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Count the number of pictures or references to guillotines.

With varying degrees of seriousness, people call for violence against others all the time all over the internet. Go on any pro-Ukraine thread and you’ll find tons of bloodthirsty comments calling for the killing of Russian soldiers (you’ll often find variations of horrible stuff like “any Russian who isn’t in open revolt is a fair target,” too).

So first, what you are describing is not unique to Hexbear, and is in fact common. Second, if your response to my comparison is “well they’re talking about a war!”, so are we: every year capitalists wage war on the poor, killing millions by profit-driven deprivation of housing, food, medical care, etc. (see social murder).

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Jesus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It is pretty unique to hexbear and .ml on Lemmy from what I’ve seen. Even if what you just said was true (it’s not) that doesn’t excuse it

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- 420blazeit69@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Go on any pro-Ukraine thread and you’ll find tons of bloodthirsty comments calling for the killing of Russian soldiers (you’ll often find variations of horrible stuff like “any Russian who isn’t in open revolt is a fair target,” too).
  
  Do you disagree with this? Have you not seen all the pro-Ukraine threads on reddit and here the last few years?
  
  And when a type of conduct is common but punished selectively, that’s a sign that the ones swinging the hammer don’t care about the conduct so much as they care about harassing the target. It’s like the War on Drugs.
  
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swagforpigeons@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- 420blazeit69@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  “Your parents should have beat you” – classy
  
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