this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2026
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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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From the responses I got, I can see why you would say that, but I was merely asking questions in regards to Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, and the White Terror that don’t add up for me in the face of the argument made by the post that tankies don’t support a hegemonic central authority. Another commenter here even said they thought I was asking good questions. They reacted like I was calling them the r-word for trying to figure how they square that with themselves. Turns out they just don’t even try to square it, they just hide their heads and scream at you to shut up.
Edit: It wasn’t just Tiananmen Square, either, I also asked about Taiwan and White Terror.
When you're JAQing off, expect bans
It's not JAQing off when you're questioning around the logic of genocide deniers.
Well, they literally said they were "just asking questions", (though it currently reads "merely", and may have originally, it's the same damn thing) and the comments they left were absolutely JAQing off.
You can't counter bad faith bullshit with bad faith bullshit and hope to end up with anything other than a bigger pile of bullshit.
Regardless of what anyone thinks, if you're going into a community, no matter how abysmal, no matter how extremist, and you're intentionally stirring shit, you aren't some kind of hero. You aren't doing anything useful or interesting. It's masturbatory virute signalling. Aka, JAQing off. OP threw out the bait, and wants to complain about something taking it.
Yes you can.
I wasn’t “just asking questions,” I was transparent with my disagreement, it doesn’t mean I was being antagonistic or wasn’t trying to have a real discussion on the moral and ethical contradictions I clearly outlined were my issues with the argument being put forward by the post in which I replied to. On a public discussion forum, at that. I wasn’t “just asking questions” I was directly questioning. If someone disagreeing with you and trying to further understand that disagreement and how/why you construct the decision process of choosing to have that point of view and internal logic and your response to that type of interaction after a certain point of scrutiny is to scream “shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!” and say they’re not allowed to play anymore that doesn’t mean that person pissed you off, it means your own internal logic and the reasons why you apply it pissed you off after you had to try to really look at and defend them for what they really are. It means you know you’re wrong.