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    12 hours ago

    Oh lordy, ever have one of those moments when you know you’re about to do something dumb, but do it anyway? Well, I would ask that you folks stop for a moment, and observe this situation from an outsider’s perspective. From where I sit, this very thread right here looks like a harassment campaign.

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      11 hours ago

      To an outsider’s perspective you read like someone with an agenda trying to muddy the waters. No one who has even the most passing understanding of what a harassment campaign is or looks like would see this thread and think that’s what’s going on here. People justifiably laughing at some bozo who put them on an undesirables list because they said things he didn’t like is not harassment. Wherever you’re “sitting,” it is definitely not from some neutral third party position like you’re implying, so stop making a fool out of yourself by pretending it’s the dozens of the rest of the commenters here who are saying things they’d look back on with regret and self-cringe, instead train that “outsider’s perspective” into a mirror.

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        8 hours ago

        What’s hilarious is that I knew that this kind of reply would be forthcoming. Thanks for not disappointing!

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          “I’m not owned! In fact I’m laughing! I already knew how people would call out my hypocrisy but I posted cringe anyway. All you did was prove me right because I foretold it to myself.” smuglord

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        8 hours ago

        Look at the other replies I’ve received, and think about how people outside of your online community might feel being on the receiving end.

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          Look at the way Rimu is treating people, and think about how people within that community might feel being on the receiving end.

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            Ah, so we judge actions not by their merit, but by who performs them? Or, put another way, if you wrestle a pig, you both get muddy.

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      12 hours ago

      When you comment on someone’s public actions in a public forum that’s a harassment campaign? Do words mean anything to you or are they solely weapons to be used against your enemies?

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        Yes, the reflexive “allies and enemies” framing of the situation does reinforce the image of a harassment campaign.

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          I don’t think you’ve understood the meaning of my comment. And I think anything anyone could possibly say to you would be reinterpreted / disinterpreted to fit the image of a “harassment campaign” since that’s what you’ve already determined the situation is about.

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            Also notice that they’re saying we’re the ones doing “reflexive allies and enemies framing.” Meanwhile the person this user is sticking up for literally maintains a list of people he considers enemies because they’ve been critical of the things he is publicly doing that harms the fediverse. This user doesn’t see that as “allies and enemies framing” though. Zero self awareness while coming here and concern trolling by saying people here aren’t being self-aware.

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            8 hours ago

            You know nothing about me, and very little of what I think, yet you conceptualized my motivations as attacking my enemies, and now you’re telling me what I think.

            I just suggested some introspection.