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She's leaning forward like he is made of plutonium and she wants to minimize her exposure and not come in contact with any contaminants

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

It's crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone's just sitting.

Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.

I do think of that mentality "But I don't want to go right, I want to go straight, I'm not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I'm waiting here until that happens" as an American thing, but I guess we don't have a monopoly on it.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

Sao Paulo: AMATEURS

PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

    
                                     EXECUTIVE  
                              (tentative)  
                         Well, Will, I'm not exactly sure 
                         what you mean, we've already offered 
                         you a position..  

               Cut to reveal: Chuckie sitting across from the executives, 
               hair combed down, wearing his Sunday best.  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         Since this is obviously not my first 
                         time in such altercations, let me 
                         say this:  

               Chuckie rubs the tips of his fingers together, indicating 
               "cash." The executives are baffled.  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         Look, we can do this the easy way or 
                         the hard way.  

               The executives are completely blank.  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         At the current time I am looking at 
                         a number of different fields from 
                         which to disseminate which offer is 
                         most pursuant aid to my benefit.  
                              (a beat)  
                         What do you want? What do I want? 
                         What does anybody want? Leniency.  

                                     EXECUTIVE  
                         I'm not sure--  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         --These circumstances are mitigated.  
                         Right now. They're mitigated.  

               Chuckie puts his hands up, as if getting a vibe from the 
               room.  

                                     EXECUTIVE  
                         Okay...  

               Chuckie points to the third executive.  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         He knows what I'm talking about.  

               The third executive is baffled.  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         A retainer. Nobody in this town works 
                         without a retainer. You think you 
                         can find someone who does, you have 
                         my blessin'. But I think we all know 
                         that person isn't going to represent 
                         you as well as I can.  

                                     EXECUTIVE  
                         Will, our offer starts you at eighty-  
                         four thousand a year, plus benefits.  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         Retainer...  

                                     EXECUTIVE  
                         You want us to give you cash right 
                         now?  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         Allegedly, what I am saying is your 
                         situation will be concurrently 
                         improved if I had two hundred sheets 
                         in my pocket right now.  

               The executives exchange looks and go for their wallets.  

                                     EXECUTIVE  
                         I don't think I... Larry?  

                                     EXECUTIVE  
                         I have about seventy-three...  

                                     EXECUTIVE  
                         Will you take a check?  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         Come now... what do you think I am, 
                         a juvenile? You don't got any money 
                         on you right now. You think I'm gonna 
                         take a check?  

                                     EXECUTIVE  
                         It's fine, John, I can cover the 
                         rest.  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                         That's right, you know.  
                              (turns to #1)  
                         He knows.  

               Chuckie stands up and takes the money.  

                                     CHUCKIE  
                              (to exec #1)  
                         You're suspect. I don't know what 
                         your reputation is, but after the 
                         shit you tried to pull today, you 
                         can bet I'll be looking into it. Any 
                         conversations you want to have with 
                         me heretofore, you can have with my 
                         attorney. Gentlemen, keep your ears 
                         to the grindstone.

PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

Zing!

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

I feel like you need to be directing this calming energy at this guy. I'm perfectly calm, I was making jokes.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

And you confused not wanting one user to dominate your feed with "this fuckwqd" "this shitty behavior" "shitty, bad faith action" "Then every single post from every one of these account is very heavily upvoted. Oh, that isn’t suspicious at all" "also an Ai simp" "Maybe some kind of probation could help?" "reflects extremely poorly on lemmy/threadiverse in general that this type of behaviour is tolerated at all let alone encouraged" and so on and so on.

You guys need to chill the fuck out lmao. He's posting stuff. That's what Lemmy is for. I get the complaint about doing it from different accounts if he's going to be a heavy poster of this perfectly normal content he is posting, I can agree with that part of it. But you guys can't be going fucking mental like he's trying to summon Cthulu in the basement and must be stopped at all costs, and then all of a sudden turn around like "calm down bro you're overthinking it's just not that serious" when people are trying to figure out what caused this towering issue about it.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

Well, but multiply that by the number of people who for one reason or another you just don't want to see their content, and then multiply again by the number of instances you have your own accounts on, and I think it's understandable for people not to want it to be multiplied again by some number of alt accounts for each poster.

It just shouldn't be on the individual to have to invest effort every day into that kind of thing. If it's one account, and you just don't vibe with it, then fine. But if it turns into an ongoing project, I do get the irritation even if the amount of effort you're being randomly required to activate at random times is quick and trivial. Like if you just got randomly resubscribed to communities sometimes that you had unsubscribed from, and then had to unsubscribe from them again, that's not a lot of effort to do, but the amount of effort is not the point.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

I don't think he's going out of his way to aggravate them. I think he's encouraging other people to not interact with them and calling attention to some of their bad behavior. I do think that makes sense. Some people care a lot about the truth, and it'll really aggravate them to have people being hostile and dishonest all over their social network, posting propaganda, attacking or banning anyone who disagrees with them, just generally being cocks. They'll want to "fix" it or at least draw attention to it as a problem. That makes sense to me.

Maybe it is a little extra to even care about these weird text-only networks to that extent... but I do get it. It makes sense to me. He's not just doing it for no reason. And yes, that is important in or out of fascism. Having at least one little electronic network where people can talk about these things and not have to be banned or attacked if they say the wrong thing does seem like an important thing, maybe more so the more that truth is under attack on the outside.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

I do feel like there's a legitimate complaint to be had that since you're doing heavy / automated posting, it would be good to pick one and only one instance/user to do it from just to be polite to people who don't want that, and have it blocked.

I feel like all the weeping and gnashing of teeth that OP is doing isn't necessary, since you're obviously not intending it badly, but I do feel like there's a grain of legitimacy somewhere in there.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

Yes, but in addition to the history memes and other good and unique content, PugJesus also isn't a tankie, and sometimes even argues vocally with tankies. cm0002 is the same.

I suspect that's what's actually behind this: Some kind "Mean Girls" effort to damage someone's reputation because they are giving wrongthink to the community. Maybe I'm paranoid. At face value, though, the whole thing of "HOW DARE YOU PUT MEMES IN MY MEME COMMUNITY EVERY DAY ARGBLGRBGLRBG I'M SO ANGRY NOW" makes so little sense that I think it's safe to assume that something else is the reason.

PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

"Hey this guy's a big piece of shit. I can't even tell you what a piece of shit, I'm so angry, he's total garbage, he's the absolute worst and fuck him, we need to get rid of him."

"What? I've never found this specific person you're going after to be a piece of shit. Why do you say that? (specific questions and sarcasm)"

"Woooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww"

You seem lovely lol

(I'm going to take your response to mean he's not actually banned anywhere)

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

You said so yourself: ban evasion is annoying.

Is cm0002 banned somewhere? Are they using new accounts to evade those bans in places they've been banned?

But, like, we are in a “rant” community. The original poster seems annoyed.
You don’t have to understand it at all. This isn’t yptb.

I do feel like if your "rant" is very specifically directed at some other specific person, and also seems factually untrue in a few different respects, then it's worth asking some questions. Just because it's a rant doesn't mean it's exempt from people having a reaction.

Why come to a rant community and be sarcastic and condescending?

Because it's my way of making a point. In some societies, when someone aims criticism and vitriol at another human being, other people are allowed to defend that person or ask questions and see if it's justified.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

Is that what PugJesus is doing? I thought he had one account on lemmy.world and then made one on piefed.social and posts more or less the same stuff from both which is generally pretty benign at least in my worldview.

I do kind of get what you're saying, sure. Overall I think the problem of people making new accounts to get around ban evasion is a serious problem. I even checked out https://sh.itjust.works/ to see what you're talking about, and yeah I get it, there's a bunch of meme posts from cm0002 high up in the feed and I get how that could be annoying if that's not your thing. I guess I don't subscribe to the meme communities, so maybe that's why I'm just befuddled by the idea that someone could be this bent out of shape about those particular users.

That's what's confusing to me about it: There are users on Lemmy who go out of their way to be obnoxious and make it difficult for people to block them, or post content that's malicious in some way. I don't see anyone on your list as being like that. They're just posting stuff. IDK, you can also try out scaled sort which aims to give a more balanced feed without the "big name" communities dominating so much.

I guess I do agree with you, actually, about it being a problem overall people making new accounts and making it difficult for people who just don't want to see their stuff. That's why I asked cm0002 why he's made so many accounts, I kind of get that aspect of it, you shouldn't have to answer anyone's questions if you just don't want to see someone's content. I just don't get where this vitriol comes from about it. Like in the link I showed, he's posting memes in a meme community and then people are upvoting them, and so they show up. I don't get where the "ARGH HE'S RUINING LEMMY MAKE HIM STOP MAKE HIM STOP" part is coming from in that equation.

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

Yeah, me too, I hate when people post things lol

Like every time I see a history picture in the feed I'm like ARGHH FUCK THIS GAH GLU BO and I start chewing the furniture

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PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au 3mo ago

You literally wrote "every single post" in bold face lol