Oh, ok, so then it is in fact an incitement to violence. Isn’t that swell, we aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.

Then what’s the way forward? Jan 6 V2 but this time it’s left wing people instead? Ok, then what? You can storm in and overthrow all the evil geriatrics and install the utopian government of your dreams, but then what do you do about the 50% of constituents who oppose that move?

The bedrock of democracy is compromise. If you seize power and install a government that works to further your interests and not strike balance between your interests and their interests, you’re an authoritarian in disguise.

What “grand action” do you suppose is appropriate in this scenario? I seem to recall some people taking a grand action on January 6, 2021 also. What separates them from you, besides their radically different ideology?

That’s not the right way.

I read “I’m all for imprisoning people who don’t call me by the names I want them to.”

That’s a dangerous line of thinking, friend.

Because of the Implication!

Police are people too, but even on a subconscious level no one in the public is really going to treat them that way. It’s impossible to treat someone who can theoretically decide your fate on a whim as an equal. The badge gives them control over you, to the extent that it’s difficult to even have a casual conversation with them for fear of accidentally revealing something about yourself that you don’t want them to know.

When it comes to de-escalation, it’s even harder, since someone who is in a highly aggressive or stressful situation understands their freedom or even life may be on the line and is that much more likely to act in an irrational way. It’s the same effect you see when you back an animal into a corner. They’ll snap at you and fight for their life even if it’s obvious they won’t come out on top.

Moral righteousness has never been a consideration, militarily speaking.

So the solution is to rear a generation of children who believe violence, riots, revolutions, and coup-d’etat is the solution for social change? Because the big problem you are glossing over is that these changes throughout history essentially all involved violence to some degree.

As horrible as that seems, at least the AI might be impartial and non-partisan when it comes to levying bans, unlike Reddit admins who will ban you even if you didn’t break any rules at all, as long as they disagree with your opinion.