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 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.