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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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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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No. I mostly only posted this genocide denier his own words. Calling someone defending use of human shields a "genocide apologist" is factual, not aggressive.
Firstly, this is irrelevant. Secondly when you get to the details, most of these comments are made by infamous feddit.org mods - who very recently came out of the closet and started banning reasonable criticism of Israel. Fill your gaps.
I am who I am. I say what I think.
See my other comment. I did paste screenshot of his disgusting defence of IDF, verbatim. This triggered the mod who called it "smear" and he doubled down on calling it "smear" again in this very thread. If calling a guy like this a "genocide apologist" is a smear for the mod, that's very telling about mod own views.
You're omitting the part where you call a third party "an idiot", and that your answers to the genocide denier were both passive aggressive as fuck. (Source, modlog.. For the pass-aggro Ctrl+F "sweetie")
It's arguable if your aggressiveness in this specific case was justified. But by claiming that you weren't being aggressive you are simply lying. And calling people stupid by proxy - do you expect them to buy your lie?
No, it is not. It shows that you'll likely to behave like an arse in any community that allows it. Mods can and should use a user's history to know how to handle them, once they violate the rules of a community.
Modlog, again:
None of those involves either the feddit.org mods or the Zionist Reich, but in all of those you're being aggressive towards other users. I could post another thousand examples, that modlog is full of that.
You are lying yet again.
You are a fucking arsehole, and someone without the dignity to admit they're a fucking arsehole.
The problem is how you say it. You're a fucking arsehole, clearly unable to voice your views without sounding like a pissy manchild. And also a liar based on the comment I'm replying to.
Please do a favour for everyone and go back to Reddit, you'll be in more suitable company there.
Wonderful retort!
Well documented comment
Again, this is irrelevant. Not part of the exchange I have been banned for and it was a reply to him calling me an" embarrassment". For the context, it was a guy defending genocide denier. He also posted in this thread - I suggest you have a look.
Firstly I disagree with that. Secondly this is again irrelevant - being "passive aggressive" is not a bannable offence.
I completely disagree with that. None of my comments were aggressive.
It is completely and utterly irrelevant. You may be an angel in one community and the devil in another. If there was a Israel/IDF supporting community the guy I was responding to would be an angel.
Nope. Now click each of them for a context. I stand behind every single one of them.
Stop accusing me of lying.
Now, my answer to this should be "go and fuck yourself". But since you put your comments so nicely I am going to pat you on your head and just say "yes, sweetie" 😂
If anyone is aggressive here, including name calling it is you. Now, disengage.