You kind of seem like a shitlord that brings negative vibes whenever possible, just from comments alone.
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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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There are a couple things that seem honest, but most of this is just rage baiting or spreading misinformation (fluoride, really? If you're gonna talk about it being discussed you gotta bring scientific sources to the table). Like, I get it, there're no decent places to actually discuss politics in this day in age because every space is an echo chamber, but you don't have to actively goad people into engaging with you. Just try to act like an adult, do your research, and talk within the bounds of your knowledge. Keep in mind that the spaces you're talking in are often echo chambers that come with some territorial behaviour, unfortunately.
All-in-all, if you want people to be nicer to you, you gotta be nicer to them. Also bring sources if you believe the audience won't believe you.
I read through the logs and your post/comment history. You sound like at best an edge-lord, and at worst an alt-right troll. This behavior is generally not taken well on most social media platforms, and Community run Fediverse platforms, even more so.
Fact is you can have political opinions, but you also need to understand and be aware of the facts, and the fact is that Donald Trump is a fascist and has on more than one occasion advocated for fascist policies, including extremely hostile and discriminatory policies towards transgender people. This is a fact, it doesn't care about your feelings, or whether you think that these policies are acceptable, they are still happening and they are hurting people. This is why people are pushing back, and also why you are getting banned or not taken seriously, and you do deserve it, because regardless of what you or anyone else thinks, people are and will get hurt from it.
Honestly you should expect this type of thing to happen more often on Lemmy and fediverse platforms since individually or community run platforms will not tolerate the same type of content a corporate platform will, since their moderation focuses on community health, not ad-friendliness, and one of those things is protecting minority members.
a politician that the mods don’t like
A fascist.
and their policies
Fascism.
YDI.
i've also been banned for sharing controversial opinions despite being as respectful as possible and i think that's to be expected if you try to share dissenting perspectives in instances that are unfriendly to it in the tribal environment that defines all social media today.
american politics has morphed into intense tribalism as evidenced by successful efforts like republicans labeling their old guard as rino's in their rightward shift and democrats demonizing their leftists as tankies in their own similar rightward shift; both of these are one of many examples that all serve to drown out all rational discourse and have led us to our current situation in both the election and the lemmyverse.
i've had to switch social media platforms since before it was called social media and doing it so many times over the decades has taught me the hard way not to become so entrenched in any of them that it becomes "painful to leave"; doing so turns that punishment into a reflection of the punisher's character.
there's little point in trying to be part of a close minded fold if you don't naturally fit in; no matter how much of an overwhelming majority it is; and trying to do so will only help make their punishment worse for you if you can't make it work on the short leash that they will put on you.
you have alternatives on the lemmyverse and they're self sustaining due to that overwhelming majority's actions. they can work for you if you don't want to be on a lemmy leash; but only if you can accept that their own tribalism is born out of experiences like the one you're having right now and use your own experiences to try to understand where they're coming from and what they're trying to share. you will fail many times if you do and they will hammer you on it; but they have their own experiences with leashes and punishments like yours and that makes them more likely to know how to turn something like a ban into a chance to learn.
"Controversial" as in factually and philosophically unclear, or "controversial" as in denialist bigotry to perform ingroup loyalty?
In your case, looks like the former.
In OP's case... no.
Facts, bro.