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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PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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Banned from [email protected] for disagreeing that Trump facilitated a ceasefire in Gaza (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Although personally in favor of Palestinian independence and critical of war crimes committed by Israel in its siege of Gaza, I attempted to explain in a back-and-forth discussion with a user (only afterwards learning was one of the community's two moderators) why protest voting in the 2024 election to "punish" the democrats in favor of the republicans harmed the ultimate interest of reigning in Israeli violence in Palestine.

To further emphasize the damage caused by such a protest vote, I argued that not only is Palestine worse off with Trump elected instead of Harris, but as are a myriad of other social issues. The other user disagreed, arguing that Trump's return to office facilitated the ceasefire, rather than my argument that Netanyahu deliberately delayed it to help Trump get elected.

After my fourth reply post in a reply chain that stemmed from my initial reply to the moderator's comment, I was banned from [email protected]. Having at no point advocated in favor of the violence perpetuated by Israel in Gaza, I think the ban was unjustified, and demonstrates a bad precedent for maintaining echo chambers of moderator opinions, rather than communities that foster discussion.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I must have misunderstood because I meant to criticize both the dems for doing nothing and Trump as well.

Thanks for specific examples!

[–] loutr 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thing is, the Dems weren't doing nothing. It was far too little, yes, and people were right to protest and put pressure on them.

But Trump literally said Gaza is destroyed (never mentioning why, mind you), and that the best course of action is for the Palestinian people to just give up on Gaza and go to Egypt or Jordan. He doesn't care at all, except for the prime beachfront properties of course.

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

It's true they weren't doing nothing, they were actively supporting Israel to the fullest of their ability. The fact that American blue fascists are trying to rewrite history to defend the Democrats prove that neither side of your fascist political system give a shit about foreign lives, and that the lesser evil is whatever hastens the collapse of your Reich.