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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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Background

I have been quite fascinated by Europe's continental suicide in the face of the failure of Project Ukraine and the fracturing of the "transatlantic understanding".

I think Europe still has time to choose strategic autonomy:

  • Rapprochement with Russia to restore their energy competitiveness.
  • Rapprochement with China to restore their global trade and industrial competitiveness.
  • Seek out global markets to blunt the Trump tariffs.
  • Pressure Ukraine to hasten their inevitable capitulation before they loose EVEN MORE LAND AND SOLDIERS.

Of course as we all know, the Western media has the complete opposite narrative, a jumble something like "Russia has lost 10 bajillion soldiers and they don't actually have military equipment at all and also advancing on the battlefield counts as losing if it wasn't as fast as we ourselves predicted it would be."

Content for the tribunal:

Mod actions: removed comments, banned from community
Responsible mod: Unknown to me
Link to First Comment (now removed)
First comment with better formatting:
  1. This war started in 2008 at the Bucharest NATO summit, when the US announced its intention to expand NATO into Ukraine and Georgia. EVEN EUROPEAN LEADERS like Merkel and Sarkozy noted AT THE TIME that the Russians would view NATO expansion into these countries as tantamount to a declaration of war. Over the next 14 years the West did a "color revolution", the Banderites did an ethnic cleansing campaign in the Donbass, and the West sabotaged and undermined THREE DIFFERENT PEACE AGREEMENTS before the Russians' famous patience finally expired in 2022.
  2. Ukraine doesn't need money to win the war, it needs TRAINED INFANTRY and to a lesser extent weapons. MOREOVER, anyone who thinks this money will last Ukraine even a whole year is delusional. The annual BASELINE burn rate of the Ukraine regime is 150B+ annually, and tax receipts are essentially nonexistent.
  3. They must be REALLY DESPERATE to risk the CREDIBILITY OF THE ENTIRE EUROPEAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM on this foolish gambit. They are breaking the very "Laws of Capital" that the West itself wrote. The Europeans seem determined to beat the Americans in a race to economic decline and collapse.

Tell me again about the "moral case" for stealing sovereign assets to prop up a stunningly corrupt regime in terminal collapse?

Looking forward to the tortured logic justifying my ban.

My Commentary

I know enough to know that they really don't like contrary narratives about Russia/Ukraine in any of the Euro-comms so I wrote my comments very carefully.

Can you, the esteemed commenters of YPTB, spot the misinformation or rage bait? Perhaps I am just blind to it in my own content. If present, did I "ragebait first" or did the other commenter?

Reminder that "Russia says this, therefore it is misinformation" is not a cogent argument or evidence.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Reminder to keep the comments on the mod actions. Don't start debating the war in Ukraine in here

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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

You went against the popular narrative, but everything you said has some backing. Mod was an asshole.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You deserved it propagandist for tyranny.

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[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Feddit org is administered by german zionists. Nothing good can come from there.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (27 children)

Misinformation easily highlighted with your comment on when the war started. That's ragebait and just false.

#2 how do you buy things without money? Pay wages? You need money money #3 they aren't desperate, they are financially punishing a warmongering fascist colonizer.

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[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

When your country will be attacked by russia which part would you give them, before your country loose even more land and soldiers?

This should be posted in !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works or !tankiejerk@piefed.social instead, it would fit better.

Edit: Just to have a word about the mod action: YDI You clearly wrote only what kremlin says, not an "independent take" or something, and you posted this deliberately to a community heavily supporting the other side. It's at least ragebait.

And bragging about it's your first post with a 3 years old account, is also bending the truth. You use lemmy, you should know the rules. You frame it like you are a newcomer..

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Meanwhileongrad is some highschool level clique trolling led by one of the most immature mods on Lemmy. Don't even need a turbolibjerk community, they already parceled themselves up nicely.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fuck meanwhileongrad . While it expose pro russian and pro china people. The mod is a zionist

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

MoG is filled with people who are more anti-left than trying to stop the fascists who actually have power, ran by a racist pos who hates the victims of Gaza. And tried to post gore porn on Lemmy before the admins said no.

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[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Enters Euro-centric space.

Spreads Russian propaganda.

Gets instaban.

Whines and plays victim.

God, you .ml folks are special. Like, "i hope you wear a helmet to the bathroom" special.

YDI.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Enters Euro-centric space.

Yeah that was the first mistake. Don't enter white supremacist spaces.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

YSHSIC: You Should Have Seen It Coming

OOP is one of these accounts: 3½ years of anti-China & anti-Russia news posts by several similar Lemmy accounts

Communities like !europe@feddit.org, which host these spammers, are likely to be modded by Western turbolibs who think history began on Feb. 24, 2022.

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Do you mean to tell me all these bitter complaints about "Russian Bots" were disingenuous and hypocritical all along? I am SHOCKED

[–] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's PTB from the feddit.org admins exactly in the vein of .ml style of calling "misinformation" everything that contradicts their favorite narrative tropes

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