Wow, yeah that person is basically just a nazi
PTB, it is disgusting to see people apologize for Nazism. If you apologize for Nazis or try to imply we should feel bad for them in any way, you might as well be one of them.
Israel is a genocidal nazi state, but israel≠Judaism.
First, nazism is not compatible with legitimate anti-zionism.
Secondly, the mod seems like the usual liberalism enabling fascism: "Nazism and anti-nazism?!?!?! BOTH BAD!"
PTB.
Looks like a mod taking care of a slap fight.
YDI
based on this i'd probably say a mix of PTB and CLM
you and the other user are both extremely intense in a mostly mellow thread, honestly. YDI. (imho)
edit: hexbears gon give it to 'ya

I for one think there is no intensity too great for telling someone to fuck off for saying we need a second holocaust. Probably should do some introspection on your enlightened centrist civility fetish if you see OP In the wrong for getting heated at a literal fucking Nazi.
"enlightened centrist civility fetish"
not every place on the fediverse needs to be host to your attempts to start fights and arguments. both for you and the OP
So you think we should just be civil to someone literally praising Hitler. This is not my home instance or I would be far less civil about this. If you think we are too mean to LITERAL Nazis that says a lot about you tbh.
literally said none of those things. who are you talking to? are you in another thread and this one?
You did say that. I can see the two comments where you said that, in this thread. Why would you lie when anyone can read them?
They're so peaceful and loving
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you.
So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”
And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.”
and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed.
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”
And i was like, oh, ok, and he continues. “you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.”
And i was like, “oh damn.”
and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.
It is everyone's responsibility to be extremely intense to nazis whenever they show themselves.
Sure, but in this story, OP is another patron in the bar starting a fight with the nazi.
You see a troll, you downvote, report, move on. Let them get banned.
As OP points out, the nazi was banned from one comm rather than from the instance. If the bartender doesn't throw the nazi all the way out, then it falls to YOU to make a scene until they do.
and they only did do so after I came in and made a fuss, clearly "just shut up and let the trolls roam freely" does not work
Bring it up to the admins, then. Reports go to them too. The community mod doesn't have the power to ban them from the instance.
If it were an actual bar and someone said that shit in earshot of me, I'd probably force them out myself. And, at the bars I frequent, I have and not a single bouncer has stopped me.
Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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.
Posting Guidelines
All posts should follow this basic structure:
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
- Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Rules
- Post only about bans or other sanctions that you have received from a mod or admin.
- Don’t use private communications to prove your point. We can’t verify them and they can be faked easily.
- Don’t deobfuscate mod names from the modlog with admin powers.
- Don’t harass mods or brigade comms. Don’t word your posts in a way that would trigger such harassment and brigades.
- Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.
- You can post about power trippin’ in any social media, not just lemmy. Feel free to post about reddit or a forum etc.
- If you are the accused PTB, while you are welcome to respond, please do so within the relevant post.
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
Relevant comms

