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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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oh hey I just saw that. You went into an anarchist space because there was a mean meme about communism and decided to praise China.
Also rule five:
Womp womp
Well it’s not a mean meme about communism. It’s a meme about the fact that China isn’t communist.
So far the threatened mockery has been underwhelming to be honest.
Regarding the "anarchist space":
I don't even bother engaging with the libs, for one thing they usually put "no tankies" in the sidebar so I block the community and move on. I have found the anarchists on lemmy to be much more open to honest discussion, BUT with some of the same Western brainworms about geopolitical adversaries.
If you folks literally don't ever want to have this discussion, you too can put "no tankies" in the sidebars and myself and others will not engage in your threads.
Is that the Fediverse you want to inhabit? Seems boring to me
it's literally a comm about pissing off people who aren't anarchists, why did you think somebody who wasn't an anarchist would enjoy the content?
There are plenty of memes on ML's meme comm that are flamebait, as we all know it generates lots of engagement
I'm not arguing with your decision to post, I'm disagreeing with the content of the meme
Why does that merit moderation action?
moderation? woah woah woah woah comrade, we don't do that authcom thoughtcrime stuff here. I just disassociated with you, giving you the freedom to seek posting opportunities elsewhere.
I will not argue with your implicit decision not to have a real discussion
The comm literally says no serious discussion in the rules.
Well this comment thread is happening in YPTB, in either case why are you both dancing around the question of moderation instead of just saying what kind of speech you think should be allowed in your spaces?
Not sure what you think I am dancing around I dont moderate anything. Why do you think you can demand serious discussion in any space you enter?
"Demand" lol.
By all means be as unserious as you like but I personally am disinterested
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Seems like you are very interested and are still confused why nobody took you seriously on the anarchist shitposting comm.
You can have it all to yourselves
As long as we dont piss you off so.you come knockin', right? This whole thing is so confusing. Why even comment in the first place if this is your reaction? I hang with the bears all the time but dont go in there like "why is nobody hating states with me? I specifically commented!" Lmao
I'm not even sure what kind of dance we're doing here.
J'accuse the mod of banning for questioning CIA propaganda.
No one has substantively addressed that claim, and I'm not interested in participating in communities moderated by useful idiots for the intel state
I thought the Lemmy anarchists were better than that (hence the post here) but it's looking like not
Decolonization starts at the mind. You know they control all the media outlets and NGOs and think tanks and influencers that you listen to, yet you think you are somehow above their influence
Theres no claim to address, you took a shit post seriously and then wanted to have a serious discussion about it. Thats really all that happened. Do I agree with the post? Not 100%, but its a shitpost, its not here for truth.
I engaged with flamebait and got banned. Caught red-handed doing literal PTB the mod is now retreating to diversionary absurdism and you are running the same playbook as well
"It's your fault for thinking there should be rules governing moderation decisions" is honestly such an embarrassing take from both of you. It certainly illustrates where everyone stands
What the fuck does this mean? Dude its simple.
Do you not fucken see this? Like if I walked into some place that said "No pissing on the floor" and I walked in there and pissed on the floor, I'm not going to be wondering why the fuck I got kicked out. So why are you?
You were told both rules you broke. If you dont want to accept that then ok.