I got a ban from a group because there was a lot of horse posting. I basically commented that “hey there’s a lot of evidence that horse riding causes permanent injuries”, and “who here can actually afford this posh hobby”. The admins were rich as fuck. Somehow rich people tend to have more time to do this shit. Anyhow, they said that I was being personally insulting because “posh hobby”.
I was also kicked from a sub for reporting obvious Islamophobia. Fuck that place.
I got a two week ban from Facebook for anti-white racism. And I’m officially the whitest person on Hexbear.
Maybe I’m a lib or too damn civil, but I haven’t yet been kicked from a site yet
I said on twitter that we should legalise hunting hunters to regulate their population.
Hunting is just one of those distraction issues. No one in the developed world is gonna replace a significant amount of their calories by hunting, because it’s far too expensive and difficult. Not to mention that there just isn’t enough huntable food to replace even a faction of 1% of the world’s meat consumption.
Every hunter guy I know talks a good story about how he (and it’s always a he) filled up his freezer this one time with deer meat. But 99% of his meat is store bought, and he doesn’t give a fuck that the hamburger he’s now eating came from a slaughterhouse.
There’s no ethical guy* that eats all his meat from hunting.
*Obviously I’m excluding indigenous people and people from the Global South.
In my country, people are regularly shot and killed by hunters. And not just people walking in the woods, kids get shot while playing in their own backyard sometimes. And for some reason they seem to have some kind of immunity because they never land in prison, worse they get is having their license removed.
If we can’t do without hunting, then it should be done by professionals working for the state, not by randoms with a gun that applied for a license.
cw: transphobia
The only platform I’ve ever been banned on is Amazon, unless IRC channels from a million years ago count. I’m not banned from buying stuff but I am banned from leaving reviews.
Basically there’s a ton of merchandise on Amazon that is explicitly transphobic. Bumper stickers or shirts saying something transphobic I won’t repeat, or books about how being trans is an illness. Heinous horrible things like that. Well over about a week I just snapped and reported a bunch of sellers, left negative reviews, tried contacting the sellers to unlist their garbage transphobic items.
At first the Amazon reps were cordial, since I would reference a clause they used to have about how items couldn’t promote hate speech, violence, etc. After the fifth time or so they stopped immediately responding, then I wasn’t able to make reviews anymore with the official reasons being spam and that I kept reviewing things I wasn’t buying.
Yeah except I know what’s actually going on. Amazon is perfectly willing to sell hate speech
Two unfortunate truths make this idea less useful, sadly
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Voting with your wallet does absolutely nothing
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amazon is a necessary service for many
I don’t think she was shopping there. I think she was just taking them at their word that they’d give a fuck about bigotry.
I mean I admit I’ve bought stuff from Amazon before. I’m not proud. I got banned from reviews like 5 years ago and since then have occasionally bought books, but that’s the only use of it I get anymore, when I want a book I can’t seem to find anywhere else.
Yeah that was the main thing I was trying to communicate though. Amazon does not care about selling explicitly bigoted merchandise, even though their representatives have told me directly they’d handle it, or they agreed with me that the items should be removed. What they do care about is someone (like me) bringing attention to the problem in a way that could hurt sales or drive away merchants who want to sell a T-shirt with slurs on it.
Got preemptively banned from /r/communism101 without ever posting there because I posted in a Bernie sub back in 2020 exactly 1 time
I caught a ban from r/communism for making a single comment and someone trawling through my profile and seeing I had posted this in the pewdiepie sub
I got banned from r/FULLCOMMUNISM years ago by a power tripping mod because I joked that I was a gamer.
