A little stale, but I just remembered it
Apparently, bringing up China being authoritarian is now "bigotry". Makes sense now all those comments from .ml users that most people banned from .ml are for bigotry.
"Bigotry" = Anything negative about China or Russia now
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There is no authoritarianism in Ba Sing Sei
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No way!
Oh wait, it's on Lemmy.ml, yeah, carry on then! /s :-P
BPR if you were aware of the instance and its reputation. PTB otherwise. Getting a ban from ML for this sort of thing is a something of a right of passage I think lol.
You know the crazy thing? They'll follow you around for months afterwards as well.
What's the 'whinnie the pooh thing'?
It became a meme to depict Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh, and China / Xi's response was to completely ban all depictions or mentions of Winnie the Pooh.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-comparisons
There are many, many other words and phrases that just get scrubbed from any online post... these are called 'Sensitive Words'.
Oh bother.
At some point Xi got associated with Winnie the Pooh and imagery of it (usually of Winnie's face being "morphed" into Xi's face) became censored/banned in China
Because he looks a lot like Winnie the Pooh. The shape of his face and body, his gait, his smile, it's really uncanny.
I once saw a comment on Hexbear about it being racist to call Xi Winnie the Pooh. I got confused and asked why would that be racist. I got laughed at for not seeing that he's clearly called that because Pooh is yellow, which is also a derogatory term for asians. And this never even crossed my mind until then, I always assumed he's called that cause he literally looks like Pooh and wears red (figuratively). Are they reaching or am I wrong?
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Happy 🍰 day.
Obama is not orange or striped. It makes no sense
I wouldn't have put that together, either. Winnie the Pooh is yellowish brown.
If that person on hexbear has yellow poo they ought to see a doctor
I've noticed this lately in a lot of communities I'm in, most of which that have nothing to do with politics and are centered around Linux/technology. Why are people suddenly getting personally hurt over criticism against their government? Thats the wildest thing I've ever seen, and for some reason it's becoming more of a thing.
It's a thing on lemmy.ml communities, not so much elsewhere
The funny thing is, it's not even their government. They're defending an idealized version that only exists in their heads. As far as I can tell, the primary developers are European.
It's So many people 😮💨 their entire personalities revolve around politics these days
I gotta say, it's really gracious of the mod to only ban you for 3 months. Usually it's a perma-ban.
Where do you check such things? So where do you find this?
You have to go to the mod logs of each instance and search for your username.
The system is setup so you are shadowbaned until you figure it out yourself.
The mods of blahaj constantly lurk other instances banning everyone they don't like even if they didn't post there.
I'm sure there are plenty of other pathetic mods in the fediverse.
is it a shadow ban? i think the last time my comment showed up with a little crossed out avatar.
my guess was that this was to indicate that .ml banned me, however they cannot stop me from posting as i am on a different instance. just probably not many ppl seeing the comment.
Holy shait I have a TON of bans on .ml without ever posting anything there, 18 just on one day 17 days ago!
You did comment there. You commented apologia for the Israeli genocidal settler-colonial state's apartheid, specifically a physical apartheid wall. And your comment was removed, and you were site banned for... looks like 45-ish days.
Ah interesting, did not notice that was on .ml. But this topic is generally a big No-Go on Lemmy, no discussion possible. I tend to avoid it now.
If you want to defend Zionism, you'll have better luck on corporate social media, which are generally aligned with US foreign policy. Lemmy was created specifically as an alternative to that.
I think you have not read my comments. I do not care about Israel or Gaza itself, but I do care about people and sticking to the truth and proving context. A bit of a counter to the potential circle jerk with that topic here makes sense to me, but there is just no discussion possible. People have their opinion and that is that. Just like you, putting things in my mouth and wanting me gone.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=1404160
Modlogs here are public, to hold both mods and users accountable
How do you check the modlog on blahah? It's not like a Lemmy server
Edit: I've been site wise perma banned for over a year. It's actually the first thing that comes up for me on there. Makes sense, I'm right wing, and they don't want right wingers over there.
Most of Lemmy doesn't want you right-wing nuts, you'd think you would take the hint after having nearly every post in your "conservative" comm downvoted to hell along with a good bulk of your comments. Fuckin MAGAts, only thing worse than a tankie
What's your stance on trans people? That's usually why they ban people
Lemmy.world/modlog
Oooh this is fun, apparently my posts about bicyclists going the wrong way down streets at night without lights while wearing black were misinformation, regardless of seeing another 3 in the last week alone.
Mods are funny little rentacops aren't they
Thanks!
50% YDI / 50% PTB
YDI, as these comments were obviously bad faith trolling with the sole purpose of starting flame war. None of the comments in the screenshot can be considered a valuable contribution to the discussion in the technology community.
PTB, for made up "bigotry" as a reason for the ban. If they had banned you for trolling, it would have been 100% YDI.
PTB
I'm just of the opinion that every government in the world is a pile of trash working on hundreds of years old systems built on old technology. They all lie and do horrible things to and in the name of their citizens, who all mostly want to be left alone and have a decent life. Anyone who spends their time Staning for a government is wasting their time, imho.
Also, we're literally just experiencing the same process that happened with the invention of the printing press. Once enough printing presses existed, and a significant number of people who previously did not have a "voice" suddenly had one, there was a long period where nobody really knew what to believe among the competing new ideas where there had previously been nothing. It will take a generation for us to figure out the internet. McLuhan was right, we jump right into new communications mediums without studying them or their impact on societies.
/im14andthisisdeep
100% The whole point of us, as a species, putting together a representative government is for protection and support. Be it healthcare or "roving bands of outlaws"
Nearly every government currently in existence fails at that
Hell, even monarchistic governments existed for some type of "protection and support." We so need new ideas, both capitalism and communism are old, dead ideas that have valuable aspects that should evolve. But that's just what capitalists and communists hate, is evolving. Communists already seem to think Marx figured out "the solution" even though Marx thought a true Marxist society would need to be in perpetual revolution within itself, because there is no end to history.
If we are not taking the old ideas and improving on them, what the hell are we doing other than stagnating? I think that's the real issue, stagnation of ideas, a lack of social imagination for anything better. In the same way capitalists can see an apocalyptic end of the world but they can't imagine that post-world existing without capitalism, it seems the die-hard communists similarly can't imagine a future without communism.