I am game to run whatever you guys want to play.
I have experience playing 20xx, Troika, FU, Whitebox and a variety of other systems.
I am also willing to try any rules light system (as it is best for play by post, especially here on Lemmy).
Any genre as well, I’ll go with the group consensus. Give me suggestions and we’ll see where we end up. Let’s get our game ooooonnnnn! ;D
Most people’s problem isn’t with the ideology itself but the moderation policy and the censorship that takes place. What I hear most from people is outrage over mods/admins deleting criticism of Russia/China/North Korea. Or comments saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unlawful getting deleted. I think stuff like that is what people get upset about more than Marxism itself.
I’ve seen threads as such, and the issue is a person (from outside .ml) will take a particular position, argue that point (i.e. China is an authoritarian hell-hole) and then refuse to listen to any counterpoint to the contrary. The mods only step in after these threads are several dozen responses deep and the non-ml user basically plugs their ears and refuses to listen to any other viewpoint but their own. I’ve seen this time, after time, after time again. The mods are perfectly fine with people’s criticisms, it’s when you have users whose sole mission is to tell us how wrong we are and how depraved we are for thinking otherwise accompanied with a litany of slurs, that the mods take action. Hell, if anything the mods let them rant and rave for too long at times before stepping in.
Believe me, I really wish that was true. If it was, we wouldn’t have stuff like !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works I think. Which for the record: I don’t like that community much as I think the ongoing war on .ml/hexbear/grad creates a lot of division and hate around here.
But even then, just browsing some recent posts there I find stuff like this modlog of a very confusing deletion of a very reasonable comment about Iran: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=1651764&community=13
Oh, I’ve seen that community and, personally, I think it’s bullshit. But that’s me.
That’s precisely it. They’re so concerned with us and it’s sowing unecessary discord. People can disagree with us all they want but to continually drum up hate towards us is just plain childish.
See, I get why that was modded. Why precisely shouldn’t Iran (or any damn country for that matter) be able to build nukes? Why is the US and a select few the only ones allowed to? What gives the US the authority over a nation’s self determination? That’s besides the point too, as many sources (even many mainstream western ones) indicated there was no evidence Iran was building nuclear weapons, the nuclear program was explicitly for energy infrastructure, which makes the US actions even more egregious. I don’t see how the US can play world police when a particular nation is implementing it’s own policies, unless they are actively attacking another soverign nation (and then there would be a whole other set of procedures for engaging in conflict with such a nation) then what business is it of the US to take action against them?
At this point it’s kind of too late, as the reputation has formed and spread outside of Lemmy even. Whether you want to blame the people waging the war or the people they wage it against, the fact remains that the state of affairs is actively harming growth of the platform. Which is a huge shame.
Anyway, I don’t see that comment mentioning anything about the US being justified in its world policing. Nor do I see anything about the US having right to nukes. I only see two statements:
It is a shame, but then, what? Do we just tell everyone to avoid .ml/grad/hexbear and actively harm those communities because of the vitriol of insufferable people? I think that’s crap. Heaven forbid leftists have their own space without liberals and right wingers losing their shit over it. No. We’re not going anywhere and we shouldn’t have to. And no, .ml/grad and hex didn’t start this b.s. I’ve been here for awhile (even before this account was created) and there’s always been a condescending attitude against these communities like we deserve shit somehow for just existing.
It’s implicit in the comment. It’s the US that is carrying out the policy of attacking Iran’s nuclear program, apparently the user thinks that nobody should have nukes, inluding Iran, and how do we get to that point? Via US foreign policy against nations wanting to initiate any type of nuclear policy. What do they think is going to happen, someone waves a magic wand and all the nukes disappear? No. There is no condemation of the US’s actions in that post, only a vague ‘both sides are bad’ and then stating no nation should have nukes, functionally giving consent to the US because: Iran bad, no nation should have nukes, therefore US didn’t do anything wrong. Why not call the US out?
I think criticising that comment is absolutely fair game. But that’s not what we’re talking about here. It was deleted. What did it say that was so bad that merely arguing against it was insufficient, it needed to be removed?
Spreading misinformation. The current justification by the US government is that Iran is developing nukes. So you have someone parroting propaganda that Iran was building nukes which has even been refuted by US intelligence:
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-strikes-irans-nuclear-sites-set-up-cat-and-mouse-hunt-missing-uranium-2025-06-29/
…which I think is well within the mod’s rights to put a stop to that kind of propaganda from spreading. I don’t see a problem with that. Leaving it up just further muddies the issue and makes people think there’s validity to the Iran developing nukes narrative.