PTB. Campists are already labeling the whole thing as "color revolution" and desperatelly trying to defend the brutal Theocracy currently murdering thousands in the streets. So this is expected at this point.

Pre-emptive to whom it may concern: Don't @ me with your shit takes about how I'm blindly supporting US imperialism.

Seems solid ptb to me. But yes, I don't think there's much likelihood of getting it reversed. You made the cardinal sin of calling for leftist aid for the people of Iran against their murderous anti west government. Which by the transitive property of being anti west, means that the power structure of the government is the good guy and victim here.

I knew the moment our hypocritical dumbass opened his mouth certain groups would use it to delegitimize the protests. But this is a learning opportunity. To understand who your actual allies are, and who's just reactionarily anti west.

Firmly a PTB. Holy shit .ml is never going to ever stop being like this. "Left unity" once again just means Anarchists have to obey MLs, and MLs never have to listen to anarchists.

The contents of the shared article make this ban extra ironic:

And, of course, there are the pseudo-left campists—the self-styled “anti-imperialists”—who whitewash the Islamic Republic’s dictatorship by projecting an anti-imperialist mask onto its façade. They cast doubt on the legitimacy of the current protests by repeating the tired accusation that “an uprising under these conditions is nothing but playing on the field of imperialism,” because they can only read Iran through the lens of geopolitical conflict—as if every revolt is merely a US–Israeli project in disguise. In doing so, they deny the political subjectivity of the people of Iran and grant the Islamic Republic discursive and political immunity as it massacres and represses its own population.

PTB, although I can’t say I’m surprised with the comm name. It’s annoying that so many leftist spaces just end up being campist authcom echo chambers

Regarding the original comment, I don't believe it deserves deletion, let alone a lifetime ban. In my opinion, it was written in good faith and is in no way propaganda. As for the Crimethinc article, it's clearly not "imperialist propaganda" as well, but rather wishful thinking. If you read it carefully, you can easily conclude that there is no third "leftist" option for Iran, since the article fails to do the most important thing – name those "leftist orgs in Iran" that could have a real impact and that "need international solidarity now". When Iran truly could have taken a different path – in the late 1970s and early 1980s – there were many diverse leftist organizations, ranging from Tudeh to MEK, from Fadaiyan-e-Khalq to Sarbedaran, that waged open war against both the Shah's and the Ayatollahs' regimes. Nothing like that exists now, and the Crimethinc article actually confirms this, regardless of the authors' intentions. So, in modern Iran, there is nothing but a few left-leaning individuals with very limited ability to influence anything, and the choice is only between a brutal theocracy and a Trump-loving shahzadeh.

PTB. Geneva is a bit of a nutjob and this is far from surprising behaviour from them. You won't miss much from being banned from any community they moderate.

PTB.

But it’s .ml, they only care about pushing propaganda and hate non-ML leftist viewpoints.

Also CrimeThinc are fucking awesome and everyone should go check out the great work they do.