Have seen a few posts popping up recently just straight up calling fo violence barely disguised as memes

Had thought Lemmy had chilled out a bit on that kinda thing for a while but seems to be coming back now

Anyone else noticing the same or just me?

  • mke_geek@lemm.ee
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    Lemmy seems to have more crazies on it lately who are advocating for murder of innocent people just because they don’t like them.

    Reddit sucks and now Lemmy is going down the tubes. Hopefully these people either get banned or Lemmy servers that advocate for senseless violence get shut down.

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      just because they don’t like them.

      Wow what a way to oversimplify the problem. Would you have been saying this in May 1945?

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        It’s not oversimplified.

        What’s next? The guy who runs the corner gas station sells cigarettes at his store. Cigarettes are addictive and known to cause cancer. So this means the guy who owns the gas station should get murdered?

        What about the CEOs of the gun companies? Should they get murdered because they put out a product that people use to kill others?

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          What’s next? The guy who runs the corner gas station sells cigarettes at his store. Cigarettes are addictive and known to cause cancer. So this means the guy who owns the gas station should get murdered?

          He’s not the one making them, the cigarette companies are

          What about the CEOs of the gun companies? Should they get murdered because they put out a product that people use to kill others?

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      Where do you think they got the $10 million/year to pay this man? Who do you think instituted a policy to use AI for approvals/denials, which resulted in a 90% false rejection rate? What’s crazy is acting like the murder of thousands of people through denial of medical care for money, if done from a sufficient distance, is somehow less abhorrent than doing it up close and with a gun.

      Expecting people who have either been directly impacted or had family medical care impacted by the policies of this man to show sympathy for him isn’t just unrealistic, it’s deranged. Considering United is one of the largest insurance companies in the US, that’s a lot of fucking people who are at best apathetic about the whole situation.

      Obligatory ‘I suspect some people who can’t read might reply to this’ disclaimer: obviously you shouldn’t murder people. Including if you’re a healthcare CEO and it’s done by setting policies to squeeze the maximum profit out of people before they die.

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        No, people shouldn’t murder individuals who work at companies they don’t like.

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          And the people that run those companies, should they kill people depending on their company for healthcare if it makes them money?