Much of the money wouldn’t have been ‘on-hand’. When their employer (a claimant to the Persian throne) died, so too did all of his social pull and contacts. Also, during the Battle of Cunaxa, the encampment was captured, where any of the money that was present would have plundered by the enemy.

They were paid on the way, but when their employer died, so too did their pay! On the way back, they were unpaid, and only survived by looting, extorting, and scavenging along the way.

A ‘vexillation’ is a detachment.

What if you get hundreds of thousands of subs

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Dammit!

I bet in regular conversation on the topic of dragons nobody is going to lose their shit about you reminding people a dragon is a mythical creature.

But if you put it in context of this person it becomes mockery and that’s not cool.

Likewise, in regular conversation on the topic of the earth, no one is going to lose their shit over me reminding people the world is round.

But saying it to a flat-earther, it takes on a very different tone.

But both of those examples fail to fully encapsulate what is being shown here - these posts in the OP? They’re all from a thread in which drag is not a participant, in a comm where drag is literally banned. This is not even “Don’t tell flat-earthers the earth is round”, this is “Don’t ever suggest that flat-earth isn’t valid”.

Honestly, I didn’t care until the admins got involved. I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned drag in anything other than passing before this. Now that the admins are saying that denying that dragonfucker is a gender or that dragons exist is a removable and bannable offense? Not feeling like sticking around on Blahaj after that, unfortunately.

Going to see if 196 on .world is available.

I pretty distinctly remember the vegans leaving because their primary complaint was about the admin taking action.

Removed by mod

Sure thing!

I don’t often block users, but I don’t see how this issue isn’t just tied to a single one who would be better off blocked.

That’s the problem with precedents. Especially when the precedent is established with a user whose behavior is already quite… non-ideal.

I’ll be sad to see you go, especially over this 😞

Yeah, I’m not thrilled either. I enjoyed Femcelmemes very much. I hope your community continues thriving!

Like I said, Ada et co absolutely have the right to cultivate the community they want to see. I legitimately wish them the best.

I’ve had some bad run-ins with Lemmy.world mods, certainly, but the admins seem overall fine, if amateurish. They generally take into account feedback and try to provide the full rundown of any actions taken. When one of the admins crossed a line of participation/moderation/administration in the recent vegan cats debacle, they chose to clarify and have the admin admit wrongdoing.

Far from perfect, but they’re tolerable.

If it was banned for incivility, that would have been one thing. But it was banned for ‘gatekeeping’. Writing on the wall, and all that jazz.

That is some comfort!

Sorry about that.

Guess it doesn’t matter over-much. Just felt sad about it and felt the need to make one last post.

Removed by mod

Apparently they are included, by the actions of the admins in the linked thread.

Some people might be fucking around, but drawing a line in the sand like that is going to inevitably invalidate people with legitimate identities.

All concepts are just lines in the sand, even down into STEM. Lines have to be drawn somewhere. The question is whether the new line drawn or erased disrupts other lines, who it benefits, and what it’s worth. I happen to have a very low opinion of the idea that gender is entirely arbitrary and without any line in the sand, and that “I identify as an attack helicopter” is not a conservative defamation of the trans and NB community, but a legitimate point of view.

And if you really don’t want to use them, it’s super easy to just ignore.

The commenter was removed and banned for disagreeing with the concept that dragonfucker is a gender. On the meta comm for the instance. Under a post by the main admin.

Idk if I’ve ever even had to refer to someone with third person pronouns on Lemmy.

Dragonfucker has been banned from a number of communities for insisting on just that.

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