Post had nothing to do with murder or violence. It is clear who reddit serves.

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    Let’s not play dumb. Evoking the image of Luigi is in itself a gesture towards violence. That’s the point. Why discuss billionaires and show a picture of Luigi instead of Mary Poppins? Because of what Luigi did and what he represents. It’s implying a desirable solution.

    It’s bullshit that Reddit removes this stuff, and it reveals where their loyalties lie, but we’re not on Reddit anymore.

    Stop acting like a conservative and just say what you mean.

    Or maybe act more like a conservative and obscure your viewpoints more so they don’t get banned. Let’s go Mary Poppins memes.

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      This is beyond the tipping point where selective enforcement shows it face. If this is crossing the line practically any picture of politician or historical figure is inciting violence.

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        THIS is key. they choose to take down the threat they’re most threatened by. trouble with removing other public figures is that no one is posting gengis khan memes about ceos. and we don’t know luigi for anything but his one thing.

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      I, personally, have no problem with violence against rich people.

      If they’re not making an honest effort to redistribute their wealth to those who need it, then they are part of a system that enables the most human suffering in history: exacerbating the disparity in wealth.

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        that’s cool, thanks for sharing, not really relevant to the point I’m making though. I’m just saying stop pretending like you feel otherwise when you post luigi

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      So we should use the image of Mary Poppins, but really everyone knows we mean Luigi but can do sweet FA about it? Not a bad idea.

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      Luigi is “bad” violence but promoting the violent annexation of Canada is not? Give me a break.

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      Why Mary Poppins? Luigi the Nintendo character is right there.

      Either it works, or Nintendo starts getting their stuff taken down by Reddit… in which case I wouldn’t want to be in Spez’s shoes.

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      Yeah, it’s disingenuous to claim that they aren’t implicitly supporting what Luigi is alleged to do with this post.