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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by peregrin5@lemm.ee to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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I pointed out the dishonest outright lies a post was making and rustled some jimmies.

Any day I rustle the jimmies of tankies is a good day.

The rest of the modlog was pretty entertaining too.

Edit: No the comment below my ban in this screenshot is not my comment. I guess that was confusing some people.

Full context: someone had posted a picture of the Obamas in a wine cellar and everyone was deriding them for being so bourgeois as to own a wine cellar (all the usual high level discourse such as "MichelleSoUgly lmaolol")

I pointed out that this was them at a private event at a restaurant that has a wine cellar and not their own personal wine cellar. Everyone then freaked out that I was "defending the Obamas" and I got banned for Liberalism.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For everyone's reference, this user is a genocide denier. While the comments that were removed in this screenshot might be mod overreach, the user has also been banned from far more reasonable communities for their trollish behaviour.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For everyone’s reference, this user is a genocide denier.

Link?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://aussie.zone/post/16938106/14267627

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

eh... also wikipedia lol

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is just providing a summary of the academic position.

I dunno how to interpret "it's not a genocide" as anything other than being a genocide denier.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wikipedia. Academic position.

lol.

Wikipedia is fuckin trash, don't use it for anything political. It's owned by a private hedge fund and gets funding from foreign governments and mega-corporations like Google. Wikipedia is for facts about boats and mountains, not deep political theory such as what constitutes as genocide.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What an idiotic take.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 week ago

Great response! You sure showed me!

Maybe you should wikipedia how to think critically

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

Thanks bro

[–] missingno@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Without any knowledge of context here, that comment just looks like low grade trolling. Are you really surprised they'd kick you out?

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

OP is a Habitual troll and has gotten kicked out of far more moderate communities than this.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Genuinely curious here. What comment? As far as I saw the modlog didn't show the comment I got banned for.

Full context: someone had posted a picture of the Obamas in a wine cellar and deriding them for being so bourgeois as to own a wine cellar.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The one you screenshotted here?

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah I can see how that could be misleading. That was a comment from someone else that got removed (and what I was referring to when I said the rest of the modlog was pretty entertaining). I guess I should have cropped it but I thought it was funny too. As you can see that mod action happened two hours before my ban.

At the time I screenshotted they hadn't removed my comment. I think they did now though.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

As YePowerTrippingBastards would say, BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction.

Not exactly a great example of tankie nonsense.

[–] xep@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

Considering their entire deal is dunking on others Hexbear is remarkably fragile on the receiving end.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I prefer that to the mods making up some bullshit. If they want to have their community free from Liberal views, they're welcome to do so.

I suppose it sucks to hear "we made our community for people who disagree with you and don't want to deal with your perspective," but that is entirely their choice. You don't get to claim moral superiority and do whatever you want regardless.

I'm here in Meanwhileongrad to have a laugh pointing out hypocrisy. There's nothing hypocritical about "you are not welcome here for reasons we agreed upon and freely shared. Go away."

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You don't get to claim moral superiority and do whatever you want regardless.

But see the thing is, I do in fact get to do that. They can ban me but I can still claim moral superiority. What do you think this whole community is about?

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry, let me rephrase: you can claim moral superiority all you want, but that doesn't mean you can walk into their space and do whatever you want. Like it or not, is it their community.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah no, I get that. I mean I can walk in and do what I want exactly once though.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can claim whatever you want, but that doesn't make you right.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee -2 points 1 week ago

Oh but it does. :)

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think I’m banned too. I honest made a good faith effort. They ended up goading me into saying that protest voting was not a way to get what we want and then all my comments were deleted bc: liberal.

It’s hard not to be a sick there bc they get to do it all they want. As soon as the narrative is challenged, bam! You’re gone.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But hey you can make fun of them here. So it all works out in the end. Let them have their circlejerk where they can exist without having their views challenged. In reality (real reality, not the rest-of-lemmy reality which is just as skewed) literally nobody likes them and most people in their lives probably think they are insufferable.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You posted on hexbear

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

That was my second mistake. My first was not blocking hexbear in the first place.

[–] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How thin can someones skin possibly be?

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I'm learning that most of Lemmy has pretty thin skin. Lol.

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