Insanity of saying the US fueled, funded, and permitted (with the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA even going so far as to say he will help Israel “do what they need to do”) genocide in Gaza isn’t US politics aside, why the fuck would you name your com “politics” and not allow politics from the hundreds of other countries?

Name your damn com US politics then, and maybe learn about the impacts of US foreign policy and recognize that the imperial hegemonic effects of the USs actions actually are US politics.

JFC that’s a stupid com.

In case anyone’s still on the fence re: this guy, a year ago I banned Jordanlund from our transgender comm for linking a Matt Walsh video, mocking people with neo/xeno pronouns. (idk why else someone would post that in a trans community)

He proceeded to ban me from news@lemmy.world in retaliation.

PTB through and through.

The solution is the same now as it was a year ago: stop participating in .world communities and start contributing your energy to the equivalent communities elsewhere. The entire point of federated threaded discussion boards is to be able to route around damage (or dipshits).

every time i read anything about jordan lund it just bums me out. he’s like a king of nothing.

I feel that this situation unfortunately requires escalation and I will be directly contacting Lemmy World mods, I will update with their response.

The lemmy.world admins have been very clear in their actions that they approve of jordanlund.

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Yeah, that was one of the first communities I ever blocked after this guy went full reddit and decided to make the “politics@world” community US only.

See you guys next week when our reoccurring character makes his blunder again.

Ah Jordan back to his old tricks I see.

Going against the grain here: YDI.

It’s clear there’s a disagreement on what constitutes US politics. It’s clear that jordanlund takes a more “US explicit/internal politics” approach, versus your “the US supports Israel, so whatever Israel does genocide-wise is also US politics”. I can understand your position here, but given that the distinction is being made to keep the contents of a community focused on a specific subject, I fear your interpretation widens the definition of “US politics” so much it becomes largely meaningless, as the overlap with the world news community becomes extremely large. If Mexico arrests some drug baron, does this also belong in US politics since a lot of US policies affect the cartels as well? In jordanlunds position, a narrower definition is taken to focus the posts subject-wise.

Regardless, it’s okay to disagree on things, especially those as trivial as “which community should this article be posted in”. On this matter, jordanlund has taken what is basically the mildest of actions possible: a simple message redirecting you to the world news community, so it can be posted there as they deemed it should go there instead.

But instead of just posting it there, you’ve posted another 5 articles with the same kind of link to US politics, which jordanlund obviously also removed. Despite repeated reminders to post in world news instead, you kept going and this eventually landed you a short temp ban.

I disagree with your assessment that you’re being “silenced”, since you were asked to post in a different com with similar levels of engagement. Your visibility isn’t suffering because of that. Posts with the same viewpoints, but a more direct link to US politics were kept up (and jordanlund even complimented you on it, saying it was a very good post). Additionally, jordanlund has expressed very similar viewpoints as your own regarding US complicity in the Gaza genocide and assorted Israeli warcrimes. Your only real disagreement seems to be the definition of US politics (and as a consequence: what goes in which community), but there doesn’t seem to be any dispute regarding the facts or even a meaningful difference in views on the genocide. Frankly, you calling them a bad human being because of such a frankly petty disagreement seems like an overreaction to me.

I think it’s fine to discuss what constitutes US politics and perhaps jordanlund should also further clarify the rules to remove the “politics” ambiguity. But the actions from the modlog are consistent with their explanation of the rules, you were very mildly handled and even in this thread jordanlund has managed to stay (mostly) civil towards you.

Not every mod is perfect, and jordanlund certainly has made their share of mistakes before, but in this case I’d lean more towards YDI than PTB.

I’m split on this one.

On the one hand, I’m no fan of the mod and I support Palestine.

On the other hand, that comm is like a spam folder for political bullshit. It’s all about “Chuck Schumer SLAMS Trump” or “What AOC Did At The Democrat Dinner Will Shock You!”… Just let the garbage be garbage. Post in a better comm.

Dude I love watching a turbo dickhead succumb to their ego and make enemies of people who otherwise would have no reason to give a shit, it’s genuinely so satisfying

Nobody tends to mind mod / admin biases until it affects them personally, me included. Nobody wants to change it, it just keeps getting shifted to “oh, you can’t rely on that guy? then move over to this community, you can totally rely on this other guy”.

Don’t you guys realize mods and admins are better and smarter than you guys? That’s why you shouldn’t have access to see the votes like they can, that’s why it’s you who needs to leave a community instead of just being able to opt to different moderation, that’s why they can call you out for behaving a certain way and then ignore it when people who support their stance do it.

News and politics tends to attract opinionated participation and the people who want to manipulate or constrain them to their own biases get attracted to moderating those communities. My advice is to ignore the masks people put on and look at how, how many, and under what biases they are actually moderating under.