this was an unhinged rant about my problems with sable, not about how I support israel. where did you even get that from?
I think everyone belongs in the bottom tier
as far as I can tell, boos last post was on page 46, and I cant see why that would cause him to get banned. as for times she has vilanised someone who opposed her, the very first time I interacted with her was when I questioned her "all Republicans are facists" claim in the LGBTQ+ thread, where she without hesitation called me a facist in response. there is also the situation of her calling boo a facist which is as far as I can tell baseless, and while the tierlist could just be a shitpost, I personally doubt it, though I guess I will give her the benefit of the doubt. I understand why this post could seem out of left field, but it was a responce to a post she made slinging an accusatoin against me, which in hindsight likely wasn't entirely serious, and my responce was way out of proportion. I don't think it is productive to spend as many posts as I have ranting about one person in particular, and I doubt she is the type of person to listen to someone who is doing this, so I wont make another post like this.
I will say I really appreciate how level headed this post was, and I also agree that no one is immune to propaganda. I really like your point on fascism, and I wish more people would try to talk people out of fascism civilly rather than immediately deeming that person as an irredeemable villain, though I heavily doubt that was what sable was doing.
anyways, sable, Im sorry for being so harsh on you, I just felt like these things needed to be said, though I definitely could have been nicer about it. feel free to take a shot at me, I know I've given you plenty of material.
~ tbc, at least in my understanding, boo was banned not rly for particular 'substantive political postions', but for being continuously vitriolic to other users for no reason, as well as making all kinds of baseless assumptions in those vitriolic attacks. in this post that i believe u are referencing, https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/the-politics-thread.3743029/post-10197184 boo continued their constant behavior of claiming that they know who is and isnt (or has/hasnt been) "part of the antifascist movement", not even rly clearly defined but this is smogon forums and they do not know any of us to have any basis whatsoever to be making such claims and it also is just a totally ridiculous way of engaging with people in a video game forum. while im not v familiar with zoomer lingo, the 'smol bean' name-calling def reads as an attempt at a personal insult. and u also have in this post a continuation of the pattern of absurd assumptions as the basis for personal attacks, literally no one was defending north korea yet this entire post revolves around accusing people of doing so. similar patterns before in boos dozens of posts accusing anyone who says something critical of the democratic party as being a "jill stein apologist" and therefore a apologist for violence committed by the chinese govt (she made some gross comments abt that apparently), even tho literally no one in this thread cares about jill stein she was mentioned exactly once by anyone other than boo and it was a very casual passing mention, also other baseless accusations of being apologists for PSL, j frankly it felt impossible to have any conversation with them because anything anyone said would just get u accused for 10 other unrelated things that boo arbitrarily decided somehow associates with what u said. and ofc boo as the #premierantifascist in history is the expert on every correct and incorrect position so if u argue then they hit u with the "im the real anti fascist you are irrelevant" rhetoric.
idk if there was smthg specifically about that page 46 post that crossed the line for mods from my pov there were dozens of prior posts that were at least as bad if not much worse, but regardless these behavior patterns p clearly violate the standards of conduct of the thread, attacking people on a personal level, strawmanning ad hominems instead of engaging with what people have actually said, etc etc etc.
~ obv i cant comment on deleted posts in a smogon thread that i do not follow, but i think this is an example where u are treating criticism of fascist politics as a statement about someone's personal character, rather than the criticism of the positions they have taken which is what it is. the us republican party has a white supremacist programme in pretty much every 'policy area', supporting such a programme is objectively supporting politics that i would term fascist. (the democratic party has a white supremacist programme in a number of 'areas' too, but not as thoroughly, so one might not react in the same way solely from someone expressing support for a democratic party political programme.)
being fascist is not a personality trait and neither sabelette nor anyone else is suggesting that promoting fascist politics is somehow permanent. just as we are all potentially susceptible to fascist propaganda, we are all capable of reversing course.