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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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All from in this thread in [email protected] about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said "death, death to the IDF".

After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @[email protected] (appearing as "acargitz") pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.

Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.

In the same thread: user @[email protected] had comments removed for being anti-American "(again)", though I couldn't see the first time. It's not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.

Bonus points for the "DC Comics" removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Your OPINION is that laws and prosecution are violence, that's absolutely not the case and really only fringe elements legitimately believe that.

Laws and prosecution are the cornerstones of society, going back to Hamurabi.

You're welcome to be an anarchist if you want, you're WRONG, but you have the right to be wrong. 😉

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Are you kidding me? It’s not fringe. It’s settled fact. It’s foundational to statehood itself. Please pick up a polysci for dummies book, of ask any LLM. They’ll all tell you that the state enforces its laws through its monopoly on violence and the threat thereof. Deeply unserious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

LOL. The world exists outside polysci textbooks. You'll find that out when you actually leave college.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

centrists love imagining that everyone they disagree with is younger than they are and therefore wrong.

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