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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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I didn't make it in the screenshot 😔
I also got banned for that LMFAO
"We're good and you're bad"
Holy shit lmao you can't write irony this good.
Just for the lols, someone try asking them if they're pro-Russian
They 100% are, and tell you that they don't actually support Russia but have a "temporary ally" against the capitalist super power... Blablabla...
In the end they support the genocide in Ukraine, hate that genocide in Palestine and generally cherry pick what they seem fascist (the US and Europe) and what not (China, while Russia is temporarily fascist, but that's okay because of reasons).
Those guys were never politically active in the real world. It's super sad, because deep inside they are on the right track. They just would change one (capital fascist) system by stalinism (which they call communism).
Very beautifully written!
There's a theory that the horrible grammar of the Nigerian email scams that gave them away helped them because it automatically helped filter out the people who could have given them the most trouble and would have been the easiest to scam. The same applies to here.
LOL I knew that and they still use similar techniques in the Calcutta Call Centers today, but I never thought about it applied to really anything else, you're probably right.
Oh it's irony you wanted?
What the hell is going on with that community? :D
Hahaha this comm's mods are on the sauce, this is insane.
"Alright you're banned for a month for being an uncivil asshole, but when you get back I'll make your uncivil ass a mod."
I'm the other mod of that sub. Alphanerd was allowed to come back as a mod provisionally as he was the creator of the community and the most active. He chose to waste that opportunity and is no longer a mod.
Kudos. FYI they seem to have defaced your sidebar.
Lol. That's actually hilarious.
I'm having a very hard time believing this isn't ironic.
What is usually the case?
I'm saying that the mod is being too ridiculous to actually be serious, they must be trolling.
Also, the school system was supposed to teach me critical thinking?! I thought that's what video games were for...
Lol, the US has more prisoners than any other country on earth, it maintains torture black sites all over the world, it's currently actively helping to exterminate an entire country. The only reason you could say it's not authoritarian is because, in practice, "authoritarian" just means "an enemy of the USA"
I find that that's usually the case for most people. The part of the school system that was responsible for teaching them critical thinking skills really failed them. It's also why people try to dumb down politics into one of two sides, it's why our government will always inevitably fail. This guy is using the authoritarian label because that's as far as his understanding of politics go. The US is an oligarchy, the US is imperialist, the US is nepotistic, but it is not authoritarian, yet.
Having said that, there are groups certainly interested in claiming that so that the authoritarian label means less for other nations, the sort of nations they want to defend. Given the submissions in that "community", I would say this is the case here. People who really are against authoritarians and who might believe the US to be wouldn't go and whitewash other authoritarian states. This community is a manifestation of whataboutism propaganda IMO.
The US deserves criticism, but if you really want to make it, I would encourage avoiding places with an underlying agenda like this one. In case you disagree with me, you can test it out easily for yourself, just post there and compare the US to other countries you would consider de facto authoritarian states, and see which countries they have a problem with you bringing up for comparison.
The US is authoritarian in the form of inverted totalitarianism.
We don’t live under the dictatorship of the US government as would be traditional authoritarianism, we live under the dictatorship of capital which effectively owns the US government and controls the population by force.
You shouldn’t of gotten banned for that but at the same time mods have the right to protect their communities from people who argue in bad faith and given this is the internet it’s safe to assume bad faith. (Even if you weren’t)
Edit: it’s interesting that myself and a bunch of other queers have a very different opinion on what authoritarianism looks like compared to the average (straight male). I bet our life experience has nothing to do with it and we’re all just over sensitive whiners 🙄
Edit 2: I fucking hate liberals. Bunch a brainwashed la la land dwellers. China bad! USA good! 🦅🦅🦅🦅 (nobody mentioned China but glad it lives rent free in your head)
Bad faith....
Ok so then this is in bad faith, and so is the above. Guess we all get bans in order to "protect" communities from checks notes differing opinions.
You don’t have the right to be in spaces that aren’t yours. You’re a guest. If they don’t like what you’ve got to say for whatever reason they have the right to ask you to leave. I’m not on world because they’re a bunch of liberals with barely two brain cells clicking together between the lot of them.
no, I've got a right to free speach and if I dare think your holy communist china is actually a very shitty and authoritarian nation, I should be able to say so politely
Uh I don’t give a fuck about China, although looking at their quality of life vs that of the US there’s something going very wrong in the US.
I’m an anarchist. Both countries are authoritarian to me.
> Both countries are authoritarian to me.
lmao, explain to me please how any state can be not authoritarian
I do give a fuck about china tho, since it's even worse than the us imo and people on lemmy try to glorify it constantly
Reading comprehension is not your strong suit. China for all its faults doesn’t have military bases by the hundreds around the world, doesn’t invade other countries to force adherence to its petrodollar, and has an incredibly obvious higher standard of living for the average Chinese person compared to the average American. Is the average Chinese person rationing their diabetes medication?
Just because someone coined the term in 2003 doesn't mean there were better terms to address it, and frankly, adding an adjective onto a term that doesn't really fit it doesn't really change the fact that it is not authoritarian. In other words, I inverted agree with you.
I also got inverted banned by them. Meaning I was never banned from the community because I never participated in it, but I was in the totalitarian aspects that their ideology would have constrained with my liberty of expression. Or something. An inverted something. I just checked in case a sudden one had popped up over there, and the most recent ban I have are from several lemmy.ml communities because of how I offended their dear Kim Jong-un by reporting on one of his bans in a way that was not in accordance with the state sanctioned inverted liberty protocols.
🙄
I’ve always been weary of that community. It had some tankie mod vibes.
That mod has been removed. Send me a link to the comment that got you banned and I will remove your ban.