So you don’t think it’s a big deal that you created a fake account, using my username, which resulted in created a false narrative of what I post and believe?

You helped give the false impression that I’m a republican capitalist. (I’m actually a socialist.)

And again, I’m more interested in WHY you did it. What were you thinking? Were you hoping I would get banned? Were you hoping I would leave Lemmy? And why were you so mad at me in the first place that you would do that? I never had any negative interactions with you before this.

No, YOU created that trolling profile on YOUR instance. You admitted it. You said, "A while back I made a spoof account called Universal Crunk. It used his same avatar but photoshopped to be flashing cash in front of the Raytheon HQ, wearing Ray-Bans and a Yankees hat, and smoking crack; the profile bio was the standard one he uses but his the language was changed to be praise of crypto, defense contractors, and hedge funds. I made one comment and within about 2 minutes it was nuked.” https://sopuli.xyz/comment/22177256

And I spoke to your admins about it. You didn’t call it Universal Crunk. You called it Universal Monk. I found the profile. You even went so far as to falsely claim it was the Real Universal Monk. There is no profile for anything/anyone called Universal Crunk. You straight up used my username to troll the fediverse.

My question is, why? Why did you feel the need to create that account? Creating mock accounts to impersonate people on the fediverse is bad faith. And a lot of people did that to me, which created a false narrative. You were part of that false narrative.

Many of the things they say I did, were actually done by false accounts like yours.

So I’d like to know why you made a troll account about me? Why were you so pissed that I voted third party in the election, that you created a fake account to troll me?

I know ya said you made trolled me using Universal Crunk, but you also did this, UniversalMonk
@sopuli.xyz

Care to explain?

How was I rude?

Well, my gf won’t let me kiss you or have “pax” with you.

But we can for sure be friends. I have no ill will towards you, friend.

It’s just that the rhetoric you were promoting about me was false, and when fake/troll/mock accounts are made to impersonate me, it’s not great for communication. Lemmy needs to grow and in order to do that, it needs to be more welcoming and less angry.

We may not agree on lots of things, but maybe we can agree to stay out of each other’s way. Thank you for replying and I wish ya well, friend.

So far, @pimento64@sopuli.xyz, refuses to discuss and just resorted to name-calling.

Thanks, mate! I can’t take credit for production, my kiddo is in charge and plays the uke and bass. We record in living room w his mic, then he mixes everything on mac laptop and his desktop for the bigger stuff. When we go into a real studio for the real stuff, Suncrest Studios are the production engineers in my city that we go to. But these little things I’m posting here aren’t justified for the pro studio time/costs tho.

If you are referring to me, it’s not expensively-produced. It’s on my mac. And I have toured in my little area, but not with these songs.

Nah. I’m old (as in I coulda banged your grandma when she was still considered hot old). I’ve been writing and making music since before you were born.

On Lemmy, people seem to think that everything sounds and looks like ai slop lately. lolol Is this how lemmy is gonna do now? EVERYTHING is ai slop?!

I’ve seen photos, news articles, songs, music, posts, everything… and people just say “ai slop!” for all of it now.

But you can totally say it sucks and sound sucks since it’s me and a mac. Cuz it is pretty sucky. I don’t care tho! Between my name/rep and my shit skills, I expect no love. You shoulda heard it before I just did it with uke. The cringe was much stronger! lol

So all good, friend! Nothing phases me. And I’ll keep posting. Thanks! :)

And it sucks that today’s young workers don’t realize the strength of unions.

Well, well, well. Looks like the Dems gave in to the Repubs. Again.

So ya’ll ready for a third party yet? Or ya just gonna keep trying to silence third party supporters on Lemmy?

I’ve been saying it for over a year now, have never ever changed my tune: Fuck the Duopoly, vote third party. If enough do, then third party becomes viable. Check my post histories on all the instances I have my name on, including .world (who banned me for voting 3rd party).

But nooooo, you all tried to ban me, tried to slience me, tried to bully me. Didn’t work. I voted third party (Socialist) in the presidential election of 2024, voted third party in most recent 2025 elections. Proud then. Proud now. Laughed then. Laughing now. Suckers! :)

Yep. I have guns, mostly for home defense. Nothing I’ve really had to think about too much tho. Go to the range every 6 months or so just to kinda keep up.

I’ve recently decided to take them more seriously. Stocked up on ammo. I’m gonna go to the range monthly now.

I don’t have any idea on what will happen with the US. But something is gonna happen. Things’ll probably get worse before they get better.

And I’m gonna be prepared. I live in a gun-friendly state, so it’s easier. I’m definitely taking full advantage of my rights while we have them.

Exactly! And it’s beautiful!

Aliens!

Bruh, don’t even get me started down that hole. I could talk about aliens and ancient artifacts forever! haha

Me too. I was hoping for some deep dive into Morse code, some cool cryptography, and stuff. Maybe I’ll do a deep dive into it on my own.

This is AWESOME! Thank you!

Thank you for this. I am new to the hobby, so this is great content!

Working class ready to resist
“Capitalism thrives on divisions among workers that hinder our ability to stand together and fight for higher wages and safer working conditions,” Mailhot said. “That’s why the Socialist Workers Party calls for amnesty for all immigrants living and working in the United States. That’s the only way to unite the working class to better be able to fight.”

“As the crisis of capitalism bears down harder on millions today, the working class shows it is ready to resist,” Mailhot said. He pointed to the Air Canada flight attendants, who defied a government order to return to work. Their powerful strike action convinced the union leadership to not give in, saying they’d go to jail if they had to. Now workers have a better understanding of their power, Mailhot said.

The contract the union leadership agreed to is far short of what workers were fighting for and felt their struggle was capable of achieving, Mailhot said. That was made clear by workers’ 99% rejection of the wage raise, the only part of the contract the workers got to vote on. Many Air Canada flight attendants say they have a new found appreciation of themselves and their ability to fight, and millions of other workers took notice. “That is the victory of this important struggle,” Mailhot said.

Mailhot pointed to many Labor Day activities this year that reflected the importance of the fight to unify the working class through support for the rights of immigrant workers. The SWP participated in these events across the country, raising a working-class road forward. The party explains why workers need to break from the parties of the bosses — Democrats, Republicans and any others — and fight for the working class to take political power.

Many workers welcomed this discussion, as they talked about their own battles over wages and working conditions at the companies where they work.

One participant asked what the SWP hopes to accomplish through its election campaigns.

“The Socialist Workers Party uses the increased interest of workers in politics during the elections to point to the examples already set by the working class throughout its history,” Mailhot explained. “We especially point to the two great revolutions of our epoch, in Russia in 1917 and in Cuba in 1959, when the working class took power, and used the power of the state not to defend an exploiting class, but to defend the toilers who have absolutely no material interest in exploiting and oppressing others.

We ask workers to join the SWP, he said, and to help fight for workers power, unleashing the tremendous capacities of working people to solve every question, to put an end to discrimination and national oppression, to eliminate the source of war, and eliminate the massive buildup of the means of destruction underway today.

The SWP is the party of today’s working-class struggles and the future of humanity.

HOOPESTON, Ill. — “We stuck together and stood strong and now we’re more united than we were before,” Beatrice Marmolejo told the Militant. She’s a forklift driver at Teasdale Latin Foods here, where 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 struck the company for three months. They won a new union contract Aug. 29.

Workers at the Hoopeston plant can, pack, and distribute a variety of beans that are sold under the Teasdale brand, as well as under store brands at Walmart, Giant, Aldi, Jewel and other chains.

The union won an immediate 5% wage increase and a 17% overall increase over the four-year contract. They also won 40 additional hours of paid time off a year. “We also stopped the company from using ‘management rights’ to hire nonunion contractors in the plant,” Marmolejo said.

The bosses hoped to demoralize the strikers by using scabs to keep production going, but the union kept the picket lines up around the clock seven days a week. “At one point the wind even blew away our tent,” she said, “but that didn’t stop us.”

Solidarity came in from all across the country, Donna Strawser, a worker with nine years in the plant, said. “We had people from the BCTGM in Kentucky, Iowa, California, Michigan, Ohio and more come to back us up.”

Juan “Chico” Lugo, a picket captain with 26 years in the plant, said, “Whenever we started to feel a bit down, another local would show up and give us a pep talk. That really helped.”

“The Teamsters were awesome in supporting us,” said Strawser. The Teamsters organize the company’s distribution workers, who work in a building next to the cannery. “As long as we had our pickets at the warehouse they would sign in with their union rep and refuse to cross the line, and they got strike benefits from their union.”

The Teamsters union also covered the cost of BCTGM strikers’ health insurance. “We couldn’t have won a contract without their solidarity,” Strawser said.

In the last few weeks, the union launched a campaign called “Who’s Cooking the Beans?” leafleting at Walmart and other stores to let workers and customers know about the strike and the company’s use of scabs.

The union also succeeded in beating back the company’s demand to institute a two-tier wage scale, Lugo said. “But the new contract does change the work schedules from four 10- to 12-hour days to five eight-hour days with three shifts, something the union opposed,” he said. Workers are concerned the company will find ways to use the new schedule to impose forced overtime.

“We got most of what we wanted, not everything,” Strawser said. “But we’re going back stronger and united.”

“These hard-working members put it all on the line in their fight for a fair contract,” BCTGM International President Anthony Shelton said in the BCTGM blog post issued on Labor Day. “This settlement is the result of their dedication and the solidarity of the labor movement and the community.”