this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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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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Not really "powertripping". Just pathetic. Consider this a notice to avoid feddit.org... I've unsubbed and blocked the instance.

We can't dehumanize fascists for their choice to dehumanize everyone for things outside their control though, because that would be mean, and hurt their sociopath feefees!

Europe stool idly by throughout the 1930's "tolerating" fascism, and the Nazi's killed over 100 million people. Don't make the same mistake as the radical centrists of history. Fascists will not afford you the same tolerance or courtesy.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago

Well we also have plenty of fascists and are US vasals after all.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (32 children)

Consider this a notice to avoid feddit.org… I’ve unsubbed and blocked the instance.

... but that looks like a mod/comm ban, not an admin/instance ban?

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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This seems like a 50:50 type scenario. I personally wouldn't bother with moderation unless someone complained, but a good faith arguement can be made that you were breaking the rules.

While the current US adminstration is arguably somewhere between proto-fascist and fully fascist (there is lots more room for democratic and human rights backsliding), I can see how dehumanisation can be seen as a legitimate moderation reason for your comments.

[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

They seem to only have a rule against dehumanisation of minorities, where the term is pretty clearly intended to mean minorities generally subject to persecution/bigotry:

4. No bigotry, sexism, racism, antisemitism, dehumanization of minorities, or glorification of National Socialism.

I feel the ban is a bit over the top, anyway. I get the post being removed for being a bit too aggressive, but to immediately ban over (what I presume) is a first offence... I'd simply give a warning myself.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not a power tripping Mod just a huge misunderstanding.

Vance, you wanted to label as Nazi and went off a rant, was only mentioned indirectly, so you probably couldn't mean him.

And instead of talking to the Mods you started this post.

[–] sheepy@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (27 children)

Nazis are shitbags, yes, but like, calm down a bit. Don't stoop down to their level.

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