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] -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 days ago (16 children)

To be fair, he didnt say he was against authoritariamism.

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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] 4 points 1 day ago (4 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 (9 children)

Are you suggesting America isn't authoritarian?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (51 children)

Seems like all comments here are "whatabout communism"

US being an authoritarian shithole is pretty undisputable reality. It could be preferable to debate the point than outright banning the possibly misinformed, but the assumption of military bot troll propagandist is not unreasonable.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The place is filled with plenty of examples of US authoritarianism. Consider lurking before posting OP.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Plot twist: The mod is from US and just proving their point.

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

fascist attempts to spread liberal fascist US state dept propaganda that has been debunked thousands of times over

cries about muh freeze peach when told to stop spreading misinformation

Yeah go back to .world, bud

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

That doesn't sound very patriotic? Dont you know 'Merica is the freest country in the world. You're free to have your labor value exploited and your tax dollars sent of to forign genocidal regimes, if you disagree you're free to go to prison for protesting and be used as free labor.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

PTB stinking hypocrisy from a distance.

Counterpoint. It’s not a strawman. The US is is an authoritarian state. If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you. also Why are you here?

Strawman wasn't enough, was it? There's an implicit false dichotomy here, between accepting the idiotic reasoning and the conclusion or rejecting both (thus the user not belonging to the sub).

EDIT: to be clear. I won't talk if USA is/isn't authoritarian, that is not my point. My point is that the mod in question is clearly being irrational, and hell breaks loose once you put irrational people on power. I also don't think that he should be removing users for not agreeing with the premise of the sub.

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