To my complete and utter astonishment, I've been permabanned again from /r/europe.

I already had a former permaban for "mw", which stood for "meta whining" and happened because of a thread I posted in SRC and /r/european. That ban was lifted on appeal, because of the little detail that it's not against the rules to discuss /r/europe in other subreddits.

Then, I had a 30 day ban for "islamophobic circlejerking". Upon appeal, it was discovered that the "islamophobic circlejerking" consisted of echoing the sentiment of the center-right moderate Belgian Minister of the Interior, and that my post broke no rules.

Later, I posted a thread to /r/europemeta asking mods why they were permabanning people for criticising them in other subreddits. That thread was removed without explanation, despite not breaking any of the massively restrictive rules in /r/europemeta (you are not allowed to discuss individual bans or removals there). Asking in modmail and then multiple mods why the thread was removed didn't produce even an attempt at an explanation.

Today, after having another thread removed for bogus reasons, I was permabanned following this comment chain. Notice how the other user was perfectly allowed to make a meta comment, but once I did bam!, immediate permaban. I absolutely can not see any reason why they would apply a double standard here :)

Now, given that that was the first and only meta comment I had ever made in /r/europe, the "pattern of off-topic meta commenting" was clearly a made-up reason. After I pointed this out, the acting moderator told me that it wasn't really the reason he had banned me (shocker, absolute shocker), but instead these entirely different ones.

The 'brigades', I learned in PM from a sympathetic moderator, were my posts to SRC and /r/european with the screenshots of previous unreasonable moderator actions. How a screenshot constitutes brigading still evades me. The other offense, "disrupting the peaceful order of the subreddit", itself already sounds so much like bogus "national security" bullshit that it doesn't require further comment.

Here's the juicy part

But the real kicker comes a few messages after. After refusing to accept his "logic", I get hit with this gem. I'm going to quote it because it's truly beautiful:

As previously stated, my advice if you want to launch a successful ban appeal is to address the pattern of offenses and appeal for clemency. It will provide you no benefit to engage in continued illusory rationalization nor will using semantics as a rebuttal since we do not accept "insanity" as a defense here on /r/europe.

In plain language: you should stop trying to defend yourself, admit guilt and ask for clemency. And if you are wondering whether he didn't mean to say this, wonder no more:

There will be no sympathy for you afterwards that you misunderstood the process and that it wasn't just since I'm clearly explaining how to do it properly and you still refuse to listen.

Get it? better confess your sins, heathen, and hope the Cancer Inquisition feel pity for you, for if you insist in this foolhardy attempt at denying your guilt there will be no mercy for you later.

I tried to patiently explain that this isn't exactly justice as we understand it in the 21st century, but they weren't very receptive.

All Hail the Cancer Inquisition, Keeper of the Social Justice, Defenders of the Truth-Minus-Racist-Statistics