this post was submitted on 10 Jan 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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

take that shouldn’t be hot: except for in very small communities, mods should not do moderation on their own posts’ comment section, especially when they are the type to be super defensive and invested in their posts’ success. this is the case with those like jordanlund, flyingsquid and the PTB here.

in other words, [email protected] has two mods. if mod A makes a participatory (non-pinned/PSA) post, mod B should be the one that handles violations in that posts’ comments. especially if mod A is a frequent commenter and gets into arguments easily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

PTB. They have the 'right' to trim their own community according to such ideas as "If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you", but it doesn't make it any less stupid or power-tripping.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I didn't make it in the screenshot 😔

I also got banned for that LMFAO

I didn't even say anything about the 'strawman' I just said that "ban you for speaking too loudly" was bad

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I find that that's usually the case for most people. The part of the school system that was responsible for teaching them critical thinking skills really failed them. It's also why people try to dumb down politics into one of two sides, it's why our government will always inevitably fail. This guy is using the authoritarian label because that's as far as his understanding of politics go. The US is an oligarchy, the US is imperialist, the US is nepotistic, but it is not authoritarian, yet.

Having said that, there are groups certainly interested in claiming that so that the authoritarian label means less for other nations, the sort of nations they want to defend. Given the submissions in that "community", I would say this is the case here. People who really are against authoritarians and who might believe the US to be wouldn't go and whitewash other authoritarian states. This community is a manifestation of whataboutism propaganda IMO.

The US deserves criticism, but if you really want to make it, I would encourage avoiding places with an underlying agenda like this one. In case you disagree with me, you can test it out easily for yourself, just post there and compare the US to other countries you would consider de facto authoritarian states, and see which countries they have a problem with you bringing up for comparison.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"We're good and you're bad"

Holy shit lmao you can't write irony this good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh it's irony you wanted?

What the hell is going on with that community? :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Hahaha this comm's mods are on the sauce, this is insane.

"Alright you're banned for a month for being an uncivil asshole, but when you get back I'll make your uncivil ass a mod."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a theory that the horrible grammar of the Nigerian email scams that gave them away helped them because it automatically helped filter out the people who could have given them the most trouble and would have been the easiest to scam. The same applies to here.

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