Joking or alluding to it is seemingly fine. Just don't straight up say "kill billionaires" like Drag, I guess. Because plenty of others, including myself, have been making jokes with the same sentiment and we're not banned nor have had our comments removed.

With the way Drag usually talks in 3rd person, I kinda feel like it's just an excuse to ban the dude because someone finds him annoying. This is also the first time I am seeing FlyingSquid being called out for banning someone, and it actually isn't just someone who said some bigoted shit and got mad at facing consequences.

You were banned for saying "Kill billionaires".

Not for saying "Luigi Mangione isn't guilty tho".

Even if you didn't mean it as an invitation or incitement to homicide and merely as an answer, completion, or riff to the previous statement, on its own it can be interpreted that way.

I'm rooting for Luigi too, I don't feel sorry about the death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, and I do think billionaires shouldn't get comfortable with profiting from our suffering. But the mods reserve the right to remove stuff they feel could get them in trouble, chances are someone did interpret it this way and made a report (wasn't me I swear). There may be certain contexts, communities, instances, where this is allowed but you will have to determine that or ask.

I think you're being a little bit facetious; surely you can see that while yes, you technically answered the question, you didn't phrase it in the form of an explanation. I'm not pearl-clutching and accusing you of condoning the murder, but that response was pretty obviously toeing the line at best.

You were banned for being a pain in the ass and constantly accusing users of being transphobic, just like the other places you’ve been banned

Are you sure you’re not dronerights?

Squid called me a facial analysis expert because i said i didn't think Luigi looked like the suspect photos lol

While I'm personally inclined to agree with drag that that was quite clearly answering a question and not an imperative, I also don't think that it should be frowned on to protect the instance one moderates from potentially being taken down.

Lemmy is still (relatively) small enough that it can fly under the radar, but that's not going to last forever.

Squid participates in mod abuse, but you're clearly arguing in bad faith.

Good that so, I am surprised how many mods just straight up ignore or support glorification of violence, respect to him for enforcing the rules consistently even if it's an unpopular decision

Power mods gonna power trip ...

So you were explaining the joke, sure. But then added your opinion that the pertubator didn't do it and wasn't guilty of committing that crime?

That's borderline a call for violence which is against the rules of that community. Sorry but YDI and you should do better.

PTB.

If ending a joke is promoting violence, where are the bans of the people defending Harris, Biden or the Democrat party, for promoting a violent genoocide ?

Who's big as titties are those though?