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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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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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I don't disagree with your point or POV, but you went to an anarchist comm and confronted them over their distaste for China. They're allowed to mod their comm against ML discourse. There are plenty of other spaces for MLs or left unity on these instances.
It's better to let them have their spaces then antagonize. Catch more flies with honey, etc etc
Left Unity is always “do what we want or you’re a cia shitlib”. A huge red flag whenever a tankie talks about it.
Sure, but the alternative is often "condemn every implementation of socialism except the failed experiments in Ukraine and Catalonia or else you're a red fascist".
Left unity is just supposed to be about focusing on building communism over sectarianism. Going into that space and immediately starting to go on a tirade about China or something is pretty much the same thing this post is about but from the other side.
Not everyone on the left wants to build communism, I want to build anarchism. And I want to do that through not empowering authoritarian governments, even if they are a mythological dictatorship of the proletariat.
We can agree on fighting capitalism and fascism, but when the disagreement is on authority things fall apart. Which is why I don’t call for left unity, I call for unity with anti-authoritarians.
Left Unity is a saying for Marxists, because it never translates to what we’re fighting for.
We don't ban the libs just for being libs on ML, they have to pull out the racism card first.
Like I said in another comment, if they don't want any engagement from anyone who disagrees with them at a worldview level that's disappointing but fine
I happen to believe that they don't want to be another DNC-pilled echo chamber but I'm certainly not going to post where I'm not wanted