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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I get the ironic angle of the mod being "authoritarian" but that's their space and if they decide they don't want to deal with trolls arguing about they can ban people.

Just like trans communities can and should ban people who just want to argue about if trans people are real. If you try to argue against it you're just being a dick and distracting from the point of the community.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

How was OP trolling? They simply called out the strawman in the OOP

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the point of a community is spreading misinformation, you have a moral obligation to distract from the point of the community

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Are you suggesting America isn't authoritarian?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'll bite, compared to Russia or China, the U.S. is not an authoritarian state.

Do you think it is?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Lol, further proof that the word "authoritarian" is just a meaningless snarl word for foreign adversaries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

why prison pop is so high then?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

how is that different from "an authoritarian state"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

They have a larger prison population then any other country and spend more on military than the next several countries combined

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Are you suggesting term length has anything to do with authoritarianism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The gulag system is mostly for the blacks, we are not the same.JPEG.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And does that apply to when transphobes decide that trans people being real is "misinformation"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, because it's not. Truth is not subjective.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago

Lmao, my sweet summer child.