this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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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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  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

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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.

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[–] Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Conflating zionist state of israel with the jewish people is anti-semitism. Israel does not represent all jewish people worldwide.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

#MODS MODS THIS MAN RIGHT HERE 😭

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can sort of see how they got there, but I don't think any nation has the right to exist. I'm sure if you swapped it with any other nation they wouldn't remove it.

PTB from flat.world as usual.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Francesca Albanese puts it well. A people have a right to exist.

An apartheid ethnosupremacist state built on, and still doing, genocide and settler Colonialism, certainly doesn't. Chattel Slavery America and Apartheid South Africa don't exist anymore, it's more than time for Israel to join them.

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry for not seeing this earlier. Work was hell today.

Your correct. This isn't racism. I'm reinstating your comment now.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.world is a festering mess of liberalism, you say?

Colour me surprised.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The place that banned all criticism of Biden/Harris and then wondered where all the critics went, justifying their bad beliefs that all of them were bots? Yeah I wonder why its a shitlib utopia.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don’t actually recall the .world mods or admins themselves calling people bots, and I’ve recently seen them removing comments containing bot accusations.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The admins don't, but a lot of the userbase used to (and still does) calls anyone who mildly criticized Harris as a secret Russian asset/bot, or a useful idiot who bought into the campaign.

When Biden was bad at the debate and I said "Man he looks so unfit for this" I was called a russian bot. I reported the comments and nothing got removed or banned.

And I recently got banned from !politicalmemes@lemmy.world because I defended myself from a moronic shitlib troll. The troll didn't get banned, I did.

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[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 1 week ago

Ethno-states run by power-tripping pigs have no right to exist.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

I left .world a while ago, I didn't leave Reddit to put up with the same bullshit on Lemmy

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

PTB*.

That said you're biting obvious bait - a good chunk of those discussions boil down to ambiguous words referring to both actual human beings and states/governments, to defend the later as if it was an attack on the former.

*LATER EDIT: upon the mod reinstating the comment, I'm changing my judgment to CLM.

And it's worth noting the judgment only applies to the comment shown in the original post - since the user in question is clearly eager to lie in order to accuse others, and their behaviour borders concern trolling.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, people called Israel exist.

But from the thread the comment was placed in, it should be clear I was talking about the apartheid colonizing Palestine. Not a persons right to existence

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (11 children)

It was clear for me, too. However, a lot of people struggle to tell apart two things when you use the same word to refer to them, and that's one of those cases.

My suggestion in this regard is to always use "state of Israel" instead. You'll still get some bans, but it becomes harder for supporters of the genocidal state to claim "no, ur teh 1 defending genoside".

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

PTB. .world's stances continue to be completely indistinguishable from State Department propaganda. I guess it was only a matter of time until the mods started cracking down on anti-Zionism. Fully expect to see them ban someone for promoting BDS next.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would be hillarious if they put an anti-BDS clause in the .world terms of service.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Honestly, they should just make users recite the Pledge of Allegiance to sign up.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah the mods of the news Community being in favor of fascism doesn't surprise me.

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I mean... it's an illegitimate state after all.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It can't be racism unless you first admit it's an ethnostate.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

PTB

Zionists are on the wrong side of history

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