this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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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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Your borders changed because you attacked the world. We got attacked by the world.
You openly laughed about the prospect of China invading Taiwan.
A situation that would cause millions to be killed potentially.
But can Westerners spread false information about China's collapse and the deaths of millions of people and then ridicule it?
They can call us "West Taiwan" and then mock about KMT taking over power?
Without looking, that thread looks tongue-in-cheek. You just posted Danny Haiphong who once went to Belgium and complained about all the blue and yellow he saw, thinking it was to do with being pro-Ukraine, except it was just that cities aesthetic.
Report it if you think it's offensive and violates the rules. That's how moderation works here. And you'd expect more glee and negative sentiment because some countries are "underdogs" and some aren't. That doesn't make anything right, but that's how it is on the internet. Just do your part and report things which you think are inappropriate... Two wrongs don't make a right!
I did report. Only I was removed.
Yeah. I can't make a statement here, I wasn't involved and I can't read up on it. But you did the right thing, then with reporting things.
I mean, that is a funny line.
Not really beating the accusation there
I don't think you being allowed to post political memes about other people's lives is rooted in whether your people were attacked in history. At least not directly... And I didn't attack nobody, so maybe I should play the victim card as well? I mean all of this is arbitrary. Why does Mongolia and everything up to Lake Baikal not belong to China? Why is Kaliningrad Russian and not Prussian? Why am I German in the first place? And why do we keep stupid little countries like Belgium or Luxembourg around? We had a lot of war and attacks happen in history of mankind...
Their borders changed after WWI when they got attacked by the world. But I see them reconquering their land in WWII is where you draw the line, so maybe you shouldn't do that?