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Someone made a nonviolent luigi post and it was deleted.. wonder why? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 hours ago by BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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Post had nothing to do with murder or violence. It is clear who reddit serves.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 29 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I was shadow banned from Reddit for making a not violent Luigi post on 12/23/24. My account was older and had high karma. I am grateful to have found this community. The state of human rights in the United States is bleak. I watched my mom die from early onset Alzheimer’s in our broken system and I don’t even have words for the cruelty in our system. How can corporations be “people” if there’s no way to hold them accountable for mass murder? Our system is broken and corrupt from top to bottom and somehow it’s about to get much worse. Luigi gave those of us who are broken and tired a fleeting moment of hope.

[–] MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee 18 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

My mom passed earlier this year from pneumonia. The insurance wouldn't let her stay until it was gone. So we had to keep taking her out of the hospital for a couple days, and then putting her back for the same pneumonia, it lasted for months, because the hospital couldn't fully treat it. She had to wait at home until she was able to go again, and it eventually took her. The pneumonia, stress and everything else was just too much for her heart. She ended up going into cardiac arrest multiple times and the pneumonia sepsis is listed as her official cause of death.

Luigi is a fucking American hero and I wish more people could be like him. I unfortunately have to take care of these kids so I cannot but I will pray for whoever picks up that mantle.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Deleted. Weird edit duplicate.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry for your loss. They murdered your mother for profit and it enrages me. I've personally suffered at the bloody hands of the insurance companies as well. The insurance companies fill me with a cold deep rage. I hope all their leaders know fear before they come to their end.

I have kids as well. I'm no longer religious but I believe in Saint Luigi and pray that others are inspired by his noble actions. Truly.

If you're willing, please share the name of the insurance company and the CEO that murdered your mother for money.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The real villains are vanguard, black rock and the politicians that keep selling out the people. Things are about to get much worse with the cutting an privitazation ( this means it will be moved to a corrupt dysfunctional shareholder profit model) of medicade, Medicare, veterans healthcare and social security are all on the chopping block. The social contract is broken and the wealthy have waged war on the people. I was hoping that those doing this would have a wake up due to Luigi and ease up but instead the suppression has increased. I don’t know how to fix this but the attack on the working class is “legal” and any resistance or hope is stamped out. I get why people don’t want to bring children into the meat grinder that America has become.

[–] xye@lemm.ee 0 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

Hyper focusing on Blackrock makes you sound like a conspiracy theorist - there are many groups like it, you have to expose the whole not be obsessed with the one or again it just looks crazy. IMO.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

I named multiple sources for our troubles. The biggest firms extracting wealth seemed like good easily verifiable examples. Agree to disagree with your opinion

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I've had two accounts on Reddit, one got permabanned a few months ago, and I deleted the other a few days ago. The first one was my oldest account. Over a decade old, and massive karma. I also had my own sub where I shared my writing, and had a few thousand subscribers.

Back when that incel neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes got doxxed on Twitter, I made a joke saying "as an incel, he should be glad that women know where he lives now in case they want to share a cocktail with him", with a gif of a Molotov cocktail. Permabanned for "promoting/glorifying violence". I thought it was funny, but fine. That one is on me.

My other account, which was seven years old and had high karma, got banned from probably half a dozen subs in the past week or so for just mentioning Luigi, or even just up voting posts and comments mentioning him. That was when I decided Reddit was no longer for me.

It's one thing to ban someone for the kind of joke I made. While it was obviously a joke, it was still an overt glorification of violence. So I get that. But just for up voting a comment mentioning Luigi's name in a nonviolent context?

FUCK. THAT.

[–] CyboNinja@lemmy.world 4 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago) (1 children)

Totally with you. Tracking accounts and what they upvote and downvote and then banning specific accounts is pretty well fucked. All-the-while allowing and even enabling bots to flourish..... Reddit is a mostly liberal flavored Facebook now. Total trash at this point. Nearly every sub just a bot filled echo chamber inside a library of echo chambers. Almost zero critical thinking. Obvious lies everywhere that are amplified until they become accepted as truth. Just like X/FB/IG/etc.

On a positive side the general public opinion on Reddit is mostly encouraging. It still has that going for it. But power corrupts. And Reddit is a publicly traded company now. Beholden to it's shareholders and investors. Hopefully Lemmy grows and fills that void now that Reddit has decided to side with the wealthy elite by censoring our voices. Now that Reddit is literally owned by these wealthy elite (just like all the rest) they cannot be trusted anymore.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

It's wild. You can go on Reddit and openly discuss why you think Hitler may have been the good guy, but if you up vote some AI art of Luigi, you get banned.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 2 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

But misogynistic trolls are perfectly fine posting 'your body, my choice' etc? It's all hypocrisy.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

You can openly call for the death penalty for people seeking an abortion, or for the extrajudicial execution of immigrants, but Satan forbid you up vote a cartoon of your favorite green hat wearing Nintendo plumber.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

They'll post this on a news subreddit where they all consume said media daily and see zero irony.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Because they own the platform.

Hence, why Lemmy was needed.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Lemmy's security is largely in its obscurity. If the community ever gains the degree of popularity or prominence as Reddit, it will succumb to all the same socio-economic pressures.

Hell, Reddit's origin story isn't far off from Lemmy's. A left-wing FOSS guy pioneers a novel means of aggregating information in a relatively decentralized and community-oriented way. But then the capitalists move in, he's arrested, the administration of the site is auctioned off to VCs, and the site is slowly mutated into an echo chamber for neoliberal propagandists and reactionary agitators to scream at one another, drowning everything else out.

Lemmyites want to believe they've engineered a technical solution to what is ultimately a socio-economic problem. The human labor that makes Lemmy work can be attacked and replaced, the communities that form alienated from one another and censored by moderators and dispersed, and the popularity monetized here just like has happened elsewhere.

This isn't a safe social media space. Its just a lingering redoubt in an internet that's been under siege for decades.

[–] theMacerena@lemmings.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

That it literally why we have Lemmy and other AP sites. Big corporations cannot take control of our spaces.

Likewise reddit was never decentralised.

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

As I understand it, the fediverse as a whole is composed of instances, each one communicating with whichever other instances it wishes (the instances acting as social medias of sorts). Each instance is created by people making their own thing, so if one large instance (such as Lemmy.world) were to get taken over by filthy capitalists, someone could simply make a new, separate instance and choose not to federate with Lemmy world. Is this not the case?

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[–] skeesx@lemm.ee 8 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Reddit was never FOSS. Linux is still going stong, even with vested financial interests.

Most importantly, wie have already made the decision to leave traditional social media and build something better. If worst comes to wiorst, we'll find each other again.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

Reddit was never FOSS

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit?tab=License-1-ov-file

It was licensed under CPAL which is an approved license by both the FSF and OSI.

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They want to establish the narrative of Luigi-the-terrorist, but human beings know who is the reasonable one.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

human beings know who is the reasonable one

I remember people saying that about Julian Assange and Edward Snowden twenty years ago. It didn't take long for popular opinion to turn on them, though. Just call the whistleblowers allies of the opposition party or props of an evil foreign government. Americans hate that. And the American public soured on them rapidly, as a result.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

That's why we need to stop relying on idols and figureheads. I dont even necessarily think we need to organize, but to act as individuals capable of operating independently from central leadership. Most of us have the same goal, after all. It's just most of us are still too comfortable or afraid to do anything, and that's because we invested too much in leaders or orgs that we watch get assassinated and destroyed. But they can't get all of us, especially if we act independently, and soon.

[–] FermionWrangler@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

They're scared of anything that challenges their position even subtly. So they remove posts like this to avoid questioning the narrative. Hopefully their efforts will backfire with the Streisand effect.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is really one of the biggest problem we have. They influence elections, they influence public opinion, they spin the narrative as they want.

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[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Posting an image of a person who is known to everyone as the (suspected) murderer of a capitalist, whom he explicitly murdered for his capitalistic practices, and referring to a distinct but similar set of calitalistic practices is not "a non-violent Luigi post". It's not directly calling for violence, sure. But the connection is pretty clear. If the Right did something like that, we'd probably call it a ((likely intentionally) poorly disguised) dog whistle.

I'm not saying the post is evil and ban-worthy. Which side an action is done for matters. You might say, the ends justify the means. But get your terminology right, and shed the centrists' illusions. And non-violence is an illusion. This is the propaganda theatre of a class war. And Reddit is fighting for the enemy.

[–] BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

Thats the point. They are banning class warfare; not violence.

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

I so hope the jury finds him innocent. Undo past wrong doings (such as casey anthony or OJ etc)

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It's a photo of a guy who shot a CEO and a text that basically says "there's more".

While I agree with the message, it's still a call to voilence.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 77 points 10 hours ago

The moment Robber Barons were first stopped, they starting working to rig things so they are never stopped again.

The only way to remind them that they have no such power is the French way.

All Tesla dealerships should be on fire by now. Now protected by a wall of obese 'police' that would not pass the most lenient tests to join the police force in any country of the EU.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 113 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The monopoly men have worked very hard over the past one hundred years to stamp out class consciousness in the US. They won’t give in without a fight.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

If the billionaires aren't getting mad at this, they are getting something good from it. Most likely in the form of extreme tax cuts (and the moral type of fraud). They'd have less capital but more for themselves.

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