Weird, that video comes up as "not available". Maybe because it's published by "Comedy Central UK" and I'm not in the UK?
Regardless, here's another link for anyone who can't see the UK youtube link:
Any persecuted minority group who are republicans is just absolutely baffling to me…best I can come up with is that it’s god-level Stockholm syndrome.
The modlog is public, fyi, and it hasn't logged any moderator-removed comments from this post's comment section....so what are you talking about?
That makes a lot more sense now. Thanks for clarifying.
Yes, and even more chance of that happening today than 5 years ago. Reason: because of the modern day prevalence of the 'fake reply' SPAM and Phishing emails. Spammers and phishers are now drafting fresh messages mocked up to look like replies in existing email threads...older spam detection used to let these types of messages slip through because they thought they must be legitimate replies, and so naturally spammers started exploiting that to slip past detection. Modern detection no longer gives apparant replies a free pass.
Even ignoring the humanity aspect of it: the simple notion of focusing on rehabilitation rather than profit. That should be the goal of all incarceration.
I am behind on some of the details, but here's a glaring and easy inconsistency: The AARO was established in July 2022. How would it have been possible for Grusch to have been trying to reach out to them "for years" when they haven't existed even for a year?
If you attempt to pressure a witness to destroy evidence...is that witness tampering, evidence tampering, or some other kind of crime? Regardless, throw that one onto the mountain of unprosecuted felony crimes that he's committed.
I must be completely "dull witted" then. When I first started looking into lemmy, I went to the official "join-lemmy.org" website, clicked on "join a server" and picked one of the top listed recommended results. It just happened to be a VERY small and VERY new instance. But as a completely stupid dull witted new user who knew literally nothing about lemmy, I didn't know any better.
After joining that instance and looking for communities on it, I only saw the local communities plus a few non local communities from larger instances and I legit thought that's all there was on lemmy. I mean, it was clear I was seeing the local ones, and it was clear I was seeing some nonlocal ones, who why tf would I expect that I wasn't seeing everything?
Your perspective is tainted by the fact that you know how it all works. People new to lemmy don't, and I'm telling you that the onboarding and community discovery process is dogshit. I beg you to try considering things from the perspective of a newer user.
When I first saw the ads, it sounded dumb and I didn't give it any more thought - I just had no interest in it. But like the author of that article, the more I read/hear about it, the more interested I am in it - especially since it seems to be pissing off all the very same demographics who cause the majority of our modern problems. I'm not sure if I'm willing to pay theater prices to see it, but I'll definitely watch it when it becomes rentable via some streaming services.
It's funny, because my wife and I were just talking about it last night - and she'd mentioned some of this very same stuff.
First, always start by reading the public modlog. Mod logs are public.
Next: how about an example? I'm not seeing what you describe, so I'd really appreciate a reference (link) to whatever it is you are describing.