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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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I said something along the lines of:

"Wow, I haven't had a reason to smile ear to ear in a while."

Along with

"Nah, the more dead ~~corpos~~ dragons, the better."

In response to some liberal going off about how violence is never the solution, not mentioning how this murdered dipshit has personally overseen a system that perpetuates harm, suffering and death (violence) in the name of profit.

...

Good ole' civility clause.

Whats the paradox of tolerance?

.world mods have never heard of it I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Counterargument: no.

E: To elaborate, the terms of service say:

"**We do not tolerate threats of and calls for violence in any form against any living creature.**"

Merely expressing glee is not calling for violence or threatening a living creature. Banning someone for a rule they didn't break, for any duration, is overreach.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Except that it very much is. How can you not see that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

These gleeful comments are very much what? Celebrating violence, as you originally said? If so, sure. However, celebrating violence is not against the rules. Go to any Ukrainian-on-Russian drone strike video and you'll find plenty of people celebrating death. What is against the rules is making threats or calling people to violent action against another. These are very much not the same thing. In the insurace CEO thread, the overwhelming majority of removed comments were not making threats or trying to incite more violence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Celebrating violence is a method used to call for more violence. And the reason the war isn't heavily moderated is because it's a war. It's already at the worst state, and further violence is a foregone conclusion. That's a massive difference to celebrating a murder. Being popular doesn't mean it's okay suddenly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There's still a clear distinction between celebrating violence and calling for further violence.

You're making a leap between the two.

They are explicitly and literally not the same thing, even if celebrating can be, and often is, used as part of a call for more.

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