I can’t confirm that empirically but I can definitely anecdotally 1/1 confirm it.

Nice cop-out!

If it makes you feel better I feel the same way about you, given you appear to be in love with ad hominem.

3/3 of your comments were intellectually lazy, 2/3 were ad hominem. Do you ever contribute anything meaningful or am I good to block you?

Edit:

Wait, why wait for your answer? Someone doing an ad hominem multiple times in a row is obviously not worth chatting with further. Seeya!

Oof, sorry but you’re about 6 years late, dipshit.

In your defense Lemmy doesn’t feature “stickying” self-posts like Reddit does so you likely had no idea I had a very contentious background where my agency and peers vilify me for refusing to follow illegal orders.

But in your offense, you jumped to a lame-brained conclusion so you earned a block for it <3

Rick Scott voting against his constituency?

Shocker.

- A Floridian, speaking sarcastically

Egriaga@lemmy.ml Banned

welp

Yep. Twice I’ve had black dudes try to suicide-by-cop on me and twice they failed to achieve it. They apologized afterward, admitting that they assumed the stereotype was true and not only was their death guaranteed but I wouldn’t feel anything about it.

Both would have likely just been recorded as “attempted murder” on me and “justified shooting” without their words after the fact indicating they were attempting suicide.

That’s a totally understandable response. What’s not understandable is denying any wrongdoing from the CCP.

Yep. Ate a 3 day ban recently from /c/memes for exactly that before I realized I was on lemmy.ml/c/memes.

I can see your imminent ban in my crystal ball.

I’m just glad the Lemmy devs didn’t set a maximum block limit so I don’t have to pick and choose which bad-faith attackers like yourself I block.

One person’s opinion is another person’s “objectively stupid.”

I have yet to see a reasonable proposition on how to do traffic enforcement that seems to sit right with the vast majority of people.

My point in making the above joke(s) is that this is the alternative that many people cried out for. It feels like goal-post moving when every way to enforce the law is “but not this way, a different way.”

My guess at the common denominator that cannot possibly be objectively confirmed is that people simply don’t want to be met with consequences for breaking the law, and no matter how that’s done it will be rejected.

In other words, every way to enforce traffic has downsides - every single one. This is the one that does not involve cops. As you see, this is the downside. It’s laughably easy to “THIS IS BAD” at it while proposing no alternatives, and very amusing when an alternative (like this one) is eventually picked apart for being “objectively stupid” when its downsides inevitably crop up.

“Law enforcement should be conducted specifically in the way that I imagine, not in the way that people vote for.”

- Someone speaking unironically, believe it or not.

“Take cops out of the equation for traffic enforcement.”

“NO, not like that!!!”

I don’t even think the talking heads have to do much editorializing before printing this one, much like they didn’t do anything but post the word-for-word DSA platform in that viral photo of their anchor pointing at it incredulously.

Their target audience already see this is as a clearly bad decision in that it benefits many poor(er) people at the expense of some rich(er) people; that’s political suicide for the American Right in 2026.

Yeah that was the exact point I decided that they were accidental or intentional CCP propagandists and pulled the eject handle on my presence in the thread by announcing I was blocking them both for it. My ban from the community followed minutes later. Surely, a complete coincidence.

Yeah, the trick then becomes, “At what percentage, with how many anecdotes, do I consider a community/instance Bad Faith Central?”

Like I said, getting 20+ downvotes and 0 upvotes followed by a ban for my “Huh, I never realized the potential racism connection between Winnie The Pooh -> yellow -> Asian before this conversation, but I still disagree that anyone who criticizes Xi Jinping or the CCP is racist” comments was a large red (heh) flag in my face that made me instantly block the community, but the other one (+6/-6 comment removed for “Electoralism” for saying attacking Kamala Harris for supporting the DSA is silly party purity cannibalism) is a tougher call.

There’s also the issue of insulating myself from differing viewpoints essentially creating my own echo chamber. As you indicated, for me Lemmy isn’t just Fun, it’s also a way for me to interact with and learn from different people around the world. I hadn’t met someone IRL who had anything positive to say about the CCP until I was well into being a grown man, for example. I do value hearing from those people because there is bound to be some truth to what they say, and it helps me grow as a person and think about my own government more critically.

But you’re right in that critical thinking is not necessarily Fun, and can be exhausting or even a waste of time in scenarios like I mentioned where by the 5th reply it was no longer about realizing that some people might be using Xinnie the Pooh to further racism but suddenly a tankie circle-jerk where I’m being dogpiled and accused of being a racist because I didn’t realize that previously, with a bit of Uighur Genocide denial as a cherry on top. I’d link the thread for the curious who want to read what was actually said, but given your own comments are deleted on Lemmy when a moderator deletes them, I can’t find it any more.

I just don’t know where to draw the line.

Like I hear rumors that lemmy.ml is infested with tankies but I generally do not see that anecdotally as I’ve lurked over the years. Their posts tend to be a lot more moderate, but as I found out, at least one of the moderators in one of their communities is pretty tankie. I also got dogpiled with votes in the “Is Xinnie the Pooh always racist?” discussion, so it could be the silent majority are tankies or otherwise rabidly pro-socialism/anti-racism. So you’re saying I should just block the entire instance off of one bad experience and some rumors? I ended up just blocking the community a few days ago.

Then there’s lemmy.dbzer0.com which is an anarchist instance as I understand them, so the instance itself is not tankie but lets tankies do their thing. So if I block the instance I’d just be throwing the baby out with the tankie bathwater?

Tough choices. I feel like blocking instances for things like this would very rapidly make my fediverse very small, especially given the entire foundation and growth of the platform arguably arises from decentralization in protest of auth-right social media platforms. I would rather rub elbows with tankies discussing non-tankie topics than proactively cut myself off from all suspected tankies and thus a huge swathe of the fediverse.

Edit to add after I saw the last line of your comment (did you add it late? does Lemmy support ninja-edits like Reddit?):

I’m pretty sure that my announcing that I blocked the two users who were arguing with me and asserting that I was racist for not realizing Xinnie the Pooh could have racist connotations as well as saying the Uighur genocide is western propaganda is what actually got me banned and all of my comments nuked. Obviously they’re too far gone, but they wanted to make a spectacle of me and as soon as I noped out they realized I could no longer be fit for purpose.

Looks like I misread it because I remember a completely different sentiment from the comment I replied to.

Ah well, the folly of multi-tasking.

Most Americans do not support the Republican party, no.

They say “every accusation is a confession,” but I think it runs a bit deeper than that.

They’ve been propagandized into believing the Democrats did the same and worse. So if they feel they’ve been kicked in the balls against the rules during a boxing match, they feel it’s time to start ball-kicking even harder because it’s time to fight dirty.