Happy to have provided a little amusement while I did! o7

Your reliance on hostility, bad-faith caricatures, and aggressive profanity to “win” a performance is why I blocked you in the first place. By setting up a false binary where any attempt to discuss specific historical structures is automatically labeled a “noble savage” trope, you created a framework that leaves no room for actual historical specificity or nuance. There was never room for a genuine conversation.

"By setting up a false binary"

Excuse me, but you were the one who fucking opened up with

What ever intertribal conflicts happened, they never reached the level of disease spread, displacement, and systematic violence aimed at cultural erasure

Which is utterly and completely wrong on its face, and doubled down on it by vaguely asserting 'culture' as a reason why it didn't happen, despite the ample evidence of intertribal displacement and systematic violence aimed at cultural erasure.

I'm sorry that you're still clinging to notions of a 'noble savage' that dehumanize Native Americans in the hopes of providing a neat and comfortable foil to colonialist atrocities. I'm also sorry that you don't know a single goddamn thing about Native American cultures beyond this noble savage caricature.

You never attempted to discuss specific historical structures, you dismissed a vast amount of historical evidence that any student of the Americas beyond the high school level would be aware of. And, on top of that, you blithely regarded the position as fundamentally not culturally chauvinist to insist that a particular culture engendered pure and noble virtue, unlike those other, evil, colonialist cultures.

Thinkers who argue that culture is not merely a passive byproduct of an economic base, but an active, creative force that shapes human behavior and historical outcomes on its own terms.

Which does not actually address the issue that your assertions had, nor my objections. Since my objection wasn't "Culture doesn't affect anything" but rather "These are all things that quite verifiably happened, and the core reason for them not happening on a larger scale is material, not moral or cultural," especially as your incredibly unserious assertion was on a vague 'Native American' culture, as if there was such a monolith, even just within the continental US, wherein the only real commonality was a chalcolithic or pre-chalcolithic level of material technology. India and fucking pre-Iron Age Germania had more in common than that.

Defending the mass murder of leftists by fascist pigs, as usual, I see. Such anarchist praxis! :)

I thought you left this place. Why do you keep coming back to a place you hate?

Good to see you too, my favorite (or at least most dedicated) stalker/secret sweetheart. But as usual, your literacy is as poor as your ability to stay away from me. You know, along with the ableism, racism, fascist apologia, and general horrific bigotry you regularly regurgitate whenever you find me.

I have a lot of rage, tbf, but it's not why I wound down participation. I wasn't tired of arguing or overwhelmed by shitheads on the Fediverse - I'd mostly kept to places that shitheads didn't congregate at by the time I left Piefed.

It was basically just a policy disagreement with Rimu over admin/coding stuff that affected my experience as a user. That's all.

When my user experience got more irritating on a technical level and promised to stay that way, I decided that I didn't want to deal with it and couldn't move all my communities again. It was just exhaustion.

On the Old Place I was never more than a lurker and occasional commenter. I only ran the comms I did because the Threadiverse lacked alternatives, and I didn't want the only topics I cared to comment on to wither for lack of activity.

I'm sorry that you took so much offense to being called out for an argument that blatantly contradicted its own premise?

Ok, but this is good actually, there’s a lot more accounts voting a dozen times a minute for hours than people actually reading a thousand comments a day and responding accordingly.

By Rimu's own data, there were about five users who were above the 'cap' of 240 a day. None of which he suspected of being bots.

Sorry that you can't do basic math, or understand that an upvote is precisely so one doesn't have to type a response.

So is what PugJesus was/is doing to various other users. I gave him a taste of his own medicine.

How utterly bizarre, considering that even at the time you admitted you barely knew me and had rarely read my posts, interacted with me, or had prior problems with me. Or that I've never been unhinged enough to record several minutes of audio in a desperate plea for validation. You threw a shitfit because you were called out for hypocrisy.

I still haven't listened to the recording because I have better things to do with my time, lmao.

Also, love that bigotry to you is calling someone a cunt for defending fucking Stalin murdering millions of people.

Bootlick more.

I think pug’s departure was mostly a rage-quit, rather than actual mistreatment. But as a history fan i found almost all their posts annoying so i admit that might skew my view.

Still not sure what exactly your problem was with my history posts, but I'd agree that me winding down activity had more in common with a rage-quit - it was fundamentally frustration in my personal experience using Piefed which led me to fuck off.

I didn't feel particularly 'targeted' or like Rimu was being unfair on some personal level. It wasn't 'mistreatment', I agree with you. It was just my experience becoming more frustrating than entertaining. So off I went.

Pug could’ve just kept posting and trusted in the appeal of their content. They didn’t need the ability to upvote more than 240 times a day to keep posting.

The appeal of my content wasn't in question, though. Like I said, it was a difference in my user experience becoming shittier, not in 'losing' fans or engagement, though I suspected the policy change would also cause long-term difficulties in retention of users.

Zionism is when you think Israel is a pariah state. How interesting.

Funny, I remember you swearing up and down that I would support the war on Venezuela when it happened. How did that turn out?

Fucking idiotic, the way people projected their ideal enemy onto me.

I can get along fine with just about anyone, dog, human, etc so long as they’re not demanding I share their exact perspective on every country in the world and denouncing me as a fascist otherwise.

Cute way of describing Uyghur genocide denial.