Do not post about Charlie Kirk. MOD MSG. Do not post about Charlie Kirk. It will be removed on sight. Support of him is a ban on sight. Glorification of violence violates sitewide rules and is a removal. Don't do it. We don't want the sub nuked and neither do you. Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.

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[–] 78 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This is a solid topic ban by being clear that supporting Kirk is a ban and reddit probably sees any criticism of Kirk as advocating violence so there isn't any reason to mention him at all.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wasn't sure you deserved an upvote until Kirk-a-lurk-in. Genius

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [+] [S] -7 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    /uj Untrue. There are subs with millions of active users that are filled with posts and comments about him on the front page. Even if it were the case though, the right course of action would be to advertise the Fediverse and get people to move.

    Edit: Even if you go to r/popular/, it won't require much scrolling to come across a post about Kirk.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It‘s not about bringing him up. The sub is quite big and users tend to be quite cynical and hate the far-right. Chances are high that sitewide rules will be broken.

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How do you think subs like Fauxmoi feel about the far-right? Still, he's all over the front page. If reddit rules were truly the problem, why not make use of the AutoMod to review all comments before their publication for the next few days, or do it only for posts that have certain key words relating to Kirk in their titles?

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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Some of y'all need to learn a little common sense regarding what you say out loud and where you say it. Especially if you're still using Reddit, y'all know by now what the admins are like.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    :posts a counter strike meme about the genocide in Gaza:

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (43 children)

    Freedom of speech, ladies and gentleman

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    Misunderstanding freedom of speech, ladies and gentlemen.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Not being able to talk about it because your speech forum will be destroyed is exactly freedom of speech.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That is exactly not what freedom of speech is.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Freedom of speech is not the ability to speak in public?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    No it is not.
    Freedom of Speech is the right to talk negatively about your government without repercussions.

    Lemmy is not your government.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

    What about the forums right to free speech by deciding what they want to publish? Not a single person owes you the right to say what you want. You only have the right (at time of writing) to not be prosecuted for what you say under most circumstances.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Who said anything about rights? I am not free to speak about that shitstain person on that shitstain website? Is that not limiting the freedom of my speech?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Who said anything about rights? I

    You did, only a couple hours ago:

    Freedom of speech, ladies and gentleman

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    ? I don't see anything about rights in my statement.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Freedom of speech is specifically a right.

    You being willfully ignorant doesn't change anything, other than people's opinions about you.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm baffled as to why you're being so inflammatory about me pointing out that we do NOT have the freedom to say what we wish on the gamingcirclejerk subreddit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Because you're being dumb about it. Plain and simple. What your accusing them of doing isn't a thing.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
    1. If you believe that a person being dumb is reason enough to belittle them or otherwise make them uncomfortable, then you're part of the problem.

    2. No one was talking about the US Constitution. We factually do not have the right to say what we want in that forum, thus limiting our freedom of speech. What part of that am I wrong about!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS THE RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BEING OPPRESSED.

    I dont know how else to communicate that to you for the sixth time and get you to understand it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, you're not free to say anything anywhere. Are you under any obligation to allow me to enter your home and say anything I want with no repercussion? Show me where it says you have freedom to say anything anywhere under any circumstance. I'll wait.

    Also, if you don't understand that "freedom of speech" is quite literally the definition of "right to free speech" you should stop typing and start reading.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Staying on topic is not censorship. What does he have to do with gaming?

    (Besides the fact only the government can take away freedom of speech)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh man, before I left Reddit ALL of GCJ was politics. I agree with almost all of it but it was SO fucking annoying anyway. I just wanted some “this is what game design is annoying when this” and got something I would absolutely go to another sub for.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's ALL of Reddit. Go to soccercirclejerk? It's thinly linking anything in football to American politics. Go to pics? It's pictures of American politics. Go to whoadude? It's videos of Americans being political in impressive ways.

    Everywhere you go, the American politics are unavoidable. And I'm not American, and I already know that country is almost entering a civil war, and I don't want that to be the only thing I see all day and night.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Staying on topic is different than "don't talk about it so they don't shut us down"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    I agree but who's going to shut a lemmy instance down?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Exactly. This public forum is insulated from such threats. That one is not.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    From what threats?
    Are you misunderstandings about basic rights in the room with us now?

    Oh shit. They're in the room and all over this post!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    The threat of censorship in public spaces?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Remind us all what you think freedom of speech is.

    Don't be shy. Did you learn anything today?

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)
    1. Could you summarize the purpose of that sub for me? 2. The suspect was clearly a gamer who made Helldivers 2 references on one of the bullet casings.
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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    The bullet casting nonsense has been retracted. The shooter never left any messages on the casing.

    That was all an obvious lie, they got the idea from who ever killed the CEO last year.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought it being officially read on a conference is pretty good source that it was real. Did they fabricate it? Can you link an amofficial retraction?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    I’m so meta even this post

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Y'all really want some trouble, all of your posts will be connected to your names due to rapidly increasing availability and power of surveilance algorithms and maybe in the next year you will lose your job because of it. I openly say - out of all the people murdered last week, which might be getting into 3 digits, Kirk is not the one I care the most about, but even if I was celebrating I would not be so open about it

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, but you're way too cool for the rest of us.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I might sound condescending, but it's not because I consider myself smarter, just that I genuinely am scared - there is so much more direct and open violence in the global north, Trump just straight up ordering death sentences and sending others to concentration camps, but am european, aight. I got to worry about the new chat control project scanning through everything I post. And even if it won't get through, how far are we from an AI scraping the internet to connect all your big sites accounts to your name any time you apply for a job or anything else? Am I stupid for considering it an existential threat?

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