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[–] [email protected] 109 points 6 days ago (58 children)

My favorite retort to those advocating for running over protesters:

If it's OK for you to run over protesters blocking your path on the highway, it's also OK for me to set fire to your car if you park it in the bike lane.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The "logic" goes like this: (sarcasm)

It's ok to burn down the planet for profit. It's ok to destroy the ecosystem on which we all depend for food, clean water. It's ok to make bombs and sell them to those dropping them on hospitals and children. It's ok to pollute the air with deadly particles no one can avoid.

But you just CANNOT... you just CANNOT be in a way of someone carrying a few tons of steel of a metal cage through a city. That's not something that we as a society will accept

[–] [email protected] 107 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Double standards

Edit: my mistake, it's not visible on the screenshot, but the "i hope you get shot" didn't get removed for promoting violence, there is no mod reply to it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lots of reddit communities are fascist communities

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

They're a more marketable demographic.

[–] rustydrd 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Condoning violence against things while condemning violence against people is really not such a big contradiction, especially when said thing is used to hurt people.

Edit: Then again, a guy wanting other people to get shot probably doesn't argue in good faith anyway.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

that's the entire conservative thought process. always protect things over people. kill a homeless person? you're a hero. use counterfeit 20 dollar bill? get strangled to death. rape? be our president. trespassing? get shot to death.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Can any lawyers answer this:

If the person driving that vehicle did end up running someone over, and had that sign in the window, would they get an elevated charge?

To me, that sort of thing is like premeditation, and it would be extremely hard for me to believe that an “accident” led to them killing someone with their vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Not a lawyer, but I think stuff like this is a minefield. The defense would try to get it thrown out as prejudicial and without the suspect testifying all they could do is show a picture to an officer of it who affirms that he saw it on the car and enter it into evidence, but they could only indirectly talk about it in opening and closing because nobody can personally testify about the motivations behind the sticker.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

But if the defense was "I panicked and hit the gas when people surrounded me" this is something that would poke quite a few holes in that argument.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It could, its just hard for the prosecution to handle. Because it's not direct evidence of the mindset for that incident and it's inflammatory to the jury the chances of it being ruled as prejudicial and not probative is high. That's why past criminal convictions are also often excluded from trials.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Not a lawyer but, premeditation isn’t what you think it is; one can premeditate an action in seconds, the concept really just conveys that the individual had time to think of the consequences.

But yeah, a sticker like this would certainly hurt the case of any defendant. It wouldn’t likely get them any modifiers (though it would help), but it could definitely affect a judge’s decision on how much time they should serve.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

Should we tell them their family joined the protest?

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

This is reddit mods in a nutshell

Similar story to how I ended up IP banned.

Story about a politician advocating for killings and kangaroo court imprisonments> i make a comment saying "yeah this guy is gonna end up dead if he tries this" > banned for threats of violence. .. appeal, arguing that it wasn't a threat. Just an acknowledgment of political volatility.. suggested mods were politically biased for seeing it that way. > appeal rejected and permabanned

edit - I understand reddit mods dont issue IP bans, but I was hit for ban evasion after abandoning a cooked account that they refused to let me appeal. the ban evasion rule is a "gotcha" to make people , any and all . to go away. I only say that this time it was an IP ban because I had been perma'd before, only to immediately move to a new account I already had made (and on the same device no less).

my guess was algorithms improved /s

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, Reddit moderation is... Fucky wucky. But this is also a general problem in American society. It's perfectly okay to kill people for profit, but if you break a window you're the bad guy doing a violence. (It may be present in others as well, I just don't know)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Police violence is a okay. Rioting and causing property damage that’s bad.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Banned for similar reason. Mod misinterpreted my wording and IP banned for inciting violence. 100 characters max in your appeal so impossible to explain yourself.

Does anyone actually have a foolproof way of dodging an IP ban? I miss participating in my city's local sub.

I actually have a bit of a conspiracy that reddit flags accounts who don't make them money (don't buy coins, doesn't use app, uses Firefox, etc) and specifically watches them for TOS violations.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Fucking Reddit mods. I got perma banned for saying I wished that MTG would trip and swallow her own head.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

She'd have to pull it out of her ass first.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

if I saw this I would let the air out of the tires of the vehicle

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

Looks like a photoshop, not a real sticker. Not a lot of pixels, but it doesn’t curve right, reflect or warp with the window. Squared up with tbe image orientation, not the window or defroster lines like a human would apply a sticker.

Everyone grabbing pitchforks all the same.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (6 children)

That's not the point. The OP straight up advocates maiming or killing people in a known Terrorist TTP. But the guy who talks about a window gets banned.

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