this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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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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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
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Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
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- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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Is just that comm shitty or should the instance be avoided too?
the instance is pretty shitty too
The instance is a Nazi bar, the two biggest comms are circlejerks for anti-communism and pro-western imperialism. There are some good users on occasion, but the instance itself is very reactionary.
My community, !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, which Cowbee loathes -- Is not anti-communism and not pro-imperialism. We are anti-imperialism, unlike Cowbee, who defends Chinese Imperialism.
It documents hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse.
It's definitionally an anti-communist circlejerk, that's its entire point. I am a communist, so I do oppose your anti-communist stalker-farm. There's constant dogwhistling, defense of zionism, transphobia, etc from that cesspool of a comm.
There are communists within !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works and the community itself allows communists and communist theory. It's a diverse community where people are free to discuss different topics, unlike your spaces, which regularly censor dissent and criticism.
And you are not a communist, Cowbee, you're a tankie, you've said so yourself.
But tell me, where is this supposed dogwhistling, where is this defence of Israel's actions, where is this transphobia? I'll look into it for you
The community of MWoG exists purely to attack communists. I have always said I'm a communist, you can read the screengrab yourself to see:
As for transphobia, here's your server admin pushing transphobic conspiracy theories in your comm:
As for Zionism, here are your own posts and comments:
You're in a tankie instance, Cowbee; you hang out with tankies and repeat tankie talking points. You are a tankie and you're not fooling anyone with your disingenuous fantasies about being a moralist, if you were, prove it now by criticising the Russian government, or better yet, Chinese imperialism.
You won't, because you are a tankie.
As for Imaqtpie, I do not approve of him. I have quite the turbulent history with him.
I've also been more supportive of trans-rights and gender recognition than you have, Cowbee.
Oh, and even more, the lemmy developers, admins of the instance you use, lemmy.ml, are also transphobic, which is what imaqtpie was agreeing with, funnily enough.
That didn't work out too well for you lol
Firstly, stop using my fucking community as a bludgeon against people you don't like.
Secondly, this is transphobic you numbskull.
Thirdly, y'all are acting like fucking children, Grow Up!
The bill gave trans women maternity rights
Yes, and?
"Tankie" is just a pejorative for communist, it isn't an ideology. Call me "tankie" all you want, but at the end of the day I read Marxist-Leninist theory and volunteer for a Marxist-Leninist org that has stances in line with the rest of Marxist-Leninist organizations. You can't claim to not be an anti-communist, you maintain an anti-communist comm and oppose communism.
Secondly, showing a handful of times you've spoken about sex and gender doesn't mean you're more supportive, especially since I have already explained that I disagree firmly with Nutomic:
The Russian government is a homophobic dictatorship of capital. China isn't imperialist, it doesn't run its economy based on international plunder, export of capital, nor is it under the control of a financial oligarchy.
Everyone has read theory, Cowbee, you're not a special sort for reading theory. Though, since you're such an expert in it, enlighten me, what were Marx's quotes on Africans and Jews?
cw: antisemitic and racist slurs
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/its-time-talk-about-karl-marxs-racism-181292And it's nice you firmly disagree, very neolib of you, writing a firmly worded letter to your master, well done. Here I was thinking that a tankie such as yourself would put a bit of action and elbow-grease into your morals and completely leave lemmy.ml for the developer's transphobia. Foolish of me.
I never claimed to be an expert in theory, you have to force words into my mouth to craft a narrative that doesn't exist. You need so very badly for me to be the strawman you've created of me, because you can't actually make any coherent points.
Secondly, Marx was no racist, nor was he anti-semetic. He himself was Jewish, and attacked the anti-semetic hit-piece The Jewish Question. Marx advocated for the liberation of all peoples, linking out of context quotes collected by a far-right anti-communist org doesn't help you beat the cryptofascist allegations.
As for leaving Lemmy.ml, it's still useful for talking about theory, and the userbase is very pro-LGBTQ (unlike sh.itjust.works), and I speak far more frequently on the importance of trans rights. Abandoning a space because one of the admins is reactionary just lets the entire narrative there be guided by that.
But you use the 'I've read a lot of theory' excuse all the time as an attempt to appear as an authority.
If you use racist and antisemitic slurs, then you're a racist and an antisemite.
Though hey! This will be a golden opportunity for you. Let's talk about how Russia and China treats its LGBTQI (you forgot the I) population.
I don't think your pet nazi learned their lesson from the one week slap on the wrist
They don't make such comments within my community, which was one of the conditions for their unbanning. I take hate-speech very seriously.
clearly not that seriously, that's why you are so comfortable hanging out with racists and nazis
There are no racists or nazis within my community, I moderate very strictly. And you're comfortable hanging out with Tankies, you're even one yourself. So don't lecture me about bars when you've bought the tankie bar drinks.
perhaps you should fall for another fake post and then have to backtrack?
I would like to introduce you to the concept of satire. Two examples of making fun of the contrived and ominous-sounding name your crew came up with.
Also in my defense the post about you sending hairy asshole pics to harass people was extremely funny and fits with the character you put forward online.
lmao
You should be the one being introduced to satire considering you fell for it lol
So are you still mad that tankie troika is a way better name than tankie triad?
i really don't care what it's called. Are you not mad that you're being called a tankie?
I'm an anarchist, I really don't care what centrist extremists decide to call me though.
If you are an anarchist, which I personally doubt, why do you call yourself a tankie?
you are being intentionally obtuse, I'm making fun of the labels that you apply to anyone you disagree with
Seven months ago, which is when the screenshot was posted, I never called you a tankie. And why would you even call yourself a tankie even as a joke? That's like calling yourself a Nazi as a joke.
please don't dox yourself with face pics replying to me
also nowhere in those screenshots do I call myself a tankie, I'm a silly goofy girl
Why are you pretending to be a tankie then?
I'm not pretending to be anything, that's what you decided to call me.
its really all up to you. i don't mind the instance, though it is pretty outdated and tends to be slow at times