Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585
Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:
Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.
Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:
Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.
Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.
I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:
It's not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.
I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don't want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that's not the case in any of the communities I've been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.
PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.
antirealist and others have thoughts:
We've reached a new stage of horseshoe theory where the far left doesnt even count as left
The Liberals have always believed this. From their perspective, progress manifests only through reform of the institutions. As far as they're concerned, anyone who takes action on the belief that the existing institutions are irredeemable and beyond reform is an enemy of progress.
The Sisyphean nature of reform in financialized liberal democracies makes them incredibly defensive and bitter. Their plans for reform have been so thoroughly sidelined by the domination of capital that they are operating on time scales of the Bene Gesserit. In 100 years - as long as they don't lose a single election along the way - they will have placed the right number of people in the right places to begin reforming the Supreme Court and to initiate some hearings about the possibility of funding research for policy incentivizing private development of clean energy.
Their lives are dedicated to pushing the bolder one inch further up the hill, and when it inevitably starts tumbling downward they will blame everyone who told them it was going to happen.
Wonderfully said