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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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I said something along the lines of:

"Wow, I haven't had a reason to smile ear to ear in a while."

Along with

"Nah, the more dead ~~corpos~~ dragons, the better."

In response to some liberal going off about how violence is never the solution, not mentioning how this murdered dipshit has personally overseen a system that perpetuates harm, suffering and death (violence) in the name of profit.

...

Good ole' civility clause.

Whats the paradox of tolerance?

.world mods have never heard of it I guess.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm just here to point out that everyone's going to use the downvote button as a "disagree" button and the upvote as "agree," and there's nothing anyone can do to stop us. You can't hold back the tide.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

As an anarchist, I am keenly aware that rules are merely suggestions, and are utterly meaningless when no system exists to actually enforce them.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The whole thing is all just made up. There are no "rules" written down like there are for software systems. There are just shared habits and models of the world, and traditions for how to react. In general, people agree and keep it all consistent enough from day to day that the rules in their heads translate into behavior and dependable systems in the real world. But it's all just made up. It's just people deciding what to do, every minute, in every society, based on what they decide in their brain, no matter how strict the "rules" that supposedly exist are.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Like how we could 'make up' having a healthcare system that provides universal affordable care to all citizens, but instead ... we ...

(not actually all of us, actually the extremely wealthy and influential people who control government policy and all the media that tells us what to think about government policy)

... 'we' make up a horrible, unjust system that perpetuates suffering, violence and death, so that a tiny minority of people can profit!

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What I'm saying is that there is no mechanical system that puts those particular people in charge.

We had the gilded age, we had the labor battles that laid the foundation for the working economy of the 20th century, we had the New Deal and prosperity for a lot of people, then we let it get away from us and the crooks took charge again. But it all can change. We can make it different. People have fought their way back to good government from places a million times worse than modern-day America.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure what you mean by mechanical.

Obviously there is not a physical machine like a 3d printer that produces a sociopoliticaleconomic system.

But there are absolutely empirically verified theories within sociology, political science, and economics which describe why historical events happened with a pretty good degree of accuracy, and a lot of them do function pretty mechanistically to predict likely future outcomes, though with a wider margin of possibility than physics predicting a physical machine.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 7 months ago

I'm saying that nothing enforces these particular people being in charge, other than everyone agreeing that these are the people in charge, and that can change.

It has, in huge ways, for better and worse depending, all throughout history.

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

dios mío, A LIBERAL!

I think they should make a post addressing this but it is pretty funny to see people's reactions

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I looked at the logs myself, and it absolutely was power tripping. Jury nullification discussion isn't even illegal for fucks sake.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can't comment on bans/deservedness. Lemmy is infested with mods/agents/bots that are pro empire/CIA/military paid protectors of disinformation and said empire.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

I don’t think a tankie has any right to complain about propaganda online.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago (12 children)

The bans seem to be lifted.

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

PTB, comments celebrating a person who's horrible are not encouraging violence. This is clearly an attempt from the mods to push their agenda. Their replies here in this thread support this theory.

for me i consider human life sacred and despite the mistakes of this person only God may judge us.

I think this comment snippet speaks for itself honestly.

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