[X-post, and trying out this sub]
It’s also funny that rather than removing all of my comments, they just decided to remove those I referenced and one particular reply, meaning whoever they were they cared more about the narrative and making the conversation unintelligible so that in the framing that was left people could just fill in the gaps just based on the downvotes and the accusations.
Like I said to some people and now extend to the mod,
I love how people like you are the flip side equal of Trump people warping reality to shit on it. Same bullshit, both sides aren’t equal but people like you certainly resemble them closer.
ITT, people who couldn’t comprehend cult psychology (and given the inherent Stanford prison experiment abuse within it, any psychology) or even the inevitable conclusion of what they are claiming and accuse me for being ignorant of what I’m literally alluding to in the first comment.
Even supposing that there was some legitimacy to the removals, it’s telling how selective it was and where it wasn’t. And literally labeling nuance “trolling” in a circlejerk meme reddit … probably makes sense. But still, imagine being so fragile the huge number of downvotes could not do it for you.
Some of you really want to divide society as much as MAGA does. My message didn’t neatly fit into the circlejerk meme, so I guess I must be “trolling, or worse” - amazing.
I can also confirm, can’t delete or edit the comments to provide context, but people can still vote on comments that have been removed. Huh, didn’t think I’d find something like this reddit was so clearly better at. So now I guess I know why they decided to selectively remove comments and framed the thread into what has been left.
Repeating what I stated in another thread, because it also acts as a summary:
There was absolutely no “sympathy for Neo-Nazism”. I never denied the association, I just made a point of that stands on its own, akin to that “Not everyone who supports Trump is a Nick Fuentes character, of course” and even when flawed if labeled as something worse just pushes them away to be influenced by people like Trump. “Not everyone who supports Trump is a Nick Fuentes character, of course”, a point which you have just made. Should you be banned for it? Because I sort of feel I was. I never “started at a position that entertains the hateful argument or association as legitimate”. You are shifting the argument to an extreme caricature.
Explain to me how the following leads to all that you are claiming:
This was the post:
https://lemm.ee/post/42673367/14912144
I replied:
To critics who just strawmanned the argument or alluded to extreme misrepresentation, I replied:
I expanded upon my comment by replying:
To claims that my original comment was reductive while believing they were that flawed, I replied:
And when they did eventually recognize it was like a cult, I replied:
When people thought I just should read up on Nazis and that I didn’t realize the parallels,
I was flippant, but I stand behind my argument. And it stands, now reproduced in several threads whereas before it would have stood downvoted and I would not have cared. I will continue to make it, because society is as it is right now because too many people just want to burn bridges. The outcome of that seems inevitable to me, specially when people will just resort to extremes.
And like I’ve said, even supposing the ban was justified, the selective removal of comments is very questionable and hints at something else.