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[–] frog_brawler 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Glorifying violence is A-Ok when the government awards people the Medal of Honor.

Reddit needs to come up with a more accurate excuse for their censorship.

[–] LordWiggle 1 points 18 hours ago

Their excuse is monnney. Look at Twitter, people are pulling their ads because they are not happy with what's happening there. Keep the people who give you money happy and everything is fine. No matter if you would have to sell your soul (like Disney in China, to not get banned and miss millions of subscribers). Since the ad companies usually are big corporate, you can imagine what reddit their stance is.

[–] x0chi 1 points 1 day ago

They must have some data that this time some thing is awakening against the corporate greed.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hi I’m new to Lemmy since Reddit decided to permaban me due to support I showed for Luigi. Good riddance to be honest. I should have fully quit when they shut down Apollo but didn’t know Lemmy existed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just keep in mind that if you are not satisfied with how your particular insrance is running, you don't have to stop using lemmy like you did with reddit. You can switch to a different instance and keep on chilling!

No more switching services! Gotta love this place.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To expand on this: You can migrate accounts fairly easily. You can export your subscribed communities, and import them into your new account. So the only real thing you’re losing is your post history, but even that is seen as a bonus by many users who are looking to burn their old account.

[–] nomous 2 points 1 day ago

Additionally, some instances disable up/downvotes as well so you don't even need to worry about internet points if you don't want to.

It's worth looking around and finding a few instances you like and checking them out. Some tend to have their old local culture which is kind of neat.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Reddit said so because it's CEO is known to be a greedy bastard who threw everything and everyone Bunder the bus for money. Luigi would not approve

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

i would argue no, but then again, there's a difference between posting it, and supporting it.

glorifying and supporting violence is almost always against the rules on any platform anywhere. So.

[–] DankDingleberry 7 points 1 day ago

sharing information is important. whether or not you are glorifying it depends on context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

r/combatfootage has glorified violence for years now. That's the only reason it exists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

No. It’s just Reddit’s thought police.

[–] pachrist 41 points 2 days ago (4 children)

No, it's not.

It's an acknowledgement that there's a massive problem.

These companies are literally willing to bankrupt you to death. Their behavior is inexcusable. They profiteer off of human suffering.

We live in a country founded by people who were unhappy with the status quo and were willing to pick up a gun to change things. We shouldn't act surprised that it still happens. I don't think we should celebrate it, because it's sad that this is happening in the first place, that someone feels they need to do this. This problem is solvable, and it can be solved civilly, or it will be solved uncivilly.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme 2 points 1 day ago

We're are explicitly given the right to bear arms as a check to tyrannical governance.

Our government outsourced their tyranny to corporations.

Corporations should be well aware of strings being attached.

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[–] kava 5 points 1 day ago

I think federal government probably sent a pretty please over to reddit HQ to censor this.

They're afraid of it fomenting further dissent. It's a delicate situation when the plebs are upset. A little bit is OK, in fact preferable. But too much can lead to a chain reaction that cannot be controlled.

[–] Gemini24601 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anyone with half a brain can see that it isn’t “glorifying” violence, it’s merely giving an explanation of why Luigi did what he did. Glorification would play more into pathos, but the manifesto is mostly ethos

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[–] ellypony 321 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Yeah they keep calling him radicalized. I just keep thinking this is a normal reaction and that corporate America and its shills are the radical ones.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

For a website with sections called nsfl and fight porn reddit takes a weird stance on manifestos.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You mean the website that didn't ban creepshots until MSM reported on it? That website?

[–] nomous 1 points 1 day ago

The jailbait subreddit was regularly on the front page and openly joked about for years, Spez was even a mod for a bit "as a joke" until Anderson Cooper did a story about it.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago

Of course not, it's just Spez sucking up to the billionaires in the hope that one of them will be dumb enough to toss him a few million for his shitpile.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 days ago (1 children)

note that reddit didn't have a problem with "orks must die jokes" or people celebrating war fotage as long as they celebrate the right peoples deaths

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not much of a Manifesto..., that's just a Note my dudes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Right like I (rightly or wrongly) associate the word "manifesto" with illogical rambling (maybe that's just being a psych nurse, I've received a lot of gibberish manifestos at 2am) but every word of this makes perfect sense and are things I've been saying for years. Because over half my patients aren't even manic or psychotic or have any other significantly mind altering disorder, they've just been pushed past every coping mechanism they had by this profoundly sick society we live in. One of the most powerful ways I help people in these crises is just by validating that and pointing them in the right direction. I've talked people out of literally physically punching me just by reminding them who we're all really being oppressed by and trying to give them the emotional tools they need to put that anger back where it belongs.

He's not any crazier than a construction worker out of work and living in poverty after losing their feet to diabetes because they've been living off fast food delivered to the jobsites they've spent most of their waking hours on for decades. He's not any crazier than a veteran who's been doing heroin for years to cope with their untreated service injuries and the realization that to get themselves out of poverty they were sent to Afghanistan to kill other poor people to make an oil baron more money. He's not any crazier than a homeless mother of two living out of her car who can't afford her kid's inhaler.

Those types of situations are meant to induce anxiety and anger in people! We evolved (or even were designed by God if that's how you view the world) to feel those emotions in the first place as a way to stimulate us to fight for our safety and protect ourselves. And what's finally motivating people IS that realization that it doesn't matter in the end if you're black or white, religious or atheist, gay or straight, or ANY of that. My one hope out of all of this is that the illusion of the culture war is finally falling away. I've caught "normie" coworkers saying "the only war is the class war." Conservatives and capitalist liberals; people I never would have guessed would see it. This can be the beginning if we let it be.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

See, then you are giving a murderer's message publicity. As opposed to UnitedHealthcare, responsible for far more many deaths, having the ability to have as much publicity and as many lobbyists as they want.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Alleged murderer.

I think he is more than just the (relatively trivial) allegations against him. He has rallied support for massively reforming the American Healthcare system, which will save countless lives, improve our quality of life, and ensure the financial stability of the American Public.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

He has rallied support for massively reforming the American Healthcare system...

I would disagree with this. Nobody is talking about health care reform. People are talking about destroying an economic system that creates billionaires, and also about destroying the billionaires themselves. This hasn't been a call for reform, it's a call to arms.

The scariest thing is that people are beginning to accept that the system has always been rigged, and there is no other way to fix it.

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[–] Ziglin 3 points 1 day ago

Why would it be? The only actual reference to violence is the fact that it happened ("[…] faced it with such brutal honesty.") and the reasoning behind it.

[–] AlphaOmega 164 points 3 days ago (8 children)

That's what reddit banned, it's so innocuous.

[–] [email protected] 156 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They didn't ban it because it was dangerous or violent, They banned it because the anti-corporate and spez is a musk wanna be

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

Thiel is one of reddits earliest investors. spez is a Thiel boy.

This whole time I can't believe how reddit managed to hold up a facade of being a cool progressive college student platform. They pulled the wool over everyone's eyes. It's as if they put lipstick on /pol/ and /b/. And everyone was like, alright a hip liberal platform. Sure if you ignore the iceberg of right wing bootlicking shit beneath the surface of the default subreddits.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 108 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If sharing Luigi's manifesto is glorifying violence then so is sharing the Declaration of Independence.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reddit also thinks appealing a ridiculous van is harassment, so not exactly the brightest bulbs over there.

[–] Syrc 3 points 1 day ago

Hey man, people can drive what they want, saying their car is ridiculous is not cool

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Reddit sucks. They're the reason I came to Lemmy. They're absolute trash.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

In this case, I think of more like Guy Fawkes…..there is clearly a problem with the us death care system. And we are right to be angry with these companies that profiteer on our sickness and in some cases that result in people dying from delayed or denied care. Is is right to murder someone? No, of course not. I think the question to ask is who is the real murderer?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago

Reddit gargles fascist schlong.

Nuff said.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Yes it is. So what. The rich glorifies violence against the poor.

The leader of the country once said: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts"

So if its apparantly okay to use violence against alledged thieves (which is not okay btw, stealing should never equate a death sentence), then it must be okay to use violence against mass murderer CEOs.

"When the denying starts, the deposing starts" would be my rebuttal to that phase the ex-president said. Violence begets violence.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Thank you for posting this. I’ve been curious about what he wrote.

Shorter than some git commit messages. I’m a fan.

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