It wasn't a hostile discussion or anything, i didn't even go full "the kulaks deserved it" (although the mod that single-handedly banned me did go full "the kulaks did not deserve it"). I just laid out plainly and calmly that revolutions are inherently authoritarian, that Luxemburg said "the revolution will be as violent as the ruling class makes it necessary" and that there's one Trotzki quote i 100% agree with: "If the October Revolution hadn't succeeded, the world would have known a Russian word for fascism 10 years before Mussolini's March on Rome". Basically the whole "Jakarta Method" train of thought laid out clearly and without calling anybody names.
Note that this was on an explicitly left-leaning server that does not allow cops and troops to join. Also after several days of another poster starting destructive, aggressive bad faith arguments in the politics channel until a number of users went "disengage" on her and the channel had to be frozen until recently, when she immediately started being hostile and arguing in bad faith again, which got her not one, but two warnings from the same mod without further consequences. Meanwhile, when i defend AES without attacking anybody, that's apparently too much for her to handle. No advance warning, no "sis, you're talking to me as a mod here", not even a notification that i got banned.
The best part is that according to screenshots a friend just sent me, she's now completely going off about "authoritarians". The nerve some people have.
Sorry for posting pointless internet drama here, i just needed to vent.
F sorry Acid, can you just make an alt?
I've thought about that, but because that was a closed-off trans only space and because i did not treat that server as a dedicated place where i get political and practice the according amount of opsec, i would either be recognizable with that new acc or i would have to hold back on my public interactions with people. Like, i couldn't post any selfies because people there know my face. And until today, that was something i was completely fine with. I was there because i wanted that kind of closeness and intimacy. It's like going to pride in a really skimpy outfit, y know? You expose yourself because you're in a safe space. It's public, but you know you're among your own people. That kind of vibe. I wouldn't get that back with a new acc.
I've abandoned many communities in the past myself. I'm sorry your departure is over something so stupid.