I had to ask around and it’s a discord server he had (still has? unsure) to try and “coup” prolewiki and take control of it.
I’m guessing, knowing him, that since he made a meme about it it’s still alive. We’ll be more careful about letting in new editors then. He can’t even keep a secret project secret lol
No it makes sense. 4channers are contrarians at heart. Their white supremacism comes from a different place than liberals.
Both MLK and Malcolm X talked about the white liberals and how at least with the openly racist conservatives/fascists, they knew they were an enemy, but the white liberal would look like your friend until he stabbed you in the back.
At heart we have a fundamental difference in that 4channers are contrarians and liberals (which include trumpists) are followers.
The 4channer would totally say the same things and even worse if the government supported Russia over Ukraine. Let’s not forget they committed their share of shootings too.
Edit: and that’s my problem also with these “the worst person you know just made a great point” or “broken clock is right twice a day”. Every time you say that, you cede ground to fascists, comrades. Every time you see that happening is an instance where we could have been there saying the same thing from our POV, but we didn’t.
Fascists are never truthful, they only ever twist words to get what they need out of them. If we let them be the face of the anti-war movement, then that’s what they will become. And anti-war people will rally to them.
Yeah to be clear there are some specific use cases for VPNs. Torrenting has never been a problem for me though (never once got a letter) so I don’t see myself paying for a service that doesn’t seem to add any value to my internet browsing. In fact getting websites switched to Japanese or whatever because I use a VPN sounds more like a negative.
All VPNs I have found in the imperial core are imperial-aligned and they only have servers there. NordVPN, despite being headquartered in Panama (the place that the US invaded to build a canal so, yknow), has no servers there.
Like ProtonVPN free only offers servers in the Netherlands, USA, and Japan (you unlock c/alwaysthesamemap if you pay for it). If you want privacy those three countries are exactly those you should not connect in.
Oh that was an issue back when Lemmy came out too. You can make a report on the git: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues if it’s not there already
I should note the host is implying this is a disturbing idea, although his arguments are not very pushy or convincing. I’m sure he’s a huge lib though (I know the host, he’s nationally famous in France, just didn’t ever care to read into his politics). But sometimes they’ll do that to let the guest dig themselves into their own hole of arguments, and also French TV is different to US TV, hosts have to remain fair (like they used to in the US before Reagan)
He isn’t being very difficult thankfully. He clearly lacks the technical skills needed to actually be a pain, and so the most he can do is make alt accounts and write articles that nobody reads.
So if we didn’t have to worry about him, we wouldn’t have to wonder every time someone requests an account if they could be a wisconcom alt and that’s probably it. At this point while he is a stalker, he doesn’t really feel like one. More like a slight nuisance. You just deal with him and then wait for him to reappear. Everytime he does you’re surprised he’s still trying but then you just learn to have fun with it.
Trotsky would have been insufferable if the internet existed in his time. He would make twitter threads after twitter threads tagging the CPSU every time lol
To clarify something though, hoxhaists are not all blanket-banned, neither on lemmygrad or prolewiki. On prolewiki we only ever banned two hoxhaists, wisconcom and another one like 2 months after the project was started.
I have to clarify that I’m not taking revenge on him per se. What I am doing is countering his lies about us. For example, he’s currently editing a leftypedia page about prolewiki and spreading lies after lies (right after they resurrected too, he has no shame). So I’m in contact with the admins over there to explain the situation.
Really I just want him to stop smearing the name of prolewiki everywhere, and so everywhere he goes I follow and tell people about him and what he does.
So far he’s on leftypedia but if he goes to other spaces, then I will follow too of course.
He also tried to pull this stunt on rationalwiki a while back but they quickly had enough of him and banned him lol.
On that same leftypedia article, he showed some screenshots though (that might be photoshopped, who knows), but I have no idea where he got them from. He says it’s from his blog.
Yeah, pretty much what Gopnik said. There’s so much to go through I could write a book on it. There’s some history here https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Prolewiki (scroll down to Internal conflicts) but it doesn’t even begin to cover all the shit he tried to pull.
Not as funny for the thing I was going for. I just think it’s funny to quote someone as just saying “You liar!” lol.
But I wasn’t sure how to convey that correctly. Since Wisconcom also likes to pretend we doctor screenshots to make him look bad, I didn’t want to just delete the blackened part either.
Thorough vetting processes that are more like interviews and establishing a close relationship with people you want to give authority to. Also note things they do that raise suspicion, for example wisconcom’s liberal stances on China were known (it was a whole thing on lemmygrad too) and he kept editing the china page on prolewiki for his hoxhaist nonsense. Eventually we put a moratorium on it just for him.
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