818
Americans kinda don't like pickpocketing rule
(discuss.online)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
818 points (97.7% liked)
196
3843 readers
2315 users here now
Community Rules
You must post before you leave
Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".
Bigotry is not allowed, this includes (but is not limited to): Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Sexism, Abelism, Classism, or discrimination based on things like Ethnicity, Nationality, Language, or Religion.
Avoid shilling for corporations, posting advertisements, or promoting exploitation of workers.
Proselytization, support, or defense of authoritarianism is not welcome. This includes but is not limited to: imperialism, nationalism, genocide denial, ethnic or racial supremacy, fascism, Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, etc.
Avoid AI generated content.
Avoid misinformation.
Avoid incomprehensible posts.
No threats or personal attacks.
No spam.
Moderator Guidelines
Moderator Guidelines
- Don’t be mean to users. Be gentle or neutral.
- Most moderator actions which have a modlog message should include your username.
- When in doubt about whether or not a user is problematic, send them a DM.
- Don’t waste time debating/arguing with problematic users.
- Assume the best, but don’t tolerate sealioning/just asking questions/concern trolling.
- Ask another mod to take over cases you struggle with, if you get tired, or when things get personal.
- Ask the other mods for advice when things get complicated.
- Share everything you do in the mod matrix, both so several mods aren't unknowingly handling the same issues, but also so you can receive feedback on what you intend to do.
- Don't rush mod actions. If a case doesn't need to be handled right away, consider taking a short break before getting to it. This is to say, cool down and make room for feedback.
- Don’t perform too much moderation in the comments, except if you want a verdict to be public or to ask people to dial a convo down/stop. Single comment warnings are okay.
- Send users concise DMs about verdicts about them, such as bans etc, except in cases where it is clear we don’t want them at all, such as obvious transphobes. No need to notify someone they haven’t been banned of course.
- Explain to a user why their behavior is problematic and how it is distressing others rather than engage with whatever they are saying. Ask them to avoid this in the future and send them packing if they do not comply.
- First warn users, then temp ban them, then finally perma ban them when they break the rules or act inappropriately. Skip steps if necessary.
- Use neutral statements like “this statement can be considered transphobic” rather than “you are being transphobic”.
- No large decisions or actions without community input (polls or meta posts f.ex.).
- Large internal decisions (such as ousting a mod) might require a vote, needing more than 50% of the votes to pass. Also consider asking the community for feedback.
- Remember you are a voluntary moderator. You don’t get paid. Take a break when you need one. Perhaps ask another moderator to step in if necessary.
founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
Violent. Brainrot.
Says the person who comes across as a moral absolutist. Do you want a cookie profligate?
Lmao, sure I love cookies.
They're filled with forever chemicals and asbestos. Unironically how a small but old treat company near me got shut down, good riddance tasted like plaster the one time I had one of their so called treats.
Lmao, what are you even trying to say here, dude? Get a grip. Calm down. So fuckin angry at the idea that someone questions your violent tendencies. Gee, I wonder if that anger is proof in itself of your violent tendencies.
Dude I have autism and PTSD, I am nothing but rage. But it's not necessarily a matter of getting angry at you questioning it per se but more so what I perceive as moral absolutism against violence. I generally take the position against pacifism on an individual level, mostly because 9/10 Americans are all bark no bite which is rather bad with the whole rise of fascism thing. The most expedited method to stopping fascists is to start the killing of them as soon as possible which was about 50 years ago with the foundation of the "moral majority".
This erroneously assumes new fascists aren't being born every day. It also erroneously assumes that the threat of retribution deters things like fascism, or crime in general. It's a weird sort of eugenics where "if we just kill all the fascists there won't be anymore ever."
The point isn't to kill them all it's to kill their leaders and make examples of them. Do you really think many folks would've wanted to cheerfully read off aids death lists back in the 80s if Rush Limbaugh had been vaporized by a car bomb?
Fascists are inherently cowards who back down when an example is made of their louder fellows, there's a reason they mostly do actions in groups and it's because they know they'll get their shit kicked in otherwise. The problem is that this shit kicking is not extended to the leaders, for the sake of so called civility.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-does-not-support-the-use-of-the-death-penalty/
I dunno man plenty of science shows that being put to death does basically fuck-all to prevent other people from committing the same kind of crimes. You can hide behind the hope that they're cowards all you want, but that's still leaning on assumptions.
So worse case scenario is that fascists keep getting killed via vigilante means. I fail to see the downside.