There's a difference between "the FBI is watching this person because they present a real or at least realistic threat" and "social media ratting someone out to the state bcs of a joke".
Idgaf how poor you find the taste of the joke, nobody deserves to be questioned under those circumstances.
Someone says they approve of the thought police, that person should have the entire contents of every device they own made public. Every mother fucking time.
I mean that's kind of how it works
And since you didn't immediately follow that with "and that's why the entire worthless system needs to be dismantled with prejudice" I stopped reading.
That being "how it works" is a part of the problem.
Cool, I hope the thought police come for you someday.
Not as deep rooted as the person who thinks AI snitching and automated police response to a private conversation is ok.
I hope the thought police come for you one day. And I hope absolutely nobody lifts a finger to help you because they don't approve of whatever you were doing that the thought police came after you for.
Funny is subjective.
This was a joke, and so is your bullshit attempt to justify punishing thoughtcrime.
You’re going on about bootlickers
If it bothers you so much maybe stop deepthroating that boot for a minute so we can talk.
the entire point of my post was about teachers should not be making any comments, whatsoever, about shooting a kid.
The entire point of your post was that thoughtcrime is totally valid and should be punishable with state violence and enforced poverty. That makes you a useful idiot for fascism and just a generic idiot for everyone else.
can’t believe how wrong some of you Lemmy people are about this whole thing and the critical thinking you all are applying
Maybe you should try some critical thinking of your own then, and realize that thoughtcrime is never a valid concept.
A teacher joking about shooting a student is no more horrible, nor any less likely than an ER doc joking about motorcyclists being "walking organ donors". Cops showing up because an AI ratted out a joke someone made in private is 1000 times more horrific and dangerous than someone making a joke you think is over the line.
By the way, do you need a hug?
No, I need a world where "but it's to protect kids!" doesn't automatically make most people just happily accept any idiocy the speaker wants to assert.
Any restriction on your freedom to say offensive shit must be fascism, right?
Not what I said. But any restriction that leads to law enforcement intervention without a person complaining damn sure is.
Couldn't you just fuck-off into the woods and enjoy all your freedoms alone?
No, and fuck you for asking. If I have to share the planet with a bunch of copsucking shitbags who believe in thoughtcrime for dead baby jokes but people saying the most horrifically racist, sexist, or homophobic bullshit is just the price of free speech, you can suck it up and deal with there being people out there who can tell the difference between "popular" and "right".
I’d rather everyone be safe.
Everyone except anyone who's made a joke you personally find distasteful, apparently.
When the thought police come for you, I hope no one lifts a finger.
Yes the fuck it should if it was said in a private message to close friends.
You wanna open up your DMs on every platform for people to fish through? I'm sure we can find a few things you've said that the majority of people would agree aren't ok things to say.
I believe there are a few things you simply shouldn't joke about
And I believe that belief makes you a dangerous idiot who'll happily support Fascism.
No.
If you think there's anything acceptable about arresting someone and nuking their career over a joke made in a private forum, you are the one with no business being anywhere near kids. You won't teach them anything except how to be good subservient little serfs for their corporate masters, and that's the last thing any kid needs to hear more of.
Please consider another career. I hear the military is a great place for bootlickers. And with your contempt for freedom and privacy you'd probably make a great cop.
The system can't be fixed, it's working exactly as intended. All of what you've said in multiple comments now seems to be repeating platitudes created to obfuscate that fact. I've been "part of the system". I spent a decade as first a volunteer then a paid campaign staffer, I know whereof I speak when I say that voting will never change anything that matters, because the choices you get to vote for are filtered for loyalty to the ruling class before you ever get to hear their names.
The system must be completely torn down, and the people who the current system serves will absolutely unleash all the violence the Empire can muster to prevent that. Any milquetoast "solution" that depends on voting for the candidates put forward by either of the parties that serve that ruling class is not a solution, it's a trap to get you to waste your time and energy while ensuring you keep enough faith in the system to prevent you from revolting or doing anything that might actually affect the status quo.