• noscere@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Mods just deleted another of my comments for saying

    “For America to get better, we need to be okay with bad things happening to bad people”

    I am not entirely sure how this statement is calling for violence. Or Glorifying it. Or is even controversial.

    The Mods here suck.

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      8 days ago

      I don’t claim to know where the line is, and the following may not be enough of a difference.

      But your words in the mod log are different. The “okay with” in your comment above wasn’t in the removed comment.

      “Being okay with bad thing” is at least a little more nuanced than “Bad thing must happen”

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        Actually, that is a fair point. I didn’t intend to misrepresent my statement. I mean, I still feel like the statement is valid and isn’t the same thing as calling for violence. However, you are right.

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        8 days ago

        Do you think jaywalking is as bad as being the CEO of a corporation that is responsible for the deaths of many many people?

        Also, you can be ticketed for jaywalking. Which is a bad thing happening. Which is the point. A bad thing happening to bad people is a philosophy our justice system is built on. We can certainly have a conversation about whether that is correct, but it definitely is the basic philosophy as it sits now.

        Frankly, I think the fact that CEOs that are responsible for so much death aren’t being prosecuted is a bad thing. Feel free and disagree.

        But more to the point, I think that discussion shouldn’t be shut down by the mods.