if they were trying their best, they would take seriously the many, many concerns people have had about a lack of accountability, transparency, and community input over the past year. instead they continue to make decisions in a black box matrix server where they shittalk the userbase - the people that actually make this site worthwhile despite its many, deep problems - and run cover for abusive members of the community if those people are their personal friends or they find them funny enough or they align on some pet issue. i'm not mad at your comment to be clear, i've agreed with your analysis across this whole struggle sesh and am pointing out what i think the real core issue here is.

shit, i wanted to find the right time/place to make a nerdy effortpost about how people are operating on an oversimplified view of what a "vassal state" is, how there's a base superstructure feedback loop here where US imperialism is the root cause, but belief in Zionism w/in the ruling class takes on a life of its own and informs the base, but that's not worth it right now because it's clear people's analyses on israel aren't the issue and neither is antisemitism. it's site management refusing to take an L, self crit, change site processes, and then continuing to cudgel the userbase with their radlib liberal zionist brainworms they refuse to grow on. (and to be just slightly conciliatory, yes, mods are not a monolith - when i say "the mods, the admins, site management" i mean admins and the powermods they allow the most sway over the community).