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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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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I get the ironic angle of the mod being "authoritarian" but that's their space and if they decide they don't want to deal with trolls arguing about they can ban people.

Just like trans communities can and should ban people who just want to argue about if trans people are real. If you try to argue against it you're just being a dick and distracting from the point of the community.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

How was OP trolling? They simply called out the strawman in the OOP

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If the point of a community is spreading misinformation, you have a moral obligation to distract from the point of the community

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Are you suggesting America isn't authoritarian?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

The gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

idk about that specifically, I was making a general statement about the behaviors of this genre of online community

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state.

Do you think it is?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

why prison pop is so high then?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

how is that different from "an authoritarian state"

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz -1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, further proof that the word "authoritarian" is just a meaningless snarl word for foreign adversaries.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They have a larger prison population then any other country and spend more on military than the next several countries combined

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

at least the us doesn't have concentration camps ig

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

US prisons are not far off what with the forced labor and high death rates.

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, ik and I hate both the us and china, I just can't stand it when people claim that the us is the worse than china, which isn't true since in the us you at least get free speach and the right to own a gun

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The US only has forced labor programs in dangerous work conditions

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

don't know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 weeks ago

They're currently putting out the California fire, you cant get much more dangerous

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 2 weeks ago

Are you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And does that apply to when transphobes decide that trans people being real is "misinformation"?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, because it's not. Truth is not subjective.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For future reference if you find yourself saying this phrase you've already lost the argument

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool, but idk since the truth isn't subjective and the truth is I'm right.