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YDI BPR

Clearly it’s not a place to try and defend America. The mod is probably a tankie dick, but you’re the one who went into their space.

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Clearly it’s not a place to try and defend America. The mod is probably a tankie dick, but you’re the one who went into their space.

OP is not even defending (or accusing) USA in that thread. Their only comment there is

> The US is is an authoritarian state.
> If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you.
lmao

They’re only highlighting the mod’s hypocrisy. Everything else is assumption.

And the deal applies to the user that the mod is screeching at:

That couldn’t be more of a strawman even if he was with a lion, a Kansas girl and a tin man on a yellow brick road

Even if you agree that USA is authoritarian (IDK if the user in question does), the argument in the OOP is bloody idiotic, it’s on the same level as “2+2=7 lol thus whales don’t fly lmao”. And it is a strawman because it mischaracterises why people say that China is authoritarian.

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What hypocrisy? It’s not called AntiAuthority.

It’s idiotic in that it ignores Xi’s 50 years of being involved in the party, and the power he’s head since before he was Gen sec. I wouldn’t call it a strawman, although it’s a pretty selective interpretation.

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What hypocrisy? It’s not called AntiAuthority.

The mod is denouncing authoritarianism from a government, while being themself authoritarian. It is hypocrisy.

And, even if it wasn’t hypocrisy (it is), what random@blahaj said there would be simply a false accusation against the mod. It does not imply that they’re defending USA.

It’s idiotic in that it ignores Xi’s 50 years of being involved in the party, and the power he’s head since before he was Gen sec. I wouldn’t call it a strawman, although it’s a pretty selective interpretation.

It is a strawman because it mischaracterises why people claim that China is authoritarian. It has zero to do with Xi being head of state for eight years; it has to do with the one party system, plus censorship.

(OOP could have capitalised on that to claim that USA is authoritarian, without being a strawman. They didn’t.)

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What does YDI BPR mean?

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You Deserve It and Bait Provoked Reaction.

They are explained in the community sidebar:

Some acronyms you might see.

  • PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
  • YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
  • BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
  • CLM - Clueless mod: The mod probably just doesn’t understand how their software works.
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They’re so groupthink in there they can’t even let Clueless Mod be a two letter acronym because that would be different from the other acronyms LMAO.

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This is a community in the spirit of “Am I The Asshole” where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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Some acronyms you might see.

  • PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
  • YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
  • BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
  • CLM - Clueless mod: The mod probably just doesn’t understand how their software works.

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