this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
34 points (75.0% liked)

Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

662 readers
417 users here now

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.

Rules

Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.

Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.

YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


Some acronyms you might see.


Relevant comms

founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
 

Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:

A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn't "state" (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.

I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn't say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn't need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.

I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were "provided for defense from Iran, full stop." which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I'm not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.

I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn't bother making a post here for that because that's just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it's awful to see something like this happening in a community that's supposed to keep people aware of the news.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it's full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Don't worry about a ban from World News

Theres plenty of other world news communities to go to on other servers, if a servers moderation is poor vote with your feet, comments, and posts.

Like, my opinion, man...

Its probably too far to say "full throated support for genocide", that administration made it very clear they didn't like what Israel has done to Palestinians. Buut, its also hard to argue that administration didn't passively support genocide or genocidal behaviour.

Its clearly true to say they supported the collective punishment of a whole people. Thats unambiguous, that administration put the US on the wrong side of history, and international law, something the US was instrumental in supporting, if never adopting.

Friends tell friends when they're in the wrong, Israel doesn't have a friend in the US, they're the US' unsinkable aircraft carrier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

that administration made it very clear they didn't like what Israel has done to Palestinians.

Which is why despite saying one thing they did the opposite and continued to send blank checks. Actions speak louder than words. Full throated indeed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

PTB.

Its probably too far to say "full throated support for genocide",

The USA is not only supporting the genocide with money and arms; they (and the UK) have also been bombing the only state (Yemen) that has tried to fulfill the international principle of Responsabilty to Protect (R2P) and has deployed their naval army to prevent others states to do it and/or to help with the genocide.

For me, that's enough to speak of an Israel-USA-UK genocide.

And sorry to go off-topic. 🤷🏽

Edit: added wiki link snd typos

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

We disagree on the finer points, but i'm not gona argue these points.

Fact is if these administrations don't wish to be accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or contraventions of UN Charters then there are other paths throughout this period they could have chosen.