this post was submitted on 12 Jun 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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Might be time to re-evaluate now that some time has passed? Sure seems like someone with a grudge against UM created accounts to stir the pot and make them look (very) bad.
Your evidence here doesn't seem that compelling. The egregious stuff - posting from Breitbart et al, antagonistic trolling comment chains - doesn't match UM's conduct anywhere else (suggesting the troll-created-accounts theory for those instances of bad behavior).
And the non-egregious stuff (e.g. having multiple accounts for different instances (I do that) and posting to a community from one, not realizing another account had been bot-banned there) - those seem like the kind of missteps any average person would make under a crazy scenario like this.
I mean, what's the alternative theory? It was all UM, and they have since COMPLETELY cleaned up their act...so they can do what? More stuff like that someday in the future? That's a lotta pretty sincere effort for a long time, why bother? Anyone trying to attack and disrupt the Lemmyverse from an ideology/propaganda standpoint would just create new accounts. This sure seems to me like a normal-ass person who just wants to keep their account name and isn't willing to be bullied off of it.
To be honest, you come across as the vindictive unreasonable one at this point. Not tryna be a jerk, I was curious about all this so I looked at everything you posted, and I came away feeling like you really ought to just move on. Feels like an unhealthy and inaccurate hangup you're holding onto. But hey I'm just some stranger on the Internet lol, feel free to tell me to go fuck myself, all good!
You're entitled to your feelings. Doesn't bother me one bit.
I can remember what I've seen and share my opinions on it, same as anybody else. I wouldn't call that an "unhealthy hangup" so much as "remembering why you don't care for someone."
Now, could I continue to make this case? Sure. Could I provide evidence? Absolutely. But I am not going to hyperfocus on this, I'm not interested in running a crusade, and I don't owe anybody here anything.
I think that would be unhealthy.
Besides, several people here have gone forth with the impression to let someone have a fresh start. That's a valid way to want to live. I can't do that, but I won't try and step on other people trying to believe in the good in people.
If you think I'm an asshole for saying someone has a reputation that they earned, that's fine. If you think I'm an asshole for saying I think sharing an instance with them is cringe, that's fine, too. I don't regret making an attempt at finding someone else saying something I would say, and sharing that, because it wastes as little of my time on an issue as possible.
The more I dig in on something, the higher the risk of hyperfixation on it, and there is nothing to be gained here by anyone if I hyperfixate on why I dislike someone.
I'm trying to engage in this discussion, but do it as lightly as possible, which is why I'm only replying to one reply I get at a time in this thread and move on. (I responded to yours this time. I'll be ignoring all others here for the rest of the night.)
Well, fair enough. I'm certainly not looking for an argument either.
I figured you weren't! And I don't blame you for jumping to someone's defense. We need more people like that, so thanks.
Thank you! Why would I create two personas that post from totally opposite sides of the political spectrum? If I were actually conservative, why would I post literally hundreds of pro-socialist, pro-union, pro-piracy, pro-anarchism articles? Pro-socialist book reviews. etc. I'm working on getting socialist party more involved in my local union activities. I was part of a union my entire career.
So my motive is to be secretly conservative while I publicly post articles all over Lemmy that are anti-capitalist, pro-socialist, pro-union? Even using Lemmy-logic, I don't get how people think that I am some super conservative operative. lol
And to your point, even if all the nonsense about me were true, anyone can look at my post history and see that all I do is post anti-capitalist, pro-socialist, pro-union stuff now (always did, but still...), so shouldn't people be happy they have converted such a terrible conservative to their side? My post history is public, and dates are on there too.