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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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I posted this meme to the Lemmy Shitpost community. I reckoned that it might generate a bit of debate, and would probably end up locked, but the entire post got deleted, and moreover, I'm now forbidden from sharing political posts to the community. Political posts are not against the rules of the community.

I have reason to believe that the post was deleted not because it was controversial, but because the moderator (Decoy321) disagreed with the political slant of the meme. The reason I find this suspicious is because other controversial posts, such as one about veganism remains up, and Decoy321 seemed to enjoy the fact it was controversial:

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy world is fucking weird. They spam the word "zionist" too much.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly it feels like Zionist and tankie are the new "Nazi" name calling (like calling a random commenter a Nazi, on the old internet before actual Nazis like Elon Musk came out of the white supremacy closet).

Kinda wish we had a filter or word block because it's exhausting watching the name calling just flinging around

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

It is, isn't it? They throw it around if anyone dares to question their position. It is weird to have this odd Rift in the world, and even in US politics, with people like Schumer basically swearing allegiance to another nation when most people dont really know or care about what is happening.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 8 hours ago

FWIW, I sprayed some holy water their way. It was great following your rhythm that day.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 13 hours ago

Great meme, PTB.

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

lowkey ur first mistake was participating in a shitpost community lmao

edit: ptb obviously

[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago

PTB

That was a great post!

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This meme below got removed a few days ago. I think if you post anything controversial that rustles enough jimmies to make people rage-cry report you, they just remove the post rather than deal with angry nerds.

Or they just really hate trains, the jerks!

Edit: Same mod

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I disagree with your meme, especially during primary season, but I still upvoted because I think everyone should be able to post their "controversial" memes.

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

down with trains!

*This message was written by big unicycle

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hear me out. A monorail made solely of unicycles strung together. Win-win!

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I mean, that's why we are against train. With train tracks, we can have 2x density, with bidirectional traffic.

Unicycle or bust

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

You are now a moderator of c/lemmyshitpost

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 32 points 1 day ago

I'll be honest. Even as an anarcho-communist, I don't care for these kinds of political reductions.

However, given that it's a shitposting community, seems like lost-nuance is kind of part and parcel to the spirit of the community (which is why I don't go there). I'd call this PTB.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 42 points 1 day ago

How dare you shitpost in the shitposting community. Your post is exactly the kind of thing I like to see there.

I agree, the mod probably didn't like the political message.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

PTB!

Bruh, I criticized the two-party system, and admitted I voted third party (Socialist Party) in the 2024 presidential election. Lemmy is STILL pissed off about it and says I'm a Trumper--all because I didn't Democrat. More and more people are starting to realize a 2-party system sucks, but damn, Lemmy ain't their yet.

You marked for life now, dawg! Good luck! LMAO

(Oh and fuck you Lemmy, I'm gonna vote third party in the next election too. :) )

[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am not able to comprehend people criticizing voting for third party. What is the meaning of vote if you cannot select a candidate of your choice?

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Exactly my thoughts! It's finally becoming more common to think like this on Lemmy now, but holy hell... in 2024 many Lemmy's legit wanted to crucify people who thought like this. And they still follow me around and regularly ask that I be banned from the entire fediverse!

I'm not going anywhere tho. :) And I'm so proud of how mad they got, I put their comments and posts in my profile banner:

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

I’m not going anywhere tho. :) And I’m so proud of how mad they got, I put their comments and posts in my profile banner:

Based :)

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I've been fending off those freaks like they're extras running at me one at a time in a kung-fu movie with bad takes. I'm not even American, I wasn't eligible to vote in the 2024 election, but because I criticized Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, that must mean I just fuckin LOVE Trump.

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

Yep, exact same kind of comments I was getting

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you angered the libs by pointing out they're fascists.

the meme is still up in !anarchymemes@anarchist.nexus, so they can mald about it there.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Watch this comrades!
You can actually pint-point the comment when the lib got fashed out!  Aaaand now🔗!

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

PTB, as they say. If you scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Before long, people are gonna accuse you of being me. lol

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 6 hours ago

according to fascists, I am a tankie.

Wouldn't be surprising, liberals usually resort to making bad faith accusations when they don't have anything to counter with.

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

PTB

Good meme :)

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Flyingsquid has been inactive for a year now

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

I had a quick look through and pretty much every moderator on that community has almost no activity recently, I wonder if they're using their accounts for moderator action only, and participating on another account.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It was Decoy321. Says so right in your modlog.

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Something something it’s more dignified to be killed by blue, just don’t post in .world, help grow other servers

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago

Someone has to get dirty rolling around in the trenches with the hogs, gotta burst their bubble occasionally. But yep, you're right.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Welcome to Reddit, but mostly bots.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah I reported your post too. Stop spamming US internal political shit in the shitpost community. Keep that to a US politics community

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing and being honest and I totally get it, but don't you think that should be a rule that's fairly and equally enforced, not just applied to posts that the mods personally disagree with?

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah fair point, it definitely should be applied equally and its not right if its only subject to mods' opinions. I really wish the community would ban political posts entirelyi need some reprieve from the doom

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The problem with banning politics is determining what's considered political. Not long ago divorce, adoption, abortion, nazis, and women wearing pants were hot topics. Now it's immigration, abortion and nazis again, and queer folks wearing skirts.

I'd rather endure some of that doom and gloom through a shipost than the rapid onslaught of panic-inducing headlines.

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