Just from an outside perspective:

you're playing the same game die a different side. What kind of consistent ruleset warrants a delete and ban for this?

Power tripping for the right cause is still a powertrip.

Edit: I just realize that just leaving it like this reads purely confrontational which was not my original inten:

You can do better! If you want to have this kind of moderation that is actually fine in my book: as long as it's transparent and consistent.

The exact rule must depend on the answer to what kind of community you want to build. Openly progressive vs openly debating vs aggressively neutral for example.

I know you can do it, because anyone who has the energy to take on this endeavor has the potential to grow ❤️.

Let me get this straight. Do you want a news community where nobody can criticise the DNC for the terrible policy decisions that lost them the last election, and which they seem determined to carry through into the next election? I mean, have any Democrats have even admitted Israel is committing genocide in Gaza yet? The official party line continues to be full throated support for Zionism from both sides of the aisle.

If you're planning to go down that road you should just call it DNC/Hasbara approved news or something, so folks know what they are getting.

There's a reason leftists don't bang on about Trump all the time. It's because he's a lost cause. He's a literal fascist. Nobody on Lemmy needs convincing Trump is the worst US President in history. Imo convincing Dems they should lurch left instead of right (for once) could help win them the next election. But they just don't want to listen, don't want to change, and seem intent on ontracising the left instead of taking on board perfectly legitimate criticisms of the party's leadership and policies.

So you're running a shitlib echo chamber? hard pass.

I'm gonna side with the other guy here. You know we can see the modlog right? All I gotta say is wow.

Here's the real context.

Op thinks this comment constitutes a literal human rights abuse and that the user should be banned.

They also feel that telling this user to go kill themselves is fine and that the death threat should not have been removed

I will wait for you to remove the other pro genocide mod for that community

Yikes, sorry for thinking the community that you're still a mod of was possibly you, especially after you've previously shown simular situations of banning people for things you don't like.