• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    My ban from Reddit proves I was right - you know you’re right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you. In the same way, books are truthful when they get banned for daring to speak the truth.

    I always do the left thing (not the right) and achieve my freedom by not staying quiet or bowing down to fascists.

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      11 months ago

      you know you’re right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you.

      Not really. If you say Hitler was right, or any of the myriad of other terrible statements you could make, and you get permabanned for it, you’re still wrong.

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        The difference is, those statements “Hitler was right” or any other kind of mentally ill belief are by all universal standards immoral and wrong. They don’t get banned for being truthful at all, but for being morally reprehensible. I was banned for being morally above and beyond what Reddit can claim as moral standards.

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      11 months ago

      You miss the important part.

      You ARE right, and you should fight for the truth, and not bow to anyone, but the mere fact that you were banned isn’t proof of anything.

      People calling for genocide get banned. Outright nazis get banned, even while they try to move the gate. Many terrible people do get banned. Doesn’t make them any more right. One can just be too stubborn to make reasoning impossible.

      “I was banned thereby I’m right” is a very dangerous idea that often fuels your - and our - enemies and blinds them to the reason. It serves nothing but radicalization, for the right or, very often, for the wrong.

      Saying those things validates the ideas that end up turning against you - and against the reason and the truth.

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        No I’m not missing your point at all, I get it, I simply don’t agree with it. My ban from Reddit proves I was right in bright neon lights. Because Reddit is going backwards and devolving into the lowest form of human sewage - fascism.

        Yes people calling for genocide should be banned and nazis and homophobes and other degenerates as well - but not because what they are saying has any modicum of truth to it, just the opposite. They get banned because of being horribly wrong, and unable to perceive the difference between reality and mental delusion.

        So I’m not entirely at odds with your viewpoint, I’m only saying that more myself in this one particular instance, my ban was proof of the veracity of my statements.

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          For Reddit fascists, you are banned because of being horribly wrong.

          It’s very easy to say “they were banned for being wrong, I was banned for being right”, but ain’t that double standard?

          You were banned not for being right, but for saying something that fell out of Reddit guidelines - which can be skewed and fucked up, but it wasn’t you being a messiah and them trying to cover everyone from the truth and light you’re spreading.

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            11 months ago

            I suppose it is a double standard, but my viewpoint was correct and actually was not outside of their guidelines, which I pointed out in my response to them wherein I called them fascist scum and (various other terms I won’t use here).

            And I am a messiah, I am that I am. I am the great “I Am.” And all who contradict me are as dead to me as the dust of arid desert lands.