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I don't understand how you can treat Fuentards seriously.
They're a generally very stupid, they're led by homosexuals probably controller by law enforcement.
Their entire shtick is being an antisemitic caricature and crapping up replies with bs.
They're a punchline to an unfunny joke.
EDIT in response to @hanikrum.. whatever : yeah, I should have written it more clearly: they're not 'online right', they're, at best, a disease that has attached itself to the online right. Calling them 'right wing' is even worse than calling MAGA right wing. People seriously supporting a bipolar black singer for president are not conservatives, or right wing in any imaginable way.
I guess it's understandable why @2rafa wrote it- if you go by the wikipedia article. you may think Fuentards /Groypers / AF are 'conservative' but if you look at what they're actually doing, they're anything but.
Right, so I have to deal with this one too.
There are two issues here: (1) the post itself, and (2) your history.
The post itself is just a rather sneering boo-outgroup directed at Nick Fuentes and his supporters. You are certainly allowed to have a negative opinion about any particular group (Fuentes fans, the Alt-Right, Democrats, Neo-Nazis, MAGA, Muslims, blacks, moderators on the Motte, etc.) and you can talk about why you have a negative opinion of them. But the combination of lazy insults ("Fuentards") and assertions without evidence (I have no idea if Fuentes is homosexual or an FBI informant or whatever, but if you want to throw those accusations out there, you should back them up with something beyond repeating Internet memes) is not a good way to criticize a group you dislike. Once again I am making no judgment about the claims themselves or based on what I personally think of Nick Fuentes and his crowd. We just don't want to see people dropping lines like "Fuentards" into conversation; it does nothing but poison the discussion. On rdrama that may be funny, but this isn't rdrama.
Now, regarding you. You are one of our worst posters. You have acquired a rap sheet so long I have to use to the scroll button. Last couple of reports were basically "Last chance." Honestly, I think I should permaban you because you're inevitably going to keep coming back to shit up the place. But I am loathe to permaban someone for what would normally just incur a warning, even taking your history into account. I will probably regret this- this is not an invitation to come back and post something really bad so I can permaban you with prejudice. But I am giving you a one-week ban this time, and if (when) you get modded in the future, it will very likely be your last.
@hanikrummihundursvin, next time report the post, don't whine publicly, and you've been here long enough to know that we are not on call for you 24/7.
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Are the mods asleep?
We are not asleep. Sometimes there is discussion, and sometimes one mod would prefer someone else decide what to do about a comment because if that mod (me) takes action it will be a permaban.
You (plural) could always leave a placeholder "punishment under discussion, no need to make further reports" comment.
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I have no idea, maybe I should have explained but they're considered a particularly tiresome pest on RW twitter. Everyone hates them. They have no RW policies or ideas. They're not RW, they're perhaps a weird homosexual cult dabbling in low-IQ antisemitism.
Examples of hatred from various RW mid-sized to prominent (captivedreamer) accounts.
Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5 Example 6 Example 7
Their entire oeuvre is
Furthermore: they are believed to be controlled opposition.
Whose controlled opposition - most believe the FBI.
There are claims it's Hasbara.. Note that WGD is, of course, Jewish himself and not particularly antisemitic. Indeed the claim of AF being an Israeli op is probably the most antisemitic thing he has ever posted.
*to spell it out, Alexander was repeatedly caught trying to sleep with underage boys.
Speaking of noticing things they don't want you to notice, its kind of funny how "patriot front" fell off the map around the same time DOGE and Kash Patel started cleaning house.
I have seen people around RW twitter saying it still exists though so.. ??
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They're a faction on RW twitter that is considered a pest by a different factions on RW twitter. I think that's fair to say? However, both of your posts are overtly rule breaking 'boo outgroup'. Which leaves me wondering why they're not modded. Beyond that I have nothing to add.
It's I believe a fair description. They're just plain bad actors.
would you report me if I accurately reported that O9A are a bunch of satanist neo-nazi sadists ? That's what they are.
I'm not a fan of the moderation here in general. But it is here, and I'd prefer if it was applied to others as it's applied to me. To that end I'd already be out the door if I wrote like you did here about certain things I believed to be factually accurate.
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