https://sh.itjust.works/post/31716642
Edit: There used to be a screenshot here. I messed up the link in an edit and don’t have a local copy saved.
My comment was roughly 'It already looks like it might be better than things now, at least Biden never advocated for full displacement of all Palestine."
I had already seen half the comment section of the post with ban marks. This single comment copped me a fully-expected permaban. Unfortunately my comment doesn’t show up in modlogs so I had to retype it more or less from memory.
The bloodshed:
Screenshot edited as per mod request.
Most of the banned comments are actually still visible. If you browse the thread you’ll notice there’s nothing particularly inflammatory or banworthy about any of them.
Best part, in the middle of all that banning, our buddy found the time to mod the one guy in that post who supported his opinions. Welp, another echo chamber in the making.
Follow up:
The mod posted in a similar post in this comm. FWIW, while I stand by my actions and opinion, I did msg them to offer them a personal apology.
You don’t need to bring up Trump anytime someone rightfully condemns Biden for his complicity in Israel’s genocide. I respond to these comments a lot and it’s, frankly, exhausting. I’m picking those fights and * still* sometimes feel like I want to punch the guy behind the keyboard. I couldn’t imagine modding a community where it’s them coming to me, and I can absolutely understand being heavy handed with moderation because, as I said, it’s fucking exhausting seeing a hundred different smartasses trying to make a leopards eating faces style point while also being massively hypocritical about it. And I’m not even Palestinian; if I was I’d also hate you for defending my mother/father/etc’s killer. YDI. That screenshotful of bans? Relatable as fuck. I accept it because again, I’m the one getting into these arguments; I’m entering these people’s backyards, but I’d totally ban them if they brought that shit into my backyard.
BTW to respond to your original comment Biden tried to do basically the same thing in the middle of the war (it was Gaza rather than all of Palestine, but Trump’s statement was also about Gaza). He only failed because Sisi adamantly refused. Biden has no moral high ground here.
+1 to the “bringing it to their backyard” analogy
i went to look at the original post (that comm doesn’t federate to my instance for some reason) and WOW is it bad. comments saying “i guess ur heil maga” and shit under a post rightfully criticizing the racist former president. and there’s so many! it’s more than half! i also would initiate a crackdown and i wouldn’t feel bad at all if i also got a few well intentioned folk like OP.
people need to understand that people died and are dying. c/palestine is not the space for team sports. there’s a place for that and it’s definitely not this one.