I read GS's thread, what do you want me to say? I have more personal, firsthand experience with China than anyone commenting there? I have family there? I speak the language? I have an actual stake in Chinese society? I think we've seen conclusively that none of that matters if you do a wrongspeak.

GS even admits that the brigading is obnoxious then goes on to defend it. Like I said, this is well beyond my ability to truly care, I was just really hoping that lemmy would be a place people could discuss these topics instead of just trolling, and then having double standards when someone else gently pushes back.

Edit - improper pronoun

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GS even admits that the brigading is obnoxious then goes on to defend it.

Dogpiling and brigading are two different things. Brigading is (at least loosely) coordinated, dogpiling is something people do when they are there, coordinated or not. The algorithm just happened to put this thread near the top on Hexbear, which is only federated with a handful of instances, as can be seen by the fact that I was the very first person to comment on it (next was op, then myself again, iirc). It is categorically false to my knowledge that this thread was "brigaded," a bunch of people with similar opinions on this issue just all saw the thread.

And it is obnoxious, but "obnoxious" doesn't mean "evil," especially when you were speaking so derisively about the people you had to have seen made up the bulk of the thread when you made your first comment. Honestly, what did you expect? In most political communities you'd get a very similar reaction, and I'd prefer a single emote to a "Crimes of China" copypasta filling up my inbox.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did use the word obnoxious, and not the word evil.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Scare quotes are used for discussing definitions, as in, uh . . . "socialism" is not "when the government does stuff". I was not meaning to convey that you used a word that you plainly did not, just highlighting that me agreeing to something being obnoxious does not mean agreeing to it being seriously wrong (which in common parlance might be called "evil").

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Again, learn what federation is or go back to reddit. No one is "brigading"

You also can't say you were pushing back when you were trolling right out the gate and every other comment is in reply to you.