How deep are they willing to guzzle that Nazi boot?
Reading JL’s comments in this thread reminds me of this excellent quote
“A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now.”
PTB
Time to post some quotes
Others I like:
Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
JFK
Riots are the voice of the unheard
MLK
So they’ve gone from “we don’t have a first amendment so shut up” to “we don’t have any ethics so shut up.” Cool.
Unless demanded by local legislation, that’s a clear PTB in my book.
So. You have a link about the usage of force by the dogs of some broligarchic junta. Clearly unnecessary, unless someone thinks people in wheelchair are such a violent threat that it demands such measures. The group was arrested mostly for “Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding” - i.e. some “quick, find some law that fits this situation, so we can get rid of those things! Heil Chrump!”.
Then you have a commenter (the_q) correctly pointing out shit won’t progress unless people actually fight back. And another (PancakesCantKillMe) clearly quoting something; I don’t even know (or care) who this Thomas Turbano guy is, but the second comment is clearly a quote.
So, let ask me the following: accordingly to the LW mods, is self-defence violence?
- If it is not, then those comments should not be removed as “advocating violence”.
- If it is, then they’re effectively promoting that people should lower themselves from human beings to punching bags of their local junta.
Don’t get me wrong - I don’t even think they’re doing this “intentionally”. I get LW mods are full of Good Intentions®, and for the sake of some idyllic vision of pacifism, where tyrants will magically stop being tyrants if you say them “tyranny bad! EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD, KIND STRANGER!”. However Hell is full of good intentions.
.world sucks ass, it’s a reddit clone
There are a few news related subs on .world with shitty moderators, the rest of the instance is as chill as anywhere else. If you see .world mentioned here, it is probably the News community.
Lol says the “reddthat” user. Actually it’s a good instance name, but the irony …
Reddthat disables downvotes, so quite different from Reddit
Is it? There are plenty of subreddits who have taken downvotes out of their community. Badly, but they have. /r/CanadaPolitics will outright ban you if you ever admit to downvoting something in the community.
The removal of downvotes alone is not remotely sufficient evidence of being “quite different” from Reddit in that regard. Honestly it just reminds me of /r/Conservative and their flair system too. I don’t understand why downvotes are being banished.
Downvotes are still possible on Reddit, even if their impact is limited.
Reddthat doesn’t even have the button anymore
Which is a relatively minor mechanical difference.
Doesnt matter the instance. They’re all reddit like
Let’s agree to disagree! 😄
What a bunch of snowflakes.
Reddit basically removed downvotes as well since the EA comment. You still had the button, but it was inable to change the trend of the first few minutes.
I still regularly get downvoted on /r/RedditAlternatives, so it still seems to work
I wish i could find a better instance. :c
You can. This community is on a good instance.
…have you expended the slightest bit of effort to do that? Because there are plenty.
I’ve researched a few dozen.
Every time I dig deep there’s something unreconcialable I find in usually the community or the admins’ unfair moderation practices. Or it’s really small and weird and I don’t understand what it’s about.
.world is cringe and corporate feeling, like reddit, but the admins are more consistent than the smaller communities I’ve tried.
Sopuli.xyz might be a good option.
They are a medium sized general purpose instance based in Finland with good admins, a consistently updated Lemmy, and fast speeds.
Also @shadowplayer2@lemmy.world and @HalifaxJones@lemmy.world
I’ll check it out, thanks
Any controversies I should know about?
None that I’m aware of :D
Also just want to mention you can export your subscriptions, blocks, and saved posts/comments as a JSON file from your account settings page, and then import that file at your new instance in the same spot!
Please update here if you find one! The draw of lemmy (and fediverse in general) should be that if something like this happens we aren’t beholden to the instance and can switch, but unfortunately I share your experience with other instances 😔
that’s fair. I like sdf.org but I would, I chose it.
Im in the same boat :/
Well ayy, you beat me to making a PTB post on this, but uh yeah…
.world?
collaborating with and covering for fascists?
I continue to maintain that the best individual policy is to instance-block .world and let the redditor hoi polloi who end up there self-select onto smaller and better instances as they wake up to what a crappy place the default is. If they aren’t capable of eventually waking up to that, then I don’t really want them in my feed, so .world is a good place for them to be contained.
People should move to other instances and mods of popular communities should migrate the communities as well.
happy cake day!
PTB. Like always for .world lol
we’re talking about quoting the guy who put slaves in secret cupboards and trapdoors under tables and shit right
what’s the name of this shitty movement that guy ended up founding anyway? why quote him?
I get that they’re
US-based and have to follow US laws, but man, thats ironic.Edit: NL/Germany based https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
I thought they were in NL? Also, quoting Thomas Jefferson is not against the law in the USA.
Shoot, you’re right about the jurisdiction. That makes it even dumber. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
It can be construed as advocating for violence in this context. Since, ya know, it’s obvious who the tyrants are
I never knew where this quote came from, I have heard variants of it several times but never figured out the source until now.
And if you don’t know that, it is just a random sentence calling for violence.
Which I can understand the mod not being aware of.
Well, that wouldn’t violate any US laws even if they were.
What’s the legal standard in the Netherlands? Anyone know? Seems relevant here.
Even money says Jordan is involved.
Well duh, its the same group Jefferson fought.
Dude, Jefferson literally advocated for violence. They’re not wrong in the slightest with that.
He said people dying in a violent battle (in pursuit of something) is the “natural manure”. And killing lots of people is pretty much peak violence.
Got it, so we’re allowed to post news articles on .world discussing facsists advocating for and directly enacting brutal violence… at a grand scale…
But unspecified, indirect references to the concept of violent resistance, self-defense, on a similar scale… nah, users can’t do that.
You do not see a hypocrisy here?
A blatant and glaring double standard?
I’m just stating what fact is here. This was an easy question. I certainly hope people report the other calls for violence you mentioned as well. They definitely should.
But this isn’t even the interesting question. I think your question with the double standard is far more interesting. Or whether Jefferson was right. Or if OP could quote him if they were using apostrophes or a bit more clever wording.
… What?
I can post a news link to an article that is reporting on fascists violently absuing people.
That doesn’t get reported, or banned.
I cannot, for instance, say in a comment:
‘someone should kidnap and ‘’‘deport’’’ these ice agents’
or
‘someone should tie them into to a wheelchair and throw them into a jail cell’
… Those are much more direct and specifc calls for violence than uh, quoting an American founding father talking about generalized forceful resistance of tyranny… and even those comments got deleted.
It is blatantly obvious biased censorship:
Discussions of the State commiting literally illegal, unjust violence?
Totally allowed.
Discussions of justly resisting said unjust violence, with the force required to be actually effective?
Forbidden. Cannot even allude to it.
This is not complicated or even interesting.
This is an obviously blatant double standard, like … I can walk up to you and punch you in the face, and if you take a swing back at me, actually, you doing that is assault and now you go to jail.
Maybe this is lost on non Americans:
The fascist goons currently running around being violent thugs are routinely breaking all kinds of fucking pre existing laws, all the way up and down their chain of command.
Literally thousands, tens of thousands of times a day.
I know. I mean you’re pretty spot on with your first assessment. Reporting on violence is okay, calling for violence isn’t. There is a difference between the two. The first is allowed per the rules, the second is forbidden.
And yes, this is some form of censorship. It’s outlawed in most jurisdictions, including from the First Amendment in the US. I believe they call that “Imminent lawless action”. And there’s a bit more to it.But hey. Again, I’m just stating how it is. If you want to argue with me on a personal level about violence… I also think self-defense is okay. I’m kind of opposed to violence, but it might be necessary in some cases. I just don’t understand why you’d like to use a Jefferson quote, when the MAGA people tainted it by printing it on their t-shirts. If I were opposed to the fascists, I’d pick a quote that isn’t used by them as well.
Reporting on violence is okay, calling for violence isn’t.
This is correct. It was discussed and clarified shortly after Luigi.
There’s also the part where discussing all one’s plans for violence publicly and loudly is kind of dumb.
Ok, lets say theres a news story about people calling for violent resistance against fascists.
Can that be posted?
Can commenters make their own statements of support for this, in that thread?
This is basic logic, these rules do not make any damned sense, they are obviously contradictory when applied in the manner you are suggesting.
Also uh no, no .world does not actually have any specific rule that deliniates the distinction you’ve invented about violence being ok in news posts but not in comments.
Find me those rules.
Also… if? IF you were opposed to fascists?
Implying this is a stance that requires deliberation and contemplation?
Pretend you’re a brown skinned American citizen who just got fucking illegally kidnapped on fabricated charges and deported to a foreign death prison complex for the rest of your life, which will probably be quite short.
This has already fucking happened.
Does this remind you of any historical events…
… Hendrik, from an obviously German lemmy instance?
Anything involving gas chambers, ovens, work camps?
Anything ringing a fucking bell?
Dude, calm down a bit, we’re not enemies. I’m on your side, we just talk a bit differently and probably live far away from each other. I’d send you a big stick or even help you cudgel the fascists if I were in the States. And yes, as a German I know how nazis look like and I can recognize them easily.
Here are the rules: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#1-attacks-on-people-or-groups
It’s the first one: “[…] We do not tolerate serious threats or calls for violence.”Concerning your first question:
lets say theres a news story about people calling for violent resistance against fascists. Can that be posted?
I think yes.
Can commenters make their own statements of support for this, in that thread?
I think you’re trying to shoehorn something in here. It’s complicated. Is this “support” a call to do something? Is it intended to motivate people to join in as well and it includes violence? Then no. They cannot do that. Otherwise yes (unless it contradicts another rule.)
Btw, here’s
yourMAGA shirt. I wouldn’t wear it: https://www.amazon.com/Tree-Liberty-Thomas-Jefferson-T-Shirt/dp/B094H1VR7ZIt’s the first one: “[…] We do not tolerate serious threats or calls for violence.”
Cool.
So anyway:
Also uh no, no .world does not actually have any specific rule that deliniates the distinction you’ve invented about violence being ok in news posts but not in comments.
You’re not proficient enough in English to understand what I’m saying.
You’ve suggested I buy a fascist shirt, while at the same time saying you would help me hit American fascists with a cudgel, when they all have body armor, military assault rifles, and armored personnel carriers.
… Despite the fact that I was not even the person who said the tree of liberty quote at all, but you keep acting like I did.
You’ve repeatedly insulted me multiple times by way of your poor grasp of English, I am bailing out of this conversation before I am as rude to you as you have been to me.
The libs are libbing again
