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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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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
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Cool.
So anyway:
You're not proficient enough in English to understand what I'm saying.
You've suggested I buy a fascist shirt, while at the same time saying you would help me hit American fascists with a cudgel, when they all have body armor, military assault rifles, and armored personnel carriers.
... Despite the fact that I was not even the person who said the tree of liberty quote at all, but you keep acting like I did.
You've repeatedly insulted me multiple times by way of your poor grasp of English, I am bailing out of this conversation before I am as rude to you as you have been to me.
Sure, I did not intend to insult you. The t-shirt was a reference to my earlier comment where I intended to say: The quote which started the discussion isn't even anti fascist, but sadly also in use by the fascists. That was to contextualize what we're talking about, and only loosely connected to your statements.
You really can't expect me to answer to like 5 different questions and not make one omission. I expected you to know the difference between "call for" and "report on". But I respect your wish to bail out. I wish you the best. Sincerely. And my solidarity is with you. I wish there was more I could do. A free America is important to all of us.