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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Just removed?
Not power tripping.
Is it debatable if the image is or isn't NSFL? Sure, but that's inherent to moderation; judgement calls suck to make, but they do need to be made quickly when something is sensitive.
I personally wouldn't have removed the post without also contacting the poster to repost with an nsfw tag, but it is well within acceptable limits to pull something fast when a shit storm starts brewing in comments. Ideal, no; but also not power tripping
Yeah, the general tenor of the lemmy.world pics community is to avoid politics (based on my read of their rules) so removing the post seems in line with that.
No, just hypocrisy
https://lemmy.world/post/43566016?scrollToComments=true
Correct: OP's mistake was in engaging with a community on .world in the first place.
I wonder if the bereaved parents consider the mass murder of their children “politics?”
I wonder if the bereaved parents approve of keyboard warriors just trying to outage farm their loved one's demise.
There are two genders. Male and political.
There are two sexualities. Straight and political.
There are two ethnicities. White and political.
There are two languages. English and political.
Calling other people’s lives and deaths political is a sign of highly ignorant privilege. Everyone should be outraged when others are written off as “political” any time their suffering is considered inconvenient or uncomfortable. Do better.
Look at me, ma! I'm doing so many mental gymnastics atop children's corpses!
They appreciate people exposing the west disgusting hypocrisy and usa/israel war crimes
Ah, is that what an overly generic photo that could be tied to anything from school shooting to getting a bloody nose is? Since you are so keen on putting on their corpses and wearing their skins, maybe you can tell me if they appreciate it more or less than Ali Khameni slaughtering their friends and families? Another mrdown original.
I am pretty sure that victims of Khamenei would also appreciate that we expose his crimes too. You are the one who want to hide crimes against humanity
Who do you think filmed Israel crimes to begin with? Yes, Iranians do you think they didn't film it for it to be shared and rise awareness about Israeli and American terrorism? You are in idiot
Maybe instead of gaslighting so much you should try to get help for that syndrome. Now go report me for what was clearly your own decision.
Your are projecting you are the one gaslighting
I'm a projection? That punctuation, those run on sentences... Let me guess, you are going to accuse me of gaslighting, actually bothering to type into a spellchecker this time, while immediately trying to gaslight me immediately afterwards in the same comment.
You are proving my point. You are gaslighting.
Back to the topic: why do you want to hide Israeli and American war crimes?