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gayhitler420@lemm.ee 8 months agoHere’s that novel of rules:
RULES
① Real-life decorum is expected. Please don’t say things only a child or a jackass would say in person.
② If you’re here to support the police, you’re trolling. Please exercise your right to remain silent.
③ Saying cops should be killed lowers the IQ in any conversation. They’re about killing people; we’re not.
Please also abide by the instance rules.
That’s for anyone reading along, I believe you when you say you’re not gonna read them.
I don’t wish death on you.
You seem like a heartless and knowingly thoughtless person who feels entitled to be heard but not to listen or abide by norms, complaining of the wounds others have put upon you but silent about your own transgressions.
My sympathy lies with the embattled users afflicted by your awful posts rather than you, cursed to know that people who interact with you hate you.
I don’t think that’s all there is to you. If you want to be seen in a more charitable light, maybe read all those rules before you post, take some time to consider the place, time and context of what you’re reading and of course, remember the person on the other side of the keyboard.
You can also use a platform that accepts your behavior. Reddit and twitter aren’t closed to new users.
cricket97@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m not complaining about people disagreeing with me, I’m complaining about people wishing death upon me. And to be honest, I don’t really care, but I think the fact that people are willing to stoop that low over simple differences in opinion is demonstrative of the quality of person I’m dealing with. I’m just a dude who has some opinions that would only be controversial on a place as terminally online as Lemmy, who are often completely consumed by the culture war nonsense who believe any criticism of your own side means you are supporting the other.
Get a grip on yourself. This line is hilarious when you consider the context of a disagreement in a comment section.
gayhitler420@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s worth restating that you gave your pro cop opinion over and over again in a thread about a tragic bystander death caused by cops made in a community for discussing problems and effects of the carceral state that had explicit rules against acting the way you did.
You’re a lot closer to westboro baptist protesting funerals than some high minded equal exchange in the free market of ideas.
I don’t hope you die, but I do hope you learn to post better.
cricket97@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My opinion was “no I don’t think we should let criminals get away because of a freak accident”. It’s not that serious, I saw a post on my frontpage and I commented on it. boo fucking hoo, you’re pretending like my relatively milquetoast opinion is some moral failing.
gayhitler420@lemm.ee 8 months ago
A wreck in a high speed chase isn’t a freak accident. It happens all the time. High speed pursuits are dangerous. The police know it, that’s why cops have helicopters and drones to avoid getting in them.
Further, we’re not talking hypothetically. Cops chased a stolen car into a bystander in the attempt to do just what you’re suggesting. An innocent person died so they could catch the criminal.
For what? Retribution? To recover the car? Were either of those worth that woman’s life? I don’t think so and i can’t imagine anyone who would!
The very thing you espoused, the cops not letting the person escape even though they knew it was dangerous to everyone around, led to the loss of innocent life! It would have been better if they had never given chase and the car was lost forever!
Unless of course a person getting punished for theft and a car being recovered is worth a life.
So you can crawl down off the cross, your opinion isn’t milquetoast and it’s hard to imagine a world where holding it in this day and age isn’t a moral failing.