"Rules for thee, not for me" - An ML and I both accuse each other of not being leftists on lemmy.ml. As always, the ML gets away with it, and the anarchist gets (temp) banned

What makes this worse is the obvious disrespect from Cowbee of my request to disengage. I made it very clear I didn't want to argue. These communities have absolutely no standards of behaviour for members of the in-group. Which is exactly why I don't engage with them in these communities.

Well, also the fact that I hate being constantly called a liberal for not repeating Capitalist Putin's latest botfarm talking point. Talking to these people is an exercise in keeping my calm while I am constantly insulted. No thank you.

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Ahhhh, if they'd picked a different rule to cite, it would be a YDI because the comment was borderline against rule 1. But if the mod can't be bothered to cite the right rule out of two rules total, then they're half-assing the job.
I dunno if it's a power tripping bastard. Maybe a LFB? Lazy fucking bastard? Definitely bad moderation though.
Edit: also, you double posted by accident
- I did? I can only see one post from my instance. Both from my profile and from the community. Might be a federation issue?
  My comment was against instance rule 2. Which to me suggests an admin must have done the ban. I hate that the .ml admins just number rules and don't say whether they're community or instance rules. It's not transparent to the people who are banned, unless they put in a bunch of work to figure it out.
  I intentionally broke rule 2, because .ml users do it all the fucking time. Cowbee does it in this screenshot. We're both accusing each other of not being leftists. He doesn't get punished for it. Why? Because he's an ML and I'm an anarchist. ML users always call anarchists liberals, and it's never dealt with. So I treat them the same way, and take my knocks for it. This post isn't about a ban. It's about the rules being selectively enforced. It's about the ban Cowbee didn't get.
  
  I mean, if you intentionally broke the rule, what the fuck are you doing posting it here?
  
  This post isn’t about a ban. It’s about the rules being selectively enforced. It’s about the ban Cowbee didn’t get.
  
  Dude, if you're running around breaking rules on purpose, to bait mods into removing comments, and temporarily banning you, you're the power tripping bastard, not them.
  Also, you showed the conversation. Cowbee didn't do anything ban worthy, by either mods of that C/, or the instance.
  You're trying to stir shit, and you should have been permanently banned from the instance because of that.
  If anything, the actions taken were extremely lenient with your intent in mind
  
  I intentionally broke rule 2, because .ml users do it all the fucking time.
  If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like you were fishing for a ban that could be seen as a double-standard so you could make a post here.
  Moreover, you never labeled yourself an Anarchist, and I haven't been hostile towards Anarchists, I myself used to be one and am sympathetic despite now being a Marxist-Leninist. Additionally, I never said you weren't a Leftist, and your label of me as a Trump supporter happened entirely unprovoked.
  
  Your reputation provoked it. People know who you are.
  
  Isn't that more your conclusion about me than anything else? You admitted elsewhere to trying to get banned so you can make this post and call out "hypocrisy." Seems more people are siding with me on this one.
  If you want to have an actual conversation, I'd be thrilled, but it looks like that wasn't your aim in the first place.

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