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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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I posted this meme to the Lemmy Shitpost community. I reckoned that it might generate a bit of debate, and would probably end up locked, but the entire post got deleted, and moreover, I'm now forbidden from sharing political posts to the community. Political posts are not against the rules of the community.

I have reason to believe that the post was deleted not because it was controversial, but because the moderator (Decoy321) disagreed with the political slant of the meme. The reason I find this suspicious is because other controversial posts, such as one about veganism remains up, and Decoy321 seemed to enjoy the fact it was controversial:

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

blames anti-genocidal voters for Trump's victory instead of pro-genocidal politicians

"you’ll have to pry the r-slur from my cold dead hands"

Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You are exhausting and ML's seemingly favorite phrase to describe anarchists, an unserious person.

Your faction's way of thinking is a major reason I resent existence. You are letting the actual fascists win and there is nothing I could say to change your mind. You might as well have been a MAGA pre-2024. Worthless, stupid, petulantly virtue ethicist.

You have nothing to counter intellectually and its evident. Why should I even try with people like you when this is your vapid fucking response? Waste of time, repeating stupid pointless memes.

Its so depressing. And it just confirms I'm making the right choice to separate myself from this stuff and I don't want to be right, I want to be wrong. I want there to be something here and no one is capable of offering it.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 25 minutes ago

You're very clearly arguing to have your existing beliefs confirmed. If you want to be wrong, ask questions instead of declaring your own positions about things. I'd gladly educate you on why your ideology is wrong and why your beliefs lead to fascism, but it's obvious to me you aren't here to learn

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I was describing what other's would describe me as.

In reality, no one should entertain people who value virtue over consequence. You would let the world burn as long as you can describe yourself as ethically pure.