• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My lifetime ban from Reddit (which resulted from saying that we need a more progressive political candidates in our country) was a badge of honor, proving my opinions to be correct and undigestible to fascists. So I had a medallion engraved with my date of expulsion which I keep in a place of honor over my fireplace.

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      Being banned from somewhere doesn’t prove you right or wrong. It just means those particular people are angry at you, rightfully or not.

      Just a subtle reminder because fascists and nazis themselves regularly use such kinds of phrases. Doesn’t make them any more right or honorable.

      Do what is right, and always strive for freedom, and you’ll be good :)

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        My ban from Reddit proves I was right - you know you’re right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you. In the same way, books are truthful when they get banned for daring to speak the truth.

        I always do the left thing (not the right) and achieve my freedom by not staying quiet or bowing down to fascists.

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          you know you’re right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you.

          Not really. If you say Hitler was right, or any of the myriad of other terrible statements you could make, and you get permabanned for it, you’re still wrong.

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        Mine was for saying that Nazi’s were a part in a war from 70 years ago, and that they should be dead now.

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        Mine was for “report abuse” for reporting misinformation in r/conservative.

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          I actually got banned from Facebook for posting about getting sick on my birthday, saying I hated being sick on my birthday. They replied it was “hate speech” and so I was banned for a week (!).

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          I am convinced there is no human behind the suspensions and the moderators reporting those who report will have you banned irrespective of merit. Such a nice environment