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Also a major problem, which people rightly condemn.
It is Admiral Patrick's fault for the rules being bad. The whole threadiverse could share those expectations, and they'd still be bullshit.
The man expected people to meet threats of violence from power without so much as harsh language. He'd blacklist everyone who touched the wrong comment. And apparently he took no joy in that. Presumably Dessalines gets a kick out of calling everyone sinophobic bootlickers. It might be why Lemmy exists. Admiral Patrick was horrified every time someone regarded a Nazi the same way that Nazi regards half of America.
The US government is gleefully bragging how they'll round up sixty-five million people, and this dude expected cocktail-party manners, in a crowd rife with potential victims. Lemmy's userbase is 90% in the first three "then they came fors."
The cult of civility is a failure of moderation. It pretends there's no good reason to treat someone badly. From anti-carcerial anarchist Quakers, I would at least respect self-consistency, but I think this schmuck's a progressive liberal like myself. Yet his response was never a grudging 'I can't let you say that.' It was always a harsh and unironic 'How dare you.' Big surprise he burned out. He set himself up to fail by having a worldview that collided with reality and zero chill.