Yes, this is their intention. You know that right? They want to unalive them without going to jail. So the plan is to get them to do it to themselves.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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A hate crime that apparently carries 0 consequences across the globe. We live in a fucked up world
Yes.
People that support the likes of Charlie Kirk ask for evidence or examples, pure denial.
They always ask for rules for you but not for them.
Fascists and their enablers often ask in bad faith. They hyperfocus on vulnerable minorities, to distract from their own group being ontologically evil.
If I had the money I would hire all those who got fired.
Since this is lemmy nobody can disagree with this opinion or post stats that discredit it without a ban.
Because it's true. The anti-trans rethoric is incredibly harmful. If you don't like trans people just because they're trans, there's the door
If it’s true, you should be able to rebut opposing views like “suicide rates are elevated in every population defined by symptoms of mental illnesses including gender dysphoria, it’s not specific to trans people”
The anti-trans rethoric is incredibly harmful.
The pro-trans rhetoric may also be harmful!
So, you support Lemmy banning people for disagreeing with the OP?
Such tolerance.
yes. Fuck transphobes, they're not welcome here (on my instance, at least)
And what comprises “anti-trans rhetoric” and makes one a transphobe? Let’s say I agree trans people should have rights, be able to use the bathroom that corresponds to their identified gender, compete in the sports league that aligns with their identified gender, etc, but think they should have to inform their sexual partners of their trans status before engaging in sexual behavior with them. Am I a transphobe, spewing anti-trans rhetoric?
The anti-trans rethoric is stuff that harms trans people. Telling their partners they're trans before sex does not harm trans people, as opposed to HRT being gatekept by a bunch of doctors uneducated on transgenderness.
Plenty of people would disagree with you that insisting trans people divulge their trans status to sexual partners doesn’t harm them, and would point out that it invalidated their gender identity by forcing them to identify not ad a woman/man, but as a trans-woman/man.
Likewise, one could argue that preventing trans people from participating in sports leagues that align with their gender identity prevents harm to cis people in the league.
I don’t think this is as black-and-white as you’re making it out to be.
"Lemmy" can't ban people, people managing an instance can ban people. And yes it is ok to ban people for breaking the rules of a community or even an instance. If you have a problem with the rules on an instance go and create your own, that's one of the core reasons Lemmy is federated.
Except instances that allow such things get defederated
Your point is? No one is forced to listen to your opinions but you aren't prevented from having them if you run your own instance.
What's the point a town square if people who speak up are dragged off and isolated in an empty town square by a couple elites denying the general populace of the town square the right to choose what they want to listen to themselves. U would have a claim if lemmy instances where run as democracies but they are not.
The tolerant left everyone
Advocates for the elimination of a minority group, gets banned. What!? You guys are not tolerant!
Nice straw man
I think you meant "that was accurate"
FTFY