• pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Super disappointed mods can’t parse people not being surprised or feeling something was deserved as a consequence of their actions, and advocating the violence.

    My comment that got removed was “can’t imagine why this happened”, which neither calls for, nor celebrates violence, but expresses that the conditions leading to such an action, in our dystopian US are predictable, have happened before countless times in history all over the world.

    The inability to acknowledge the fault of the powerful actors and system that created such conditions and utter lack of consequences for the rich and powerful in the US are what caused such responses for an agreeably horrific act. The issue that won’t go away, on Lemmy or anywhere else, and oversimplifying the above to “advocating violence” is disingenuous if deliberate, and idiotic if accidental.

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      8 days ago

      What’s crazy is they seem to be removing comments just mentioning that jury nullification is a thing…

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        8 days ago

        I saw that. The mods here have lost their collective minds. I have never seen a thread with so many deleted comments.