Old, but seems relevant

      • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        It is! Whipped it up for the Political Memes community… and then got banned from Political Memes for ‘advocating violence’. Um… whoops.

        Maybe it’s temporary? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        Charity… my choice would be any of those most at risk by a turn in the political environment. Planned Parenthood, any LGBTQ+ resource… if you get a kick out of that meme enough to merit a $20 donation, I have a sneaking suspicion that the venn diagram of your values and mine is pretty close to a clean circle, so if there’s something specific you had in mind, you definitely don’t need my permission (not that you ever needed my permission on how to spend your own money, but you get the gist!).

         

        Edit - To be clear, posting that image in this thread is the 2nd time I posted it. The first posting was in Political Memes here. I realized in hindsight that that might make the post in this thread -not- OC. I created the image, but the one here isn’t THE original.

        • I'm back on my BS 🤪
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          2310 months ago

          Doesn’t seem like it’s advocating violence at all. It’s making fun of someone that did advocate violence when it came after them.

          • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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            410 months ago

            I don’t think the meme itself was the issue, but the discussion therein. Speculating on the motive, I mentioned the oath military and feds are required to take, and that it advocates violence… I probably shouldn’t elaborate or I’ll risk a ban here too…

            • @BigPotato@lemmy.world
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              110 months ago

              Yeah, the oath calls to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. Not really your fault if someone claims that advocates for violence because it’s not you issuing a specific and legal order. Doesn’t say anything about protecting the government I suppose.

            • @Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de
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              I was hoping that the admins on Lemmy aren’t the same type of shitheads like the bad ones from Reddit were, yet here we are.

              • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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                110 months ago

                World is the largest instance, so I understand them having an abundance of caution. Can always post on a smaller instance that doesn’t give a shit.

              • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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                110 months ago

                It’s weird that those were the posts they took issue with. I’ve been pretty vocal about not giving a damn about Nazi lives, former president Agent Orange included… but discussing federal oaths and their implications is what crossed the line?

                I can understand the admins being on high alert after an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate though, so… whatever, I’ll just eat the ban and shitpost in other communities instead.

  • @Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldOP
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    10710 months ago

    Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.

    If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.

  • @psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    6910 months ago

    “Look, you should just turn down the violent rhetoric!”

    -people who’ve been espousing violent rhetoric since 2008

    • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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      610 months ago

      One side cares about civility and condemns advocating violence, so the other side exploits that every chance they get.

      • @Moneo@lemmy.world
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        110 months ago

        condemns advocating violence

        Surely you’re not talking about lemmy right? The past 5 days has been nothing but condoning and advocating for violence.

        • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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          510 months ago

          No, I’m talking about the official stance of Democrats, since they’re the only viable side to oppose the GOP.

  • @BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    3110 months ago

    I remember after this all the Celebrities and Politicians talking AGAINST Donald Trump’s VIOLENT RHETORIC!

    JK I don’t!

  • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    We go high, they go low.

    Today on Facebook, a big trumpist just admitted to me that he just wants to see his political opponents suffer (even die), and sent me a gore image.

    • @butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world
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      I’m in a gun club and the WhatsApp chat had, surprise surprise, a rich, fashy vet immediately saying that the attempt meant that all supporters of the Democrats were now “enemy combatants” and should be treated like enemy combatants were back when “they” were deployed. Fucking psychotic, brownshirt ass. I know this makes me sound like him, but people like him have one solution and it’s measured in six foot increments of rope.

        • @butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world
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          I’m absolutely positive that he thinks this was actually a Democratic sympathizer. These people’s brains are so full of conspiracy theories it’s ridiculous. We’re talking about the same people who think that there’s a global movement to groom minors just because some people prefer bussy and would rather present in a different way than they would. These people are so far gone.

      • @beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
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        like him have one solution and it’s measured in six foot increments of rope

        No need. There are perfectly fine criminal laws in place. If only they were executed equally, this problem would be a lot smaller in scope.

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      Tell them you want exactly the same for Trump and watch them get triggered like the little snowflake they are.

      • @ThePerfectLink@lemmy.world
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        210 months ago

        I hate pacifists, man. They always try to publicly shame you by making it seem like violence is never justified… stupid deontological thinking

      • @lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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        210 months ago

        If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

        […]

        [A]s long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force

        Karl Popper, 1945, The Open Society and Its Enemies

  • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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    1410 months ago

    And surely we can find old tweets condemning it from all the Trumpanzees screeching about “political hatred” today, right? Right?

  • @casmael@lemm.ee
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    1210 months ago

    Wow you know what trump has aged a lot in 8 years. I guess that’s a long time n shit huh