this post was submitted on 17 Mar 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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Wowzers! You get banned for posting sources not sanctioned by the empire apparently. I thought dbzer0 was supposed to be a leftist instance, but they ban just like the lib and zio instances like .world and ShitJustFash?!

I see lib rags spammed all over the feed....

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So I was DMed by a user asking me to ban this person, and I didn't just do that. I actually went and checked what they were posting, and it is indeed pro-Russia and alt-right propaganda. I made sure to remove each post individually since ban with removal omits from the modlog, so you can still see what they were banned for.

This ban is 100% correct and will never be revoked. When their instance ban expires I will make sure to ban them again. As I am confident they will not refrain from posting similar articles when their current ban expires.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 22 hours ago
[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Seems like this account has only ever been used to spam news from Kremlin. Not sure what that has to do with leftism

YDI

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I see lib rags spammed all over the feed....

Yeah it's maybe not perfect, but pretty sure spamming fox news or whatever would get similarly deleted

[–] Ftumch@lemmy.today 20 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'm not surprised an anarchist, anti-authoritarian instance like db0 doesn't like pro-Russian sources. You should feel right at home on hexbear or lemmygrad, though!

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

bro, you're not leftist. the stuff you posted was extreme right.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -5 points 17 hours ago

You are a liberal

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

shocking that a kremlin-pilled agitprop tankie wouldn't be adored on an instance of people he spends more time attacking than fascists. good riddance.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

People throw around the term "tankie" a lot here, but in this case...

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 6 points 21 hours ago

They say "if the shoe fits", but this dude went out and got bespoke combat boots with the optional iron cleats for that premium minority crushing feel.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Also western propaganda. Russia isnt 'taking' anything theyre liberating Ukrainians who have been under the rule of an illegitimate empire installed government since 2014 and have already voiced they want to be closer to russia

You are a legitimate piece of shit. Fucking tankie scum defending imperialism with outright misinformation.

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml -4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeppers! "Misinformation" just what the empire wants you to say when anything runs counter to their narratives 😁

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

lol go back to your cesspit like the good little CIA operative you are, statist

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -2 points 17 hours ago

"Statist" lol grow up

[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

Strange that you didn't repost your source(s) here in this thread...

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What did you post out of interest?

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 0 points 21 hours ago

Just some RT and tass articles to offset some of the never ending feed of empire sources around here