this post was submitted on 20 Jan 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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You're insisting that trump is the worse option despite the last 4 years of democrat rule leaving Americans and the objects of America's foreign policies materially worse than either trump's previous term or current actions. If you're not trolling then you're deluding yourself.
Edit: if you read "the democrats left people in a worse state than trump" and think that's endorsing trump rather than denigrating the democrats then you seriously need to reassess your privileges. To view that as praise requires complete detachment from either of their actions. Trump's first term was bad enough for Biden to sail into the whitehouse almost solely on the promise of not being trump, and he fumbled everything so hard that the entire US has regressed by decades, becoming less safe for women and minorities and leaving the poor and working class in more precarious a position than ever before, not to mention the whole genocide thing. If none of that materially affected you, when it affected enough of the US that trump was voted back into power, then you are operating on the vibes emanating from your ivory tower and your opinion is completely irrelevant.
Edit for db0: You don't need to edit your comments, I just can't directly reply to you because you're still banned from Hexbear for DM harrassment because you wouldn't stop crying about a temp ban. Anyway please tell me more about your smol bean president theory while I read this article about Trump overriding the TikTok ban
edit for db0: Of course, everyone's just making cruel rumours up about you, the admins just suddenly permabanned you for no reason a couple of hours after your temp. Half our community was there you dip, you had your meltdown in public. I suppose to a liberal criticising Biden would look like supporting Trump, though.
Edit: I mean you comments got stripped out with the ban but there are enough quotes to reconstruct your tantrum. The modlog tells a similar story, but I guess I misremembered the couple of hours - the admins got sick of you after 45 minutes of whining DMs.
Me being wrong (if in fact I am) and even deluded (if in fact I were) still doesn't constitute a troll.
Most people don't understand what modding is about.
In fact they prefer censorship of opinions and or tone they don't like until it happens to them.
These people haven't really developed the proepr framework for understanding that the world is bigger than them.
Most never really do hence why have poorly educated idiots fighting culture wars amongst themselves while owner class is destroying all of in a class war.
No, no, no.
Censorship is when people that I agree with are silenced.
When people I disagree with are silenced, that's just stopping trolls!
/s (Needed exactly because there are people out there who genuinelly agree with this, so it's not obviously satirical)