coming into an anarchist instance and telling people you get to decide if they're anarchist or not.

they wouldn't stop calling me honey

Gross

Look I'm not saying op was right but like at some point we have to acknowledge the elephant in the room. The non-voters/moderates/apolitical/silent majority/whatever the fuck you want to refer to them as is always simultaneously the biggest roadblock to progress and the biggest enabler of authoritarianism. Read and listen to what former Nazis had to say on the subject, listen to the survivors of their attrocities who were the moderate/apolitical group until authoritarianism kicked in their own personal door.

they were also banned from AN because they wouldn’t stop calling me honey.

Ugh. I hate it when shitlibs add an inappropriate pet name to the end of their condescending apologia for genocide.

Yes, it is possible abbotsbury copped an instance ban and thus was banned from all lemmy.ml communities they had previously posted to. Note that the weird way instance bans are handled has been solved on Piefed.

I didn't know Mbin also did it though.

I think the problem is that certain users chose to scape goat voters. In the end, not voting for genocide and voting for less genocide can both be seen as ethical. In either case, what followed is entirely the fault of the party that pushed the genocide as their main platform point even if it was clearly deeply unpopular and frankly ghoulish.

I think it's also wrong to assume the dems would have done the genocide "better" than trump, and kind of silly to even present as an argument. Both are clearly in Israel's pocket and even a little genocide (it would have been a lot under both imo) is really messed up.

The scapegoating also minimizes the genocide. Implying it should have been overlooked is softening it and what I consider Israeli propagada. It turns it into a voting issue, something we can decide on instead of what it is, essentially the world's greatest evil.

I guess the best is to understand that it was a complex situation, but that it isn't up to voters to change what they can stomach but up to the dems to take the genocide out of the equation. Blaming voters sends the opposite message.

I agree. In this case I think it was unfortunate wording that was perceived to carry a different meaning than intended. With discussions like this, especially among leftists, “less bad” or “less harmful” is preferred over “better,” since that carries some implied support.

You could convince the vast majority of .world users to unilaterally agree with a hardcore Nazi if you said "look these evil ml tankies just censored a poor innocent liberal"

The democratic party successfully argued in court that it doesn't have to run honest primaries. It selectively protects centrist incumbents like Henry Cuellar, but not progressive incumbents like Cori Bush or Jamaal Bowman. And that's when it deigns to have primaries at all.

I'm telling everyone to go participate in the primaries. you can't sit on your ass, skip the primaries, then complain why all the candidates are bad

That cannot be true, the largest .ml community I can see, privacy@lemmy.ml, allows me to vote, post, and comment.

Instance bans don't actually stop you from posting. It just stops the posts and comments you make there from federating out. So if you have been instance banned, whatever you post on privacy@lemmy.ml would only be visible on lemmy.world.

Only community bans function as hard-bans, and an instance ban currently only hard bans you from communities on an instance you have posted to.

Re: absurdity. That's why a lot of people block the whole instance. It is absurd tbh. Yeah, it's their instance, they can do what they want, but there's a line between making a curated and ism specific space and being zealots. They don't just cross the line, they often stomp on it and attempt to obliterate it.

Someone else already covered the fact that a ban doesn't prevent all interactions, but you can visit the instance via browser and navigate to your comments. You'll see two tags, one that says banned, the other saying something like community banned or something like that. If you're only banned from a community, and not the instance, there's not going to be both (afaik, but I do know that's the explanation I've seen given in the past). So I wasn't pulling it out of my ass.