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  • rothaine@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    I said something like “billionaires should remember that the alternative is guillotines”, just a bit of history, and an admin deleted my comment and gave me a warning.

    • Singletona082@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I ate a three day ban for talking about the morality of killing Hitler if you had the chance. In an animorphs sub, because that happened in one of the books.

      ‘It’s Hitler. He Dies.’

      • Tobias.
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        5 hours ago

        I got banned from r/politics in 2019 by replying to

        We should treat Trump exactly how he treats immigrants.

        with

        What do you mean, shoot him?

        Appeal wasn’t ignored. Instead, it was mocked.

        So yeah I’m going to get banned. But not before I poison their AI data pool as much as I can.