disclaimer i have no opinion on this “media bias/fact check”, site. i just think the “don’t outsource critical thinking” comment is hilarious
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I've been getting truly bizarre bans from them for a long time.
My favorite one was "orientalism" because I was explaining the basic complexity of translation between Mandarin and English as an example of how bizarre and complex translation is between all languages.
I banned lemmy.ml finally, otherwise you have to copy paste media bias fast check and dictionary definitions constantly, and so few of them can read in the first place it's barely worth it.
A wise decision
I have quite a bit of patience (most days) to talk with someone who is stubbornly refusing to engage with the conversation in a way that would enable factual progress to be made, but when they are banning you / deleting you for making sense that they don’t want you to make, there’s not much to do but to look for the door.
Yea. I did have fun there for a while, because they're all looking to spend time arguing about literally anything, but like you said, it's extremely frustrating when the mod invades a thread about EV auto repair and bans you for a month because "[bigotry]this user hates commuting to work" or something equally absurd, baseless and unrelated.