• shoulderoforion
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    Hey Mods, if Hitler was President would you censor anything calling to rise up and harm him too before or after The Holocaust? Just asking questions here.

        • @[email protected]
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          Just to note this is also direction from the admin team on .world. Until significant push back, jury nullification wasn’t permitted to be mentioned (despite precedence of its legality), as well as a rule to allow all opinions, regardless of the rules of the community. This was also pushed back on, and will be back after they re-word it.

          This is .world at large.

          Edit: typo

          • @[email protected]
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            103 days ago

            I’m kind of a Lemmy noob. I just realized I have a .world after my name. How do I move and where do you suggest?

            • @[email protected]
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              Depends on what you’re looking for in a server tbh. And there are others who would probably be more familiar than me.

              db0 (instance I’m on) is great for F/LOSS, piracy, anarchism/leftists, lemm.ee for a generalist instance, blahaj for a fantastic queer community and firmly moderated safe space, etc.

              You can export where youre subscribed, but your history won’t move. So feel free to just make an account somewhere if it piques your interest, and go from there

              Edit: Somehow missed a solid 2/3 of what I was saying about db0

    • Flying Squid
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      Would you like to pay to move the server to a country with free speech laws or do you just expect the people paying for the server you are using free of charge to do that on your behalf?

    • @[email protected]
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      32 days ago

      A better question to ask is “what are the laws surrounding direct threats of targeted violence in my nation and in the nation where the servers are?”

      No instance owner should have to deal with harassment from the state because of a rando’s comments.

      • poo
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        03 days ago

        The lemmy.world mods are notorious bootlickers and delete any comment that insinuates that people should rise up against Trump.

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            Because that’s a lie. The server is based in the Netherlands. It is illegal in the Netherlands to call for violence. What gets deleted are calls for violence.

            A very quick glance at the modlog will show that comments merely saying people should rise up against Trump are not in there.

              • Flying Squid
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                Yes, very droll. Now as I asked someone else complaining about this, are you going to pay to have the server you are being allowed to use for free to be moved to a country where it is legal to call for violence?

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 days ago

                  I’m not complaining about it. I just thought it was an odd statement. I couldn’t care less about .world

        • @[email protected]
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          Yes, dissent is healthy and important. That’s my point. Have you looked at what dubvee.org is doing?

          They scan the fediverse for comments that violate whatever code they claim to enforce. Then they instance ban those offenders from their instance and all of their subs. Then they tag that user in their ban of shame wall.

          For example, I am tagged there as banned for something like “advocating assassination” like 8 months ago. And I had no idea they were even doing this.

          This was long before the whole Luigi thing. And before both Trump assassination attempts.

          I can’t even tell what comment I made that would justify them to slander me in such a way. Because they never told me.

          Go ahead and look up my username in their ban log over there, see if you can figure it out. Maybe look up your own username. You might be surprised to find out what they are saying about you.

          They are either the SRS of Lemmy, or some truthsocial data collection operation.

  • @[email protected]
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    Biden wasn’t able to fire a simple postmaster, but somehow Trump found out he had the power to fire the board at the Kennedy center?

      • @[email protected]
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        523 days ago

        The Supreme Court literally told him that it was impossible for the President to break the law while he was in office

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          But then they made lawfulness a subject for Supreme Court review, so only Republicans can be absolute despots. And Biden is a risk-averse institutionalist who would never consider extreme measures (like sending all the corrupt Supreme Court justices to Gitmo).

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          of course not. hes not going to be a precedent so later they say see its fine because biden did it. Man people love these damned if they do, damed if they don’t situations to call out the eternal badguy. I want to know if he still beats his wife?

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            wow I’m so glad he didn’t set a precedent; that must be why the fascist that came after him so strictly goes by the book now.

            I’d like to have what you’re having.

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                Sometimes it is necessary for the long term good of humanity. Saying ‘we can’t use authoritarianism to beat authoritarians’ is the logic that got the nazis in power in Germany. The nazis should have been crushed early on, but instead liberals just kept appeasing them.

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                  72 days ago

                  Historically authoritarians tend not to return control to democratic processes. That is to say, you become the threat you’re trying to avoid.

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              what im saying is if he did he would be getting so much shit for having done so and very likely by the same types bitching about him not. its a classic damned if you do damned if you don’t. he would then be responsible for every use of it after him by certain types.

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                that only matters if you care about your dumbass legacy more than the future of the country, which he certainly did, which is why he sought reelection in the first place.

                • HubertManne
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                  unless he did it in case alls that matters is caring about the rule of law and the future of the country rather than his dumbass legacy. cause then doing it was about his legacy but now not doing it was about his legacy. either way did it all for him or his kind and did the wrong thing.

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    So the self-appointed arbiter of American culture stumbles into another vanity project, replacing seasoned trustees with his golden-framed portrait. Drag shows for youth suddenly eclipse actual issues—because nothing unites a crumbling democracy like pearl-clutching over sequins and lip-syncing. The Kennedy Center’s new “vision” boils down to erasing anything that doesn’t smell like 1950s nostalgia and rebranding nepotism as patriotism.

    Artistic merit now hinges on loyalty oaths. Meanwhile, actual policy disasters get a standing ovation. But sure, let’s pretend this isn’t a textbook narcissist playbook—appointing oneself chairman of anything is just dictator-lite cosplay. The “Golden Age” he’s selling? More like gilded decay.

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    You would thing this guy hates colorful people or something. I swear there was some other guy that made a major push to pin all his country’s issues on some minority group while he consolidated power over media, arts, and what not.

    How do you suppose they redesign the flag, just replace all the stars with little swastikas or what?

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      At this point the US is beyond little swastikas, just put the old Nazi flag on top of the stars and change the red bars to be black

    • Orbituary
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      In see Old Glory as the new Nazi symbol. I automatically assume things that are usually right when I see an American flag being displayed.

    • andrew_bidlaw
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      I’m not sure what he’d probably do, maybe add a map of US plus Canada’s territory and print AMERICA so even dummies would get rhetorics behind it. But what I’m sure about - he’d sell these flags like hotdogs on every street corner, and also add a law that this particular flag can’t be messed with and should be shown instead of the real one.

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    If someone like Putin did this, republicans would call it dictatorial over reach, since Trump did it, it is patriotic.

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    he doesn’t give one shit about the kennedy center. he’s the first and only president/first lady to completely avoid its kennedy center honors and gala… for four straight years (all of episode 1).

    he only sees a grift in there somewhere… or some fake award or other bullshit.

    or maybe he doesn’t like the “a spectrum of many skills within the performing arts”, which is represented by… yup, you guessed it. a rainbow of colors including exterior lighting.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors

    or maybe it’s the non-white artists-in-residence.

    or maybe it’s the ‘festivals’ that feature and celebrate art and culture from around the world.

    or maybe it’s just him. fucking asswipe.

    • andrew_bidlaw
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      Maybe he just dislikes the name, Kennedy, being a part of a toponym there in DC. Kennedy family was\is very influential and the assasination of JFK is one of the most known historical events about the US, and RFK still rolls on it. He probably wants that for himself, and to control what as the wiki-page implies is an american culture. Or maybe he is taking it to mess with RFK in some way? I don’t know.

  • Flying Squid
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    Looking forward to future Kennedy Center honorees Kanye West, Carrie Underwood and, what the hell, Simon Cowell.

    • Flying Squid
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      No wait, I’ve got a better one!

      The Kennedy Center presents: a tribute to Bill Cosby!

      Live streaming only on X! Subscribe today!

    • AmidFuror
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      You missed the most obvious one. The Kennedy Center will soon honor Donald J. Trump.

      • Flying Squid
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        People go on stage to do a bunch of tributes to the honoree when those happen and I don’t even want to know what those would be in that case.

        If you know Richard Pryor’s work and have not seen Morgan Freeman doing Mudbone at Pryor’s Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize, it’s awesome.

        https://youtu.be/uMG65T5tR-A?t=574

  • @[email protected]
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    32 days ago

    Well, he is a primadonna. Maybe he just wants to fulfill a lifelong dream to dance on stage dressed in a tutu…