• Lvxferre
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    11 hours ago

    they’re not a bloody fucking government themselves are they?

    The morality of authoritarianism does not “magically” change depending on who does it; it’s still the same outcome, only in a different scale. If one is bad, the other is also bad. And someone doing what they denounce as bad is hypocrisy.

    And you could bring up a thousand more arbitrary restrictions like you already did twice, like, “it isn’t hypocrisy because today is Friday lol”. It still won’t change shite dammit.

    And, as I already showed, even if your insane troll logic was valid (it is not), it doesn’t defend the bullshit/assumption/lie that OP was defending USA.

    You’re being a bloody muppet and odds are that you know it.

    Talk about 2+2=7 alright…

    What I said is not false, let alone evidently false.

    And it’s not a strawman, it’s not in response to anyone.

    Yeah, because that community and the post totally exist in a vacuum. They are totally not addressing what people often say, that China is authoritarian. Right??? /s

    It’s at blurst [worst?] whataboutism.

    Nope.

    Whataboutism is a diversion tactic. It would be whataboutism if OOP used that argument to divert attention from China into USA; they are not doing it, the central theme of the community is USA.


    In case someone complains about the wall of text: Brandolini’s Law.

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      It does change when it comes to voluntary spaces. Their instance is like a club, it can impose its own rules on itself it’s not hurting anyone. A state imposing rules affects everyone and it’s damn hard to move.

      You cannot begin to compare state oppression to Lemmy moderation.

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        It does change when it comes to voluntary spaces.

        You: “ackshyually the comm isn’t AntiAuthority”
        Me: [shows that it doesn’t matter]
        You: “ackshyually they aren’t a government”
        Me: [shows that it doesn’t matter]
        You: “ackshyually it changes when it’s a voluntary space”

        You’re changing the goalposts again.

        You cannot begin to compare state oppression to Lemmy moderation.

        You: “elephant shit is not mouse shit. Thus mouse shit is not shit”.

        To be blunt I’m not wasting my time further with you.