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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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Aaaaaaand I just got banned from NOT one, NOT two, NOT three, but four Lemmy.ml communities. Is this a sign I have to start studying and reading up on theory?

Also, I know some Lemmy.ml mods is gonna say that "you wouldn't get banned from these communities had you read your theory!" like they're teachers demanding students to eat their meat before they can have their pudding (because how can you have your pudding when you don't eat your meat?)

Now I support the idea of socialism (I'm more of a market socialist), and I'm NOT against the idea of actually existing socialist countries (ie: China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and the DPRK). That said, I think Lemmy.ml should be more open to different forms of socialism, as well as the Marxist Leninists who DOESN'T have to support Stalin (and his bureaucratic and polarizing practices while General Secretary of the CPSU) to support ML.

I am very bummed that I CAN'T respond in these communities - that said, I can subscribe to different versions of these communities that happened to be in different Lemmy instances (other than Lemmy.ml):

Socialism:

!socialism@beehaw.org

!actualsocialism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!actualsocialism101@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!socialist@lemmy.world

Privacy:

!privacy@lemmy.world

Memes:

!memes@hexbear.net

!linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Lemmy support:

Someone should make another Lemmy support community here in this instance

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Just ignore ml. If you got banned for not knowing their version of whatever, you probably are just going to get banned again later.

For once, I am not knocking on ml for being ml, it's just a very odd instance when it comes to social interaction. You must subscribe to the hive mind 100% ... or else.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm NOT knocking the instance for being Marxist-Leninists - that said, if mods in that instance warms up to non-Marxist-Leninists (like De Leonists, council communists and syndicalists, for example), I wouldn't get banned there to begin with.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Yeah, I tried to steer clear commenting on whatever people choose to follow politically or socially. It is a highly curated echo-chamber, is my point. (Most social media rabbit holes are echo-chambers, but ml wins awards for that.)

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People on Hexbear seem to think that my socialist views are "revisionist".

[–] Forester@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hex bear and ML are a cult. And I'm pretty sure only 1/3 of them are actually drinking the Kool-Aid, the rest seem to be astro turf bots. As far as I can tell, it's a mass disinformation campaign.

Keep in mind I myself am not a socialist, even though I do believe they make some good points. I'm a centrist libertarian focusing on Geoism, Minarchism, and strong protections for workers. You know things like cutting corporate welfare and increasing social welfare. Taxes based on land use. Etc.

Getting banned is a mark of Honor. It means you had a brain and used it to question authoritarian bullshit.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about the Marxist-Leninists who DON'T support Stalin?

[–] Forester@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

You'll have to be more specific as those words can mean a lot of things. I'd advise you focus less on labels and more on helping others in your day to day life.

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