the us is an authoritarian state

PTB. They have the 'right' to trim their own community according to such ideas as "If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you", but it doesn't make it any less stupid or power-tripping.

I didn't make it in the screenshot 😔

I also got banned for that LMFAO

To be fair, he didnt say he was against authoritariamism.

Seems like all comments here are "whatabout communism"

US being an authoritarian shithole is pretty undisputable reality. It could be preferable to debate the point than outright banning the possibly misinformed, but the assumption of military bot troll propagandist is not unreasonable.

I get the ironic angle of the mod being "authoritarian" but that's their space and if they decide they don't want to deal with trolls arguing about they can ban people.

Just like trans communities can and should ban people who just want to argue about if trans people are real. If you try to argue against it you're just being a dick and distracting from the point of the community.

PTB stinking hypocrisy from a distance.

Counterpoint. It’s not a strawman. The US is is an authoritarian state. If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you. also Why are you here?

Strawman wasn't enough, was it? There's an implicit false dichotomy here, between accepting the idiotic reasoning and the conclusion or rejecting both (thus the user not belonging to the sub).

EDIT: to be clear. I won't talk if USA is/isn't authoritarian, that is not my point. My point is that the mod in question is clearly being irrational, and hell breaks loose once you put irrational people on power. I also don't think that he should be removing users for not agreeing with the premise of the sub.

take that shouldn’t be hot: except for in very small communities, mods should not do moderation on their own posts’ comment section, especially when they are the type to be super defensive and invested in their posts’ success. this is the case with those like jordanlund, flyingsquid and the PTB here.

in other words, !usauthoritarianism@lemmy.world has two mods. if mod A makes a participatory (non-pinned/PSA) post, mod B should be the one that handles violations in that posts’ comments. especially if mod A is a frequent commenter and gets into arguments easily.

Plot twist: The mod is from US and just proving their point.

They're getting reamed out in the comments, which is great to see.

BPR: you go to a community challenginging/trolling their official narrative without arguments.

100% YDI, there's no power tripping for moderator to kick someone out for useless flaming or trolling, it's one of their duties.

Nobody cares

fascist attempts to spread liberal fascist US state dept propaganda that has been debunked thousands of times over

cries about muh freeze peach when told to stop spreading misinformation

Yeah go back to .world, bud

Tolerant for the intolerant smth smth

The US is an authoritarian state

Not yet.

The place is filled with plenty of examples of US authoritarianism. Consider lurking before posting OP.

YDI BPR

Clearly it’s not a place to try and defend America. The mod is probably a tankie dick, but you’re the one who went into their space.