Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:

A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn’t “state” (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.

I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn’t say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn’t need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.

I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were “provided for defense from Iran, full stop.” which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I’m not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.

I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn’t bother making a post here for that because that’s just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it’s awful to see something like this happening in a community that’s supposed to keep people aware of the news.

But hey, maybe I’m wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it’s full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!

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      12 hours ago

      While I generally do like your politics, and do also agree, I think it ill behoves you to not leave an explanation.

      It’s not your responsibility to weigh in on everything that comes through this community, even though most of us do appreciate it.

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        11 hours ago

        Behooves? You mean it benefits me, or did you mean to use a negative? Otherwise that “While” makes no sense.

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          11 hours ago

          Ahh, sorry, that was rather archaic speech. I’m just saying it seems to me to be bad praxis to leave only a verdict without an explanation.

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            I don’t agree. As far as I’m concerned, the explanation is the OP itself. I also don’t always have the time or inclination to write more than a judgement. Note however that my vote is not “The Final Say” or anything. I’m just writing as equal to one of y’all.