Jordan Lund is NOT a good human being.
Right, the Gaza Genocide isn’t US Politics… Those aren’t US made bombs being dropped with US politicians cheering them on and US diplomatic support and denial allowing the Genocide to continue. Nothing could be more salient to US politics than the ways in which the Palestinian Genocide drove us to war.
What a joke.
I feel that this situation unfortunately requires escalation and I will be directly contacting Lemmy World mods, I will update with their response.
For the record the first article about corporate complicity in the Palestinian Genocide includes references to many major US corporations, thus making it drirectly relevant to US politics at an immediate level.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/42581206
The second article about US media’s complicity in coverage over the Palestinian Genocide… do I need to actually explain how that is related to US politics? Of course it is?
https://sopuli.xyz/post/42579919
The third article is relevant because the US and Israel have been intimately interwoven in their escalation of Genocide and breaking of international norms, if a Genocide begins in Lebanon it will be a DIRECT continuation of US politics applied first in Israel and next in Lebanon. I mean what the hell we are fighting a war RIGHT NOW and this is the biggest escalation possible IN THAT WAR. How is that NOT related to US politics???
https://sopuli.xyz/post/42579757
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-replicating-its-gaza-war-tactics-lebanon
The fourth article about there being no ceasefire in Gaza, I don’t even know how to go about this one, om, it is politics involving primarily the US here? The US is the single most relevant political actor capable of changing this situation? How is this not US politics? Where can you cleanly draw a line here?
https://sopuli.xyz/post/42630002
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/there-no-ceasefire-gaza
The US is directly and intimately complicit in the Palestinian Genocide, you cannot in good conscience nor with logical consistency separate US politics cleanly from this issue, if you wanted that to be possible you should have spoken up louder against the Genocide before, now it is too late to fumble with broken stilted arguments like this. The Palestinian Genocide is US Politics, period, end of story.
Can we finally stop pretending that what we have been witnessing in Gaza over the past 22 months is a “war,” a “conflict,” or even a “humanitarian crisis”? Many of the world’s leading human rights and humanitarian groups – including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders – agreed months ago that what is being livestreamed to our phones on a daily basis is indeed a genocide.
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Trump’s Republican allies in the House and Senate are even more gung-ho. Forget complicity; Congress is filled with GOP cheerleaders for genocide, from Senators Tom “bounce the rubble in Gaza” Cotton to Lindsey “level the place” Graham. The newest member of the House, Randy Fine, a Republican representative of Florida, has called for the nuking of Gaza and said just days ago that Palestinians in Gaza should “starve away” until the Israeli hostages are all released. (A reminder that incitement to genocide is also a crime under Article III of the Genocide convention.)
But we cannot let Democrats off the hook either. The first 16 months of this mass slaughter unfolded on a Democratic president’s watch. From the get-go, Joe Biden gave Netanyahu and his cabinet of génocidaires everything they needed – 2,000-lb bombs to drop on refugee camps filled with Palestinian children? Check. UN security council vetoes to prevent the passage of resolutions calling for a permanent ceasefire? Check. The burial of internal US government reports warning of war crimes and famine in Gaza? Check.
It wasn’t just Biden. The vast majority of Democrats in Congress spent much of 2024 casting vote after vote to keep arming, funding and whitewashing the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. Even now, in the summer of 2025, seven high-profile Democratic senators were happy to take a smiling photo with Netanyahu, including the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who claims talk of genocide is antisemitic and says his job “is to keep the left pro-Israel”.
- Mehdi Hasan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/the-us-complicit-genocide-israel-gaza
Update, the admins locked the thread documenting Jordan’s power abuse. https://lemmy.world/post/44296221
Maybe @JonsJava@lemmy.world would like to share his thoughts on the admins of .world ignoring Jordan again. It’s why Jon had to take a break for months.
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Ongoing lemmy.world support for removal of Jordan, where people are claiming ignorance of his actions.
Edit: admins locked the thread. Expect no change from .world or Jordan.
If people would block his communities, this drama could be avoided. But most people—especially new people—don’t know, and many don’t care. The content of those communities is roughly the same as on corporate social media, so nothing appears amiss to those coming from places like Reddit.
And the .world admins locked the thread about documenting his actions. What a shock.
Ah Jordan back to his old tricks I see.
In case anyone’s still on the fence re: this guy, a year ago I banned Jordanlund from our transgender comm for linking a Matt Walsh video, mocking people with neo/xeno pronouns. (idk why else someone would post that in a trans community)
He proceeded to ban me from news@lemmy.world in retaliation.
PTB through and through.
https://www.opb.org/news/series/racenw/race-northwest-united-states-jordan-lund-portland/
And despite his politics, he struggles to find sympathy or kinship with the Black Lives Matter marchers who occasionally disrupt his commute home to protest police violence.
omg I read this at the time and then totally memory holed its existence, ty!
Still, Lund said he doesn’t see much racism in his day-to-day life. He’s certainly never experienced it.
“Against me? No. The differentiator I experience is because I’m male. I’ve had a lot of anti-male sentiment. I lost a job because of it. Because somebody didn’t like having talking to a guy. Such is life.”
I am begging jordan to please consider that the problems he runs into are not due to misandry and minorities speaking up too much; it’s almost certainly just his behavior
They are also on the usa is arming and supporting Israel but not the genocide, thats the Isreali government taking advantage of those poor USA politicians
Deeply unserious, incurious, dull, obtuse self-awarewolf.
I love Lemmy.world, it has the most varied politics, and many really good coms. But it is such a pain watching the admins just let this shit continue and propaganda propagate from fools who think they are more right and have the power to silence others.
Going against the grain here: YDI.
It’s clear there’s a disagreement on what constitutes US politics. It’s clear that jordanlund takes a more “US explicit/internal politics” approach, versus your “the US supports Israel, so whatever Israel does genocide-wise is also US politics”. I can understand your position here, but given that the distinction is being made to keep the contents of a community focused on a specific subject, I fear your interpretation widens the definition of “US politics” so much it becomes largely meaningless, as the overlap with the world news community becomes extremely large. If Mexico arrests some drug baron, does this also belong in US politics since a lot of US policies affect the cartels as well? In jordanlunds position, a narrower definition is taken to focus the posts subject-wise.
Regardless, it’s okay to disagree on things, especially those as trivial as “which community should this article be posted in”. On this matter, jordanlund has taken what is basically the mildest of actions possible: a simple message redirecting you to the world news community, so it can be posted there as they deemed it should go there instead.
But instead of just posting it there, you’ve posted another 5 articles with the same kind of link to US politics, which jordanlund obviously also removed. Despite repeated reminders to post in world news instead, you kept going and this eventually landed you a short temp ban.
I disagree with your assessment that you’re being “silenced”, since you were asked to post in a different com with similar levels of engagement. Your visibility isn’t suffering because of that. Posts with the same viewpoints, but a more direct link to US politics were kept up (and jordanlund even complimented you on it, saying it was a very good post). Additionally, jordanlund has expressed very similar viewpoints as your own regarding US complicity in the Gaza genocide and assorted Israeli warcrimes. Your only real disagreement seems to be the definition of US politics (and as a consequence: what goes in which community), but there doesn’t seem to be any dispute regarding the facts or even a meaningful difference in views on the genocide. Frankly, you calling them a bad human being because of such a frankly petty disagreement seems like an overreaction to me.
I think it’s fine to discuss what constitutes US politics and perhaps jordanlund should also further clarify the rules to remove the “politics” ambiguity. But the actions from the modlog are consistent with their explanation of the rules, you were very mildly handled and even in this thread jordanlund has managed to stay (mostly) civil towards you.
Not every mod is perfect, and jordanlund certainly has made their share of mistakes before, but in this case I’d lean more towards YDI than PTB.
I don’t agree with him but ultimately YDI. He didn’t even ban you until you doubled down. Just go post in world lmfao. Or make your own sub. I think your post is fine. Maybe make use of the momentum of a ptb post to make your own comm? Otherwise this post is completely pointless. People have been railing against JordanLund’s moderation since I joined like over a year ago.
JordanLund is also a ptb. Both things can be true. Send the downvotes. Just stop whining and maybe do something productive like make your own comm, talkin’ about some “i’m gonna escalate this to the admins🤓☝️” shit is incredibly embarrassing lmao.
Edit: oh hey btw if any of the losers I was arguing with yesterday are wondering, I think I got banned for asserting there was a genocide in china, but idrk. Not terminally online enough to have alts to make my own comm and check stuff like that.
But for the person who was defending the mistreatment of the Ughyurs as “terrible but not genocide” and is “more like what America does to its POC”… that’s not a defense, and I’m willing to argue that we are indeed committing black genocide in America lmfao.
Yeah, that was one of the first communities I ever blocked after this guy went full reddit and decided to make the “politics@world” community US only.
I have three communities blocked on all the Fediverse. One is bot spam. Another is /c/politics
It’s amusing that they’re concerned about Palestinian articles when they could not care less about source quality. I thought the mods were MIA. Most top posts are tabloids, last I checked.
I’m split on this one.
On the one hand, I’m no fan of the mod and I support Palestine.
On the other hand, that comm is like a spam folder for political bullshit. It’s all about “Chuck Schumer SLAMS Trump” or “What AOC Did At The Democrat Dinner Will Shock You!”… Just let the garbage be garbage. Post in a better comm.
On the other hand, that comm is like a spam folder for political bullshit. It’s all about “Chuck Schumer SLAMS Trump” or “What AOC Did At The Democrat Dinner Will Shock You!”
No disagreement that it’s a trash community with trash content, but it might be worth asking if the community is shit because the moderator is making it shit
Agreed.
But the annoying part is how many upvotes they get. It’s hard to ignore because the clickbait rises to the top of feeds.
When you ban anyone observant enough to recognize genocide and its supporters for what they are, all you have left is vapid surface-level SLAMS shit.
Jordan Lund is a zionist propogandist who casually abuses people on the site with his mod authority for his own political bias. Unless he’s literally hosting lemmy.world himself, someone has some explaining to do around why that absolute shitbag of a human being is a mod on so many threads. He needs to be removed and banned.
Never forget: White Progressive [sic] Discovers Portland’s Unwanted Reputation
Jordan Lund describes himself as “the whitest guy you’re going to know.”
“Politically I am incredibly liberal. My biggest problem voting for Hillary Clinton is that she’s entirely too conservative.”
Race isn’t something Lund thinks about often. He knows Oregon has a troubled history — that for generations, people of color weren’t even allowed to own land here. But from his vantage point — he works in tech in downtown Portland — that’s the stuff of history lessons.
“The thing I learned growing up as a kid was certain cities in Oregon had the sign at the border saying, ‘Don’t let the sun set on you in our town.’ Grants Pass used to do that. I don’t believe they still do. That was always prominent, but it was always portrayed as the old school rules that don’t apply anymore, like ‘women can’t wear pants.’ It was wacky laws from before I was born, never really thought it would still apply,” he said.
Except, those laws continue to resonate, generations later. They impact the way Oregon looks – Portland is one of the whitest cities in the country, and Oregon is one of the whitest states. And they impact the way the rest of the country sees this place Lund loves so.
As a progressive – as a guy who would rather pick U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders or California Gov. Jerry Brown for president – that lack of diversity bothers him. Still, Lund said he doesn’t see much racism in his day-to-day life. He’s certainly never experienced it.
“Against me? No. The differentiator I experience is because I’m male. I’ve had a lot of anti-male sentiment. I lost a job because of it. Because somebody didn’t like having talking to a guy. Such is life.”
Lund doesn’t like the rhetoric of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. He recognizes that his own industry has a diversity problem when it comes to both people of color and women. And he worries about his adopted hometown — but for reasons other than racial tensions.
“I think Portland had a variety of problems. Race is definitely one of them, yes. But I don’t know that we could classify it as the most important problem. if you look at the homeless situation, there’s definitely an income inequality problem, a mental health problem. there are a whole lot of more pressing problems besides race.”
And despite his politics, he struggles to find sympathy or kinship with the Black Lives Matter marchers who occasionally disrupt his commute home to protest police violence.
“I do pay attention to them. I think primarily as somebody who works in downtown we tend to be aware of things like that more because of the disruption it causes. I don’t think the disruption they do is particularly productive. It takes people who would ordinarily be on their side and go, why are they doing this to us? The Portland Police didn’t shoot anybody recently that I’m aware of. If they want to be productive in their protests, they should go to where these events are happening.”
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FYI according to world admins it’s apparently up to the mods of each comm to deal with all his rule breaking and shitty mod behaviors
https://lemmy.world/post/36621226
Basically the admins want to make it seem like they care but they absolutely don’t give a shit how terrible he is
I can’t imagine being in the anarchist comms and being upset that world admins won’t do something about a community you can just not participate in. The whole point is making your own with blackjack and hookers. If everyone is so pissed about Jordan Lund then just make your own fucking comm so I don’t have to see another ptb post about the same shit.
Just like Reddit basically.
LW in a nutshell, soon to be piefed in a nutshell
I think they have a piefed instance too, piefed.world. No doubt they have every shitty anti-features in piefed enabled there.
You mean the social credit score that makes it so if liberals disagree with you that you’re shadow banned?
Or the obfuscation of what’s allowed because it scans all images uploaded?
Or any of the horrid things Rimu does because he’s never blamed for the poor chickens and horribly written code?
If someone has a PieFed.world or .social I just know they hate brown people and communists more than they hate fascists.
If someone has a PieFed.world or .social I just know they hate brown people
Sorry, where does this come from?
Probably feelings from some of the users there and rimu
I think it’s all the above really.
Edit: Just noticed that my comment dropped the s from anti-features, oops.
Insanity of saying the US fueled, funded, and permitted (with the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA even going so far as to say he will help Israel “do what they need to do”) genocide in Gaza isn’t US politics aside, why the fuck would you name your com “politics” and not allow politics from the hundreds of other countries?
Name your damn com US politics then, and maybe learn about the impacts of US foreign policy and recognize that the imperial hegemonic effects of the USs actions actually are US politics.
JFC that’s a stupid com.
It honestly hurts my brain and I would be more inclined to laugh about it if it didn’t hurt my heart so badly to see discussion of the Palestinian Genocide so clearly silenced by people like Jordan Lund.
See you guys next week when our reoccurring character makes his blunder again.
