The post was https://lemmy.ml/post/27600301 on !antitrust@lemmy.ml

When opening the link, it popped up something I didn't even get to see because it created crashed my browser.

I returned to the post and commented "Jesus, the pop-up on that site is brutal " that's it, that's the exact quote because I use an app that stores things from specific sources that are typed in

Annnnd banned

For being annoying.

Because the mod didn't like their link being criticised.

I ain't even mad, I'm just amazed to see a PTB in the wild like that.

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[+] 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    FWIW, I restored SJW's local copy of your comment.
    That won't federate or anything, but at least it doesn't say 'removed' on our end anymore.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago

    Tankies get pissy when you criticize anything they like. Don’t use .ml and save yourself the hassle of dealing with them.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And they removed a reply to your comment too:

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If you wanted to know who it is.

    Edit: removed picture apparently pulling mod names is against the rules of this comm. But that community does have one sole moderator, so take that for what you will.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    This one is extra dumb, even by ml standards.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Inclined to say PTB just because being annoying isn’t a valid reason for a ban but what did you actually say?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Nothing new. .ml mods are so bad that it makes discord mods look sane.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ptb ofc

    but just because i was curious, the popup in question:

    thanks aslan!

    amusingly the link works fine if you remove all the parameters and displays no popup at all

    https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-real-reason-walgreens-collapsed

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is another comment chain in that post saying the exact same thing, and the OP engaged - https://reddthat.com/comment/17475791

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    .ml

    To nobody's surprise

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Clicked out of curiosity but no pop up here. Highly recommend uBlock Origin OP, and possibly a DNS solution like NextDNS/Adguard/PiHole. Would solve this problem.

    it appears substackcdn.com is the offending domain, uBlock filters the pop up even without it being fully blocked.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    PTB for sure!

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    PTB

    This is why mods shouldn't moderate their own posts.

    In a more general sense, this is an excellent demonstration of why communism doesn't work.

    Change my mind

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I won’t be convinced communism is viable until I see it working, but this doesn’t really have anything to do with communism at all, honestly.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    I won't be convinced anarchism is viable until I see it working, but this doesn't really have anything to do with anarchism at all, honestly.

    so since we've eliminated a political system that has literally never been used beyond local mutual aid groups and you don't agree with the way that Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, China, or the USSR implemented communism I assume you'll be leaving your armchair tomorrow to implement something that will give us "solarpunk"

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, my point is that any system where it depends on some all-powerful person who's just going to do the right thing is going to fail.

    Rules for good conversation with others are great. Putting one person in omnipotent charge of who gets to talk and having that person also participating in the conversation (and telling that they're imbued with the justice of the state and they can do no wrong, because they have the power of communism) fails in comically obvious ways.

    Economic justice is great. Putting one central government in omnipotent charge of who gets the money yada yada yada you get the idea.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You do realize you are exactly describing the current fascist authoritarian regime that is now deliberately and systemically destroying the freedoms of the United States?

    Does that make cadet bonespurs krasnov a communist? His kgb code name does come from the Russian word for "red."

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, and we're about to get to see in real time why it is a terrible idea. No Americans on Lemmy have ever lived through a real economic collapse.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Donald Trump is not a communist, and to even suggest that is absurd. Please at least try to understand what communism means before you apply the label to someone/something.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I never said Trump was a communist. What I meant to say was that he, the USSR, and lemmy.ml all share one essential feature: “Give me unchecked power and I’ll use it to make everything right for all the people, for I am a wise and benevolent lord. I’m on the people’s team, your team, and everything I do, I do for the people. So you better be on my team too.”

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Ok, but those are not the communist features of those communities

    One is economic system and the other is political system

    To change economic system fast, a political system in a dictatorship style, is the most efficient but most destructive way.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Lol, communism is not the same as dictatorship. See America as example, clearly a capitalist country, but as well, having soon a dictatorship.

    Political system is not the same as economic system

    You can have a capitalist dictatorship and you can have a democratic communism.

    Communism has nothing to do with moderating their own actions, I don’t know how you got to that.

    Like in America, you have e.g. boing moderating itself and anywhere people say “the market will handle it” results in a monopoly ultimately moderating itself.

    I think is more a demonstration why pure capitalism doesn’t work, but needs to be regulated.

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