As a mod at !news@lemmy.world , I appreciate the positive call-out!

(looks at !iowa@lemmy.world that I mod) I feel personally attacked…

Seriously, I get what you’re saying. I do it because I don’t have anything meaningful to say when nobody else is posting, but I want the community to not die.

The story of my life…

Listen here, pal…

Thank you for your time

Arrow down, because I always thought that was how you should do it. Wife showed me her using a fork, and I was like “what kind of monster raised you?!?”

Fiiine. I’ll start

Why can’t I post politics?!? It’s your fault, isn’t it?

/s

We just updated the rules! Thanks for being a part of this community!

Check out the sidebar - we took your advice!

That’s a valid question. The mod team here is still working on ironing out rules and other things. That should be a topic we discuss. With that said, for now, political posts can be here, but the votes will determine if they are seen. Again, this is for now, while we try to stabilize things and determine our approach.

Yeah. The admins locked it down a few days ago, as there was no active mods. They put out a request for moderators. They picked 3, and we’re open again!

The mods here are fair, and will never abuse their power. With that said, BANNED (/s, obviously)

Pretty sure they were trying to melt it down to a “non-statue” shape

Much appreciated. The mods here at !news@lemmy.world prefer civil discourse. If we see someone not displaying civility (attacking the person, not the argument), trolling, being racist, sexist, or being a bigot, we will remove a comment.

We try not to let our views skew our moderation, and will reverse removals if we feel we or other mods were acting heavy-handed.

With that said, we appreciate admins of other members of the Lemmy federation stepping in to police users of their instance.

With that said, yes, we have received other complaints about this user, but did not find all the complaints warranted. Some were, and we handled those comments as they were brought to our attention.

We may not agree with all the comments here, but if they follow our rules, they stay.

Comments in this post are going off the rails. If we receive any more reports on comments here, we will be locking this post.

I wonder if this will be the end of school mascots in Oklahoma

Sadly, I have one game that will not work in Linux. I have thousands of hours in it, and I truly love it.

Rust

Also, apparently I’m a masochist

I wasn’t arguing with you about what they say NOW. I was pointing you to what they literally said THEN.

You said “a well regulated militia didn’t mean the same thing back then”

I merely pointed you to the founders own words to show you that you were wrong.

It wasn’t an amendment. It was baked into the first article.

You pointing out the RECENT supreme court ruling was a bad faith argument against my rebuttal.

Your comment has been reported, but as you had links and appeared to be arguing in good-faith, I decided to leave it. With that said, I completely disagree with your words.

Review Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 15-16.

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

Militia was what we now call “National Guard”. Speaking from experience, as a former guardsman as well as vet in 2 other branches. Back when I went to basic, this was well discussed as a given. I’m surprised people think otherwise to this day.

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This comment was removed out of an abundance of caution, while I brought it to the other moderators for their thoughts. After a discussion, I agree that I acted in haste, and I truly am sorry.