I’ve always wanted to talk about how weird it was scrolling through reddit and then suddenly seeing myself on the front page. I was banned from reddit for talking about politics (I am anti trump) on the air force reddit so I wasn’t even able to comment on a post about me.
For some backstory, I was returning from a Halloween cruise and it was the only clean shirt I had left (I was planning on wearing it during the cruise as there were no children allowed on the cruise and with the theme I thought it would get a few laughs or at least start a conversation). I never did though and doing laundry on a cruise was quite expensive (I think 50 dollars per load or something like that). I tried to hide the shirt as best I could throughout the day as I do think it was slightly inappropriate to wear in a public setting.
For the record, I love all the comments roasting me and I laughed all fucking day reading them!
Anyways, I have always wanted to publicly talk about this and in my search for reddit alternatives I found lemmy so here we are. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Proof: https://i.imgur.com/rd9DPO8.jpeg
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1pl680g/seen_in_miami_airport_gate_area/
nah say shit like “I’m surprised more nazis haven’t been shot yet” enough times and Reddit will ban you
source: happened to me. never advocated violence, doesn’t stop them from misinterpreting it. fucking idiots. unfortunately also happens on Lemmy - I was poking through the logs recently and saw someone had blatantly misinterpreted a comment as exactly the opposite of the message it was conveying
Same for saying “the only good nazi is a dead nazi”
I got banned for “encouraging violence” in the COMBATFOOTAGE subreddit for saying we should fly more drones around the Ukraine warzone to make the Russians waste more ammunition trying to shoot them down (the post was a video of some Russian moron emptying his magazine trying to take a Ukrainian drone down).
When I disputed it, claiming it’s not encouraging any kind of violence (unless you count violence towards drones as violence?), I got a permanent site wide ban. After 15ish years on reddit, I called it. That site has sunk so low in the past decade - seems to get worse as time goes on. The censorship there is insane now.
The dissonance of “not allowed to advocate for violence”, while at the same time, not only hosting combat footage, but also it being perfectly allowed to advocate for war or military operations, or talk about how “x country needs to shoot y enemy in this war” or similar, never ceases to amaze me. I literally don’t get it. What is war if not exactly that?
But I guess, if it’s state-sanctioned it’s perfectly fine. Even if, either way, it still results in violence and people dying. Just sucks that you can’t say that a war criminal deserves to die. Fucking double standards