YTB.

You are promoting russian propaganda about NATO expansion as a justification for the invasion. This is a key element of their overall propaganda. Ukraine was neutral before the beginning of the russian invasion in 2014.

You are also essentially supporting the notion that russia's former colonies do not have the right to self-determination.

There is a reason that the Baltic nations and former Warsaw pact countries immediately tried to join NATO as soon as possible, because unlike you, they understand what the russians are like (going into details is out of scope for this post, but in short, decades of sociological research using a wide variety of methodologies, including ones to estimate the impact of preference falsification, show a consistent strong majority support for genocidal imperialism among the russian public).

I will also point out that russian occupation is happening in countries that were not able to join NATO (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine).

Your attitude is indeed campist. The stuff you say about "neoliberal this and that" and "IMF" is comical in context of Ukraine's economic development.

Can you outline your argument in a clear and specific manner in your own words? This should be simple if you aren't merely repeating copytext.

The Brendon James quote is definitely pro-russian and de facto serves as justification for the russian invasion.

Kulwin also engages in pretty typical whataboutism style justification of russian actions. EDIT: Kulwin is associated with "Chapo Trap House".

Did the US annex Basra, steal tens of thousands of Iraqi children and send them to re-education camps were they would be forced to write letters to US military forces involved in the annexation of Basra? Did they ban Islam and and allow only US Christian churches in the newly annexed Basra? Did they ban Arabic and send anyone caught speaking Arabic into a network of torture camps? Did the Americans systematically use castration and torture against captured Iraqi soldiers trying to stop the annexation of Basra?

Do Kulwin or James speak russian or Ukrainian? Have they ever lived in russia or Ukraine?

All I am seeing is pretty lazy repetition of russian propaganda copytext. The type that is widely used by russians as justification for all their actions.

It's fair to not tolerate propaganda in a community, even if a user genuinely believes it or claims to be acting in good faith (which may not be true).

A username such as "Keeponstalin" is also an immediate red flag.

You appear to want to continue your arguments here which is not the purpose of ytpb. Stick to discussing the mod actions themselves please.

You're wrong to support ukraine as a us puppet. Ban is wrong, but war propaganda needs to be without any cracks of how evil us empire is, and history is a propaganda battle ground.

Propaganda for manufacturing Ukraine war was always aimed at west. Surely liberal democracy supremacism will be more successful than nazi supremacism in conquering Russia, and if you can ignore reality, then weapons money can keep flowing.

Implying not complete innocence of us empire, is a crack that warmongers must prevent awareness of.

Putin's useful idiot.

Well, without the original comment it's hard to say. But going by all the content you provided her it seems like: YDI.

PTB but what did you expect?

You went to an instance that explicitly supports the us government and explicitly defines the us government s current state propaganda as absolute truth. Don't do that if you don't want to be banned for disagreeing with us propaganda.

According to PugJesus, this is evidence that Brendan James and Noah Kulwin are pro Russia and pro Ukrainian genocide. I completely disagree.

Brendan James: "Even with the Ukraine invasion recently under its belt, russia is a less war hungry country than our own".

Noah Kulwin: "I don't think America should bankroll it into perpetuity".

Both of those statements are arguing to either discourage aid to Ukraine, or belittle the impact of the actually ongoing violence the Ukrainians are enduring. They are exhibiting classic behaviours intended to shift the line towards Russian support. Hiding behind 'technically we overtly said "russia bad"' while arguing 'but not THAT bad' is BS plain and simple.

YDI.

PTB not only did he ban you when he couldnt respond to your argument he used the remove comments feature to hide his power tripping

Looks more like you want. [email protected]

That being said, you can usually get to deleted comments by trying to edit them, or via screen shots of your own comment history on some apps. It makes it harder to say anything useful without the actual comment.

But, yeah, this posts looks more like rehashing the argument rather than looking for feedback about the mod action. As usual, it may be necessary to say that I'm not going to get into the argument. At this point, I'm about ready to just block anyone that tries to keep pounding their pulpit at me here when the whole point is about the mod actions themselves, not the validity of any arguments involved.

With that caveat, let's break it down.

We have no images or references to your comment, so everything here is bases purely on what is visible in the links provided.

In those links, it was made pretty clear what the mod's stance was. So some mod action was justified. If a mod keeps telling you that what you're doing is something that isn't allowed on their community, and you keep doing it, that's on you

However, a full on permaban is a very steep response when not coupled with a direct warning of "stfu or else" of some kind, and I didn't catch anything like that in the links provided. But, I am dyslexic, so I do sometimes miss things, and even when that isn't a factor, those threads were long enough it would be easy to miss a warning.

So, unless I missed that warning and/or the comment that was removed was way worse than anything else you said, there's some degree of PTB here. I'd say a mid level degree of it, based on the criteria already listed. If it had been a temp ban of reasonable length, that's only rarely going to be PTB because it's a combined warning and cooldown time, which is a valid mod action for most things.

But, being real, it looks like y'all had a long disagreement, and you're here more to keep at it. When disagreements get that long, I'm never surprised when someone power trips or over reacts. If I could see the removed comment, I might urge pug to change it to a temp ban, but you may well have flipped a table there, so I dunno. If that comment was no worse than any of the others in the links, yeah, might be good to consider a change in action, roll it back a little.

Also important to note I'm basing that off of only the linked threads. There may be other history between the two of you, or just you as a user, that merits the more drastic action