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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Original Post (by mod !Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus): https://lemmy.ml/post/51590161

My comment that got me banned:

Remind me which nations have their capitalists leashed and which nations are leashed by their capitalists again?

Mod's response:

China Tobacco is so powerful it prevented the CCP from instituting smoking bans for years, all because it pays for the entire Chinese military budget. get the fuck out of here with that capitalist propaganda bullshit, campist.

My response I would have posted:

What in your view is the correct alternative to "campism"?

Also, your counterexample is literally a state-owned enterprise? Doesn't sound like unleashed Capital to me.

I don't think there is any rule in the sidebar that could be stretched to justify the ban.

My final thought is:

We share the same anti-imperial goals. I think your side should consider whether you have been duped by the very state powers you live under into hating the nations that should be your greatest allies in the fight.

P.S.S.

I don't have to agree with everything China does, and I don't. I don't think they have a good tobacco policy. I think they cater too much to cultural reactionaries. I think they allowed 996/hustle culture to get out of control and aren't reining it in seemingly at all.

But if we're going to honestly talk about China we have to also address the industrial/economic "miracle", the elimination of homelessness and extreme poverty, world-leading education, and "whole process people's democracy" (and the extremely high legitimacy it has among the actual Chinese citizenry)

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I gotta err on YDI with this one.

You went hard in a meme community that specifically has rules against what you did. Like, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, it doesn't even matter that the mod was a prick about it (though that would usually lean harder to PTB in a borderline issue) and breaking their own rules by doing so.

I sympathize to some degree since a ban is a tad harsh for a first offense when the fediverse is harder to verify rules in than reddit was/is. But it's on the user to do so, or accept the consequences when we don't. I've had bans for just that reason; didn't mean to cause a problem, but didn't verify rules. You gotta suck it up and move on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't say a ban is a harsh result, they literally went into the comm with the intent to violate the rules, then sealioned. "Fuck off, troll" is usually what you write in the modlogs on that