Yes, we all know the infamous crimes of the *checks notes* minister of agriculture

I think you’ll find, as a regular civilian or a VIP in the target country, that you’re making a distinction without a difference.

Ask Saddam Hussein’s opinion on the US’s loss in Iraq or the hundreds of thousands of dead civilians how they feel about winning in Afghanistan.

I guess you know what I said better than I know what I said. 👍

You’re just confused and don’t understand the terminology of the software that you’re using…

The Original Poster made a post about a specific person. In the Comment Section there are many people responding to the OP. Each of these comments form a thread. The thread consists of people replying to the person above them.

The thread is the context of conversation, as all replies in the thread are a reply to a reply, etc to the person making the first comment in the thread.

The first comment, in this thread in which we’re conversing, is:

Nazis are shitbags, yes, but like, calm down a bit. Don’t stoop down to their level.

Notice how it is talking about a group of people and not a single person.

I’m talking about a group of people and not a single person.

In this thread, which followed the comment that I just quoted, we’re talking about a group of people and not a single person.

You seem to be confused and think we’re having a conversation with the OP, who has not commented in this thread.

You’re ‘just talking’ right now.

If you didn’t believe that talking worked and violence is the only answer, then why are you here talking?

Are you a hypocrite, or just a coward?

You’re only wasting time and talking reckless so that you feel better about being helpless. You have no idea how to navigate the situation and, like everyone since the beginning of time, you resort to thinking that someone should do violence instead of talking.

But not you, no, you’re just going to hide behind a keyboard and anonymity and talk about violence.

The people encouraging violence are often the first target of the secret police in fascist takeovers and I highly doubt that you have more than a flimsy door between you and the goon squad that’ll be kicking it in at 3am.

At the end of the day by openly and wrecklessly talking about violence, you’ve alienated allies and made yourself a target.

This isn’t a game.

Hello, welcome to Lemmy.

In Lemmy, posts can contain comments which are organized into hierarchical threads.

If you are ever confused and need to understand the context of a conversation you can scroll up and read the thread from the top.

It isn’t a race to the bottom.

You’re not going to win moderate people to your side by labeling them Nazis.

It’s a mistake to find the most extreme opinions in a group and use them to label the entire group. Just because outrage and self-righteousness feels good, doesn’t mean it’s actually accomplishing anything.

The kinds of statements, like in the OP, are just a form of public masturbation. You’re just yelling into the void for the pleasure and mental rush.

If your goal is to defeat right-wing nationalists, you need to convince the undecided people and that isn’t happening if you’re just ranting like a crazy person because your brain is addicted to upvotes and outrage.

It’s never too late to do the smart thing

Yeah, until I go outside and think my phone is dead

This looks shopped — I can tell from some of the pixels, and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

The person I was responding to was suggesting that maybe this happened because the moderator was frustrated with a type of trolling (sealioning) so they were unable to differentiate between the trolls and people asking legitimate questions.

If a person is so burned out on moderation that they are making kneejerk decisions resulting in legitimate users being banned then they shouldn’t be moderating.

Moderators are not the community, they’re volunteers who help maintain the community. But, as the cliche goes, with great power comes great responsibility.

If they’re unable to function as a moderator and are banning community members then they can be more damaging to a community than all of the trolls and bad faith commenters combined.

Moderators are not the kings of a community, they are the janitors. This isn’t an insult, I’m an Internet janitor myself. Just because you have the power to break things and, socially, hurt people doesn’t mean that it acceptable to do so arbitrarily.

Expecting moderators to not abuse their powers for personal reasons will not result in the end of a community. That’s just nonsense.

For a random person, taking out your personal frustrations on random members of a community makes you an asshole.

Using moderator powers to take out your personal frustrations on random members of a community makes you unfit to be a moderator.

Your actions don’t suddenly become beyond reproach just because you clicked the “Create a community” button.

If that is the case then they shouldn’t be a moderator any more.

Everyone gets frustrated at their job, but it isn’t acceptable for a person to use the powers of their job for personal reasons. For example, I have access to financial software that handles tens of millions of dollars of client funds. I have the ability to lock an account and initiate a fraud investigation. However, if I chose to do that because a client was annoying and made me angry then I’d be quickly out of a job.

A moderator is responsible for ensuring a community is run well and they are given broad power to do so. Any moderator that uses those power to vent personal frustrations should not be trusted with those powers anymore.