Doesn’t seem very metal to me, being a long time metal head.

  • Aes Sedai@lemmy.world
    1113·
    1 year ago

    On behalf of the metal community, everyone is welcome. Fuck transphobia. Pick all your brothers, sisters, and non-binary family off the ground and lift them up.

    • dudebro@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m curious, how do you feel about the hateful side of metal? There’s a lot, or was a lot, of neo-nazis in the ‘metal’ community back in the day.

      I’m wondering how the community has evolved and if there is any kind of differentiation between the neo-nazis and everyone else.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        1 year ago

        Pretty sure the response is quite simply to tell them to fuck off, atleast in my experience. But im also into a rather niche metal sub community that you have to be careful in cause it has like two side, nazis and antifascists who want to hang nazis.

  • MoonshineDegreaser@lemmy.world
    653·
    1 year ago

    I got a 6 day ban from reddit for telling a mod in r/funny that it’s not right to judge a person for posting a meme in a different sub. Which is what convinced me to make an account on Lemmy

  • FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world
    541·
    1 year ago

    That subreddit sucks. They banned Sabaton for being “Nazis”. I don’t think they’ve ever listened to Sabaton.

      • ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de
        7·
        1 year ago

        Even in the “official” (i.e. in Scene-Relevant Magazines) scene in Germany they’re regarded as fascist aligned, just because of their military theme. Yeah, idk man, idk…

        • NotYourSocialWorker@feddit.nu
          7·
          1 year ago

          The militaristic themes and what I feel is a glorification of war makes me uncomfortable. The use of historical glory from war is so common among fascists and nationalist. And no that doesn’t mean that anyone who likes them are, my son for instance like them. But my own personal choice is not to listen to them even though I think that they play good music.

          • ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de
            5·
            1 year ago

            It’s the same with Rammstein though (before the Scandal about Lindemann I mean) being regarded as catering to Nazis, because they sang crass texts in, well, German. Completely casting aside the subtle criticism of toxic masculine themes and fascist ideology. Even “Deutschland” was critisized as fascist, when it featured a black Germania and was an in your face criticism of Germany’s constant identity crisis and the result being fascism and the holocaust. It’s totally missing the point.

            And Sabaton isn’t taking a side when singing about war events, they sing about the super human feats, but sometimes also about distress, people experienced on the battlefield, about great tacticians and warriors in every age of every nation. That is what Power Metal is about 70% of the time. War. Heck.

        • 6mementomori@lemmy.world
          76·
          1 year ago

          we should really quit playing “who can spot more fascists” and making up excuses to call everyone a nazi/fascist

    • Blamemeta@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 year ago

      If Sabaton are Nazis, so is Churchill. Fucking hell, what are they smoking? Each others farts?

      • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world
        61·
        1 year ago

        Churchill agreed with fascists on almost everything lmao. He was a eugenicist:

        “I am convinced that the multiplication of the Feeble-Minded, which is proceeding now at an artificial rate, unchecked by any of the old restraints of nature, and actually fostered by civilised conditions, is a terrible danger to the race.” - Winston Churchill

        He was a white supremacist that viewed much of the world as inferior races and wanted to uphold racial hierarchies:

        “I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.” - Winston Churchill

        “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,” - Winston Churchill

        He was an anti-semite that victim-blamed jews for their own persecution, and a zionist because zionism was compatible with anti-semitism in the form of kicking jews out of europe.

        “For it may be that, unwittingly, they are inviting persecution — that they have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer.” - Winston Churchill

        and he told the Italian fascists he’d have supported them if he were Italian:

        “If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.” - Winston Churchill

        And called Mussolini:

        “The description of Mussolini is [very] vivid. No doubt he is one of the most wonderful men of our time.’” - Winston Churchill

        And in 1919 he sent 10,000 troops along with tanks into Glasgow to break striking workers.

  • Sean@lemmy.world
    391·
    1 year ago

    …And you’re on an instance called “aussie zone”. Isn’t cunt practically a term of endearment down there?

  • Riccosuave@lemmy.world
    262·
    1 year ago

    I was banned from r/politics for “hate speech” for comparing Krysten Sinema to Delores Umbridge from Harry Potter. The totally arbitrary enforcement of the rules by authoritarian mods is a large part of the reason I made the migration to Lemmy after more than 14 years on Reddit. I was a refuge from the Digg migration, and am now a refuge from Reddit bullshit and proud of it!

    • zeppo@lemmy.world
      91·
      1 year ago

      A lot of mods thought they had a power downvote - the way reddit works where it hides your removed comment from everyone but you with zero notification (like a per-comment shadowban) is pretty annoying. I’d post in some subs and check with one of the comment deletion tools, and sure enough, that would explain why I’d get no replies or votes. Sure is annoying to take the time to express yourself and talk top people, and some twat of a mod arbitrarily or mendaciously decides your comment is not allowed and removes it.

    • Glide@lemmy.ca
      4·
      1 year ago

      Mine was for saying that I want Donald Trump to lose all his cases in the courts, and I can’t be assed to care about whether he lives long enough to serve the sentences he receives, as that’s not the point. This was in response to someone else saying taking him through the court system is pointless, because he won’t live long enough to pay for those crimes.

      They cited a rule against inviting violence and showing an aggressive apathy for human life, and gave me a permenant ban.

      I can certainly see the backwards, twisted logic used to justify the argument, if you’re willing to completely disregard the context and clearly defined goal of the statement. Even if your head is up your ass about the rule as written and see my statement as far more aggressive than I tried to portray it, you’d think a decent mod would respond to a polite appeal with “your comment is deleted, think about the way you word yourself in the future”, and the ban being revoked. But I suspect there’s something else going on there, so I decided it’s really no loss anyway.

      • dudebro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The censorship on /r/politics is insane.

        After witnessing it firsthand, I can’t go there anymore because of how secretly-curated it is.

        I’m super glad lemmy has a public modlog so I can see everything for myself, even if it was taken down.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
    21·
    1 year ago

    I got a ban once for calling someone a good cunt in a supposedly Australian run sub because someone else got offended by it for some reason.

    It is an actual term of endearment in Australia.

    • irkli@lemmy.world
      81·
      1 year ago

      …indeed. And that’s why at least in my time punk and metal got along well.

    • fuck reddit@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 year ago

      What are the alternatives? I’ll happily subscribe. Reddit is dying a slow death, and I haven’t found a new place to get metal suggestions or news

      • eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site
        3·
        1 year ago

        I mean if you want news and suggestions I don’t think metal memes was the right sub in the first place. I haven’t looked in a couple weeks but Lemmy’s got some metal communities. Idk how active they are because I listen to power metal and there wansnt a power metal community when I looked. So I guess look for a general metal community (there’s one on Lemmy.world) and from there communities more specific to your genre tastes. There’s also a metal memes community on Lemmy.world if you want the memes.

  • dan@lemm.ee
    122·
    1 year ago

    But, I don’t understand. That’s the scientific definition, how can they be angry about that?

  • StarServal@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Cunt seems to be one of their no no words over there. I’ve cursed up and down all over the place, but the moment I call someone a cunt I get banned from the sub I’m on.