Have seen a few posts popping up recently just straight up calling fo violence barely disguised as memes

Had thought Lemmy had chilled out a bit on that kinda thing for a while but seems to be coming back now

Anyone else noticing the same or just me?

    • m-p{3} ( mp3@lemmy.ca ) 
      21·
      2 years ago

      how people celebrated Bin Laden’s death

      Ouch, some deep introspection is required if you get to a point in life where you, being an insurance CEO and being killed lead to the same kind of mob reactions as Bin Laden’s death.

    • PonyOfWar ( PonyOfWar@pawb.social ) 
      13·
      2 years ago

      I think most people are more like saying “LOL” at what happened rather than “Lets kill [insert person name here]”.

      I’ve definitely seen quite a few memes that were like “Here are the names and faces of a few other health insurance CEOs. No particular reason ;)”. But yeah it’s probably not most.

      • Vanth ( Vanth@reddthat.com ) English
        8·
        2 years ago

        Fascinating. Are you in the US?

        I could not have avoided knowing about it. Even if I were to stay off the internet completely, it has been a major conversation topic in real life with friends and family. My work has BCBS health insurance coverage so when they were dropping coverage for anesthesia, all casual conversations at work with colleagues were about it too. I couldn’t have avoided it if I actively tried.

  • folaht ( folaht@lemmy.ml ) 
    10·
    2 years ago

    I say it’s getting less radical when 20 years ago a country got invaded, a million killed, based on nothing but lies and no one bat an eye on any forum.

  • Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) English
    9·
    2 years ago

    Yes and no.

    There are more calls for violence, yes.

    But a lot of people on Lemmy have a lot of catching up to do in understanding the world, nuances and getting rid of outdated and harmful thinking stagnated by clinging onto certain ideologies and belief systems.

    That would be way more ‘radical’ than just violence alone.

  • mke_geek ( mke_geek@lemm.ee ) 
    4·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy seems to have more crazies on it lately who are advocating for murder of innocent people just because they don’t like them.

    Reddit sucks and now Lemmy is going down the tubes. Hopefully these people either get banned or Lemmy servers that advocate for senseless violence get shut down.

      • mke_geek ( mke_geek@lemm.ee ) 
        2·
        2 years ago

        It’s not oversimplified.

        What’s next? The guy who runs the corner gas station sells cigarettes at his store. Cigarettes are addictive and known to cause cancer. So this means the guy who owns the gas station should get murdered?

        What about the CEOs of the gun companies? Should they get murdered because they put out a product that people use to kill others?

        • Tiefling IRL ( tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
          5·
          2 years ago

          What’s next? The guy who runs the corner gas station sells cigarettes at his store. Cigarettes are addictive and known to cause cancer. So this means the guy who owns the gas station should get murdered?

          He’s not the one making them, the cigarette companies are

          What about the CEOs of the gun companies? Should they get murdered because they put out a product that people use to kill others?

          [Censored]

    • Catoblepas ( Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
      6·
      2 years ago

      Where do you think they got the $10 million/year to pay this man? Who do you think instituted a policy to use AI for approvals/denials, which resulted in a 90% false rejection rate? What’s crazy is acting like the murder of thousands of people through denial of medical care for money, if done from a sufficient distance, is somehow less abhorrent than doing it up close and with a gun.

      Expecting people who have either been directly impacted or had family medical care impacted by the policies of this man to show sympathy for him isn’t just unrealistic, it’s deranged. Considering United is one of the largest insurance companies in the US, that’s a lot of fucking people who are at best apathetic about the whole situation.

      Obligatory ‘I suspect some people who can’t read might reply to this’ disclaimer: obviously you shouldn’t murder people. Including if you’re a healthcare CEO and it’s done by setting policies to squeeze the maximum profit out of people before they die.

      • mke_geek ( mke_geek@lemm.ee ) 
        1·
        2 years ago

        This is why people are celebrating. They didn’t like the person who was killed. They certainly wouldn’t celebrate if someone didn’t like one of their friends and their friend was murdered.

        • Linktank ( Linktank@lemmy.today ) 
          0·
          2 years ago

          Your words are in human english, but your sentiment is that of some sort of unfeeling golem.

          It’s not only normal and OKAY to dislike evil money hoarding capitalist oligarchs, but it is our duty for the sake of the future of humanity.

          Your defense of these “people” is quite disgusting. If you don’t have 10+ million dollars you should be on the side that is rooting for a better future, not the side building underground bunkers and setting the air on fire.

          It makes me not like you either.

          • mke_geek ( mke_geek@lemm.ee ) 
            1·
            2 years ago

            So what, because you don’t like me, you’re going to murder me like the CEO was murdered? We just get to murder anyone we don’t like now and it’s somehow okay???

            THAT’S the disgusting attitude, not someone who believes that people shouldn’t murder others.

  • Glide ( Glide@lemmy.ca ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    Yes, but, see everyone else’s statements.

    Also, lemmy.ml is widely seen as a very radical instance. The polarization and downvoting for contrary opinions is far worse around here.