Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585
Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:
Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.
Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:
Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.
Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.
I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:
It's not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.
I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don't want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that's not the case in any of the communities I've been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.
PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.
I 100% get that we elect our opposition not our leaders. and in the US we are only given "lesser evil", and not voting isn't helping. OP was basically bootlicking dems and being ok with their atrocities.
you normally do have primaries though, you can gate keep the worst shit stains then.
The democratic party successfully argued in court that it doesn't have to run honest primaries. It selectively protects centrist incumbents like Henry Cuellar, but not progressive incumbents like Cori Bush or Jamaal Bowman. And that's when it deigns to have primaries at all.
I'm telling everyone to go participate in the primaries. you can't sit on your ass, skip the primaries, then complain why all the candidates are bad
I vote every year, local, state, and national as well as primaries. In my state, you have to be associated with a party to vote in their primaries though so it ensures one party will not represent you essentially.
yhea, that should be the standard. good job. I mean voting in local state federal and primary elections.
You should be able to vote in multiple parties's primaries.
Nope, again, how my state does elections. To be in the GQP primary have to be registered for them, for Dems a democrat. If you independent you get the wonderful not able to vote for anyone's party line in the primaries.
I mean "should" as in an "ideal society". not as in "you can do that in the current system".
Oh, thank you for the clarification. I ultimately believe though there shouldn't be parties, it's all ranked choice voting for candidates not party systems. I wish to plant that tree.
Parties are bullshit, but I think in any voting system, parties would emerge. it takes work to organize a campaign, canvassing, publicity, outreach... one person can do it. but likely wouldn't get far.
Parties are bullshit though.
I wish we had a comm just about this. My gut feeling is the media is purposely burying talking about the primaries so most don't go vote.
this, if only a fraction of progressive people would hit the primaries, the entire democratic party would change. not in a slow reformist kind of way. but as in a radical change like they had when Republicans and Democrats switched sides.
the media doesn't want that. the state doesn't want that. but we absolutely need it.
What does it really matter if they can just use superdelegates anyway or have half the race drop out and endorse the annointed candidate.
I think superdelegates are only for presidential primaries.
for every other candidate there aren't superdelegates. and every elected officials that isn't bought be AIPAC counts.
Yeah I am talking about the presidential election
that isn't the only election that matters, focus on the rest
Cool good talk
"you can’t sit on your ass, skip the primaries, then complain "
stop me
no need, you already said you're doing nothing. that's already stopped.
I didn't say I'm doing nothing.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/sit-on-ass
have a nice day
trying.