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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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https://lemmy.world/comment/15319695

I'm guessing they did this because my comment didn't have the correct positive vibes for them on their post when they're the moderator.

It's funny because 196 and almost all of its derivatives are rightfully anti-tankie because tankies promote centrism and conservatism directly harmful to trans and gay rights.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I'm not certain this is what happened, but are you aware that "cultural Marxism" specifically is a right wing conspiracy and not synonymous with being a tankie. Because to me a "cultural Marxism" tag on a post like that is almost certainly ironic. I could see someone mistakenly thinking troll since your comment doesn't make sense to someone familiar with the term.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Hi, I'm the original mod who banned you for that, your original comment seemed to come across as trolling because as other commenters have pointed out "cultural Marxism" specifically is a right-wing conspiracy theory, and also the immediate implication that me or the OP are tankies from what is ultimately a silly meme in a shitposting community felt uncharitable. Since it seems like I made a mistake and you didn't mean any harm I'll go ahead and unban you from the community.

Edit: Upon more consideration, I have decided to reverse this descision, this is both because of evidence sent in by another user, as well as me being prompted to check their modlog, and yeah... it is awful... PSA to all mods out there, check a person's modlog before granting appeals, everyone has modlog history, but you can tell a lot about them as a person including their intents from that history. Especially from the contents of removed comments.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (26 children)

You used a white supremacist dog whistle that’s been rampantly popular among the far-right for years. You say you didn’t know that, but with how often it’s used, I don’t think that’s a very believable excuse.

If this wasn’t a BPR by you, then at the very least YDI.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (12 children)

YDI, a quick google search before commenting would've cleared this up.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure how that comment would be trolling, but I'm also not sure why you have a screen shot of a comment that's being written.

What was the original comment?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Here is a screenshot of the comment:

I notice the cultural marxism tag, which is fine, just don't ally yourself with the Tankies because despite their claims they absolutely don't ally themselves with you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Theres a link to it in the description, it says removed by mod

Thats why its in edit mode. You can also see thats what it says in the modlog which shows what the comment was when it was removed by the mod.

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

Gotcha! It didn't show in the mod log for me. Not sure why.

Yeah, if that isn't PTB, it's definitely a clueless mod. I have no clue how someone could take that comment as violating any of the rules of that C/, much less as trolling.

This just weird. Most power trips, you can at least see why they're making the decision, even when it's shitty decision. This one looks utterly random and out of place.

Have you contacted the mods? It's strange enough that it might have been a mistake

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah it was a mistake, I initially though they were a troll because cultural Marxism is a common right wing talking point, and the fact that they were assuming or implying that me and OP were that or tankies simply for having it in the meme, clearly depicted in a negative manner I should add, it seemed less than good faith to say the least. Since it's clear they meant no ill intent, at least this time I have removed their ban.

Also as to why the removal doesn't show, that's a quirk of the Lemmy software and how it handles ban with content removal. It's a bug and it really needs to be fixed ASAP.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

'Cultural marxism' being mistaken for ML terminology in a comment that's trying to scold a shitpost for being too friendly toward the wrong kind of leftist is just a little too on the nose.

Color me surprised that the kind of user who goes out of their way to broadcast their anti-tankie allegiances isn't familiar with the broadly-used reactionary pejorative used to describe liberals that has been around since at least the 1990's

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

From the context and the mod comments here, seems like a BPR. Good to see that YPTB helped handle it.

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