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Comment by billy99k | Hacker News Reader

because it is. Anyone who spends 5 minutes on Reddit knows this has become code for violence over the last few months.

If threats of violence against immoral or illegal systems becomes widespread and has to be censored, the system may be the problem, not the people.

Or the people constitute an uneducated low-IQ mob and shouldn't be allowed to parade and celebrate their violent ignorance.

How very authoritarian and anti-speech of you.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Reddit is full of violent content that the admins and moderators overlook.

/r/combatfootage and /r/ukrainerussiareport/ are full people cracking jokes about violent deaths and advocating for violence.

It is telling that only certain kinds of violent content are banned.

Reddit doesn't give a single shit about violence. For the first time in decades, Luigi put a tiny bit of fear of god in the hearts of those in power, and they will have brought this up repeatedly in their exec group chats. With current US gov, it's not unlikely they'll have steered this too.

Hear, hear. The moment the working class gets a whiff of the overwhelming power they have over the patricians and the state, there is oppression.

Trump has shocked us with things we thought unimaginable. If he goes much further, we're going to see massive strikes and protests.

While the comments are often dehumanizing, which I despise, the footage is invaluable for people who want a whiff of what (this) war is like. The chaos, the fog of war, the terror, the delivery of death being celebrated just as often as it is performed with casual detachment.

Those subs are supposed to be for documenting combat, and that calls for violence aren't being removed is a further indictment of Reddit and its users.

Why isn't Reddit held to the standard of Facebook or YouTube? It's long past time that it was.

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