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I got banned from unpopular opinions and a bunch of other communities on dbzer0 for activity not on that community. We're slowly turning into Reddit
¯\_(ツ)_/¯Given that, according to your comment history, you think "homosexuality is morally wrong", I don't think you're going to find much sympathy here. On the whole, Lemmy has little patience for regressive ideology.
I was talking in terms of my religious beliefs. If you aren't a Christian, my opinion doesn't concern you.
Unfortunately, lately Christians have done nothing but fucking make their religious beliefs a concern to me so no. You are dead ass wrong. After having drinks thrown at me, guns pulled on me, being spat at, cussed out, followed around in my car, kicked out of dog parks, and up rooting my entire fucking life to move to a safer place: I'm not a Christian and your opinion concerns the fuck out of me.
Why would my personal beliefs concern you?
I haven't thrown a drink at you, pulled a gun, spat at you, cussed at you, followed you in your car or kick you out of a dog park. Nor have I done that to anyone. And I'll condemn anyone I find doing it.
Same way you'll condemn the gays yes?
So you hate religious people, why does anyone need to hear about it?
We aren't going to generalise and putting words into peoples' mouths. Correct your behaviour.
As a Christian, gtfo with homophobia. All people are made in Gods image and so to condemn the gay and transgender people is to condemn the Lord. Take one of the greatest commandments seriously: love thy neighbour.
Serious question: is the morality of homosexuality actually brought into question in the old/new testaments, or is this one of those things where people have chosen to interpret some shit creatively? Seen quite a few of those creative takes, like the people claiming the "hot or cold" or "camel through the eye of the needle" bits are actually some obscure references to local conditions rather than actual moral lessons.
I encourage you to look it up for yourself. The English translations are pretty unequivocal, though there are those who insist they are miss-translated.
That insistence has not resulted in any of the major English translations choosing different wording.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-homosexuality/
Is a good list.
Of course, none of that matters because gay people should have more rights than any book.
Damn those are some harsh passages. Definitely not creative interpretation on that one.
Perhaps not yours personally, but Christians' in general sure do, because they're always trying to shove their religious beliefs into governmental policy. People are dying right now because of the obviously Christian abortion ban in the US.
Well I think any "Christian" that thinks that God judges people for being gay is a Devil worshipper. Hate is the domain of Satan, not a benevolent God. There is a word for a being that would make people a certain immutable way and then judge them harshly for it. That word is Evil. You fundamentally believe in an evil, demonic god.
You're not a Christian. You're a Devil worshipper. And you will burn in Hell for your sins.
DBZero(and Blahaj) have skin so thin that a bible page across the arm causes bloodletting.
I'm surprised the owners don't divvy out ban quotas per month. Half of the users they ban aren't even conservatives, who just had logical misunderstandings with an admin one day; wannabe couch revolutionaries looking for targets in the absence of anything real to do.
Blahaj has a no tolerance policy on trans rights, from what I understand, and I think they like how they run their stuff. Maybe you know that already, but if not, maybe that's helpful? It's not so much thin skin as "we're here for the purpose of not seeing that kinda stuff, so we block it here".
DB0 is legitimately one of the coolest places on the modern internet, I'm curious to hear what kinds of things you've seen bans for. The admin/host (by the same name) seems to have very rational, reasonable takes toward moderation, and he values transparency and community feedback. Frankly from my own (instance-level, not community or thread) observations, he seems like a model of high-quality moderation. Your experience sounds off to me, but I hope that doesn't come across as an accusation, I don't intend one.
Blahaj, I kind of understand. Although I'd prefer if you were to have an LGBTQ+ safe place instance, that the communities primarily on there are LGBTQ+ communities. I don't think I was banned on DB0 by the instance, but multiple communities which seemed to have the same mod.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous that you cannot be conservative on !conservative@lemmy.world , they're basically just name squatting. They banned me from there because I was calling out a post attacking religion. I wasn't even being that conservative.
You can be conservative, you just cannot be an ass. Unfortunately, it is rather difficult for conservatives to not be proper conservatives and instead they often turn to fascism like Trump and Musk proclaim.
Being a conservative is about prioritising the status quo. It is not about returning to the middle ages with a police state of witchhunting and mass murder, which is what fascists and reactionaries want.
I really don't understand that comm either, but I haven't looked too closely cuz I'm not that interested. I also moved off .world entirely for my accounts because I don't like some of their moderation stances. I understand why they have them and don't begrudge them for it, to be clear. But I do eye them warily as a kind of emerging de facto instance in some ways (AKA potential for more centralization than seems wise, given their need or desire to comply with certain local laws that limit speech).
Or maybe the ""conservatives"" are the actual snowflakes they complain about.
Maybe those fascists should gtfo and try not shooting and killing women and queers, and so on?
It would be nice if some of them(like my previous alt), were actually proven to be conservatives to begin with so they didn't draw the attention of keyboard warriors for the misuse of a pronoun.
Blahaj kicked me out of 196 on Matrix just for being straight.
This. In recent months I've seen more and more hostile interactions and political strawmans than I can count. Been on Lemmy for over 2 years, and it hasn't changed for the worse until recently.
Yeah, it all changed after Trump's victory and all the crazy shit he started immediately doing. I have both contributed to the problem, and lamented the shift. I don't want this platform to be about slinging half-baked political takes (lumping myself in there, to be clear), but also I can't blame anyone for wanting to discuss the terrifying stuff we're seeing. Really was cooler here, even just 6 months ago.
I hate Trump passionately.
I never had to write my political manifesto to join a community on Reddit either lmao
You sir are a rare breed, I think the first actual conservative I have ever seen on Lemmy. I'm sure we disagree on most things but thanks for adding some diversity of opinion in a respectful manner.
Actual as in, status quo, Christian democrat stuff, or "actual" as in, fascists and alt-right and populists? The latter aren't conservatives; in the US, those are the actual RINOs.
I mean I haven't browsed through his post history but this thread he says he is a Christian who hates trump so I would guess the former.
Some Lemmy "lefties" are actually just liberals who hate America and want some token reforms of capitalism. If you look at it that way the actions of the extreme/stupid users starts to add up.