is responsible for modern middle eastern instability too, such as invading Iraq for no reason at all, and "saving" the libyans.

  • I saw that post in my feed and scrolled through all the deleted comments. Checked the modlogs to see what was removed and immediately thought- yeah, that post will end up here.

    PTB for sure.

  • Is it just me or is Imgur completely unusable now?

    • The expandos aren't loading right on Fedia, but I can click through the direct links without issue. I've been using Imgur for a while because it had an easy integration with ShareX. Happy to take suggestions for another image host if you have some though, I'm sure I'm behind the times on this.

  • I don't think anyone's gonna click all those links, matey.

    edit: please check the posting guidelines in the sidebar

    • I could have embedded the screenshots instead I suppose, but honestly I struggle to remember how to do that on fedi sites because I don't do it very often.

      I do have one post among the comments that were deleted, but I wanted to give a more zoomed-out overview of the goings-on rather than focusing on my own comment. If that's not close enough to the desired format, then my bad... If that's not what you're referring to, though, I wouldn't mind more specifics?

      • Unruffled is probably referring to the rules which forbid the deobfuscating of mod names here to prevent harassment.

        quick reminder regarding the embedding: the format is the same as linking stuff, but with an leading exclamation mark:

         
            
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  • The hypocrisy in someone posting about a national shutdown in protest of a forceful dictatorship-

    -then going on to delete most of the comments because they don’t like that they disagree with their narrative is- Well.. you know…..

    • I see things like this all time. It's so crazy they never see that they're doing exactly what they accuse others of.

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