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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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Nope, has to be specifically targetted at them for being trans for it to meet my logic.
Which is what you said is the reason for it. Therefore your logic shows he is one
No, it's what I said Mia said is the reason for it. Keep up.
Correct. You agree that Mia thinks rimu was taking actions to silence trans people or attack them for being pro-trans.
Nope, logic was if the action did it then that mean it was what happened not the words used.
Again we get back to all of this is an admin describing the instance that was attacked.
Now you've spent what 50 comments trying to deflect from what actions actually happened, which pale to the transphobe claims.
I just find it funny this is the only defense for an epic self inflicted crashout on rimus part.
The logic Mia is using, correct. Hence why I said she believes it was what happened.
Nope, I've spent 50 comments not letting you lie about what I said.
I thought we were debating what rimu did not you.
Although funny to say that when just quoting you.
We were debating what I claimed Mia said about what rimu did.
Nope been about how silly the crash out and how only get defenders distracting
So you concede that Mia did in fact say she thinks rimu is a transphobe.
Unless you have more than the instance description fuck no
So then we try this again. Here is the claim, tell me whether you agree or disagree with this claim:
So you are claiming rimu is a transphobe and was silencing people now?
Let's try again.
Here is the claim, tell me whether you agree or disagree with this claim:
Simple "agree" or "disagree".
No the claim is you still deflecting.
Again is there anything other than the instance description used?
Yes there is, but you won't answer this simple question that demonstrates it (of course we know why you won't answer).
But I'll ask again, so you're on the record as dodging again:
Here is the claim, tell me whether you agree or disagree with this claim:
Simple “agree” or “disagree”.
Then please present it.
I love you are trying to make people sound like a transphobe
Happy to. But for it to be understood, one would need to agree to the broader claim I proposed above. Are you okay to move into the demonstration with the assumption that you agree with that broader claim? Or do we need to understand what you disagree with about it?