Hello, Lemmy community. I left Reddit for good once r/pics decided to permanently ban me because I posted to a Trump subreddit. I am not a Trump supporter, nor should that matter.

What got me banned was a post I made, which linked to a Forbes article criticizing the latest tax break attempting to get passed. It will allow a tax break to everyone who makes $150K or less. But where has that money been going? Social Security and Medicaid. Essentially, the governing administration knows that gutting these programs is unpopular, so they’ll drain them of funding and call it a bonus. That’s like saving funding for a hospital by cutting the electricity.

I posted a quote and a link from the article, was predictably downvoted for it, and I was done with it. Days later, the ban happened.

When I tried to contest the ban, I was muted for 28 days. For my innocuous comments in one subreddit, I was permanently banned from another.

This all happened today. Since the muting, I deleted my Reddit account and will not be going back.