this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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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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That is quite unfortunate, as Jordan was just commenting with me about the Fable franchise in a different thread. The more you know ✨ indeed!
I thought it was one of my better comments too, especially in the height of what happened 5 months ago. That is literally how they look at us peasants, so I thought it would be pretty well received regardless of political views, as the sentiment at the time was that a CEO getting offed was something both parties in the US could agree was a pretty good thing, especially a healthcare one that was and is still well known to deny valid claims. shrugs
Also, Luigi was with me that day, and we had a very good time playing Whack-A-Mole at the local Dave and Busters in Washington state. >_>
You would think we are all team peasant here but main subs are ran by DNC komissars who are ultimately just regime whores/controlled opposition. Once people understand this, the modding we see on corpo and big lemmy.world subs makes a lot more sense.
Without a citation I won't believe it, but it would explain why they think anyone who disagrees with them is a paid actor. The GOP uses the tactic and the DNC is copying their playbook in the wrong ways.
This has been my thesis for about a year and my bias has been getting more and more confirmed.
This is deff my opinion as of now, evidence at best is circumstantial. However, after how they treated luigi and genocide discussions, this is a bridge i will be dying on until proven wrong.
Oh I detest .world's moderation. They actively let the most insufferable people mod and post, where if .ml was doing it, they'd call for defederation.
But .world can be insufferable bootlickers without being on the payroll. It would explain why they support Israel, censor leftists, and more, but it just means they're willingly doing these actions for free.