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.

  • chillinit@lemmynsfw.com
    2·
    16 days ago

    It doesn’t make any sense. The government is lying to us.

    This is reasonable.

    Luigi didn’t do it.

    This is non-sequitur. He’s spoken only very briefly since he’s been arrested. But, that should be enough to know that he did that shit.

    The two alternative possibilities that stick out to me are: He couldn’t follow through with a planned suicide; He intended to be caught.