It's clearly against the guidelines to accuse someone of telling a "deliberate lie". None of us can know what they knew or sincerely believed when they wrote that comment.
As I've kept saying I agree that theirs was a bad comment and agree that it should be flagged and killed, but we need you to try harder to avoid personal attacks and escalatory rhetoric like this. You've been here a long time, we value your contributions and tolerate some boundary-pushing from you because we want a broad spectrum of views to be represented, but sometimes we have to say "enough". Please just do your part to make things better here not worse.
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
by torstenvl on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:48AM
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No. It isn't against the guidelines to call out a deliberate lie.
In fact, it's a deliberate lie on your part to say so. You know for an absolute fact it says no such thing.
Shame on you.
> Please just do your part to make things better here not worse.
I am. You are not. Learn to engage with genuine honesty or leave. Your behavior has no place here.
- he never called for the death of anyone
- claiming otherwise (despite apparently being familiar with his work) is a deliberate lie
- falsely claiming that someone is a mortal threat is "grist for the mill" for people with violent tendencies
None of the three components of what I said come anywhere close to violating the guidelines.
Perhaps you're not familiar with the idiom? "Grist for the mill" just means that something is useful for a particular motive, it doesn't suggest being in cahoots or any intent whatsoever. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grist%20for%20one...