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[–] 239 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Splattering lives is okay,but shattering such windows is the promotion of violence? Honestly? 🔨

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  • [–] 146 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

    In capitalist US, property is more valuable than human life.

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    [–] 136 points 2 years ago* (41 children)

    Another reason to stay out of the usa. Not just anecdotal, we're talking about a country where walking on a public street can be illegal, and people who do are sometimes called a slur.

    Because cities aren't for people to live in, they're for cars to drive trough

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    In general, the US seems to be weirdly pro-violence.

    Being beaten up is portrayed as perfectly normal in media and advocating for violence (like here) seems to be totally okay for many.

    That's fucked up.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's strange because we also have an extreme culture of litigation, and so much as an unwelcome or aggressive touch (without injury) could technically support a civil lawsuit or criminal charges for assault/battery.

    The difference is that we apply justice differently depending on your political belief, so the acceptable violence is usually one-directional. Any violence by left protestors will be treated akin to terrorism. If you're a right wing crazy harassing people protesting for a left cause, police will look the other way and you may not even be convicted for murder (e.g., Rittenhouse). Worse, the police are usually the ones being irrationally violent - like the George Floyd protests in which nonviolent civil protest was suppressed with military-level equipment, tactics and violence.

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    [–] 112 points 2 years ago (58 children)

    My favorite retort to those advocating for running over protesters:

    If it's OK for you to run over protesters blocking your path on the highway, it's also OK for me to set fire to your car if you park it in the bike lane.

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    [–] 107 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Double standards

    Edit: my mistake, it's not visible on the screenshot, but the "i hope you get shot" didn't get removed for promoting violence, there is no mod reply to it.

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    [–] 81 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    How can anyone be so lacking in self awareness?

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    [–] 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (47 children)

    This is reddit mods in a nutshell

    Similar story to how I ended up IP banned.

    Story about a politician advocating for killings and kangaroo court imprisonments> i make a comment saying "yeah this guy is gonna end up dead if he tries this" > banned for threats of violence. .. appeal, arguing that it wasn't a threat. Just an acknowledgment of political volatility.. suggested mods were politically biased for seeing it that way. > appeal rejected and permabanned

    edit - I understand reddit mods dont issue IP bans, but I was hit for ban evasion after abandoning a cooked account that they refused to let me appeal. the ban evasion rule is a "gotcha" to make people , any and all . to go away. I only say that this time it was an IP ban because I had been perma'd before, only to immediately move to a new account I already had made (and on the same device no less).

    my guess was algorithms improved /s

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, Reddit moderation is... Fucky wucky. But this is also a general problem in American society. It's perfectly okay to kill people for profit, but if you break a window you're the bad guy doing a violence. (It may be present in others as well, I just don't know)

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Can any lawyers answer this:

    If the person driving that vehicle did end up running someone over, and had that sign in the window, would they get an elevated charge?

    To me, that sort of thing is like premeditation, and it would be extremely hard for me to believe that an “accident” led to them killing someone with their vehicle.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Not a lawyer, but I think stuff like this is a minefield. The defense would try to get it thrown out as prejudicial and without the suspect testifying all they could do is show a picture to an officer of it who affirms that he saw it on the car and enter it into evidence, but they could only indirectly talk about it in opening and closing because nobody can personally testify about the motivations behind the sticker.

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    [–] 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    There should be a community of "just reddit things" like this

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago*

    The "logic" goes like this: (sarcasm)

    It's ok to burn down the planet for profit. It's ok to destroy the ecosystem on which we all depend for food, clean water. It's ok to make bombs and sell them to those dropping them on hospitals and children. It's ok to pollute the air with deadly particles no one can avoid.

    But you just CANNOT... you just CANNOT be in a way of someone carrying a few tons of steel of a metal cage through a city. That's not something that we as a society will accept

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If I saw this, I would shatter it.. in Minecraft only, of course.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Fucking Reddit mods. I got perma banned for saying I wished that MTG would trip and swallow her own head.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    Should we tell them their family joined the protest?

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  • [+] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    if I saw this I would let the air out of the tires of the vehicle

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Keep your murder-machine out of my city. Please.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    You did it, you fit the entire US vibe into one picture!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    Anyone manage to find the actual comment link?

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