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False. You were banned for breaking the rules, more than once. We don't moderate content. You are welcome to speak ill of Donald Trump (or whomever) all you like--certainly others do. You just have to follow the rules when you do it.
Just about everyone here has a contrarian streak. Nobody cares. You can even be angry. (You can even get away with being a little abrasive, if you can do it artfully and don't target other users!) What you cannot do is make sweeping generalizations, uncharitable assertions, evidence-free rants, etc. You also can't Fedpost (violates the "recruiting for a cause" rule) or submit strictly illegal content for what are hopefully obvious reasons. The rules are what they are, and they will be enforced against you. But they will not be enforced against you for wrongthink, so please don't kid yourself on that score.
Late pointless reply. I intended to respond to more people but lost all will to post and deal with this.
You obviously do. You just label content i.e. things to the left of you as "breaking rules." It's very easy to imagine things you want to see. Show me the man, I'll show you the crime. But I don't think you'll ever own up to it.
And here is the example of intentional bad faith reading. I'm not sure what the definition of "fedposting" is exactly, but I was just stating my opinions in the moment. What else is there to do? I'm not planning or promoting anything. I am saying words, my own internal thoughts, largely for myself.
I, at the time, considered Donald Trump a high level traitor. That's dangerous and very bad. That was my honest belief. The traditional legal, when fully prosecuted, punishment for treason is death. That's U.S. law, it was law all the way back to ancient Rome. Ironically Donald Trump himself agrees with me. We just have different ideas of who is the traitor. And I do think the death penalty is appropriate for serious damaging traitors, but this is not a fucking threat ok?! It's a personal statement, and more legal oriented than anything.
"recruiting for a cause" This in particular is absurd. What cause? I'm a poster on an Internet forum. Apparently I need to say this, though I think it should be obvious, I was not planning to assassinate Trump or any other politician. I was not threatening anybody. Again, I was saying words - online. I do not think ranting to a known hostile audience (on an Internet discussion forum!), in public, with no follow up, is a good way to recruit for an evil plan to assassinate. Not that I want to anyway. Also, to be clear no one on theMotte or its administrators would or do would endorse such a thing, nor do I. Good lord.
But this is the rub of badfaith reading and undesired speech/content interpreted as beyond the pale and therefore illegal speech/thought. Because I, or someone else, could say that the head of Hamas is a threat to the prosperity of the Palestinian people and peace in the mideast, and we need to start thinking about political solutions that end with the death of Khalil al-Hayya. Which is not something I actually totally disagree with. I'll say it out loud, I denounce Hamas and don't think the death or their leaders is a tragedy. Or I could say this about Ceausescu, how his end was a good for Romania and the people that executed him did the right thing. Or maybe Kim Jong-un. Note, this is not an endorsement for killing anybody, it is words on a forum by a nobody with no aspirations. Apparently I have to say this painfully - every time. Anyway, that could be said, because you agree with it, as does the mob here. But Trump? Suddenly triggered. And triggered is an excuse to willfully read in a way that you can torture yourselves into thinking some "rule" has been violated. Seriously, a fucking cause? Again, what fucking cause?
By the way, did you or anyone else on theMotte denounce "fedposting" or political violence when Hamas leaders Ismail Haniye or Yahya Sinwar were assassinated, not legally in a human rights tribunal or for treason, by Israel? I don't think so. And discussion in the form of approval probably washed over like nothing. Funny how that works. But don't mistake me for thinking Hamas leaders dying is some tragedy. I'm saying, I see you. Even if you don't see yourselves.
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