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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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[–] Count042@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Russian propaganda as reported by... Oh, the Washington Post?

How ironic that the mod in yepowertripping mods is deleting absolutely true statements confirmed for years by trusted news sources that the mod doesn't like.

Problem is, extremists make good fighters. It's a sad truth of war that there are never any moderate rebels.

Here are the links to the truth you don't like:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/06/ukraine-military-right-wing-militias/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ukraine-turns-a-blind-eye-to-ultrarightist-militia/2017/02/12/dbf9ea3c-ecab-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html

There are a whole bunch more for anyone that cares to look.

The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

EDIT: db0, you literally deleted a comment that is true, verifiable, verified by legitimate news sources, and an issue for your current view of the war.

I can't think of a better description of power tripping. Why should anyone trust you as a moderator of this community?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

First of all, it wasn't me. Second of all, this is out of topic for this comm and we routinelly remove off-topic comments. Stick to discussing whether it's PTB or not, not geopolitics.

I'm leaving the rest of this topic up for now, but it should end here.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My apologies. I missed that Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a mod as well.

Actually reading over the modlog, and forgive me if I'm not doing it right, it appears that Unruffled was only appointed as a mod 7 hours ago. My comment was removed 2 days ago, and to my reading, that makes you the only mod.

Furthermore, the reason for the removed comment on the comment log was this:

reason: Russian propaganda talking points painting Ukraine as nazis. 

Which is not stating that the comment was removed for politics. But rather that provably true facts, as reported by the Washington Post which I've included links to, are in fact nothing more than Russian Propaganda.

Which seems pretty questionable to me. If politics and out of topic comments are the rule, fine. Those are the rules, but this doesn't seem like that. This seems like a mod, whomever it was, removing factual information that they didn't like selectively. Which seems like the definition of powertripping.

P.S. To be clear, I didn't downvote (not that it matters) your response. I do appreciate that you responded.

EDIT: FYI I'm using a browser that messes with the timezone for anti-tracking purposes. The gross time I included above may not be accurate, but the relative time between the two events should be.