comrades, the Protracted People’s War against the liberal hive and haven for bigoted chasers that is lemmy.blahaj.zone has succeeded! blahaj has fallen! or at least fallen off.

really tho, i just checked in on their site to see how its been since defederating. that was only 3 days ago btw! it feels like its been a week lol. their daily user count has fallen by over 1/6th since defed. and while this could be attributed to less traffic during the work week, the posting situation there is abysmal. in the past 24 hours, 78% of the posts came from c/196, making it difficult to tell that their instance is a dedicated queer space. and while they have gained ~30 users since defederation, we have gained over 200! its pretty much just 196 at this point.

while its sad to see a queer space fail, i suspect its for the best. i hope all the anti-capitalists there find their way here, as many already have. especially the trans folk there, its genuinely sad that they feel like they have to accept chasers in their space in order to have a community that accepts them. that is the difference between liberal tolerance and socialist liberation— tolerance allows for objectification and marginalization, while liberation demands dignity and equality. may all the blahaj gender diverse who oppose capitalism find their way to c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns!!!

stuff like this are the best “dunks” the 196 reactionaries can manage: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2042262

pathetic

this meme is weak and displays their ignorance. you cant have a conversation with ppl like the OP. they will just bombard you with thought-terminating cliches. gulag gulag! Uyghurs! hologramodor! no food! purges! NKVD KGB Stasi! free Tibet so they can have their wholesome slaves again! Taiwan is a legitimate state!

countless hexbears would be willing and even enthusiastic to have a good faith, respectful, nuanced discussion about these topics with them. but they dont want that. they want to roll in their own shit like a pig with massive balls. the good ones will find us, or other socialist spaces. but for such a small instance, there are too many scratched and soon-to-be scratched liberals for us to do any good with federation.

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        there are so many poles in the prague queer scene, im just glad they got out meow-hug czechia isnt the best place for lgbt people but it isnt too bad

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            yeah all the lgbt legislation in czechia that got passed was introduced / fixed up by the communists. funny how that works thinkin-lenin

            at least the succdems are becoming less shit on it. really disappointed in how the communists are getting sidelined… not many years back it was doing pretty ok deeper-sadness

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              We don’t even have a succdem left which remotely exists. :agony:

              And our communist party is essentialy dormant due to article 256 of the penal codex. :agony-soviet:

              Also I edited my previous comment to give you a primer on Poland lmao

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                yeah they keep trying to pass laws to ban the KSCM over and over but it keeps failing. im worried some day itll just happen.

                my home town is still ran by commies though succdems recently got some seats. i know the police and they refuse to work with other police departments, theyre communist too. its all relatively small though. town was heavily affected by the nazi occupation and the soviet army built a lot of the old infrastructure there so there is some love still

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                  It’s inconcievable to me that communists got any parlimentary and real power east of Berlin… Wow

                  Congratulations on living where you do.

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                  Yeah, I can tell them to also bring back the factories, offices, housing blocs, roads…

                  Oh wait, you can’t bring back something Solidarność stole from you. Oops.

                  But no, really. Łódź is the town that got hit hard post 1989.

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    Honestly my psychoanalysis of Ada is that she simply is a boomer. When r/196 first moved to c!196 on Blahaj she admitted she wasn’t familiar with it. I doubt she would let them on there if she knew but now she’s in up to her neck. Doesn’t excuse her for not unmodding Moss and getting someone mature.

    All in all that instance was devoid of content, had every actual discussion buried by a haha funny about girldick, worshipped NATO and had more chasers than trans people. If it wasn’t for Hexbear it would still bleed users due to low quality. Good riddance.

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    Vietnam too is in process of implementing LGBT Friendly laws like Cuba. If USSR were here today it would be doing the same instead of what we have today in Eastern Europe/Russia.

    U.S. too didn’t have legal gay marriage until 2015. So maybe they should look at themselves in the mirror instead of shitting on a country which hasn’t existed for over three decades.

    Are they "slava ukraini so-true " people? Because, Ukraine is just as unfriendly towards LGBTQ as Russia is.

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      tbf russia did pass a trans genocide law recently. but i used to help trans refugees leave ukraine before the war even started in 2014, it is not good there for queer people, at all, and anyone who says otherwise is a giant piece of shit

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          cat-trans it was just a little work, honestly im more amazed at the on the ground organizers, i was mostly just doing translator work and monitoring police communications

          there is just so much incredible violence against queer people in russia and ukraine

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        In Russia, being trans without gender marker in the documents changed and watching news about Argentina is terrifying. While the Ukraine does not currently prohibit getting F64.0, it may do that very quickly, using the “they are doing this to dodge the draft” rhetoric.

        I am afraid that some of my friends (or, in the worst case, everyone) won’t be able to get out.

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          Ukraine simply drafts diagnosed trans women when they do not have their papers changed yet, and Ukraine still requires bottom surgery to even enter the legal name change process. I don’t want to think about what it’s like to be queer and at the frontlines of this war, heard too many stories about gay men in Ukraine marrying a woman who’s their lovers’ best friend so at least somebody close to them and their lover can visit them in the hospital when something happens, or so they can plan the funeral in the worst case.

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      This article from France 24 reported how Azov Regiment has been de-ideologised.

      Yeah, because the leaders of Azov were dispersed amongst the armed forces of Ukraine, effectively spreading the ideological nucleus of Azov like seeds in the wind to take root across the entirety of the nation’s forces.

      Andriy Biletsky and the people who make up the National Corps political party are neo-Nazis who deserve scrutiny. However they have no political power and do not represent a majority of Ukrainians.

      “Deserve scrutiny”

      Oh boy, here comes the next wave of liberals tutting and wagging their fingers at the leader of a military group who literally has Nazi tattoos. That’ll surely get him to change his fascist beliefs.

      The fact that Neo-Nazis “have no political power” (political power, apparently, comes out the bottom of a ballot box to these people 🙄) is ahistorical liberal cope.

      The Nazi party didn’t have “political power” and yet they rode their paramilitary dominance in the Weimar Republic to being installed at the levers of power in the republic in order to stage a coup because they were never capable of achieving political power through liberal democracy.

      So this whole notion that “the Nazi problem in the Ukraine is, like, totally a non-issue bro” because they can’t get themselves elected is just incredibly ignorant of what happens when fascists have enough guns (and political influence outside of holding seats in a parliament).

      …do they honestly think that the fascist forces in the Ukraine would somehow be above staging a coup and seizing power because fascists are bound to adhering to the rules of liberal democracy?

      What world do these people live in??

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    the op of that 196 thread:

    First, I’m not a liberal.
    Second, it’s fucking shitty that liberal politicians only really give a shit about queer people when it’s convenient. Though your version literally makes no sense because the neoliberal isn’t throwing them in a gulag like, say, Stalin did. Their inaction towards injustice is bad but you’re saying it’s as bad as perpetrating the injustice itself which is just stupid.
    Third, this is a tankie-free subreddit, so fuck off.

    subreddit

    michael-laugh

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      In the Capitalist USA, it was illegal to be LGBT+ until 2003 (2015 if you count gay marriage being illegal) and several states are now beginning to recriminalize it.

      Until the late 2000s’ (and even after in some cases) gay clubs and other LGBT+ spaces would be raided by police, brutally arresting and killing LGBT+ people.

      Some of the largest news outlets in America are allowed to spead queerphobic propaganda and accuse trans people of grooming and other lies without punishment.

      After Russia became capitalist in the 90s’, LGBT+ rights have only gotten worse under capitalism, not better.

      So where is your “Fuck capitalists” banner, 196?

      But please, tell me how evil and scary Stalin was while your own anti-communist utopia rolls back its LGBT+ protections it’s only had for last 10 or so years, if you can even call them real protections, Queers have never been truly safe in the streets of the US.

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    This is genuinely not what I want to see and I have no idea why Ada is being so stubborn about 196. They are turning their queer space into a chaser meme space, and eliminating all the potential it had.

    On the offchance that you’re reading this, it’s really not too late to fix this Ada you just need to bin off that problematic mod and people here would genuinely make the effort to turn the situation around. People want you to make the right decision and will instantly turn around their opinion if it occurs, you are correct that cooperation is better for both spaces, shit like this is so easily resolved.

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      Why would ada be reading posts on here. Hexbear defederated from them not the reverse. She thinks scolding the shitty 196 mod a bit is adequate, you don’t (I don’t either which is why I moved over). In this situation we’re going to stay defederated.

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        Idk why you would ever allow r/196 to move to your instance. I had to unsub from that place like a year before I even moved to Lemmy. I’m not trans so maybe my perspective is a bit skewed but that place always seemed to fetishize trans people so much, especially mtf. Also the users there seemed very keen on pushing one specific way to be trans as valid. When anyone in the comments would complain about any of this they would be downvoted to hell. I’m of the mind that even if you don’t think you’re doing anything objectively wrong if people complain that it’s hurtful you should try to be accommodating, especially in a trans place/community. I genuinely don’t understand why you would allow that kind of community to migrate to your instance if you have a goal of building a safe space for queer people.

        On a different note I specifically avoided blahaj when trying to find an instance to settle on cause I saw 196 was there, so I guess I dodged a bullet.

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          It’s telling and damning when even cis users can clearly recognize typical chaser behavior like the fixation on pushing and enforcing certain ideals of transness (that line up with the average chaser’s fetishism) as the only valid ones. I’m trans myself and date other trans people exclusively and a core part of making that work is understanding that trans bodies do not and can never fit one singular mold, are usually subject to change, sometimes massively so, and that the only responsible way to treat a trans lover is unwavering support and understanding along that entire process.

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        At the beginning Ada had no idea about 196, it was just supposed to be a queer-focused Lemmy instance. After 196 moved there during the blackout it lost all chance of being that due to the “culture” of 196 also coming with it.

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    Frankly remarkable projection there, given that it’s the US that backs coups to overthrow elected socialist leaders and install fascist dictators like Pinochet or Armas.

    They’re so confused and arrogantly uninformed. They know a couple of catchphrases and just put them together like madlibs to form their arguments.

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    more proof behind the pudding that not all trans/queer spaces are safe for trans and queer people. sentiment can be good, but you need to back it up with tanks capabara-tank

    queer lives are not up for debate, ban the fuck out of everyone who disagrees