Curious if anyone has the original Universal Monk comment handy.

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        This community is dedicated to supporting the ideals of freedom, patriotism, and standing up against censorship.

        While we honor diverse opinions, we focus on promoting positivity, constructive conversation, and a commitment to the truth. Join us as we build a platform where everyone can share their voice and contribute to shaping the future.

        Holy hell, that’s hilarious coming from that ragebait fascist weirdo!

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          It’s always either projection or the opposite of what they’re saying.

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    sEriOus ConSerVative ComMuniTy

    Literally an oxymoron and trust me, I know because I have seen more of it than any of you combined.
    It’s mostly all based on: we must make leftist cry. Such seriousness, the very core of it is fundamentally a joke.

    No wonder right leaning instance is just shitposts and memes galore. This is basically what modern conservatism is.

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      The sad fact is America needs an actual conservative movement that isn’t just nazis in hiding. Im not sure it can exist anymore as conservatives havent had a “normal” party in 30+ years

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        Does it though? I mean that would be better than fascism, no doubt, but what are we trying to conserve, really?

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            By private sphere do you mean people’s private lives and activities or corporate political organizations? If the former, then I agree, if the latter then those are in dire need of disruption.

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            Conservatives haven’t had fiscal responsibility in probably near 50 years. People should absolutely stop equating conservatives to fiscal responsibility. It’s a lie conservatives keep telling each other.

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      No wonder right leaning instance is just shitposts and memes galore.

      A conservative visiting lemmy would say the exact same thing. The difference in my mind is that right-wing memes mostly leave me thinking, “No one says or believes that. Fuck you on about?”

      Same thoughts I have talking to conservatives IRL. Having only been presented with the most outlandish fruitcakes, they’ve brainwashed into thinking there are legions of fucking nutcase left-wingers out there.

      For left-wingers making fun, yeah, the memes more often reflect what the right actually says and believes.

      (Yes, I’m biased, but I try really hard to be objective.)

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        As a budding radical centrist I hate every cuck winger with equal passion. The left however has some merit to protect the minorities and at least in theory aims to reduce inequalities. The far left are bunch of unfunny idiots however

        Internet exclusive breed of far left ohhh these are people that should be branded with red hot iron

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          radical centrist

          So… Half-racist? I’m not sure compromising with bigots is something to crow about.

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            No. It’s more like hating and bashing everyone equally.
            It is a radical oppression of radicalism and rejection of demented idealism that I deliver in short precision strikes to the unsuspecting.

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      How could one tell when that happens?

      Dude is bugged out more than an abandoned gas station bathroom.

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      Did it occur to anyone that “triggering” those who have had or are on the verge of a complete mental break could exacerbate the issues? Like do we really want to be the straw that causes a suicide or mass shooting?

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        You ain’t wrong but also there is the classic FAFO maxim.

        If you monk says stupid shit, we can’t expect people NOT to return the favour.

        But yea if you sense somebody is not mentally well, then people best to take the high road.

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    I’d seen comments about this account before and noted how the phrasing and comment behavior was a dead ringer for Universal Monk’s usual bullshit. Glad to see others saw the same thing.

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      Donald J Musk stopped posting for the better part of a week and almost all activity stopped on their comms for a while.

      Must be fun talking to yourself through different accounts :)

      Edit: reread my comment again slowly, you’ll get it :)

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    serious question, does shitjustworks have a reputation as a conservative community? I guess I do most of my browsing in the all feed so maybe I just haven’t seen it? definitely not the instance I’d like to be on if that’s the case 😅

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      I think they’re referring to the /c/conservative community ON shitjustworks. I certainly have never experienced the instance in general leaning conservative.

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      Not that I know of, this is just the unhinged rant of a madman.

      I think the conservative community was abandoned there, letting it go to seed with people who aren’t in that cult.

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      I think the conservative com there got taken over by mods that aren’t right-wing and now exists to make fun of the right. I don’t particularly care but I can see why rightists might not love this.

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        Yes I actually tried joining a few conservative communities for rational and productive discourse. The “progressive” mods deleted my good faith posts and comments, brigaded and made outright hostile comments. God forbid people seek common ground and building bridges, rather than do the exact things we get upset with “the other side” for doing. They certainly have me not rethinking my values, but certainly rethinking with whom I want to align for the greatest good of our people as a whole, regardless of political leanings.

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          Unfortunately the only common ground online right now is toxicity, group-think, and mutual hostility. That said, I honestly think outreach to most people on the right is a waste of time, at least online. I’ve tried to educate people for so long but the cult mentality is too strong to overcome. Maybe a more relationship-centered approach could work, I haven’t tried this. But that would take a huge amount of energy and effort.

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            You’re generally right about group-think and hostility, but the couple of good-faith exchanges I had with right wingers may have gotten a couple of snarky replies (maybe pre-emptive defense from being heavily attacked, prior?) but also half-hearted attempts at engagement and addressing my points until the “progressives” came in and did what they do. It’s sad, I don’t even want to alienate others, preemptively, by calling myself that. Leftist definitely does that. And I’m probably some conglomeration of leftist and libertarian (in the global sense, not the Yankee sense) with a sprinkling of anarchism, somewhere in the mix. I’m not sure yet. I’m not exactly in the process of changing my core values, more somewhat refining them into a more mature form. It’s not quite personal anomie, but I haven’t found my solid footing yet on the shifting ground beneath them.

            Anyway, thank you for a bit of understanding. I appreciate it more than you know.

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          There are plenty of conservative spaces online and it’s exceedingly rare where “good faith” and “rational” conversations are possible.

          The fact that this one is a satire of that and folks are upset is hilarious to me

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      Universal Monk was a prolific poster around election time; he had tons of alt accounts that all posted stuff purposely made to divide the left.

      After his accounts all got banned for trolling and evasion, he started up the Donald J Musk accounts and repeated the cycle, this time posting far-right fascist content and trolling people with lies, disinfo, and general unpleasantness.

      It’s been an open secret for a while that they were the same user based on the MO, but apparently he fucked up and reused a comment.

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        Their favourite m.o. during election season was sealioning and concern trolling, as well as baiting people into breaking the civility rule and then reporting them. It seemed to me like they were taking pleasure from skirting around the letter of the law while violating the spirit of it.

        It was completely incredible at the time that they went on for months without getting banned.

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          As a big Umphrees McGee fan, who had previously blocked and forgot about UniversalMonk, seeing a bunch of posts talking smack about UM really threw me for a loop when it got real bad haha.

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        Tbh, it appears to me the guy is in serious mental health crisis. Social isolation isn’t great without mh support and tends to exacerbate issues. I’m wondering if it’s simply not affordably accessible to them or if it is and they broke so completely they failed to see the necessity. I remember a post they made about breaking up with their gf and that’s when the alt-right accounts became highly visible to me.

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          He also posted about being happily married; there’s really no way to know the truth about a serial liar like UM.

          Although he has serious “50-something-divorced-guy” energy. If I had to guess, his kids and ex hate him for being a right-wing scumbag and this is how he takes out his anger.

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            The only thing we need to guess, impo, is he’s in serious mh crisis and pushing him toward suicide or mass shooting isn’t a solution. Ignore or block should leave him the option of seeking professional help or spiralling of his own doing, not ours.

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              It also leaves open the option to keep being a racist, transphobic, fascist troll though, which will leave the door open to becoming a Nazi bar.

              I understand where you’re coming from, but it’s not my responsibility to play nice with the people who are attacking the people I love and those like them.

              Trolls should be made to feel unwelcome until they change their behavior.

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                We disagree. Unless we’re moderators, it’s not our job and focusing on other’s demons too much means we’re ignoring our own. Something about the abyss staring back, but that’s the beauty of the fediverse. Just like you don’t get to tell me what to do, I don’t get to tell you. I would only urge you to do some soul -searching and follow your best impulses, while waiting to serve the worst or questionable. There are other options such as utilizing block/report.

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                  Sure, if that’s what works for you.

                  But I don’t want to see Lemmy turn into a trash site like Reddit, where the worst and loudest are free to harass, provoke, and lie without consequences.

                  This user has literally dozens of alts he uses to get around bans, so I don’t see unilateral disarmament as a way to keep this particular fascist in check.

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    And here I thought Lemmy was too small to have prominent trolls. Thanks for the head’s up.