this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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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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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 56 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 35 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 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

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 14 points 3 weeks ago

AHA! I found it. I was looking for this meme for days. Now I can make the edit I wanted to make.

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[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

down with trains!

*This message was written by big unicycle

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

You are now a moderator of c/lemmyshitpost

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

Unicycle or bust

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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

I disagree with your meme, especially during primary season, but I still upvoted because I think everyone should be able to post their "controversial" memes.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 weeks ago

Great meme, PTB.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)
[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 weeks ago

tankies are fucking shit. but they're still loads better than the nazi collaborators in the liberal parties of the world

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[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 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 vote 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 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, exact same kind of comments I was getting

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[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I am not able to comprehend people criticizing voting for third party. What is the meaning of vote if you cannot select a candidate of your choice?

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Exactly my thoughts! It's finally becoming more common to think like this on Lemmy now, but holy hell... in 2024 many Lemmy's legit wanted to crucify people who thought like this. And they still follow me around and regularly ask that I be banned from the entire fediverse!

I'm not going anywhere tho. :) And I'm so proud of how mad they got, I put their comments and posts in my profile banner:

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

I’m not going anywhere tho. :) And I’m so proud of how mad they got, I put their comments and posts in my profile banner:

Based :)

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks ago

PTB

Good meme :)

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Flyingsquid has been inactive for a year now

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You can search by mod action on the modlog page, flying squid hasn't been doing anything since he left, as a user or a mod. I don't know about the others.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 weeks 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 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

lowkey ur first mistake was participating in a shitpost community lmao

edit: ptb obviously

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

It was Decoy321. Says so right in your modlog.

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[–] remon@ani.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

PTB

That was a great post!

[–] monkeyjoe@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Angering the moderators who support murder is valid, PTB.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

FWIW, I sprayed some holy water their way. It was great following your rhythm that day.

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