I saw this post titled "Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds" (https://lemmy.world/post/33320759)

I commented that "harm reduction" apparently means sending billions in weapons to israel while they commit genocide and shutting down campus protests speaking out against that genocide. I said that seemed pretty fascist to me.

Within an instant, they downvoted my post and banned me. Guess it's my fault for posting in a circlejerk community, but I'm still scratching my head on how that makes me a tankie. Something tells me this mod would be calling in the tanks to suppress any dissent if they could.

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[+] -22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

My score didn't drop a tiny amount, it dropped by about 100 points

So from "excellent" to "still excellent, but lower." Mine was high 700s at one point and I couldn't get above a $4k limit and I tried.

My living expenses are low and some of the larger transactions are paid direct from my bank account to avoid credit card fees.

You're not from the US, are you.

Which is fine, but why would you be pretending to be? Why not just say "I'm not really familiar with what normal living expenses and credit limits are in the US, or how the credit and banking system works there, because I don't live there and never have, which is why I never made any kind of post about how my US credit score is right now"?

Semi-expecting for me to get some kind of heat from the moderators for this line of inquiry BTW lol. That is honestly the only explanation I can see for it, though. Maybe I am wrong and there is some other explanation.

Why would I lie about this?

You tell me.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Believe whatever you want to believe. I briefly considered posting my credit score history graph from my bank, but I really have no reason to try to prove anything to you and you'd probably excuse it with something else like "why are you lying about missed payments?" or "you could've easily faked this graph" or some other explanation. I shared my experience with the credit score system (yes, in the US) and that's that.

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I really have no reason to try to prove anything to you

    You don't owe me any explanation or proof of anything, no. I'm mostly raising an issue for the awareness of anyone else reading, and giving you a chance to explain and defend your comments and claims if you want to.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Cool. While you're digging around my comment history, why not dig up a comment where I'm a tankie saying tankie things? That would be a lot more relevant.

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago

    I don't actually think people should get banned for being tankies. My provisional reaction to the actual moderation question is PTB, just because they're either censoring you for your viewpoint (which they shouldn't do), or else using that as insulting shorthand for some other more malicious behavior (which they also shouldn't do, although it's more understandable.) I don't care enough about that question to look into it all that much, though. You apparently casually lying about being from the US and also having some unknown-to-me kinds of views which brought you into conflict with those specific people is a lot more interesting to me than whatever moderation event, honestly.

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