Could someone help me, I don't even understand how this could be interpreted as trolling

It's your unwillingness to even try to understand. There's a form of trolling, sealioning, where you ignore the validity and implications of valid points to keep the other saying the same thing until it all becomes frustrating noise. Squid's default MO.

YBA. You for giving Squid the opportunity to look right for once, and Squid because [gestures widely].

I'm an Admin for 4 different public Fediverse instances, and I've banned fewer than 5 people for trolling in over 2 years.

I agree that you were trolling. I would have banned you, as well, for sealioning.

PTB. The mod is banning someone because they're not backing down. I didn't see it as trolling to insist on the evidence of rigging. I do think you're incredibly naive about manufactured consent, but I don't think you're trolling.

Libs on lemmy are too trigger happy about anyone not immediately going jumping on a China hate bandwagon, and see every debate on the subject as trolling.

Because Chinese elections are rigged, the CIA said so and they would never lie about counties rigging their elections :3

Just a heads up, block pugjesus and flyingsquid and pretty much all of .world.

There is no value there, they are pathetic far right liberals acting as mouthpieces for the US government.