Totally PTB

PTB for sure

YDI. Iran is being threatened with imperial violence more than ever. Now is not the time to be promoting imperial propaganda. Nobody cares about your "but akshualllyyy". Save it for the libs who completely support zionism, colonialism, etc. If the imperial "revolution" succeeds, the leftist groups that you supposedly support will be the first to be attacked like anywhere else.

I am sad to hear it. Normally they seem to respond to reason and acknowledge difference in analysis. I Hope they cool down and lift your ban.

PTB - Power Tripping Bots

This seems like the normal ideological purging that takes place in any externally managed echochamber.

Remember, data scientists have proven that around 30% of all posts and comments leading up to the US election in 2020 were from automated accounts managed by threat actors linked to Russia, Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.

Those same data analysis tools indicate that in the post-LLM era bot traffic has grown 10x since then.

We know that the strategy of these groups is to occupy, support and promote the most extreme positions on any topic.

It stands to reason that these same threat groups are active on Lemmy and that should make you INCREDIBLY skeptical when you encounter an account/community/instance that displays extreme ideology. You're never going to win an argument with them, because they're not people who are trying to defend a position... they're trying to make sure that anybody reading will only see their ~~position~~ propaganda.

This is done by using multiple accounts to post comments along with a brigade of cheap throwaway accounts which can be used for vote manipulation. It doesn't matter if you make a devastating argument that clearly shows the OP/commentor is wrong if you're buried under downvotes so nobody sees your comment.

This also extends to communities/subreddits.

An easy example that most people on the left are familiar with: r/conservative . It's very clearly not an organic subreddit made up of a random assortment of the population, the comment section is so heavily pruned that you think Reddit is broken when you click 'show 28 more comments' and there is nothing there. If you post there with any comment that doesn't imply your tongue is tickling Trump's duodenum you will be banned very quickly.

I look at any instance that houses these extreme opinions in the same way. While I'm sure there are real actual human people who arrived at their position on their own and hold some of the ideas being promoted there, I'm equally sure that there are a huge amount of the 'people' and moderators are operating in bad faith if not outright maliciousness.

Benn Jordan on YT (music/DIY tech youtuber, not a political content creator) lays a lot of this out, with citations: https://youtu.be/GZ5XN_mJE8Y

It is inappropriate to suggest, in the middle of a Mossad/US hasbara operation, to provide suggestions for Iran governance. Permitting Zionazi speech results in Zionazi rule in democracies. Whether you said something dumb instead of hasbara, referring to Mossad paid rioters as protestors was the faux pas that overstepped their senstivities.