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I liked this short exchange as well ^w

It made me happy. Thank you.

I didn’t memorise the numbers, lol! I just remember there being a surprisingly large number of MAGAs claiming to be American who were outside the US and specifically a lot in Russia.

Xitter turned off the feature pretty quickly, but also a lot of those specific accounts that got outed as non-Americans disappeared thereafter. I suspect they came back with new usernames!

I found the whole thing amusing because I always thought it was pretty braindead to think you were “making America great again” by voting for Trump, who anyone could spot a long time ago was going to be very damaging for the USA, and Xitter accidentally outing MAGAts as foreign actors was a fun example of rightwingers being to stupid to implement their biases without shooting themselves in the foot.

I was only rudely replying to the comment which was oversimplifying a lot of positions as a way to get back at them.

I may be overly aspergic about this, I accept, but please try to say what you mean more.

Instead of “Please define tankie”, why not say “@OP, tankie is a muddy and overused word, please state what you mean by it, and if you don’t have a useful and valid meaning for the term, avoid it.”

Instead of “You’re not OP”, why not say “Wow, you’ve certainly oversimplified a lot of positions there!”.

I’m afraid I’m finding your hidden meanings constantly unsettling. I don’t mind you disagreeing with people and entering firmly into the debate, and I thoroughly approve of the bans you put in place, but I’m finding the indirectness harder to come to terms with.

TBH I’m just tired of the whole semantic circus around muddy words like “tankie”

This is the best thing you’ve said. I found it properly eye-opening because it communicates something about how the word is used that wasn’t as clear in my mind as it is now.

Hey,

:)

Btw, I liked this whole comment overall a lot because it was open and honest, showed me how you feel, made you human and very relatable, and clarified concepts for me. Quadruple win!

I think they meant that the Nazi bots were Russian - Xitter turned user location on and loads of ostensibly American MAGA accounts turned out to be based in Russia!

For some reason I didn’t see your M earlier.

Nevertheless, it now seems like you wanted to publicly have an argument with OP over the use of the term, but instead of directly calling them out on it, you phrased it as a request for information, perhaps in the hopes of trapping them into betraying their prejudices or something.

Now other people started trying to answer your question, which doesn’t meet the agenda you were trying to push and you’re acting like people were unreasonable or silly for answering your question, but you asked it openly on an open discussion forum and in a way that didn’t mention OP and just seemed to be phrased like a request for information.

Being a mod is about moderating discussion, not controlling or directing it. I don’t think it’s about blanket control over who speaks.

(By way of balance, some of the mod actions in this thread have been absolutely spot on, thank you.)

That’s not how Lemmy works. It’s for discussion. If you genuinely only wanted to speak to OP, DM them.