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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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All posts should follow this basic structure:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.

Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


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These comment removals don't appear on the modlog but the likely culprit comment is

"It fucking matters that the lemmy main code contributors are Tankie scum. The less power they exert over the whole, the better."

At a 3 to 2 score, but also includes such heinous comments as

"You can just browse lemmy in a mobile browser like waterfox just fine...

Why would anybody want to install unnecessary third party apps? That sounds awful."

and

"I havent used many instances but I've never used one which didn't have a mobile site."

The Modlog does mention the ban with the following reason:

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

YDI always raging out in like every community from memes to news articles to fediverse

why do you make more comments about tankies then ive ever seen tankies make?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Here on World, you and I don't see the Tankie Triad in the main feed, thankfully. But they are here, and they wish you ill.

I've never raged against anybody, and I've never scolded anybody unless they were an advocate for harm unto others. That unfortunately applies to quite a lot of people in political discussions.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

It's a temp ban and they simply asked you to calm down.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup, this is YDI. Minimum mod action, and you were being nasty in a community that isn't set up to allow that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"Nasty"...? Tankies are intolerant, they deserve no tolerance. They are violent, they deserve no mercy. They are hateful, they deserve no kindness.

There is nothing Nasty about calling it what it is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Take a break from Lemmy, it sounds like it'd be good for you

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

Take a break from Lemmy, it sounds like it’d be good for you

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm good, I can control my emotions.

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

From where I'm calmly sitting you seem extremely upset about me telling off Tankies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lol, whatever helps you sleep at night homie.

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

Calm down

Take a chill pill.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Look dude, idk what "babys first internet argument" you're hopped up on. But your making an absolute public fool of yourself. Your comment history is basically 90% politically charged shit.

You may think you're on a righteous path, people may even agree with you, but your own attitude hurts your own cause.

You will be blocked after I post this message, I hope you find help that you desperately need and that you crawl yourself out of this hole of political mania you've dug yourself into.

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

This guy just keeps getting angrier all the time, jfc, who pissed in your cereal?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He just finally realized how little you value your own time.

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

He finally calmed down, bless his soul

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're like a professional at making bad arguments on the Internet aren't you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Did you go to college for it or a trade school?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look, let's say I agree with that. I think your take lacks depth, but I'll play along.

Yeah, those tankies suck.

But if you roll up to my house spitting rage and hate, IDGAF if I agree with the underlying principle, you're an asshole, and I'm kicking you out.

The community you were in was just escorting you to the door for being obnoxious. And you were. You still are.

You have the freedom to have your opinion. You can even broadcast it anywhere you want. Once. Nobody has to let you back in the door when you disrupt a community with unrelated venom. It's like some. Mormon coming to your door when you've got it open for a nice breeze and bitching about how much Jehovah's witnesses suck.

It stinks up the place.

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

If your house condemns those who mistreat tankies, then your house spits rage and hatred all on its own.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dude, you are so far over the top, I'm not sure if you're fucking with people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I say this in the nicest way possible: if you live anywhere in the free world, tankies would clap and cheer when you lose everything you own and/or die.

There is no civil discussion so long as Tankies are allowed to participate.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah,YDI

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

YDI. Maybe stop embodying the idea of 'scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds' for a few days and you might see why your actions even alienate relatively normie communities.

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

Imagine opposing liberalism and thinking you're anything other than a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Mate, in my country the liberal party are the fash. Pull your head out of your bum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The concept of liberalism doesn't equate to your specific country's liberal party, just as the Republican party of the USA don't support a representative democracy, the People's Republic of North Korea isn't a republic and does not belong to the people, and the Chinese Communist Party isn't owned by the workers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're so close to getting it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You, unfortunately, are exceptionally far from getting it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Liberalism and fascism have more in common than you think, which is why socialists often say, “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.”

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
— MLK, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So called socialist countries have an attrocious civil rights record, a severe lack of protections for vulnerable classes of people, if your definition of liberalism is that it isn't socialism then you've truly outed yourself as a misinformed Tankie, gj comrade.

BTW, those "white liberals" helped pass the civil rights act that MLK Jr advocated for. The USA was 88.5% white at the time of the civil rights movement, and we the entire USA as one people still passed it through an all white congress. MLK's concerns turned out to be wrong with that letter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

oh, someone needs to tell you: there is a cure for political illiteracy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah just chill tbh there are places for that angry rhetoric and it’s not where you were posting it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It was exactly the place for that rhetoric, it was a discussion of lemmy on a community about the fediverse. It was the central topic.

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

I think you need to accept you're not getting any support for this, and move on. Multiple people have told you you were out of line.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

YDI. Of course homophobic insults are going to get you banned.

You catch many bans from many instances, with this finitebanjo account and with your previous one. The problem is that you’re a bad netizen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay keep wasting the mods’ volunteer time and catching bans then. By now some of them probably recognize your name and have little patience for you.

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

Not going to talk about your blatant lie?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Just because you don’t think the insult was homophobic doesn’t mean it wasn’t.

Edit to add: Oh, I see. I was conflating this comment of yours in [email protected] which was removed comment a few hours before with your ban from [email protected]: https://lemmy.world/comment/15673050

Still a homophobic insult, just not the mod action in question here.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

YDI. The other comments probably just got swept up in it, it happens, but that first that triggered mod action is def over the line

There's no need to get angry like that, or at least type it out, fight the tankies with logic, reasoning and evidence not a bunch of expletives and slurs

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

You can say fuck on the internet. You absolutely should call Tankie scum at every opportunity.

Tankies don't use logic, trying to reason with those intolerants is just turtles all the way down. Anybody who wants to foster healthy community on Lemmy should promote open hostility towards Tankies

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (9 children)

You can say fuck on the internet.

Yes, but you're not being judged just because you used it but how

You absolutely should call Tankie scum at every opportunity.

No, you shouldn't, "Tankie" by itself targets their ideology and their actions (Pushing misinfo, propaganda etc) by adding "scum" into it or other slurs you shift that target from ideologies and behavior to the actual person. Not cool. For the most part, they're just people being used as tools by the real evil people pulling the strings.

Tankies don't use logic, trying to reason with those intolerants is just turtles all the way down.

That's fine, remember, your arguments are public so aren't just about convincing a tankie, but any potential observers as well

Anybody who wants to foster healthy community on Lemmy should promote open hostility towards Tankies

No. Absolutely not. They can have their community, we should be promoting defederation, boycotting and general awareness.

You know I'm pretty anti-tankie around here, and even I'm saying, chill out open hostility does nothing but anger everyone.

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