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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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@recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca banned me from Lemmy.ca, with the following explanation:

Fascism and genocide apologia and propaganda. Fedia.io mods/admins what the fuck guys

which... yeah I don't think I did that. I messaged them twice (once on their .ca account and once on their Piefed account) and got no response. I have no idea how to prove wrongdoing on their part since no particular comment or post was highlighted, but the last thing I said on a .ca comm before the ban was this, which is like what? I didn't say anything even remotely close to fascism and I seriously have no idea what brought that on; anyway glances at the rules I guess it would be nice if the ban was revoked so I can go shit on Carney on c/Canada.

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[–] maam@feddit.uk 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)
[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 53 minutes ago

That is one hell of a gish gallop. For the record I'm willing to respond to any of these if anyone cares, but I'd rather know someone actually cares to know the truth before writing a wall of text, because clearly this person doesn't.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 8 points 13 hours ago

Ew, yeah YDI. Gross

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 5 points 12 hours ago

They deserved something, for sure. But the user seems opposed to fascism and genocide from their other comments on the subject. The punishment should at least fit the crime

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 6 points 14 hours ago

if I recall correctly, they're the person who banned me from lemmy.ca on request of MrKaplan when he got butthurt, so the fact they used fascism and genocide apologia as a reason is rather amusing, since they don't seem to mind supporting it themselves.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Based on the comment you linked, PTB

Even as a stretch, I don't really see how that comment could be interpreted as fascist apologia

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I wish all fascists were like you (this guy probably isn’t a fascist guys, fat finger ban meant for someone else maybe?)

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 14 hours ago

I thought that too and asked as much in DMs but got no response, so either that admin doesn't check their DMs (are DMs even the right place to appeal a ban?) or it's intentional.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 14 hours ago

So you just have no idea what this might be related to? They didn't remove any comments prior to this or anything?