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The original post by @spujb@lemmy.cafe was a woman wearing a shirt that says "Italians do it better". Someone asked what they do, and drag explained the joke as best as drag understood the intention, though drag disagrees that Luigi killed that CEO. It's not a call for violence, it's an explanation of a joke. Other people interpreted the joke the same way.

Less than an hour later, Flying Squid banned drag for that explanation, and for saying Luigi is not guilty. According to Flying Squid, referencing the CEO shooter case and saying Luigi didn't do it is a call for violence. Expressing support for Luigi Mangione is a bannable offense on LemmyShitpost.

EDIT: The Picard Maneuver responded to drag's appeal and reversed the ban. Drag will be deleting this post as it is no longer relevant to the current state of affairs on Lemmy Shitpost.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Joking or alluding to it is seemingly fine. Just don't straight up say "kill billionaires" like Drag, I guess. Because plenty of others, including myself, have been making jokes with the same sentiment and we're not banned nor have had our comments removed.

With the way Drag usually talks in 3rd person, I kinda feel like it's just an excuse to ban the dude because someone finds him annoying. This is also the first time I am seeing FlyingSquid being called out for banning someone, and it actually isn't just someone who said some bigoted shit and got mad at facing consequences.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, the ban reason looks like it was more of a final straw thing than specifically about that one comment.

I don't mind drag much, as long as I remember not to engage about some things. But they stir shit often enough I can imagine a mod just hitting a limit.

Fwiw though, eat the fucking rich doesn't work as well when they're running away, so you kinda gotta bring them down first ;)

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Kind of off topic, but he wasn't a billionaire. Not saying he was poor, he still has so much money that most of us will never see, but imagine that Elonia has 7,000 times more than him and still hangs out around trump to get even more.

The wealth inequality is crazy high right now.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

They are pretty annoying, to be fair, I can't blame Squid for having enough.