The man owns like 20 houses and you didn't specify the house he currently resides in so it's fine :3
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 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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Also it just got married. Its not at fucking home!
Doesn't break rule 3, you weren't being mean to another user. PTB.
PTB. I feel like the benefit to humanity would be much nicer than one dude continuing to leech off the planet.
Rediculous. Rule 3 is be nice to each other but you didn't insult any other user
Twist: bezos is the mod edit: still PTB
You not agreeing with the rules of the comm does not automatically translate to the mods power tripping.
The comment did not break rule 3
Power tripping = not agreeing with me
Needs context of the community or at least of the "Rule 3".
I think from context we can gather that the removal was due to "advocating violence"
Which is a stupid rule.
True, I think most of us here can agree with that. This is just a joke post though- OP knows they broke a stupid rule in a funny way, and came here to have a laugh about it
All mods are bastards.
:(
Im sorry, it's true. You can still kill nazis and sometimes be barefoot for no reason while doing it, though.
I'm barefoot right now for no reason, so gonna mark this as 50% completed.
An admin even. The worst of all.
Lol, which community?
This one. See the "M" symbol?
Nope.
WebUI wins again. I love just using the browser.
In Eternity it's a little green shield icon.
Light mode users posting screenshots makes me wish hell was a thing.
Like the cool kind with burning lakes. Not the boring kind with burning rivers.
I hate the browser. Zero options. My favorite part of Voyager is being able to hide Voting numbers so that I have no idea what anybody thinks. It’s beautiful.
Got that too:
WebUI is so nice. Tor browser for anonymity.
You deserve to be beaten up.
(Not really, but I think we can all see why that rule exists in some form or other)
Maybe. But i keep up on my cardio, so 🤷♀️
No. YOU is a rule breaker. THEM is not.
Billionaire should be killed. Nazis should be shot.
…. Is not breaking a rule.
The point is the direct attack on a user, that’s not cool.
Wow, rude to the nazis and billionaire ceo's of lemmy.
Ha ha. I don’t know if there are any billionaires here…
If you have a million dollars saved up or onherited or whatever, ill scowl at you and tell you that money should be put to good use, but i dont tjink you should get the wall for that alone.
A million dollars is a solidly nice house in a good place. Im against suburbs, the form of it, but the basic thing is something everyone deserves to have. A billion dollars is several neighborhoods of those. You literally canmot use that. Thats enough you vould buy a 2 million dollar house for every day of the year, sleep in each one only one day a year, and still have enough money for truly degenerate decadence every waking hour of your life until you die.
I am of the opinion that a single person should not be allowed to have more the a billion in wealth. Even that is absurdly high.
Yeah. Yeah i think the actual numbervis probBly far far lower, but i think if ypu have a billion dollars you do need to get the fucking wall.
"3. Be excellent to each other!"
Thread Link: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19650117
Right, because Jeff Bezos is an active lemmy poster.
little did we know, dessalines was bezos all along
even worse, also satoshi nakomoto, and Q, all at the same time, rofl!
No, q is the mypillow guy.
No hes a .world mod.
I am not the OP but the rule 3 is be nice to each other. Not only it is too vague but i don't think Jeff Bezos
While I think the mod is just doing regular mod stuff; that is an overly broad rule to justify it.
I think one can argue that excellence to our fellow beings would be a revolution that burns all those houses down!
They need an anti insurrection rule on that community, to fit with their plain, vanilla, safe guidelines
They can't acknowledge that though, because they're ptb
They're far, far too cowardly to rephrase the rules or make new ones that are clear and explicit.
Just little tyrants, self-appointed thought police.
There are good reasons why this kind of language is restricted (even if I happen to believe we need real incentives for oligarchs).
But the rule cited isn't about that. It's about fellow users.
The only good reason is to limit liability if someone breaks the law with their speech.
And it only breaks the law when that speech is undeniably organizing people to break the law. Simply wishing harm upon someone isn't a credible threat, and does not break the law.
I wish these pricks would jump off a cliff
Not illegal.
Hey, join me this Thursday to push rich people off the cliff located at the following GPS coords...
Illegal.
I would argue that's a pretty provincial attititude; one that clearly doesn't work if you think about it beyond theatrical polemical statements.
It may sound noble and well thought out on a superficial level though.
If i moderated a forum or ran a coffee shop where The New York Commune was organized, I'd be proud as fuck. There's no way youd get me to shut up about thatuntil you cut out my tounge and had me eaten alive or pulled apart by horses or something. So like a couple months maybe.
But, you know, if you just want to keep from doing anything bad you can do that, and if you want to stay just that side of the law, you can do that. You can clarify that. You can even clarify how far on that side of the law, like 'i never want the police to have an excuse to bug me about this shit. I do not have a self deleting setup, logs are publ8c, and im too lazy/don't like you people enough for that'.
But these 'no violence' rules, which, again, were not the stated reasoning for this removal, never seem to be about that. They seem to be about support for (extremely violent) authority, without ever saying that, and each has its own contours.