All of those subjects of protests are symptomatic of the larger issue (wealth inequality/oligarchy)

The protests you’re seeing are the proximal issues people are angry with, but they all share a root cause: oligarchy.

It’s important because ‘oligarchy’ is too abstract for most people to have strong feelings about, but a specific oligarch destroying public services that everybody rely on is extremely salient. While it might feel divided from your perspective, it’s still very useful for people to recognize the real ways the capital-‘P’-Problem is affecting them.

Ha, this was a camp run through a local private university, so I’d check places like that

My favorite moment as a camp counselor for twice exceptional kids was when an autistic camper got into an argument with another counselor about the historical/mythological accuracy of this movie (camper insisted it was a terrible movie in mythological terms), and eventually the counselor got frustrated and said “fine, go write me a paper on it” and the camper went off to bed

About an hour later the kid pops his head out his door and asked how long he wanted the paper.

The same kid ended up eating a laundry pod later that summer.

And we don’t usually get to see the receipts, but this time we do.

It’s one thing to make mention of or recommend another community, it’s another to spend your time flooding their threads with it repeatedly, even when asked to stop. What starts as impassioned advocacy can quickly turn into harassment and spam, and I think you crossed that line.

It should be evident just in the way you wrote an entire wiki article in this post - they were right to temporarily remove you from this conversation. If you only go there to dissolve their community, they have every right to kick you out of it.

YDI.

Not because you’re wrong about consolidating communities, and not even because you were trying to get people to move to the other comm; but because you’re doing it in the least communal and democratic way possible, and for your disregard for the mod team and community’s collective intent. I think the mod team handled this pretty well.

These kinds of crusades are antithetical to the spirit of the fediverse, and I really wish this community didn’t attract so many Don Quixote-types fighting windmills.