So You Wanna Be Divisive? Bring It.
What follows is a derivative of a comment I made on Steem earlier today. I thought about it, thought about it some more, and decided that I’m just going to post this for everyone to see. Well, not everyone, obviously, because the recent rash of unfollows I’ve had by people associated with a certain community on Discord will hide this from their view. Unless, of course, it trends, or lots of people resteem it. Be my guest. Please.
I’m not going to name names in this post. No names at all. Most people will know instantly who I mean. If you don’t, it won’t take much digging to find out. But I want this to be as far from mudslinging as possible, even though that expectation isn’t very realistic. I’m not looking to start a war. Thing is, though—I didn’t, and I won’t, because you can’t start what’s already happening. This war has been simmering in the trenches for months, despite the attempts of many people to circumvent it.
I stand by my choice for witness team alignment, despite the controversy associated with it. I kept waiting to for those who warned me about a certain witness partner to be proven right, and him to be proven base of character the way they claimed. As time went on, the inverse became true based on behaviors I saw with my own eyes. Let’s just call this witness partner “X.” That will suffice for now.
People can "claim" anything they want. For my own personal knowledge, I asked the person who claims “X” owes him money if he would offer proof. He didn't just fail to do so, he flat-out refused. Publicly, in front of many witnesses. Yet the money is still an issue? How? For me, the fact that “X” needed money to care for two animals he committed to says more about his character than that of any self-righteous accuser. It demonstrates loyalty and a clear understanding of ethical responsibility. If the money was a gift, as “X” maintains, what repayment is owed? If not a gift, as the other guy claims, then why be so cagey about offering proof? There’s no logic in his decision to withhold evidence that substantiates his case.
Then we get back to the moral code of the people in question. First, none of the people involved with my witness team or Discord community ever engaged in divisive conduct. We included everyone in everything. Shared members, shared moderators. Shared witness support. No one can argue that “X” says things in the most diplomatic manner, because clearly he doesn't. But I've yet to see him be proven wrong about any points he's made. Others, however...wow. The behaviors! Licentious remarks in public forums. The creation of an entire Steem account to mock an accidental misspelling of “X’s”name that was downright vulgar. Is there no sense of shame with these people? What about publicly ridiculing a person's appearance after they took chemotherapy and years of immunosuppressants? Yet somehow all of this is okay? But wait--the best (or worst, depending on which camp a person is in,) is the blatant edict by a community leader for his entire drone army to disassociate from “X” and any initiatives he's part of. This edict came with the express threat of removing delegations and all support from anyone who affiliates with "X." And the whole drone army concurred that this was acceptable. And yet, this is okay?
Talk about centralized! It's the antithesis of everything the blockchain is supposed to represent. Bottom line is that no one associated with “X” ever, at any time, forbade anyone else from affiliating with "those other folks," participating in their servers, voting their witness, or following their blogs. We encouraged cross-promotion and teamwork. Then suddenly there it is, in writing, that the leader of the largest community on Discord has forbidden "his people" from association with “X” or his team witness. What the absolute hell, people? HOW is ANY of this not a thousand times worse than any lip “X” ever gave anyone? Yet they get a free pass for this egregious and downright insidious behavior?
Not from me, they don't. Never have I been more pleased about where I chose to place my alliance. I'll take smartass lip over corrupt character any day. I didn’t need anyone whispering crap in my ear or outright threatening me to decide where to place my loyalty. All I had to do was sit back and watch a certain subculture of the Steem community gnaw and gnaw at this bone until finally they broke it in half and divided a year’s worth of friendships and partnerships right down the fucking middle. Congratulations for that accomplishment, folks! You did your drone army proud.
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First, none of the people involved with my witness team or Discord community ever engaged in divisive conduct. We included everyone in everything. Shared members, shared moderators. Shared witness support.
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Bottom line is that no one associated with “X” ever, at any time, forbade anyone else from affiliating with "those other folks," participating in their servers, voting their witness, or following their blogs. We encouraged cross-promotion and teamwork.
Hence why today I have cleared house and cleaned up my feed, for any wondering.
We all know she's talking about you. I mean, put two and two together and you get two X's and your name has 2 X's in it and there's two so 8-4=8.
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Same here. I mean, if I'm going to be guilty by association, I might as well be reactive by association, too. Right?
We've sat back long enough.
I definitely feel backed into a corner. No doubt about it.
Interesting that at the moment of writing this I am still voting your witness, and also following and voting Gmuxx because I think he's a good guy and wanted to continue supporting him and I've had no repercussions at all. Weird...
I did however see that @gmuxx unfollowed me today which I thought was pretty sad, despite the splits and tit for tat I thought we were cool. Apparently the hivemind and guilt by association are real things and none of that matters.
People have done shitty things, this post doesn't even address 1% of the story. I refuse to defend or call any of it out but they know who they are, and they're the ones who have to live with it.
Enjoy your popcorn and I hope publishing this post gives you peace or whatever it is you're looking for.
No please, do elaborate. We'll wait...
Would that be your votes on vulgar, cowardly anonymous spoof accounts created by juveniles too weak to sign their own names to their tasteless, baseless and not even accurate attacks?
Or would it be your willingness to roll over to bullying by your organizations "leader" who never shows up for work, but uses mafia like strong arming to control his staffs actions? The very staff that does his homework and helps him tie his shoes?
See I will speak, and I WILL spell it out, and I HAVE the proof. So, go ahead, Julia, make our day.
Oh @netuoso you obsessed little fuck. Youve been at this for twenty four plus hours and you are STILL just making me laugh at you and shake my head. You are so obsessed with me its literally ludicrous. You are accomplishing exactly zero. You still live in your mommys yard. You are still only 4 feet tall and balding. You are still unemployed. And you are still a psychotic person obsessed with me out of sheer jealous rage. You not only look deranged, pathetic and weak but you also really arent even accomplishing anything. Like... At all.
Bit then you never have before anyway.
You are and will remain an abject failure at life.
And i will continue to mock you until your mom calls you for your nap.
Wait... There is one thing youve accomplished. You made me gain tons of followers and witness votes while your decline merely continues.
Your butthurt pathetic obsession is worth seeking a doctor for, because it appears to be making your hair fall out, shorty.
Yes. If he only knew the extent of support we’ve gained from this exercise. Or maybe he’s secretly on “our side” and doing us a deliberate solid.
I have tried for months to keep this from conflagrating. I despise conflict and will avoid it until I'm left with no other choice. I've watched certain people pick and pick and pick at this in the background until it festered. My mantra has been "move on and let it go." But that means both camps have to let it go. Not just one.
When I resigned as moderator and started a different server with GMuxx, it was because of another mod whose behavior was consistently toxic and dangerous to new users who didn't understand how he was manipulating them. Have I persisted in my crusade against him now that I no longer have to share a community with him, even though I'm absolutely certain he trashed me to everyone who would listen? Absolutely not. Did I coerce anyone into disassociating with him? Did I obtain a spoof account to publicly ridicule him and rally people into mocking him by allowing that to go on in my server unchecked? No. I did not. Yet I've witnessed this behavior in others recently, and I've witnessed other, otherwise sensible and fair-minded people overlook and even defend it.
Case in point: my posts are seldom of interest to people in the "other camp." Yet this one clearly is. By "other camp," I don't refer to people in both servers...hell, I'm still in both servers. I'm talking about those who've let themselves be co-opted into a pack mentality. Who in their right mind would think some of the behaviors in that leadership circle are in any way okay? I'm tired of my judgment being called into question when it's their toxic attitudes that are poisoning the waterhole. This never had to be "either/or." It never had to reach a point of "if you're his friend, then I'm no longer yours." Yet it did, despite all my efforts to prevent it. And that's just sad.
Their mod pit is currently on fire with rabid discussion about how best to discredit this post and gaslight you, Rhonda. It's what they have weakly and unsuccessfully tried to do to me, and it's what morally bankrupt, low integrity, basic people do. We know this, because it was just such behavior that caused the three of us to walk out in solidarity before I even knew who you even were!
Only then did that corrupt mod have his equally backstabbing girlfriend ban me and submit lies or somehow convince her fake leader to support it. The same one who had only recently before told me he could not eliminate that mod because he would lose witness votes and money over it. In his own words, now deleted and not screenshotted, but copy pasted before that to what could only now be called unconfirmable text. But it happened, and I'll happily share it for anyone demanding to see it.
There is only so much dishonesty, depravity and disgusting behavior one can observe before just being irate from a so-called leadership team that hypocritically alleges to be about peace, abundance and above all liberty, after all, when it's based on a total lie and exists only out of their personal greed for power and steem coins at any cost, using whomever they can in the process to gain either or both.
But of course, as their leader once said about Gmuxx's Multiple Sclerosis, the same disease that killed my own sister at age 50, it's probably just us, and caused by all that "negativity" in our heads.
When he said that to Gmuxx and we all saw it happen in a PAL channel in front of a team of observers, and I was reminded of my sister's own urn in that funeral home once more, let's just say that asshole is lucky he's only seen "negativity" as a result. Many a lesser person than Muxx or I, both affected in our ways both first and second hands by this grave and serious and typically terminal disease would have probably found him and beat the living positivity out of his ass.
But I suppose no one in his ignorant family ever has suffered or died from a terminal disease because it's all positively de-escalated bubbles and rainbows blowing out the asses of his relatives and kin.
But I guess when you are this sick and depraved, there is nothing you won't stoop to, eh?
If I had not seen this stuff for myself, Cork, I'd think you were being vindictive and petty and mean. Sadly, I was an eyewitness. And said nothing for all these months. And we all see where that got me.
Also, I may never quite get my head around the fact that you and I never exchanged two words to each other while we were mods there. I didn't know you. You didn't know me. So we have no history whatsoever shared there. Yet we saw the same things.
We were too busy in the books and streaming departments building stuff for them to capitalize off of, and in my case, they still do.
Most of the people there today have no idea what we did for them, back then, but the medal of honor I forced "dear leader" to split not just to me as planned but to two other mods who helped, one of whom is wonderful guy and the other of whom turned out to be completely lacking integrity and any kind of personality, is bound on the chain, as is the love letter "bromode" to me from "dear leader" which was titled as such but was really just a full scale love letter to himself with a brief mention at the end to hook to the title using my name to promote himself, as usual, as he does when he used us and so many other people to build "his" community, and his still cheesy ripoff plagiarized derivative stolen card game, lifted from a user who made the same card designs they stole the idea from who has left the chain as a result of his disgust with this chucklefuck and others like him, and all this "leaders" other shit that people do in his name lest he leverage his position to enslave them to his way of thinking by applying fear tactics to them...
A truly vapid, empty and broken, jealous little slug of a man, leading a group of kool aid swilling sheep.
It's truly sad to watch those people kneel to such a vile overlord.
I even loved one of them. Long ago a sweet and endearing person, now run away with power and drunk from the adoration. Comparing her on air voice a year plus ago to now, moved butterflies in my stomach to vomit in my mouth. I miss who she was. I wonder if she misses herself.
I need to take a break after reading this :S
I've never seen so much anger and profanities in comments! Shocking and disappointing. I don't know what all this is about or how it started, but it's no reason to go on such a flaming rampage. I hope everyone cool it and tone it down. This eclipses bernie's posts.
Drakos, I can't speak for Cork. I know he has a lot of anger, and I know a lot of it's justified. We're ultimately all responsible for our own behavior.
As for me, I sat back and watched a group of people behaving very badly and taking no responsibility for their contributions to a problem that was ongoing for a year. I got trolled pretty badly by one of these people on another post, so when he showed up here, I out-trolled him. Sure, I got flagged, but that was expected. It also goes a long way toward proving the point I made in the original post. There are some very, very bad actors on this platform who hide behind success they gained by treading on the backs of others. I do have some stories to tell. This post is as close as I've ever come to full disclosure about some of the behaviors I've seen exhibited by some very prominent people, very much at the expense of others. :-(
Anytime you want a plethora of evidence about why I am livid, you know where to find ME but good luck finding most of the respondents at all, or at least anywhere in the public's eye outside of the clueless-clique's little clubhouse...
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!popcorn
I need to order me some, too, I guess. This might get interesting. LOL!
Where's the bully "leader" fraud who routinely breaks his own "guidelines doc" now?
Yep, looks like our "pals" are gonna play their usual weak hand of "non-engagement" as they do when they have been shown for what they are... again.
No wonder they are becoming increasingly irrelevant, as their only good people get disgusted and leave to join or start other communities.
Leaving them with nothing but their ridiculous little clique of bootlickers and degenerates and their legions of 2-cent free-bot worshippers.
In truth, I was not looking for engagement here. I wasn't trying to bait anyone into a flame war. I'm more sad than angry, because I'm just so tired of being disappointed by people.
That being said, if someone had made a spoof account of my name and ridiculed me with vulgarity all over Steem, I'd be pretty angry, too. So much has happened in the background, in private rooms and dark corners, that most of the people reading this will never know about. I totally understand why you are angry, and I will be the last person to tell you publicly or privately that you have no cause to be.
The question for everyone is how to move on from here. It's clear there will never be any kind of sincere truce, not for anyone in the middle or even the periphery of that group's internal problems in 2017. From this point onward, however, I will not be silent when finger-pointing and blame is focused outward when I know darn well (and have documentation of) as much or even more bad behavior by bad actors from their own camp.
I wasn't looking for a flame war, I was looking for a fact fixing mission. As in a little bit of truth amidst the lies emanating from out of the butts of poseurs.
Yeah, I'm definitely more interested in the same thing now than I was before the Grand Edict passed down with the intent of coercing users to blacklist anyone associated with you...which includes me. And it's happened. People I had a perfectly friendly relationship with two weeks ago have unfollowed, unvoted, and completely stopped talking to me. So the gaslighting is definitely working. This makes me much less inclined to remain silent.
The gaslighting? Or the internal mafioso style coercion of the jealous and scared, controlling the actions of the afraid who haven't collectively or in most cases individually been able to achieve anything on their own.