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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.
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Doesn’t want Israel destroyed is enough to get banned for supporting genocide on many parts of lemmy. Many mods delete posts and ban users that don’t follow a pro Hamas political line, regardless if rules where broken or not.
My fiance is Jewish (disagrees with much of what Israel is doing tho and isn't very political). She was on here to check it out, and because I was hyping up the concept of Lemmy. She def wasn't a fan.
The hate for all things Jewish scared her to death and now she questions why I'm on here so much! lol
The extremism here, tho started out for rightful intentions, is starting to lean into antisemitism in some corners of Lemmy. It's very ironic and weird watching some posters go from anti-nazi everything to anti-jewish everything. Sometimes in the same comment.
I think ALL governments are assholes, so I'm somewhat indifferent to the entire thing.
I don't know what the fuck Lemmy is turning into though. I think some just wanna watch the world burn and will jump to whatever side has the matches.
If there was some instance that banned all political talk, I'd def hang out there for most of my time on Lemmy.
At this point, some subs are straightup iranian propaganda. Worldnews etc. Then blabbering about integrity of sources is peak irony lol
At this point, almost all of the political or """news""" subs are just antisemitic circlejerks under the guise of the palestinian cause, moderated by powertripping armchair leftists.
Facts are antisemitic now?
that sounds like antisemitism, you nazi!
Not supporting killing children sounds like antisemitism to some these days.
Those kids were hummus!
Facts that got me banned: https://lite.cnn.com/2025/07/08/middleeast/hostages-gaza-sexual-violence-report-hamas-latam-intl
Yes facts
I thought you said "facts". You may as well end up in "OP is a fucking idiot" community if you keep pretending to be one 🙄
I love that it says coupled with forensic evidence then says none was taken as bodies were immediately buried