Got suspended for agreeing that plotting to assassinate the president is “the lesser of two evils” compared with murdering one’s own parents.

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    I don’t have context, but you might have been baited into that conversation by somebody whose goal was to get participants banned. The reason I say this is that it’s such a strange topic to start with. The two options don’t seem to have anything to do with each other, and both options are violent.

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      There are so many of those type of baiting around political discussion.

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      All valid points and questions.

      It was a news article posted in the r/Wisconsin sub about the kid who killed his parents and plotted to start a violent, extreme right-wing revolution. The headline said something like “Wisconsin teen killed parents and planned on killing the President.” In the first paragraph it said “…he murdered his parents, and planned to do something even more sinister.” There were a lot of posts questioning that sentence, (like, “why is that more sinister?”) and I replied to one of them saying “It isn’t, it is the lesser of two evils.”

      That comment got removed (and I think a LOT of others in the thread) and I got a three day suspension for advocating violence. Calling it evil is not advocating for it. It was brought on by an auto-mod, and the appeal was denied a little too quickly for me to believe it was actually seen by a real human, as they claim.

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      The shareholders don’t want actual controversial topics, only clickb ait controversial topics.

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    I got a 3 day ban because I said it would be cool if a white dude beat the shit out of this white lady who kept screaming racist remarks at a Spanish guy.

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      Temp bans now may results in permabans from the site now i noticed quite a few people posted that they were banned sitewide as soon as their bans lifted. Especially around the site wide purges that began since January

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        It seems that Admins do reviews of temp bans if you violate the most watched stuff you will be perm banned. The top reasons to get banned are violence, anything trans related that contradicts the reddit view of trans stuff, or incivility. Like name calling. Example would be you make a comment to OP or another user - “well you’re a fucking asshole”.

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      Come on, what’s not to understand about no violence. It doesn’t matter what the situation is. Could be factual or hypothetical you can’t endorse, call for, or even comment on any act of violence. The lucky ones get a temp ban. Most are simply permanently banned site wide

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        Her parents obviously either hit her too much or not enough, and we can’t undo stuff from the past, so the only answer is more violence. Just in case.