Dirka Debacle

The Dirka Debacle took place on the 4th of October 2020, when Koe and Conq attempted to initiate Operation Dirka.

Lead up
Koe and Conq wanted more ideological diversity in GS, so over the course of September and early October, they prowled through various conservative discord communities. The two made it very clear that they would avoid inviting actively discriminatory people or neo-nazis and shit, and tried to find regular ol' conservatives and libertarians.

Operation Dirka was treated with suspicion by most members, and their requests to carry out the mission was denied by Cactus, who was leading GS at the time. He was deeply unwilling, and despite Koe and Conq's arguments that GS had partnered with left-wing servers in the past before and that it would therefore be unfair, he refused to allow it due to a concern that racists would join, citing previous experiences as an example. Despite his opposition, Koe and Conq began planning it anyway.

Incident
On the 4th of October 2020, Conq officially announced the start of Operation Dirka. He invited multiple people from a discord community that he and Koe had frequented. At first, most of these members were quite relaxed and connected well with those who welcomed them into GS. However, some new members began being toxic, saying the n-word and making trans suicide jokes, which made a lot of other members incredibly angry. This was exarcebated by Conq roleplaying as George Floyd while Latino played a policeman. In the admin channel, Koe asked Conq to invite fewer people to smoothen the implementation of Operation Dirka.

The next day, following the bans or voluntary exits of most who had joined, the server immediately turned against Koe and Conq. Delta described GS as "just as toxic as real time sex game", while other members screamed at the two for directly ignoring previous opposition to the plan. The two argued that not all right-wingers are racists, only that the ones they invited unfortunately were. The conversation somehow shifted to the n-word, with Conq arguing that he was unfairly treated for saying the n-word while everybody else got off scot free, which resulted in Delta muting him and everybody who had said the n-word in the past. Conq and Koe were then demoted for implementing Operation Dirka.