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DISCLAIMER: this is not my content that was removed, I just came across it in the modlog and found it to be absurd. If it’s not allowed, I totally understand.

Reason removed was because it’s unrelated.

Unrelated…..

The guy was illegally deported without due process. And yet for some reason, suggesting so is somehow “unrelated” to a meme that is trying to say that because he is affiliated (no charges were ever filed against him for gang-related activity) with a gang, he is by default, guilty.

What’s ironic, is that the entire point of the meme is that the bullshit about him being in MS-13 is unrelated to the fact that people want accountability for this administration illegally deporting a man without due process.

This mod has definitely chosen the correct name.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The comment that started this accusation said:

That's nice. I was responding to a very particular exchange, different from the one you picked out to look at, which said:

There was a specific crowd pretending only democrats could have responsibility for it and that Trump could not be worse

you’re making that up.

Nobody is making up the crowd that pretended only Democrats could have responsibility for it and that Trump could not be worse. Some of them are still around, (and still! saying the same thing for some fucked-up reason, as per my examples) some are gone. I gave some examples of that crowd.

I don't really feel like a protracted exchange where you move goalposts around and introduce totally random qualifications like "in order to exert electoral pressure on the Democrats" when in fact the lack of that is a big part of why I object strongly to the whole operation. Where, something like the "uncommitted" movement is at least organized in a fashion where it seems like it could produce an improvement, by putting pressure on the Democrats, so that sounds fine. Just not voting for Democrats and hoping they'll figure it out and move to the left seems pretty much guaranteed to give us something along the lines of the catastrophe that happened. Which is why I am opposed to it.

Anyway feel free to tell the people in Gaza or immigrants in the US or any international student or Ukrainian or and so on about your theory and how pleased you are, now that it's succeeded, and aren't they proud of you.

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don’t really feel like a protracted exchange where you move goalposts around

this accusation of bad faith is itself bad faith

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

your theory and how pleased you are, now that it’s succeeded

you're putting word in my mouth.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I never said you had said you were pleased about it. I said you should be pleased about it, now that it's had the absolutely 100% predictable result, and you should be proud to tell all the people scared or suffering because of it how this was an impact of your master plan to improve the Democrats, and how well it's working, and how important it was for you so you could accomplish your goals.

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's also met my theory, or anyone else's. it's a charicature made up by democrat party apologists. it's a strawman.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What was your theory for how refusing to support the Democrats was going to produce an improvement in the world, then? Tell me.

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't speak for others. I was hoping their candidate would back off of supporting Israel and their sitting president would follow suit. it didn't happen so I don't know why you'd think I or anyone else would be pleased, or think it worked, or that that Democrats aren't responsible for their own failures

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I was hoping their candidate would back off of supporting Israel and their sitting president would follow suit.

Super realistic. Absolute master stroke. And look how well it worked. I apologize for ever have criticized you or your strategy.

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

your sarcasm doesn't prove the fictional people you are lambasting ever existed, either.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm literally criticizing the strategy you just explained to me.

Edit: Oh, also, I'm criticizing some of the people I quoted up above who said that Trump might actually be better on Israel and similar things. I linked to them so you can see they are not imaginary. But, you don't necessarily have to be responsible for their viewpoint. I am also criticizing your viewpoint you just expressed to me, also, though.

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

edit:

those comments were made after the election and things did change. they are not evidence those positions were held prior to the election. you're just wrong

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You really want me to take more time digging up more comments about this?

Okay sure.

  • https://ponder.cat/comment/627352 "My point is that Liberals need to drop the idea that Trump would be materially worse than Harris on Gaza"
  • https://ponder.cat/comment/173626 "Every threat that Trump poses is already fulfilled by Joe Biden. ... He is doing everything Netanyahu tells him to. It cannot get much worse."
  • https://ponder.cat/comment/157591 "I dont see how it could possibly be worse. Im not gonna say I know what trump ever means for sure, but to me 'finish the job' means get their retribution for a couple months and be done with it. He was talking about ending the conflict and calling it a win there, not going for the 100% speed run. Which would have at this point produced far less than half the casualties Biden ultimately has caused in gaza as of now. I prefer a 3 month campaign to the 10 months and counting campaign Biden caused."

They were actually easier to find, starting at the opposite end of the search list, than the other ones more recently. I think Trump getting elected means that some of these accounts have calmed down or moved on to other things, as the horror of what they were advocating has come to pass, whereas before the election it was a typhoon of this stuff and it was easier to depart from reality in their predictions.

Edit: Took the colons away so the links work

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i couldn't find your second comment. the link breaks on my side. the first one is from cowbee, who definitely didn't disappear and who is still quite active on this topic. the last one is from someone who disappeared BEFORE the election, so also does not fit yourcriteria

you are grasping at straws. instead of tilting at windmills, why don't you criticize trump, as you expect leftists not to criticize the democrats?

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

Whee look at the goalposts go lol

See them fly

I have ascended, though. I have no need to run in pursuit of them any further. I like how we totally moved away from the direct discussion of how you're still defending this dogshit strategy now that the exact horror that me and many other people predicted from it, has come to pass. Well done! I really can't emphasize enough how proud I am of your strategy, or how well it has worked.

I edited the URLs so the links work.

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm maintaining the same standard I have from the beginning.

your accusation of moving the goal post is unfounded.

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

which is far a field from where this discussion started, because someone is moving the goalposts.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 2 days ago

I made an edit just now (before seeing your response), specifically tying it back to the place this discussion started.

Also, asking what you think so I can clarify why that, also, is wrong, is not at all moving the goalposts. It's just scoring one goal and then another one.

[–] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 3 days ago

Nobody is making up the crowd that pretended only Democrats could have responsibility for it and that Trump could not be worse.

yes they are, and if that weren't the case you would have been able to show it