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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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[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

PTB!

Bruh, I criticized the two-party system, and admitted I voted third party (Socialist Party) in the 2024 presidential election. Lemmy is STILL pissed off about it and says I'm a Trumper--all because I didn't Democrat. More and more people are starting to realize a 2-party system sucks, but damn, Lemmy ain't their yet.

You marked for life now, dawg! Good luck! LMAO

(Oh and fuck you Lemmy, I'm gonna vote third party in the next election too. :) )

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah I've been fending off those freaks like they're extras running at me one at a time in a kung-fu movie with bad takes. I'm not even American, I wasn't eligible to vote in the 2024 election, but because I criticized Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, that must mean I just fuckin LOVE Trump.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Welcome to Reddit, but mostly bots.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

This meme below got removed a few days ago. I think if you post anything controversial that rustles enough jimmies to make people rage-cry report you, they just remove the post rather than deal with angry nerds.

Or they just really hate trains, the jerks!

Edit: Same mod

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

down with trains!

*This message was written by big unicycle

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hear me out. A monorail made solely of unicycles strung together. Win-win!

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, that's why we are against train. With train tracks, we can have 2x density, with bidirectional traffic.

Unicycle or bust

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

You are now a moderator of c/lemmyshitpost

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 19 points 8 hours ago

I'll be honest. Even as an anarcho-communist, I don't care for these kinds of political reductions.

However, given that it's a shitposting community, seems like lost-nuance is kind of part and parcel to the spirit of the community (which is why I don't go there). I'd call this PTB.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 27 points 10 hours ago

How dare you shitpost in the shitposting community. Your post is exactly the kind of thing I like to see there.

I agree, the mod probably didn't like the political message.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

PTB, as they say. If you scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Before long, people are gonna accuse you of being me. lol

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Wouldn't be surprising, liberals usually resort to making bad faith accusations when they don't have anything to counter with.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 14 points 10 hours ago

you angered the libs by pointing out they're fascists.

the meme is still up in !anarchymemes@anarchist.nexus, so they can mald about it there.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago

PTB

Good meme :)

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Something something it’s more dignified to be killed by blue, just don’t post in .world, help grow other servers

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 5 points 10 hours ago

Someone has to get dirty rolling around in the trenches with the hogs, gotta burst their bubble occasionally. But yep, you're right.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It was Decoy321. Says so right in your modlog.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't see it, what am I missing? Can you share a screenshot and I'll add it to the post?

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Using the summit app.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They might be using an app. Some of them show a more detailed modlog.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

That helped, thank you! I looked at the API request directly in raw JSON, and I can confirm it was indeed Decoy321.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"you've started quite a shit show"

well excuse you for assuming a shitpost community would be such a refined and gentlemanly establishment 🤣

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago

No problem.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Flyingsquid has been inactive for a year now

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 7 points 10 hours ago

I had a quick look through and pretty much every moderator on that community has almost no activity recently, I wonder if they're using their accounts for moderator action only, and participating on another account.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Nah I reported your post too. Stop spamming US internal political shit in the shitpost community. Keep that to a US politics community

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing and being honest and I totally get it, but don't you think that should be a rule that's fairly and equally enforced, not just applied to posts that the mods personally disagree with?

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah fair point, it definitely should be applied equally and its not right if its only subject to mods' opinions. I really wish the community would ban political posts entirelyi need some reprieve from the doom

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

The problem with banning politics is determining what's considered political. Not long ago divorce, adoption, abortion, nazis, and women wearing pants were hot topics. Now it's immigration, abortion and nazis again, and queer folks wearing skirts.

I'd rather endure some of that doom and gloom through a shipost than the rapid onslaught of panic-inducing headlines.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Old-school internet forums usually did that. Not sure about all the nuance and specifics to meme groups... Just saying it's not a generally impossible thing, or a new idea.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

Not saying it hasn't been done, I'm saying it's hard to do well. I've seen "women's issues" and "pronouns" included under "politics," in old-school and new forums, which is why I'm hesitant to agree with no-politics rules.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

No shit show in the community with "shit" in the name!!1!

[...] because [...] disagreed with the political slant

no shit.

But that's kinda the thing with discussing politics online... Usually ends with some flame war.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The thing is, it wasn't even that bad. People were disagreeing, but for the most part, it wasn't too bad from what I saw. Only one comment was deleted for incivility prior to the entire thread getting nuked.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I 100% agree with the mod comment. Seems to me this has to be considered top tier shit as well.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago

You should stick to Lemmy Shitpost.

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