cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/35008171
[UNRELATED] i think a ye power tripping bastard banned me from yepowertrippingbastard
It was another instance admin in fact. But yeah seems like they deserved it tbh.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 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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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
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Banning self-described fascists isn’t power tripping. That’s like the bare minimum a mod should do. Don’t cape for fascists.
It's worth checking their modlog: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=514396
So: zionist: 
banned elsewhere for calling themselves a fascist: 
Said this: 
(in response to this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/5458675 , essentially them saying "woke ideology" shouldn't exist)
: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/4975434
They also delete all their old comments, which is likely why you didn't see that stuff: 
https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/5222379/4257834
tl;dr? they did describe themselves as an eco-fascist, but they delete their post history to cover it up.
saying not wanting to deal with Israel and Palestine sounds alot like not wanting to deal with y'know the peace situation, but that's probably something they shouldn't have even commented on if that's what they meant, also the quote "the nsa, prc and woke ideology kinda feels out of context. also @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone might know something else.
I spoke to Pewgar about the eco fascist thing. It was old by the time I became aware of it, and was deleted by the user, and no further occurrences had happened in the intervening time. They told me they used the term without understanding the implications of what it meant (ie, they didn't realise it was literal fascism)
Similarly, the other removed comments are old, with no recent repeats that I have found since then.
In any case, community mods have their own rules for community bans, but as for an instance ban, despite the comments, given their age and lack of repeat occurrences, I don't believe pewgar is a fascist or a genocide advocate, and so no instance ban was issued.
If there have been repeats of those types of comments since the initial ones were made 2 years ago, I'm not aware of them. If something comes to light that makes me believe pewgar (or anyone else) genuinely supports genocide or fascism, the ban hammer will drop.
Why are people surprised when they get banned after describing themselves as a fascist?
Joke’s on you: I was only pretending to Sieg Heil. Fuckin’ Schrödinger’s fascist-assed Redditors.
Posting guidlines and rules don't mention c/yepowertrippingbastard's own mods. Get fucked, I guess xD