• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    I am on your side on this one. Non-violence is a principle that this community needs to enforce.

    If anything, I am shocked that there are so many brazenly violent, celebratory, and dehumanizing comments still in this thread, and it makes me worry that even you aren’t drawing the line very well here.

    People repeatedly spammed the same violent things to several different threads about this here, and none of them seem to have caught a ban.

    This is a Nazi Bar problem. You folks need to purge these extremist trolls. Advocating for murder is an absolute non-starter. Lemmy isn’t usually this bloodthirsty, and if you want to keep it from being this way every day you need to clean house and start handing out significant bans and send a message today.

    I’d start those people replying to you here telling you off for enforcing the most basic content rules. Turn this thread into a graveyard before you’ve sent the message that this is how we behave here.

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      This is not a Nazi Bar problem. This is a mod being overly sensitive to people being happy about someone getting what they deserve after making millions of peoples lives harder. You trying to turn this into a non-violence issue is just pathetic.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        making millions of peoples lives harder

        And literally killing some number themselves. Denial of coverage for treatments can and does lead to death in some cases.

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          Seriously, I will not mince words. This man was a mass murderer directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. If there is a hell, he is there right now. He killed more people with a pen than any serial killer in American history did with a knife or gun.

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      We have a justice system so that we don’t need to use vigilante violence. Make no mistake, this man was a mass murderer. He was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. But because of our corrupt legal and justice system, he was able to get away with it.

      We no longer have any legal method of holding the wealthy and powerful to account for their crimes. The courts are crooked and the politicians bought and paid for. Again, we implemented courts and a justice system so that we didn’t have to use vigilante violence. In olden times, if someone killed your loved one, it was perfectly acceptable to kill them in revenge. We in time implemented a formal legal system to prevent this kind of retributive vigilante violence.

      Well, what do you think happens when you break that legal system so thoroughly that the wealthy can no longer be held to account? At that point, your society goes right back to the law of might makes right.

      It’s actually very similar to the violence that occurs between gangs. If you’re a drug dealing mafioso, and someone cheats you in a drug deal, you can’t turn to the courts for relief. So instead, you have to use violence.

      The people no longer have any real way of holding the wealthy responsible, even for literally murdering innocent people. We’re going to see a lot more such attacks in the future. And it will not end until we reinstate the old peace treaty that is our justice system.