(Note that the quoted bit I’m replying to ends after the word “…issue” and my words begin at “What a fucking…”)

In roughly 30 years online, across a wide variety of communities on a wide variety of platforms, zero of them would have removed that comment as “trolling.”

Except .ml, apparently.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Me being wrong (if in fact I am) and even deluded (if in fact I were) still doesn’t constitute a troll.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      4·
      2 days ago

      Most people don’t understand what modding is about.

      In fact they prefer censorship of opinions and or tone they don’t like until it happens to them.

      These people haven’t really developed the proepr framework for understanding that the world is bigger than them.

      Most never really do hence why have poorly educated idiots fighting culture wars amongst themselves while owner class is destroying all of in a class war.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        No, no, no.

        Censorship is when people that I agree with are silenced.

        When people I disagree with are silenced, that’s just stopping trolls!

        /s (Needed exactly because there are people out there who genuinelly agree with this, so it’s not obviously satirical)

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
      129·
      2 days ago

      While technically your intent isn’t that of trolling, it’s such an incredibly afactual statement that a reasonable person could not be expected to realise that you (claim to) genuinely believe it. It’s unreasonable for a person to genuinely believe such things after seeing the last decade with their own eyes, so even if you’re not a troll your comment only detracts from and muddies the discussion.

      If someone told you that they genuinely believe the earth is a concave disk, you would look around at the horizon and assume they’re fucking with you because of how ridiculous a statement it is. Same thing here - there is no difference in your behaviour whether you’re trolling or genuinely believe it, so mods have to take the more reasonable assumption.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        7·
        2 days ago

        We all agree with what octopus_ink said.

        He presented himself as a stronger defender of Israel, and is seen as less sympathetic to Palestine than Biden or Harris. He vowed to continue supporting Israel in the Israel–Hamas war, and said that Israel must “finish the problem”. Trump is expected to continue arming Israel, likely with “no strings attached” for humanitarian concerns. He promised to ban Gaza residents from entering the US. Trump said his government would “crush” pro-Palestinian protests, deport pro-Palestinian demonstrators, and “set the movement back 25 or 30 years”. At times, he has also been critical of Israel’s war in Gaza, saying Israel should “get it over with … get back to peace and stop killing people”.