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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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One of us! One of us! --another former .ml user.
PTB for sure.
I think that this ban can be explained, under .ml admin team insane troll logic, like this: you're attacking Trump, thus you're defending Biden (there's even a "but" there! It invalidates everything that you said). Biden is helping the State of Israel to genocide the Palestinians so you're implicitly backing up the genocide "lol." so stop trolling "tnx."
And since you seem to be also communist, a few pointers on the instance landscape:
[Sorry for the uncalled advice, it's just stuff that I wish that I knew when I left .ml]
All good and I appreciate it! Though to be clear I am not a communist, and don't see myself becoming one. I'm not sure what label to apply to myself these days.
Ah, sorry then. It's just that some things that you said in the comment (plus in your other comments - got to check profile to say if PTB/YDI/BPR/CLM) lean this way. Nevermind the advice then, but I hope that it's useful for other lost commies like me.
Yeah, I find myself in a sort of uncanny valley politically/socially. I broadly agree with most folks who call themselves progressive or leftist (in a US context), but have a hard time slotting myself into one category. I think I'm too ignorant about the nuance of some of the different sorts of viewpoints to make the needed distinctions.
All good in any case!
Just usss...

That's where my mind usually goes but then I see two folks from .ml debating the finer points of the two and whether Bernie actually is what he say he is and.... and it becomes really tiresome to have to be sure I'm putting all my beliefs and opinions into the right box.
I don't mean that in the confrontational or faux-edgy way it may sound. I know (in some cases) what I'm not, but that's about as far as I tend to take the time to go.
Are you an "Anarcho"-Capitalist? Because I've never seen any anarchists support just weakening of the state. That would still leave hierarchies which is the thing anarchism is meant to oppose. It also doesn't work with anarchist praxis.
Phew, ok :)
Thanks!