• HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        You can’t simultaneously pretend honesty is a core value of yours but also lie about why you get banned.

        Well - you can - but it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

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          I’m not? One of my ban reasons was literally “banned until after the election” on a large politics community on .world.

          One of them was posting stats and graphs and I was banned for “garbage troll comments”.

          Y’all are a very delicate bunch.

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        8 days ago

        “Death to America” = “advocating violence” is the dumbest shit I ever read.

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          Not the first time I was banned for that either, despite explicitly saying America is a country, not a person, and needs to be sanctioned out of existence and balkanized.

          • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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            7 days ago

            Most people interpret “Death to America” as “Death to America(ns),” given it’s usually a phrase uttered by people who do want Americans dead.

            But - strictly speaking - it’s not technically that, no.

            In other words, you’d be acquitted if it was a crime in a US court, but the burden of proof for a Lemmy instance/community ban isn’t anywhere near Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, as you and I both know from personal experience.

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              7 days ago

              given it’s usually a phrase uttered by people who do want Americans dead.

              based on what?

              • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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                7 days ago

                The only experience I ever had with that phrase growing up in the US is:

                • Iranian nationalists apparently LARPing imminent attacks on the US for decades

                • Taliban/al-Qaeda conducting attacks on the US (and its allies)

                Hell, I can’t remember hearing it in any other context than that with the sole exception of your ban history.

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                  The only experience I ever had with that phrase growing up in the US is:

                  Iranian nationalists apparently LARPing imminent attacks on the US for decades
                  
                  Taliban/al-Qaeda conducting attacks on the US (and its allies)
                  

                  So you base this only from news then?

                  Hell, I can’t remember hearing it in any other context than that with the sole exception of your ban history.

                  What ban history? You are probably mistaking me for someone else.

                  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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                    7 days ago

                    So you base this only from news then?

                    More or less, yes. I’ve never visited Taliban-held areas nor al-Qaeda training camps to ask them myself. I just have to go with the word of journalists that they didn’t set up an entire production just to trick me. Obviously that’s imperfect, but do you know anything about worldwide current events? Did you also get that from the news?

                    What ban history? You are probably mistaking me for someone else.

                    Yeah fair enough, whoever it was further up the chain that made the assertion you’re defending.

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                    7 days ago

                    It does, but unfortunately for your efforts to troll me that’s not one of the countries I’ve been to recently.

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                    7 days ago

                    Yep, lol.

                    I think this is a case of your echo chamber biasing you, and maybe even my echo chamber biasing me - as much as I take great efforts to get out of any echo chambers I could be a part of, even if doing so gets me slapped with removals and bans.

                    People simply aren’t chanting Death to America in the streets around the world 24/7. They’re mostly just going about their lives.

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        7 days ago

        That’s 2/ … 50 or so?

        1/2 of them could absolutely be about Biden, depending on context.

        The other is obviously not.