I get banned from Reddit for "suggesting violence" by stating Elon Musk's assets should be liquidated, meanwhile:

It's almost like the person who wrote that text in the photo didn't actually understand what any of the words they were saying meant. Like actually. lol
- I totally agree. What a load of bullshit.

got in trouble for 'liquidated'. Secret word list code for violence. Filters used to be useful and just replace the offending text.

People should be leaving Reddit. They are poor stewards of our content for innumerable reasons. Go back to forums. Go to Lemmy. The key thing is that we should not have centralized arbiters of our discussions online.
- We can't let billionaires own the town hall if we plan on having honest conversations. I am glad I finally found this place, and wish I would have left reddit earlier.
- Deleted reddit today, just starting to figure out Lemmy. Could not stand the hive mind anymore
  
  Aye welcome to Lemmy! :) Happy to see you here
- I think there will be a mass exodus from reddit in the coming years. The site is compromised and the censorship is out of control.
- Left reddit... left Google... left Amazon... left meta... never had Twitter.
- Indeed. I deleted my reddit account recently. I like it better here anyways. The pace is slower and the people seem more reasonable here too. My stress levels have decreased significantly since I left Meta and Reddit and that is at once wonderful and scary. Social media is a cancer.

The world needs to forcefully liquidate the wealth of all billionaires and perpetually redistribe that excess wealth so nobody can ever be rich again.
The rich that push back need to be labled as dangerous terrorists that are a threat to our species, and will need to be put down like rabid dogs.
- Wow I thought I was reading one of my own posts. Greetings, comrade!
- They sentenced a person to death for 12 billion dollar bank fraud in Vietnam. I feel like their culture has the right idea.
- We don't need to redistribute the wealth. Destroying it would work just fine.
- "The world" is a convenient way to say "somebody else with a gun".
  This kind of thing is never done peacefully. So, if you're going to advocate for violence, at least be honest about the fact that you're looking for someone else to perpetrate violence on your behalf because you're too much of a coward to do it yourself.
  
  No, I'm all for doing it but I'm tired of liberal cowards talking about Ghandi and saying "you first, chief!"

They've also been banning accounts for liking comments about Green Mario doing nothing wrong. It's about the closest thing to thought crime I've ever seen. (PS Green Mario did nothing wrong)
- (PS Green Mario did nothing wrong)
  He killed a guy. So he did.
  
  He killed a corpo. So he did nothing wrong.
- He absolutely did something wrong, he got caught.
  And I felt his manifesto was not very well written.
- I don't mean this as an attack at all, but isn't calling Luigi "Green Mario" a way to comply with the wired reddit cencorship?
  We are on Lemmy, you can speak freely here.
  Or did something just go over my head?
  
  Also innocent until proven guilty, a lot of people seem to forget that one.
  
  I made a comment self censored to "Mario bros" on reddit. Got a permanent ban. They're going scorched earth on anything moderately inflammatory
  
  Whether or not they were being ironic, we HAVE to stop capitulating to corporations deciding how we speak and what we can and can't talk about. They successfully turned our own social messaging into a justification to block out conversations about issues that are actually affecting us.
  (No, to the chud about to cry about being censored for spreading misinformation about vaccines, that doesn't go against corporate incentives, that goes against reason and knowledge, there's a difference and if you can't tell, you will when you get older.)
  
  Maybe people were actually saying "Green Mario" and not Luigi.
  
  Agreed, you can refer to him by name here lol. Or Saint Luigi if you prefer ;)

Violence is a double edged sword. It can easily swing the other way. Elon might be misjudging how that sword is balanced.
- judging by the spine of the left, i don't think he anything to fear.

The faster everyone deletes their Reddit, the better we will be. Fuck Reddit.
- I only have one account for porn right now. Made with a temporary email. I won't shed any tears if i had to delete that one.
  
  There’s plenty here lol. No excuse! lol, jk

So why isn't Elon Musk banned then?
- Because it is a post to an entirely different social media site.
- Rules for thee not for me.

This guy has so much power over the United States and so many people are okay with it and some even support it.

Ban Elon Musk then??? Sick of reading abt Reddit bending over backwards to defend him & Trump
- I don't think they are defending them. Reddit has changed their behaviour to keep from becoming the focus of the US administration. The same way all those who donated to Trumps inauguration. It's about survival. That being said, it makes Reddit irrelevant.

“I’m peaceful because I am capable of kicking your ass” has true mall ninja energy.
“you studied humanity [and made friends] while I studied the blade”
- I remember reading self-defense writings by Marc MacYoung (who is a fascist mind you, but he is very good at martial arts and understanding criminal dynamics) and the first ever time I heard the 'better a monster who can control it, than a sheep who is not capable of violence' or that effect, and he ripped that entire saying a new one. He said how once the violent beast in someone is built up, it simply won't be easy to control and will fuck you up. There is simply no way around it. Criminals, abusers, and assholes whom people want nothing to do with and people who spend countless nights in jail for petty shit are all the actual 'warriors in a garden' come to life.
  Also the whole thing is shit. During ww1 and ww2 the US had a pathetic military at the start, but when the war got going they still outfought the Nazis and Imperial Japanese who were fully and completely into the whole permanent warrior mentality.

The banhammer is quite randomly pounded over there.

I was banned for harassment. I followed 6 accounts that posted tons of misinformation about elons nazi salute.
They’d defend him at all cost, call everyone else sheep, “Roman salute”, he’s autistic, you’re such a n idiot for hating on him. Posted still frame images of anyone with raised hands and claimed them to be identical to nazi boy Elon.
I got a notification every time they posted something to a sub I frequented. I would comment their recent post history and how their most extreme lies in defense of Elon.
Reddit said that was considered harassment. Not what those accounts did, but my action to their posts and comments. Spez is such a fucking spineless cunt.

Got my ban yesterday for expressing my displeasure with Danielle Smith. Reddit has sold out
- My 15 year old account got banned last week, too. On one hand it kinda sucks, but on the other hand it feels good to get out of that site's echo chamber. Reddit is really circling the drain.
  
  I had my 13 year old account also busted up due to that last summer.
- Here’s my new thing.
  All the people with critical thinking skills are leaving in droves. Leaving a massive bot farm authoritarian echo chamber in its wake.
  As far as they’re concerned we’re the problem and it solved itself.
- Smith is such a fucking joke.. I grew up in Southern Alberta, I'll never ever return.

The irony here is that violence is a necessary action when the bourgeoisie (Billionaires) leaves the working class no other option. But what he's saying is that state violence is justified to maintain the status quo.

Is it just me or are other people giving fewer and fewer fucks about why somebody got banned on reddit, or anything else that happens on reddit?
- I'm loathe to defend Reddit's moderation decision but my experience you can never trust the person being banned to explain why they were banned.
  
  I agree - except for the time I got banned...

Elon's gonna get shot one day

The peace in peaceful is not of the "peace and war" kind. It's of the "peace and quiet" kind.
Important distinction.

The only reason I still have a Reddit account is to leave comments telling people to leave Reddit and join Lemmy. I just find posts on or near the front page that are complaining about Reddit and leave the same comment every time.

Fuck reddit.

Really? Fuck that shit. Good thing I deleted my reddit account. I technically have one that I just use for porn. But I sure as hell am not posting anything with that shit.

Ironically, what Musk posted is perfectly acceptable ( in and of itself, ignoring the context of the person who is saying it ) since violence or the threat of violence is sometimes necessary to prevent things getting worse. For example, "Ukraine should be helped to defend itself" is a call for violence.
Which is why it's such a bullshit excuse to ban speech for that reason alone. I got banned for suggesting France might help out the USA by shipping over any surplus guillotines. I'm sure they would have no issue at all if I were enthusiastically advocating genocide. Never mind, I needed a push to make the move to Lemmy ; )
- My ban from reddit was 100% related to calling for the arrest and judicial execution of netenyahu. Which is not an unreasonable thing to say given that he is nothing more than a modern Hitler.
  I will take it back. Netenyahu should not be tried at all in any court. But simply tied up, have the charges read against him, and promptly shot through the head at point blank range.
- The line is state sponsored violence, generally. Likely with a little bias on what state is on the giving and receiving ends of said violence. Thats the rule at least so far as I can tell, at least.
  
  I think you're right, but that's even more concerning. A fully fascist take on what is acceptable speech.
- Eastern ex-ukraine should be helped to defend itself from fascist Banderites.
  That gets you banned from Reddit, or some mild criticism of the Palestinian genocide.
  The vile calls for violence and racist Russophobia on there could stay on there.
  Not a peep from the hypocrites then.
  Now that the other part of the US regime controls Reddit they suddenly wake up and care about free speech.
  Why am I not surprised?

The oligarchy owns 90% of social media so it's no surprise
- You're wording it as if we shouldn't be outraged anyways.
  
  Be as outraged as you want but at the end of the day social media is a business and they've chosen to no longer do business with you.
  If anything, be outraged at all the other shit the oligarchy are planning to do.

Elon Musk ~~'s assets~~ should be liquidated
Fixed that for you
- In a solution of 1/3 35% hydrogen peroxide and 2/3 98% sulfuric acid.

Yeah i don't post anymore since reddit turned into 1984
- where have you been for the last decade?
  It was regime controlled garbage for a long time, now they suddenly complain.
  https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/

Says the pussy who backed down from Zuckerberg cuz his mom told him to
- It's good to be the king.
  He doesn't have to be the one actually inflicting the violence on others, but with his power and influence he is capable of great violence by making others carry it out in his name.
  Fucking billionaires... :/

God, what an insufferable Nazi cunt.

What do you mean by Elon Musk’s assets should be liquidated?
Also, Reddit and X have very different moderating policies.

He is such a teenager. It's embarrassing.

#stonerthoughts
This should show Americans how billionaires perceive "peaceful protests".

This is the same kind of thing the 19 year old high school dropout with two kids he doesn’t have custody of posts on Facebook. Like “the devil whispered in my ear you can’t handle the storm and i said i am storm”
- I would like to never see this image again.
  
  Honestly the worst thing about this is that he has the confidence to be as big of a douche as he is looking like this..
  Most people need to be supermodels to be as intensely unattractive in literally every other way as he is..
  But then he’s not appealing to the general population, he’s appealing to.. well not regular human people…
  
  "WHITE WHALE!
  HOLY GRAIL!"
  Something something harpoons? Idk, I haven't read Moby Dick.
  
  He is the size of a hurricane tbf
- That's exactly who he is trying to appeal to.
  
  Is there a ThePack community or magazine around here? lol
  
  We should tie voting rights to child support payments. Would have stopped 45 from gaining office.
- "No, John. You are the demons."
- Exactly the kind of guy who detonates his rented Cybertruck at the Trump Vegas Hotel because he's mad at the Woke

Arguing for the appropriation of billionaires' assets is not violence.
- But it hurts their feelings 😢
  
  oh no! Anyway...

This feeds into the right-wing fantasy that they're super tough warriors. You see a lot of literature and fictional TV aimed in this direction.
It's kind of like the white savior complex but instead of saving some victimized minority, they're saving weaker and more helpless individuals in their own society. But all the military hero returns home and confronts nasty biker gang or evil drug dealers and kicks their ass without when trying. It all reinforced their world view.

That makes no sense. You can totally call yourself peaceful if you are peaceful.
Who doesn't want to be harmless? Who would want to cause harm????
- You're just not alpha enough to understand. Real men beat their wives
  
  Hey, I can beat my wife, sometimes. Like I have won many games of Catan over the years.

Elon isn't capable of anything resembling violence. He's a skinny fat pussy.
- There's nothing skinny about him. He's regular fat
  
  I meant his arms are skinny and his body is fat.
  
  I can think of at least one part of Elon that is skinny, but I really don't want to think about his dick. 🤮
- He might be able to fall on a small child and crush them with that grotesque torso of his.
- Economic violence by being the world’s largest parasite.

Oh fucking hell he's a megalomaniac he's awful!!! Horrible man. How the fuck can reddit justify this shit? How has EVERYONE not left?

That’s gotta be the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.
- The crux of fascism is making your base paranoid. Make them believe all their murder is done out of self defense. If they would not kill all those other people, others would kill them.
  The perfect example is the paranoid ethnostate in the middle east.
  
  The perfect example is the paranoid ethnostate in the middle east.
  You say that, but are they wrong?
- Sorry, but I agree with this one. Not the "great" violence part, but yeah. If you are not capable of inflicting violence, you are not making a choice. You have no choice but to be harmless.
  We used to say this a good bit in r/liberalgunowners, along the lines of, "I am a peaceful man, but that does not make me harmless." You would have a hella time pushing me hard enough to draw, but I have the choice if it comes to that.
  This notion is exactly why conservatives think they can run roughshod over us. They see us as harmless little twerps that couldn't fight back if our life depended on it.
  
  I get that and don’t disagree, it’s just the way it’s worded. Reads as if a 12 year old wrote it lol
  Also the: ☝️🤓 Important distinction
  
  As a lefty gun owner, couldn't agree more. Peace as a choice is only available to the folks who know how to do otherwise, and frankly even simple know-how isn't enough. Pacifism is no virtue, peace is no natural state.

What a great fat wet lettuce of a human. He's only capable of paying other people to do his dirty work.
- No.
  Elon's mother stopped him having that cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg because of his bad back. That wasn't his fault.
  
  that is so much worse 😂
- He can't even play games of simulated violence without someone playing his character for him

when did Lemmy become the "I got banned from reddit" frontpage?
ffs people, STOP GOING THERE. Stop thinking about it. It's a shithole url. Get over it.
- This sub, the one you are currently participating in by commenting on it, is titled “Reddit”…
  
  I'll be a bit pedantic and say that this is a community not a subreddit, since we're, y'know, not on reddit.
  
  yeah, and I'll block it, but you do realize, people who aren't subscribed still see trending on the front page right?
  and I stick to my premise: you're here, leave that shit behind. have better standards. encourage those other communities to migrate over if you must but dwelling on spez's folly is just... bleh. no one should waste their time on it.

Apart from all the other bullshit rightfully called out below, this makes an illogical implication. Being the smart autistic superbrain Melon claims to be, it's surprising he doesn't see that. Or maybe not, because in reality he's just a sad ass who is too scared of just going to therapy.
If: Not being capable of violence => Not being able to call yourself peaceful
Then: Being able to call yourself peaceful => Being capable of violence
But not: Being capable of violence => Being able to call yourself peaceful

What the hell even is this?

That Mangione fellow, what a peaceful guy.

Also Elon, " Mom, Mark is being mean to me again." It's ok lil Elon, she says. You are funnier and more handsome.

reddit mods are soft, i got banned too. They might need to grow a pair.

Fucker obviously doesn't have cats.
- Cats are a good litmus test.

This isn’t /shittyphilosophy or some sort of personal mantra, this is signaling what he thinks of those who do not engage in violence against him. He’s simultaneously calling out everyone for being weak and not challenging him and more importantly to himself implying he is strong because of that lack of resistance.
- I am worried that this could be bait. Elon can see that the entire world is turning on him, but if violence escalates then Trump could use it as justification to declare Martial law.
  
  Bring it
- It's more why should you respect and be patient with someone who can't do a thing against you if you aren't? Say you met someone on the street and they decided to start insulting you. The natural response is to punch them in the face to ensure they don't insult you further; except if they are stronger or have some other reason for you to respect them and put up with their bullshit (ex. Elders, martial arts sensei, some kind of community leader, etc.).
  The response to a peaceful protest is similar. So long as they don't insult one's honor or get in the way they don't get a punch in the face, except if they wield enough political clout. You don't have power to be peaceful unless you can fight back.

George Orwell entered the chat.
- I like that this could mean multiple completely different things depending on what part of George Orwells writing it's referring to.

Someone should post that text to reddit, see what happens.
Also, if you didn't already think there was going to be violence, now you should.

We have to stop being surprised at this behavior and start expecting it and rejecting it, on sight.

Well they do have a point. Having strength isn't the same thing as using it. Most have the ability to beat another human to a pulp but instead use their words and other forms of conflict resolution. So to extend that logic one isn't peaceful if one doesn't have the power not to be; that is one isn't restraining themselves from being violent and exercising benevolence and patience but rather being forced to be tolerant of others bullshit because they can't do anything about it. It's like is your chastity being tested more in a monestary or a whorehouse?
- That's how they get you, with a nugget of truth that in your context is reasonable and in theirs is explicitly unreasonable. The idea that one can't choose peace if they have no choice is an old one and philosophers have been thinking about it for ages. There's nothing wrong with the idea. What's wrong is that in the context of the alt right they imagine themselves as John Rambo and use nonsense like this as wank material when they're advocating for (or doing) violence. It's a story they tell to infantilize and invalidate the left. If we're all babies who couldn't even choose violence if we wanted then they should make decisions for us, right? Including the decision to kill us.
  Funny thing is that the left got most of the rights and protections that people of every stripe benefit from through outright violence. Strikes and protests and all that are the compromise, remember.