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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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I don't reply here often because when people make posts like this, especially on other people's behalf I usually get harassed and insulted (this one's no different, considering the transphobia in the comments). But I do have to clarify because it's important.

Rimu has recently been defending the actions of MrKaplan, who has been using his power as a LW admin to promote Zionism, and by defending that they are indirectly apologizing for Zionism. It doesn't matter if they supported Palestine before or if they still do now. They're currently apologizing for and defending a Zionist. Which is why they were banned. They are not the first person banned for that either, a lot of LW accounts have been banned for Zionist apologia and many more will likely follow.

It would be kind of like if someone who's a trans ally started defending someone who was insulting trans people for getting gender affirming care. It doesn't matter how much they supported trans people in the past or claim to support them now. They are defending and promoting a transphobe.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 24 points 1 day ago (13 children)

But both rimu and Skavau are defending Kaplans actions of defedederating anarchist nexus and mostly likely db0 soon. Hell rimu followed without question.

Actions always speak louder than words (or in this case pictures)

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

What a shock that Rimu hates antizonists more than mass murder.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Important note that this is just a community ban, not an instance ban. Mm is not an admin.

That said, MM has always been a bit trigger happy. This wouldn't be even noticed if they didn't moderate so many comms, or if the modlog would automatically conflate all comm bans by one mod into a single entry.

Anyway, I do find that jumping to call people zionists or nazis at the drop of a hat is not healthy

[–] fedikitty@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago
[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Y'all just let us fine users on instances where nothing ever happens know how that all plays out.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

I don't have much informations about the admin and piefed. Does they generally remove zionist comments and ban zionists users?

Putting a Palestinian flag means nothing, if Israeli apologist still run free and people rejected Palestinians right to armed resistance

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

the more I dig into them, I'm not so sure @Rimu@piefed.social is a zionist.

http://s.faf-pb.xyz/Of1Da

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 1 day ago

I’ve never seen anything to support Rimu being Zionist.

A lib sure, but many libs are anti-Israel as well after witnessing the horrors now. They just have kneejerk reactions to violence as a political tool of the proletariat classes.

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