People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
In semi-related news, yesterday I got suspended for 3 days from !politics@lemmy.world for joking about the death of a billionaire and from !worldnews@lemmy.ml, also for 3 days, for airing misgivings about a collaboration between Chinese and Hungarian cops.
Some people really need to chill the fuck out π€¦
Getting banned from worldnews@lemmy.ml is incredibly easy as theyβre super sensitive about china and anything negative gets deleted or gets you banned. They love simping for prc/ccp and pretending theyβre not.
Yeah, the ban reason stated in the modlog was just one word: "Sinophobia" π
Sounds very familar to r/Sino. I wonder if there's any connection...
Afaik lemmy.ml and lemmingrad are both tankie as fuck
Some people on ml aren't (though many are. I'd say it's about a 70-30 split of moderately to far left sane people (70%) to actual tankies (30%) in my admittedly completely anecdotal experience.
Have yet to see anyone from lemmygrad who's NOT a tankie, though. It's a real shame since the name is a damn fine pun!
I almost made an account there because of that, before finding out that it's more than just a joke name lol
I have met maybe two or three other .ml users who know anything about contemporary leftist politics or political science in general. Even the moderates over there are just parroting the same century old orthodox dogma which has literally zero contemporary examples. "Haha mass murder is funny, violent cannibalism, why don't people like our message, they must be brainwashed, we will make them learn."
These are, by and large, people who seem to believe that Jacobin or the fucking Internationale suffers from a lack of edgy fan service.
To be fair, replying with I'll skin you alive is pretty extreme/completely unnecessary.
There's reasonable discourse and then there's just "Fuck you dumb idiot" type responses which add nothing to a conversation.
I'd consider his response pretty childish/immature although a less extreme version of it makes sense.
I think you have to know your audience. Hyperbolic threats of violence from someone I know isn't violent make me laugh, they are not mean, they are funny.
Also this guy is kinda known for fairly violent comedy videos, so "I'll skin you alive" is pretty tame for him.
For example he's created an ad that ended up being banned by the UK advertising watchdog, twice:
Adverts given the green light by Surfshark included gun violence, child death, and namedropping competitors
Source: indy100
This just tells me the guy is actually violent though. If he's literally getting banned for his stuff then he can say it's for comedy/meant to be funny, but he's missing the mark.
Complaining about being censored in this case isn't really valid as he's going over the line.
Why speculate when you can go and see for yourself what his content is like?
Well it's not violent from what I can see, but it's also not funny.
He hasn't posted in a while though, so I think I'd have to check out what he's like on twitter to see if he's turned into some erratic psycho.
That's his main channel with the higher production skits. There's also his side channel at https://youtube.com/@TomSkaAndFriends which has a lot of great content as well. If you don't find him funny, that's a valid opinion since we have different views on what's comedic. But assuming he's turned into some "erratic psycho" is just rude.
I'm just going off what he himself has posted.
Ultimately it may be completely out of context, but based purely on the small sample he appears a bit extreme. It's the problem with small snippets like this, and why you need to be careful with what you post.