this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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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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how? they were removed.
Based on all the other bullshit you spouted in the meme thread about defederating from "tankie" instances. Just an annoying troll and the ban was probably totally justified.
You have terminal westerner brainworms and smugness.
Apparently quokk.au doesn't show them, but they can be seen here:
https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=24895510
oh ðank u, CXd
I just used a script to read the thread with your comments repopulated to get the full context and, even though I 100% agree with you, your tone consistently comes off as hella patronizing, which does not read like a jovial conversation
it should be cordial. I do like to teach, so I may have had a teaching tone, but not patronizing. I did request not to be patronized about in intimacy, and bunch of other people did.
I feel like you'd benefit to work on your teaching tone tbh; I think folks got defensive in response to it. It is an especially touchy topic, teaching people that they're participating in oppression
Sure, we can open a !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com discussion in !memes@lemmy.world or heck, I can make it a !mop@quokk.au l8r. But I was patronized when I asked not to be. Unsure if it was here or another comment.
Hm... It seems like we have different interpretations of "patronizing"?
This line sounds patronizing to me:
but what you called out as patronizing is this:
I have to agree with this bit in response:
I didn't make that line! @Glytch@lemmy.world did, and that comment is still up!
Show the full part about dishonesty! That comment doesn't even show up on the logs!
I already explained myself to @TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today cordially. Did you not read the rest of that on purpose‽
I know, and I'm saying that that part of what was said to you did sound patronizing, but you didn't call that out and instead called out something non-patronizing
That part is irrelevant to whether you were being patronized
I did read it, and I understood it but, like someone else said, you seemed to be having your own 1-sided conversation at them. You quoted them but weren't actually responding to what you were quoting
I wouldn't say they were attempting to be super rude or anything, maybe a bit sassy if anything, but I didn't mind. My biggest issue was that there were a lot of miscommunications and lack of clarity, I think mainly due to their responses being a bit logically scattered. They tended to make leaps in conclusions, causing them to make rebuttals against claims I never made.
Don't pull me back into this. You earned what you got. YDI