The power trip / ban doesn’t bother me, but the misinformation does. They present as leftist, but flare up around US elections discouraging voter turnout via ‘bOtH siDeS’ garbage. that only ever elevates shit like MAGA.
In the linked thread, OP promotes rioting while discouraging voter turnout. My comments agreed with activism like riots, but pointed out that it’s not an either-or thing. You can riot -and- vote; and even if you don’t have it in you to riot, still do vote.
Banned.
You can see my removed comment quoted in the post after mine.
This ‘blue MAGA’ tankie shit is somehow worse than the loud-and-clear MAGA shit over on Reddit - at least those neonazis were honest about who they were.
Anywho, YSK. Spaces like r/conservative were clearly labeled and easy to avoid; [email protected] presents as a cause worth rallying around, but only until you peel up the veneer and see that they’re the same fucking thing.
Also please vote. In addition to whatever flavor of activism tickles your fancy.
Note to all: This is not the place to get on your “VOTE” soapboaxes. Stick to judging the moderation action.
Sorry, will do from now on.
And one of the main ways to judge posts is to VOTE them up or down. Hmmm.
Not in this comm. Check the sticky
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They even mention voting for 3rd parties in their rules.
I think I will opt for civility and choose to endorse free speech, whether in an echo-chamber or not.
They present as leftist, but flare up around US elections discouraging voter turnout via ‘bOtH siDeS’ garbage. that only ever elevates shit like MAGA.
Trying to hijack a community like latestagecapitalism to tell people to vote for more latestagecapitalism is peak. Writing off everything to the left of you conservative tells me the mods were absolutely right in banning you.
Ahhh shit, here we go again
This is the fifth one I am seeing
This ‘blue MAGA’ tankie shit is somehow worse than the loud-and-clear MAGA shit over on Reddit - at least those neonazis were honest about who they were.
Okay, so we should say our goodbyes then?
I judge the moderation action as Lemmy typical shillness. Incidentally, remember, propaganda usually tries to play both sides, promoting disengagement and engagement where it suits them.
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Tankie outreach community with mods that are pro Russia and censorship heavy. One of them loves responding to comments they’ve deleted. LW does nothing like usual in response to problematic moderators. PTB.
Don’t comment if you don’t like the rules. Seems pretty easy
I see OP has multiple comments that are all deleted. A reply quoting their “you should vote” comment isn’t deleted. There are comments still up like:
What prevents you from voting and rioting at the same time?
There is absolutely no reason to not vote.
To me it looks like something else triggered the ban.
It could have been another one. I expanded on my stance that discouraging activism or voting is an act of support for the status quo, specifically MAGA. Maybe that crossed the mod’s line. /shrug.
Idk I’ve seen multiple people with this sort of experience so I’m willing to believe OP
It’s so that other people can still pile on. Telling people to vote is against LSC community rules.
Support for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it are not welcome or tolerated.
It looks like they’ve got razor thin margins on what they allow.
-You should vote ✅️
-You should vote for the party that isn’t measurably making you life worse. ❌️
They’re guilty of “both sides bad” in my opinion. An endorsement of any mainstream party or candidate breaks their rules.
Saying you should vote would also be supporting capitalism or the parties/ideologies that uphold it.
I’m sure you will tell us which modern country with a democracy isn’t operating some form of capitalism. Functional people deal with the cards they are dealt to choose the best possible outcome, not imagine the best possible one and make believe.
The comm has rules, they may be completely idiotic but they are unfortunately clear enough that can’t complain about them making rules up. It isn’t like most comms with “no politics” or “no promoting violence” where they inforce is in a wishy washy way.
First of all,
The comm has rules, they may be completely idiotic
Yes, so people would complain. Do not suffer fools. They also cripple any real discussion about “Late Stage Capitalism”.
But this would be assuming your leap of logic was correct, which it isn’t. The rule is:
3 No capitalist apologia, anti-socialism, anti-communism, or liberalism, liberalism is in direct conflict with the left. Support for capitalism or for the parties or ideologies that uphold it are not welcome or tolerated.
You don’t vote because you support everything a party does, specially in majority wins all election systems. I’ll quote myself again:
Functional people deal with the cards they are dealt to choose the best possible outcome, not imagine the best possible one and make believe.
Hilarious how folks can actually believe that socialists are the blue MAGA as opposed to the genocidal democrats and DSA. It is so feeble and tired.
I see someone didn’t read the rules…
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Being banned from latestagecapitalism is an honor. They have conservative mods. You can be banned there for criticizing conservatism or saying things that are too far from Fox News talking points.
Not really sure how or why we end up with conservative mods in these communities, but it really ruins them.
LateStageCapitalism is run by a sole moderator who is either a foreign shill or so stupid that they’re doing their work for them for free.
He bans anyone that goes against his narrative. I am by no means the only person that has spoken out against that sub and its mod. It’s becoming public knowledge at this point that the sub is compromised.
They have communist mods, I think they’re Marxists. I’d respect you more if you at least said you’re against the “extreme left” or something like that instead of pretending that everyone who isn’t liberal is conservative or secretly conservative.
If you care about a community, make another one, the way lemmy is setup you get just as much visibility as a popular one
Wow. Your post is so reasonable, strongly in favour of rioting, correctly identifying it as better than voting, just allowing for voting. And still banned.
I’ve blocked a lot of PTB comms because of all the trolly libs calling anyone left of Schumer a tankie then whining about being banned from leftist spaces, but this is a bonkers ban. And from .world as well, not even a leftist instance. 🤷
To save folks a click:
Brace yourself for an apparently super edgy hot take:
Rioting > voting
rioting & voting > just rioting
just voting > nothing at all
Discouraging voting or rioting = supporting the status quo.
I can’t disagree with that at all. I don’t think any reasonable person could.
That’s… that’s it? What’s ban worthy about that?
Discouraging voting or rioting = supporting the status quo.
To be silent in the face of oppression is to stand with the oppressor.
