Counterpoint: number must go up.
(Highly ironically, seems to include this one as well?)
Yeah phase 1 is optional, some of us only wish that we were that sophistumicashiated as all that!
Point: facts
Counterpoint: memes
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Something something by my bootstraps...
Unless used as a verb, then it's divergent.
There is something horribly symbolic in all of that ๐คฎ๐ฟ๐
It seems (a little) akin to burning books: sure maybe you can get away with doing whatever you wish to a printed copy that you purchase (legally speaking), but that doesn't mean that we (the bystanders) should rush to enjoy using the final product of the endeavor.
Innuendo Studios, maker of The Alt Right Playbook, has an earlier series specifically on this topic in Why are you so angry.
Unless... maybe... he WASN'T!?!?!?๐
This has nothing to do with the community. The modlog shows that you were banned site-wide from lemmy.ml, which is implemented by a ban from each individual community individually (so despite how this says it was done by a "mod", it was actually an admin):
Removed Comment So they are doing a China? by macniel@feddit.org reason: Rule 1
It is an unwritten rule that you are not allowed to criticize China there. Or Russia. Or anything else that they do not like.