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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.


Posting Guidelines

All posts should follow this basic structure:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.

Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of an old joke:

An American tells a Russian that people in USA have the freedom of speech and that he even could go to the White House and shout:"Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!"

The Russian answers:"Oh, we also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go to Kremlin and shout:" Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!"

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

You can still go to the while house and say fuck you Ronald Reagan.

Some things never change.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PTB. Once you get the joke, it's a funny meme. And if you can't even poke fun at Stalin on .ml then who can you poke fun at?

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

It did get me going down a rabbit hole about Russian Political Jokes on Wikipedia, so it was an overall W

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 20 points 2 months ago

I don't get the

Oooooohhh

That's a good joke.

I also didn't get the reason for the ban, but I get that now too. That's a good joke.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

.ml can be assumed PTB almost all of the time. It's pretty much cheating for here.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 12 points 2 months ago

Oh damn that post got removed? Shame, I thought it was really good!

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't get the joke, could someone elucidate for me? =)

Side note: in my searching for potential context, I found a powder-coating called "rustic red texture" with the designation "PTB-1937"

Funny that trying to understand a joke about an old Bolshevik would yield results about an entirely unrelated rustic red

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out XD

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stalin murdered a lot of other communists in 1937.

[–] _cryptagion@quokk.au 9 points 2 months ago

How dare you suggest the State did something wrong? That's a thoughtcrime, straight to the gulag with you!

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

hehe makes me laugh

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

PTB. It's .ml after all!

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago

Tankies censoring anything that paints USSR in bad light.