FlyingSquid is a Zionist who actively censors content critical of israel. In the past this was using false claims of anti-semitism but after acquiring mod powers he has started banning anti-israel posters.
After acuiquiring mod powers on /WorldNews FlyingSquid bans me by making up lies about defending the usage of child soldiers which never happened:
Recently he tried to defend himself by lying about it
After being called out for lying FlyingSquid pretends to act in good faith for a little as if he was just confused that day. Let’s see what happens when we play along:
When pointed out the he was lying the crybully instantly paints himself as the victim who is “about to be insulted”. FlyingSquid is clearly trying to bait an insult to use as an excuse for a reban:
Despite not being insulted, the crybully still claims he was. The Zionist victim complex is a sight to behold. He now demands to be acknowledged for his abuse of mod powers likely hoping to bait an insult:
After failing to ragebait insults the Zionist crybully “changes is his mind” and starts tacking on random extra conditions as an excuse to reban me. He now starts demanding acknowledgement for how amazing he is for falsely banning people.
At this point it is very obvious FlyingSquid has no intentions to unban me from WorldNews and is just trolling:
Subsequently he lies one more time in his ban description.
Edit: JordanLund has joined in and claimed that if you support any action of a group or individual, you fully support every action that group or invidividual has ever committed. Meaning that anyone who supports Joe Biden forgiving Student Loans actually supports the Genocide in Gaza and is a Zionist.
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This fucking lie right here should you get permabanned alone and I hope it does. Lying that everyone you disagree with supports genocide makes you a completely unreliable and unserious person and that’s why you get all the hate you do.
It’s actually under active discussion right now. We’re waiting for more mods to wake up and see our sidebar. Both Squid and I have recused ourselves so if the banhammer does come down, it will be from uninvolved mods.
Now the cat is out of the bag, I am the one who put it to a vote. I came in to this thread to see if I could get Linkerbaan to at least apologize for actions/words, but they are more interested in “winning” the argument.
Right now, it’s not looking good, but we need quite a few more people to vote to know for sure.
I hope they do the right thing. This person is deranged.
It’s the problem of the self radicalized single issue voter. It can happen on the left as easily as on the right. The problem is we really don’t have any effective ways of piercing such radicalization.
Honestly outside of screaming that everyone that disagrees with them is a Zionist. Or the houthi thing. I don’t strictly disagree with much of what they post. And nobody likes the tone police. But it’s simply a fact that at some point any of us can become a bigger liability to our cause than an asset. Passion is great. But passion without logic or rationality will always be a liability.
That’s the thing that kills me too, if Linkerbaan and I were to sit down and talk over dinner, I’m sure we’d find we agree on more things than we disagree on. It’s just those few things are like nitro glycerin for him.
Yeah, probably 80% of their posts are good information that should be spread. But the posts and constant comments about how everyone who disputes anything they say “loves genocide” or “supports genocide” show that they aren’t really in touch with reality, and their frequent calls to not vote for democrats, blind to how much worse trump was/would be, makes me want them gone from my feed.
They are doing damage. Literally acting against Palestine’s interest, convinced that they are helping (I assume they really believe so anyhow) and should continue being terminally online, posting and commenting every waking hour of every day. If nothing else this dude has a deep rooted obsession, even if they weren’t accusing 90% of the world of “loving genocide”.
I 100% agree and have told them as much to their face several times. They’re doing more harm than good. Unfortunately that just gets them screaming more, often. And this one may be the worst. But they’re not alone by a long shot.
The worst of it is whether their intentions are good or bad. They are using this presidential election cycle and the candidates as a shooting range for their grievances. Rather than dealing with the congress. And getting Congress people elected that would actually make things better. My State lost a pro Palestine Congress person recently. New York did as well. And part of it is a lot of the propaganda but also the tone around the people pushing back against the propaganda. When you lash out at allies or potential allies when they give you slight pushback. You’re definitely doing it wrong.
Linkerbaan is just constantly trolling instead of participating. There are plenty of people on .world who are able to express how the situation is despicable without the same deliberate bad faith.
Yes I have to give it to the mods they’ve been handling this well. Linkerbaan would like for the mods to lash out at them etc. In some way to justify their tantrum. I was there for the thread yesterday that linkerbaan started this with.
Flying squid was calm and mature throughout the whole thing. Linkerbaan acting like a teenage edgelord drama queen the whole time.
I take it that it was decided to not only not permaban him from the instance, but to reverse the ban from the world news community?
I understand rules cannot be perfect but I really despise that someone can be allowed to knowingly lie like he does. He shuts down all useful conversation immediately with an accusation he is wholly unconcerned with the truth of.
I would like to think the “you support genocide” line being said over and over would mean that if it were my instance, I would nuke his account from orbit. Nothing could be less “civil”. Naughty words shouldn’t be the main basis of judging civility. I get that it’s hard to mod, but also Linkerbaan has gone pretty far to show us that he has practically no good faith in any discussion.
TBH, I’m not sure. I checked out for some personal stuff last night. Not sure where it stands now.
I see. Today, he’s started a renewed line of attacks on Democrats. Latest of which involves the lie that Trump and Biden/Harris are now aligned on Israel.
This exact shit is why I can’t take Linkerbaan seriously. Anybody who remotely disagrees with them is immediately branded an evil Zionist genocide defender. Even if they agree with their other points. Keep up the good work calling them out whenever they do shit like this.
Are you saying Jordan has never defended voting for Biden?
I’m saying they should encourage voting for Harris, Biden previously, if nothing else ,for palestinian interest. This is not “supporting genocide” in the least.
If anyone “supports genocide” it would be those who act in favor of a trump victory. We all know he would be far worse for their sake and for everyone else’s sake.
What’s unbelievable is after almost a year you are still pretending you don’t know trump would be FAR worse.
And in this comment specifically, you’re pretending that I’m claiming who they “defend” is the lie, vs the neverending “supports genocide” line of ineffective tripe.
No but Jordan states that support that if you defend anything a person or group does, you unconditionally support everything have ever done.
Just like how saying the Houthis Red Sea blockade is good means that you defend the usage of child soldiers.
It’s like you are 100% are describing yourself. Conversations with you go like this:
you: “Biden is funding genocide!”
anyone else: “Trump would be way worse, regardless of what Biden has done”
you: “You liberals LOVE genocide”
So why exactly are you harping on the point that someone else behaved (you claim at least) like you do all the time, and that’s what makes them bad? How exactly does this let you dodge the significant fact that trump would be entirely WAY worse than Biden ever was?
I see the classic “don’t respond to the thread and do an ad-hominem.”
Nice “But Trump”. Somehow shoved in there as well very impressive.
If you weren’t simping for Trump, I don’t think anyone would take issue with you. You go to great lengths to ignore that.
What exactly about pointing out your hypocrisy is “ad-hominem”? Hilarious you think you’re immune to your own criticism that you perfectly embody.
You go to great lengths to blame literally every subject on Donald Trump. is Donald Trump a scary lemmy.ml mod?
I have defended voting for Biden, because the only viable alternative is Trump who wants Israel to exterminate everyone quicker.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-israel-pr-hugh-hewitt-21faee332d95fec99652c112fbdcd35d
“Get it over with and let’s get back to peace and stop killing people. And that’s a very simple statement,” Trump said. “They have to get it done. Get it over with and get it over with fast because we have to – you have to get back to normalcy and peace.”
Now Harris is the only viable alternative. If Trump takes office again he will give Israel free reign to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible.
And before you answer - NO - that is not current Biden policy.
Biden believes, sincerely, that Israel has the right to defend itself, same as any other country, and is supplying them with arms for that defense.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/01/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-7/
The problem is Israel, specifically Bibi, is misappropriating that aid and Biden is not calling him out on it publicly.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think your big beef with Biden is that he did say:
“I don’t believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/
But you have to remember, the man is 81 years old. To him, Zionism doesn’t have the negative connotations that it does for you and me. He means it simply as “Israel has a right to exist and a right to defend itself.” Which is echoed in all his public statements.
You are not understanding the argument.
FlyingSquid banned me under the false pretense that supporting any action means you support every action of a group.
Supporting this ban means you agree with this logic.
Thus following your logic: if you support Biden you fully support every action, statement and Genocide he is complicit in.
This is your own logic talking here not me.
Biden is NOT complicit in any genocide. Full stop. Never has been.
Biden is certainly complicit in this genocide. While finally putting a ceasefire through the UN Security Council, the US repeatedly veto’d previous ceasefire proposals. For the last ten months the US has regularly supplied Israel with Military Aid and Weapons, knowing full well that they will be used in Gaza. Biden has signed off on all of this. He personally considers himself a Zionist, and has been for a long time. Ethnic Cleansing or Transfer of native Palestinian people, is central to Zionism. Seen repeatedly in the West Bank and previous wars on Gaza. Biden has not pressured Israel to accept the ceasefire, regardless of how many war crimes they regularly commit.
None of that means vote Trump, Trump’s support for Israel will always be way stronger than Biden’s. He would certainly accelerate the genocide. I was still an advocate for Biden, and now Harris, for all the other reasons why their Democratic administration would be magnitudes better on most domestic and foreign policy. Showing support for them and also to the anti-genocide protestors aren’t antithetical either. Harris has a great opportunity to move to the left on Israel and gain huge support in critical States for the election.
Maybe you could try to get all of this through to the incorrigible Linkerbaan?
This is his thread, hopefully he reads it and agrees.
The two-party system in the US has always been terrible. FPTP makes us focus on voting against the opposition instead of voting for what best represents our interest like a Ranked Voting system. During elections are one of the few times where public pressure can push our representatives toward policies that reflect the will of their constituents. The sentiment that demanding more from your representatives is tantamount to voting for the opposition, is a reactionary position. Americans aren’t used to even Democrats changing their policies in response to public pressure. The overt fascism of the Republican party during this election cycle has galvanized the Democratic party to be more representative, and hopefully that continues on issues like Palestine and Immigration. Those will be critical for some of the critical swing states
Thank you for the balanced comment.
I was surprised at the comment above, as you pointed out it seems quite clear that the US and Biden aren’t actively preventing Israel’s attacks.
Considering the misinformation and false accusations you share here- I’m surprised you haven’t been banned from the entire platform. The mods are FAR too patient with you.
My thoughts exactly.
Your comments defending the Houthis are still up in the thread that got you banned:
https://lemmy.world/post/17703619
Specifically, I think, this one:
https://lemmy.world/comment/11259752
@Linkerbaan
9•26 days ago
Houthis attacking all three imperial superpowers at once holy based.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based
“A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang.”
As one of the other mods of World News, who has personal connections to people who have lived and been abused under Israeli occupation, even I looked at some of the things you posted and went “Yeah, that goes too far.”
You’re obviously passionate on the issue, I get that, but arguing in favor of the Houthis just because they’re against Israel is not a good look.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/13/yemen-houthis-recruit-more-child-soldiers-october-7
That is what got you in trouble with Flying Squid, not because they’re a Zionist.
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So you admit that according to your own logic you are a Zionist and you fully support the Genocide in Gaza?
Calling people you don’t like a Zionist is absolutely in horrible taste.
You treat people badly, you get caught, and you get bans. Hell, let’s let the people decide.
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/modlog/view?target=3867209
TL;DR - you believe you should be able to post what you want, where you want, and attack anybody who disagrees with you by labeling them “Zionist”. Read the rules (and the room) when posting/commenting, and you’ll have less push back.
Now, in fairness, a lot of those community bans appear to have been in error and were reversed. Nobody should hold that against them.
Thank you for this.
Off-topic but how does the modlog work? Apparently I’ve been banned somewhere for extremism but I can’t see why? https://dubvee.org/modlog?other_person_id=4130492
dubv is a weird one. You can ignore that one, as it does it to everybody. I think it’s someone’s self-hosted instance. Being banned there means nothing.
The mods comment was defending israel by claiming the Houthi’s were not blockading the red sea to prevent the Genocide from israel, but because they are just violent bad people.
This alone would not be a problem if Squid did not make up false accusations and banned me when his pro israel claims were challenged.
Just like with the MBFC bot I always support my accusations with evidence. I do not randomly start calling people Zionists for no reason.
Let’s start with that one. NONE of the moderators of !news@lemmy.world are Zionists. Throwing around baseless allegations can only lead to strife. I’m a staunch defender of Palestine, and hate what is happening to them.
We use MBFC because we need SOMETHING in place, and there aren’t many alternatives. There’s no perfect solution, and there are many topics, ASIDE from the middle east, as hard as that is to accept.
(emphasis added) - you love to call people you are arguing with Zionists.
For a person that claims to only attack with facts and data, you really love attacking us with neither.
Sorry to be this guy, but out of those 3 links, only the 2nd one was posted by FlyingSquid, are you sure you posted the correct links (might be a crosspost issue or something)
It very well could be a crosspost issue. Checking…
some were comments, and I grabbed posts. sorry
https://lemmy.world/comment/11732533 https://lemmy.world/comment/10687342
I know get server error. Not a big deal per se, thanks for checking!
Respond to that one. Show me the evidence of me defending the usage of child soldiers as was claimed by FlyingSquid.
I do not care about his posturing and virtue signalling comments.
The behavior of Squid and him lying for israel and crybullying users away which disagree with him debunks your entire
Once again: If FlyingSquid is not a Zionist show me the evidence of me defending the usage of child soldiers.
You don’t realize how arguments work. The onus falls on the one making the claims. Furthermore, I’ve given you chances when the rest of the mods have begged me not to. I believe in allowing all viewpoints to coexist, but you chose to attack the same people that defend you.
I’ve shown you what you asked to see. I sent you articles posted by FlyingSquid doing just that, but if it doesn’t say EXACTLY what you expect, I get “ah ha! but they didn’t say my exact magical incantation!”
Going forward, you’re on your own. You’re no victim. You’re the bully.
How about you explain calling me and the other mods of News Zionists?
So show me the evidence of me defending the usage of child soldiers.
Nope, I never said that, and anyone reading my non-mod comments in World News can see that:
https://lemmy.world/comment/11610979
Your problem is you can’t see how anyone can disagree with you and not be a Zionist.
Your problem is that you fail to use your own logic on yourself, and falsely accuse people of defending the use of child soldiers without evidence.
You are still doing this.
Read my previous comment again and do some self reflection.
I read it, you endorsed them and got banned for it. Sources are all cited above.
Either you are incapable of reading or you do not understand the difference between endorsing an action and endorsing a group.
Did you, or did you not, in fact use the word “based”?
It’s right there in the comment.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based
“A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang.”
Yes there it is Jordan. First definition in the list.
The Houthis attacking an American ship transporting oil from Russia to China and thus attacking all three global imperialist superpowers is an ACTION.
Do you understand the difference between endorsing an action, an actor, and every single action a group has ever committed?
Or are you pretending most users on .world were endorsing “The usage of child soldiers”?
No one supports genocide, except maybe people who actively encourage voting against the only party that can defeat trump.
Because you’re wholly unconcerned about the very real threat that Trump is to Palestinians, your fake ass sanctimony rings HOLLOW as FUCK.
Dude… seriously. What the fuck is wrong with you?