this post was submitted on 03 Apr 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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

.world is a festering mess of liberalism, you say?

Colour me surprised.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

PTB*.

That said you're biting obvious bait - a good chunk of those discussions boil down to ambiguous words referring to both actual human beings and states/governments, to defend the later as if it was an attack on the former.

*LATER EDIT: upon the mod reinstating the comment, I'm changing my judgment to CLM.

And it's worth noting the judgment only applies to the comment shown in the original post - since the user in question is clearly eager to lie in order to accuse others, and their behaviour borders concern trolling.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, people called Israel exist.

But from the thread the comment was placed in, it should be clear I was talking about the apartheid colonizing Palestine. Not a persons right to existence

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was clear for me, too. However, a lot of people struggle to tell apart two things when you use the same word to refer to them, and that's one of those cases.

My suggestion in this regard is to always use "state of Israel" instead. You'll still get some bans, but it becomes harder for supporters of the genocidal state to claim "no, ur teh 1 defending genoside".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

This would require acknowledging Israel as a state, which it is not.

Nobody uses the term "state of Israel to refer to it. Demonstrated by the title of the posted article "Israel announces expansion...". Not a single person raises the question if this means a person called "Israel" is planning to become so obese that they occlude the Gaza strip.

The word "Israel" suffices and the .World moderators know perfectly well what is means. There is no ambiguity to hide behind.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Ethno-states run by power-tripping pigs have no right to exist.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's wild how .world has somehow managed to become an even worse reddit lmao

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Not that wild when you remember how often they defend transphobia, genocide, capitalism, wanted "both sides" for things like flat world cranks, and then defend the users who moderate communities that stifle disagreement with these concepts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm saying it's wild how they got to the point of doing all that shit in the first place. And now there's an even worse reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can sort of see how they got there, but I don't think any nation has the right to exist. I'm sure if you swapped it with any other nation they wouldn't remove it.

PTB from flat.world as usual.

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