this post was submitted on 25 Jul 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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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
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One of the c/MeanwhileOnGrad mods is a power poster who permabans anyone as a “tankie” for making even the mildest of criticisms. Ironic for someone so vociferous about “authoritarianism.”
That is wild, coming from you.
Seems like mods at .ml got some competition on "Who wants to be a power tripping mod?", eh?
Hey drama queen do you recognise the genocide the Uyghurs?
If there's evidence that isn't entirely filtered through one German fundamentalist who doesn't even speak the language I'll consider it.
Absolutely wild to still be pushing this narrative from the first Trump admin when Gaza is getting leveled and starved en masse though.
This may come as a shock to you, but some people have the mental capacity to be concerned about more than one thing at a time.
why be bringing mental capacity into this?
I'm definitely biased as someone living in US though. The country I'm living in is participating in a genocide so I'm going to be a lot more concerned about that.
China has plenty of issues without needing to go through a German fundamentalist on a "mission from god" against China.
awwww, now thats a valid drama queen
They must've learnt from you, Davel.
Jesus
lol
lmao even