I didn't make it in the screenshot 😔
I also got banned for that LMFAO
I didn't even say anything about the 'strawman' I just said that "ban you for speaking too loudly" was bad
"We're good and you're bad"
Holy shit lmao you can't write irony this good.
Oh it's irony you wanted?
What the hell is going on with that community? :D
Hahaha this comm's mods are on the sauce, this is insane.
"Alright you're banned for a month for being an uncivil asshole, but when you get back I'll make your uncivil ass a mod."
I'm the other mod of that sub. Alphanerd was allowed to come back as a mod provisionally as he was the creator of the community and the most active. He chose to waste that opportunity and is no longer a mod.
Kudos. FYI they seem to have defaced your sidebar.
Lol. That's actually hilarious.
Just for the lols, someone try asking them if they're pro-Russian
They 100% are, and tell you that they don't actually support Russia but have a "temporary ally" against the capitalist super power... Blablabla...
In the end they support the genocide in Ukraine, hate that genocide in Palestine and generally cherry pick what they seem fascist (the US and Europe) and what not (China, while Russia is temporarily fascist, but that's okay because of reasons).
Those guys were never politically active in the real world. It's super sad, because deep inside they are on the right track. They just would change one (capital fascist) system by stalinism (which they call communism).
That mod has been removed. Send me a link to the comment that got you banned and I will remove your ban.
I find that that's usually the case for most people. The part of the school system that was responsible for teaching them critical thinking skills really failed them. It's also why people try to dumb down politics into one of two sides, it's why our government will always inevitably fail. This guy is using the authoritarian label because that's as far as his understanding of politics go. The US is an oligarchy, the US is imperialist, the US is nepotistic, but it is not authoritarian, yet.
Having said that, there are groups certainly interested in claiming that so that the authoritarian label means less for other nations, the sort of nations they want to defend. Given the submissions in that "community", I would say this is the case here. People who really are against authoritarians and who might believe the US to be wouldn't go and whitewash other authoritarian states. This community is a manifestation of whataboutism propaganda IMO.
The US deserves criticism, but if you really want to make it, I would encourage avoiding places with an underlying agenda like this one. In case you disagree with me, you can test it out easily for yourself, just post there and compare the US to other countries you would consider de facto authoritarian states, and see which countries they have a problem with you bringing up for comparison.
I’ve always been weary of that community. It had some tankie mod vibes.
Seems like all comments here are "whatabout communism"
US being an authoritarian shithole is pretty undisputable reality. It could be preferable to debate the point than outright banning the possibly misinformed, but the assumption of military bot troll propagandist is not unreasonable.
You and I disagree, so it’s obvious you’re just a Kremlin bot account, here to sow discontent.
To be fair, he didnt say he was against authoritariamism.
Is communism even possible without authoritarianism?
Edit: lol I pissed off the tankies
Yes.
If everything is shared under communism, that would include political power. thus (imo) communism is a direct democracy.
Edit: forgot what thread I was in. What the hell does communism have to do with US authoritarianism?
You're not wrong though. While it might be possible to do in theory people are not that nice or kind, you'll never get everyone to share what they have and not own or try to possess things without an authoritarian government forcing it. Maybe in a more ideal world you could achieve it but that's not the world we live in.
"Gommunism is when everyone share everything"
Communism is an ideology that states that the means of production should belong to the working class, nowhere do the principles of communism deny the ownership of personal property. Look at home ownership rates and see which countries have the highest (China, post-soviet republics), and the lowest (Germany, US) rates
PTB stinking hypocrisy from a distance.
Counterpoint. It’s not a strawman. The US is is an authoritarian state. If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you. also Why are you here?
Strawman wasn't enough, was it? There's an implicit false dichotomy here, between accepting the idiotic reasoning and the conclusion or rejecting both (thus the user not belonging to the sub).
EDIT: to be clear. I won't talk if USA is/isn't authoritarian, that is not my point. My point is that the mod in question is clearly being irrational, and hell breaks loose once you put irrational people on power. I also don't think that he should be removing users for not agreeing with the premise of the sub.
They're getting reamed out in the comments, which is great to see.
I get the ironic angle of the mod being "authoritarian" but that's their space and if they decide they don't want to deal with trolls arguing about they can ban people.
Just like trans communities can and should ban people who just want to argue about if trans people are real. If you try to argue against it you're just being a dick and distracting from the point of the community.
If the point of a community is spreading misinformation, you have a moral obligation to distract from the point of the community
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.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
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.
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