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Moderators at r/Republican ban me because I said GOP needs to focus on winning Georgia and not disputing the election

I'm a member of r/Republican and I wrote a post that encouraged Republicans to just accept that Biden won the election and to focus our energy on winning the Georgia Senate race. My post was not approved by the moderators. I asked them if I was shadow banned. They said no. I asked them why my post was not approved and this was their response:

"There are still disputes about the election result. You insisted that all of these concerns were unimportant and that we had to ACCEPT that Biden won. That's your opinion. If you'd like to submit something that DOES NOT demand that everyone lay aside their concerns about vote fraud...feel free to do so."

First of all, I never "demanded" anything. I really just gave my opinion. And I didn't say concerns about fraud were unimportant. I said that Georgia is more important. Anyway, I then replied with this:

"Wait, so I’m not allowed to have an opinion about the election and where Republicans should focus their energy? Do you realize you are restricting speech the same way that progressives do? Do you even see the irony in your actions?"

They then replied with this: "Well, now you are just abusing us after we are being reasonable and responding to your modmails. Rule 1."

And then they banned me. These guys are complete hypocrites.

I'm a member of r/Republican and I wrote a post that encouraged Republicans to just accept that Biden won the election and to focus our energy on winning the Georgia Senate race. My post was not approved by the moderators. I asked them if I was shadow banned. They said no. I asked them why my post was not approved and this was their response: "There are still disputes about the election result. You insisted that all of these concerns were unimportant and that we had to ACCEPT that Biden won. That's your opinion. If you'd like to submit something that DOES NOT demand that everyone lay aside their concerns about vote fraud...feel free to do so." First of all, I never "demanded" anything. I really just gave my opinion. And I didn't say concerns about fraud were unimportant. I said that Georgia is more important. Anyway, I then replied with this: "Wait, so I’m not allowed to have an opinion about the election and where Republicans should focus their energy? Do you realize you are restricting speech the same way that progressives do? Do you even see the irony in your actions?" They then replied with this: "Well, now you are just abusing us after we are being reasonable and responding to your modmails. Rule 1." And then they banned me. These guys are complete hypocrites.

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It's likely they thought you looked like a shill, and silenced your opinion because they didn't want a bunch of shills pushing a manufactured "Republican" consensus that the election wasn't rigged.

They should have been more upfront about that in muting and banning you though. I'm guessing Rule 1 is probably like "be nice" or something. Totally stupid to hide behind that and not just say "we think you're actually a shill so that's why you don't get to post your shill shit, and you're banned because now that I think of it if I don't ban you, you'll probably just post it again."

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faggit and free speech is like oil and water.

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The issue is more complicated than that.

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Reddit and free speech? That's oil and water.

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Indeed, but this broad comparison resumes what faggit has become.

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If Dems win the Senate, they will be able to pass a massive amount of legislation. They will have a supermajority and that's not good.

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I suspected they may think that too. If they looked at my Reddit history they would see that I defended Trump multiple times over the past few years and I even admitted to voting for him.

Weird. Sadly, Dems may win Georgia because the Republicans are so preoccupied with proving election fraud.

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Well you seem like a shill to me. Maybe you aren't, but you sure seem like one.

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I'm not. I'm actually deeply concerned about Republicans losing the Senate. It's more important than the presidency.

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