https://sh.itjust.works/post/31716642
Edit: There used to be a screenshot here. I messed up the link in an edit and don't have a local copy saved.
My comment was roughly 'It already looks like it might be better than things now, at least Biden never advocated for full displacement of all Palestine."
I had already seen half the comment section of the post with ban marks. This single comment copped me a fully-expected permaban. Unfortunately my comment doesn't show up in modlogs so I had to retype it more or less from memory.
The bloodshed:
Screenshot edited as per mod request.
Most of the banned comments are actually still visible. If you browse the thread you'll notice there's nothing particularly inflammatory or banworthy about any of them.
Best part, in the middle of all that banning, our buddy found the time to mod the one guy in that post who supported his opinions. Welp, another echo chamber in the making.
Follow up:
The mod posted in a similar post in this comm. FWIW, while I stand by my actions and opinion, I did msg them to offer them a personal apology.
Ugh. Now, of all times, we should be banding together. Instead, we are all turned against each other, at each others' throats because of petty purity tests.
Divide and conquer, the technique that works so well that British create their empire with it. Single issue voter is so susceptible to it they might as well be the pawn of the powerful.
I realise that Americans don't actually think that Palestine is a real place and Palestinians are real people, but I promise you, to them, their genocide is not a "petty purity test"
Indeed. Extremists don't even realise when they're alienating others who are actually on their side. Useful idiots indeed.
If being banned from a Lemmy community made you support genocide, you were already a fascist.