Vermin Supreme for president
Well, goddamn, looks like they tied a jackhammer to the banhammer. I’m having to perform religious duties daily.
But it’s a sacred duty, my child, so here’s your obligatory Saint Luigi blessing for the banned:
remember kids:
A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power
Can’t help but wonder if in this context it would help if St. Luigi was French … you know, the sweet-spot efficiency between Italian and German solution.
I got banned for saying “Luigi did nothing wrong” but I also stand by the fact that Luigi will do no wrong. There’s a little Luigi at all of us.
That’s wild considering that the dude has not been convicted of any crimes.
Innocent until proven heroic
This isn’t a time for the ‘Italians have smol pp’ joke … but yes, indeed.
And it’s an historical abnormality how people don’t act on it (the inequality I mean).
Welcome to Lemmy mate! I left Reddit after the purge of 3rd party apps. It’s been great. The more people here. The more content.
I highly recommend that when you view All, you filter to"Hot" posts. It updates with everything that’s recently been added.
Based welcome aboard o7
Referring to people as vermin is strongly associated with Nazis and their ilk. This looks exactly like the dehumanizing propaganda produced by fascists.
they dehumanized themselves when they started believing some people deserve to live more than others.
People choose to be Nazis. People don’t choose to be targeted by Nazis. That’s the difference.
Fight fire with fire?
Becoming a monster to defeat a monster doesn’t get rid of monsters.
False equivalence.
How’s that? Nazi rhetorical strategies seem prima facie monstrous. Adopting their dehumanizing language is monstrous behavior. I think if you find yourself sounding like a Nazi you took a wrong turn and are on your way down a dark path.
I’m ok with being a monster if my (metaphoical) grandkids can live the dream we were promised and never got.
I’m not OK with adopting Nazi rhetoric, whether it is effective feels irrelevant to me.
I respect your desire to maintain your morals, I really do. I wish I had your optimism.
The only appropriate reaction to an ethnic cleansing is, of course, another ethnic cleansing.
Didn’t realise political alignment is an ethnicity.
Nazis aren’t an ethnicity. It would be an ideological cleansing of an extremely toxic ideology.
The paradox of tolerance.
When I saw this it was downvoted, so for the unaware the comment above is in agreement. The “Paradox” of tolerance implies we can’t tolerate the intolerant or they take over. It’s also not actually a Paradox.
it’s not a paradox, it’s a social contract. Those who violate it are not protected by it.
It’s both. A bunch of idiots in here acting like it’s better for people to have their lives ruined, or outright ended, rather than allow anyone to take a stance against that which might hurt their own precious feelings.
go read project 2025 and tell me that what we’re concerned about is our feelings.
“Fire” is a bit antiquated as a synonym for “cool” but some people do still say that Elon is fire.
Well, at least your username is accurate.
Lemmy’s reading comprehension was the reason I changed it a few months ago. It is perfectly accurate.
It’s exhausting, having to spell everything out despite my sentiment being the most common one here. Particularly here. In this specific community.
Spoonfeeding irony to others kills me. And yes, I’m upset
I guess I’d be upset, too, if irony were constantly lost on me.
Do you get off on trying to start fights with strangers on the internet or something?
No, not everyone is like you.
Welcome home, glad you left the dumpster
Reddit just keeps getting worse, I got banned from r/comics for calling out pizzacake doing bkackface lol.
I genuinely saw Dr. Evil on the end at first glance.
Sweet summer child.
The truth is never that nice.
Put some ivermectin on these parasite.
No no; make it a UnitedHealthCare ad and it says to call an adjuster
Not to defend reddit but you kinda… called for the killing of government officials?
Who gives a shit they’re Nazis.
Yeah… People are gonna be real shocked at how fast the Lemmy instances run by individuals in basements remove stuff and ban people after getting a letter.
Calls for death to government officials of his own country. Gets banned.
What did you expect?
In OP’s defence, the depicted people would totally see themselves as exterminators of “vermin”. Drain the swamp and all this crap.
Did they post it to Reddit? If not, that’s not really relevant to Reddit’s ToS, right?
depicted people would totally see themselves as exterminators of “vermin”
Source required. Pics or it didn’t happen.
OP just wants a witch hunt - he wants to murder people he doesn’t like and feel good about it. Sick fuck, the worst kind.
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Trump pledged at a November rally in New Hampshire that he would “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”
Those comments drew rebukes from congressional Democrats and some moderate Republicans. Some historians have traced the use of the word “vermin” to Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini.
Political historians say the use of dehumanizing rhetoric - including words like “vermin” - makes it easier to strip away rights from residents and citizens as they are seen as less worthy of democratic or constitutional protections. Nazis, for instance, frequently referred to Jews as lice, rats and vermin.
The Trump campaign has dismissed those comparisons.
Here’s a video of him saying it.
