this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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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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(There are no subreddit rules banning "political propaganda" or "character assassination." Nor does this comment appear to rise to either of those accusations: other non-removed comments back up the removed one.)

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

lmao, of course he is. I've been bashing Brave since Ethereum markets took off and they did their shitcoin that of course they abandoned two months later. Quit blocking ads with grifter software trash like Brave.

[–] Owlboi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago
[–] grue@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Imagine being so fucking ignorant that you actually liked Brave even before finding out Thiel was involved. Eich's involvement was already enough (fuck that guy for inflicting Javascript on the world), let alone the fact that its business model is a protection racket wrapped in a crypto scam.

(Not trying to downplay Eich's bigotry, BTW, just trying to raise awareness of all the other underappreciated ways that he sucks.)

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Brave always reeked of VC money with all the promotion they do. It genuinely turns me off whenever I see supposed "for the community" software with heavy marketing.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's publicly against same-sex marriage and was a firm supporter of Proposition 8, an amendment to the California Constitution defining marriage as valid only between a man and a woman, which was later overturned in federal court.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Wow that's fucked, yikes.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Eeeep I am one of those ignorant people. Had no idea. Funny enough I switched back to Firefox a few weeks ago for other reasons.

[–] foni86@lemm.ee 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What??!!?? That Peter Thiel? Could you give me a link about that?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Criticism of dear leaders will not be tolerated on a corpo platform hence why people who actually care to have discussions end up here.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

TIL. I hope that evil fucker dies (of natural causes, but soon, please).

[–] arin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Im okay if he dies in a car crash, 'act of god', falling into a centrifuge, being on an elon musk rocket, private billionaire submarine, cthulu breaching the walls of reality, shredded by an angry ghost, eaten by giant possibly magic possibly engineered spiders.

There are a lot of ways it woukd be cool for him to die.

Hell; I'd be pretty psyched about some of these for me.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Brave is the chic-fil-a of web browsers.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Its the web browser that cuts babies in half, burns them, and sells their charred, lifeless bodies on a bun to homophobes for lunch?

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn’t know chic-fil-a was so metal.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What does the name mean? It's right there.

Metal isn't very homophobic. Metal heads are some of the most accepting and nice subcultures I know, next to maybe furries.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I mean most of the metal attire we stole from our Queer Metal Daddy, Lord Rob Halford.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Reread what I was commenting on and pay attention to the actions imagined not who they were performed for. That’s what I was talking about. Metal heads tend to be okay with the gay thing. Like not even an issue.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Do we do Reddit here? Because I can post shit load of my posts and comments being removed due to them being critical of Israel - and that was well before the current genocide chapter. Mods there are awful and admins are even worse.

BTW I now realised who unpopularopinion mod may have picked up from 🤔

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Reddit is the corporate shill of the internet. The shareholders, did you ever think of them when you criticized Israel?

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do we do Reddit here?

Unfortunately

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, it's always fun to click on links that are reddit and meta because people think we actually want to do that. It's largely why I just post links as they are, unless they're just stupidly long.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

Eich is a homophobe, cryptobro and the inventor of javascript.

All of these are unforgivable.

[–] lasers4eyes@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thiel has his creepy hands everywhere nowadays. Doesn't surprise me the least bit.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Especially his boy toy fell out of a multistory building(sound familiar) under suspicious circumstances last year, it barely made the news outside of Florida and was on Reddit for one day. When he start expressing concerns about thiels anti lgbti- support via the gop. Thiel definitely don't want the news to be widespread.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

I think it's been this way for a long time, but now people are talking about it.

[–] gothiccwaifu@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Damn. So, assuming it’s true, what would be a suitable alternative? Is Firefox compromised or nah?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even if Firefox were compromised by megalomaniacal shitheads, it would still be worth picking over any Chromium-based browser because every Chromium-based browser helps cement Google's hegemony over web standards.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

FF has problems of depending on Google for money

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Isn't r/privacy taken over by conservatives