I wasn’t sure if this was misinformed satire or satire of misinformed satire, but looking at OP’s profile shows they really don’t have any comprehension of reality or morality. Or their ardent and constant defense of the indefensible and provocative, especially in places wherein it would be coldly received, could theoretically be an intentional provocation by a larger maligned entity that seeks to promote deceptive and derisive propaganda. Theoretically. Or they could be an out of touch individual. Theoretically.

Much of the US is not dense, so many people have to drive to get places. In my experience, most areas don’t have the infrastructure for cars + pedestrians + cyclists, let alone just cars + pedestrians. The few places that do intermingle all three do so in a way which is very overwhelming for drivers. Cyclists also tend to travel either too slow for cars to maneuver around or too fast for cars to notice them coming. Like motorcycles, their small size also makes them hard to notice or keep track of while driving, and they don’t make the volume of noise that motorcycles do which helps with noticing them.

(Allegedly)

Omg that helped so much, thank you

“Do you, the people, really believe that Donald Trump would have sexual relations with an adult?”

Honestly how bad must Hillary’s head game be if you’re not sated by Lewinsky and you find yourself going to Trump instead

I mean, Mary was supposedly around age 14 when she gave birth to Jesus. I wouldn’t consider a 14 year old to yet be a woman.

I’m not being any more pedantic than Shakespeare’s Macduff.

I heard on the radio that bacteria is what killed the Martians

That is the definition of enshittification… right? I don’t know, I can’t check

I can tell you copy and pasted part of my comment because I am possibly the biggest stickler in the world for grammatically-correct-but-still-parsable unusual singular and plural forms of nouns in my formal-ish writing, in this case “agendum”.

Detrimental

On social media like Reddit, unnecessary censorship is often used as engagement bait. As far as I am aware, comments on the Threadiverse (a broader term than just “Lemmy”) only boosts posts upward in the Active category rather than in the Hot category, so that form of engagement bait uniquely does not really work here. Additionally, bots on Reddit would repost (either from old Reddit posts or directly from the source social medium) screenshots of tweets with the username edited to a different user, sometimes even celebrities, to bypass image recognition filters.

In my mind, it’s always best to cite your source if you can. However, if you can separate the self-focused fluff (if there is any) from the actual content, that would be even better. An example of this is a screenshot of a TikTok with a paragraph of soapbox text located near the content creator’s face; we don’t need the excess focus on the clout-chasing, so cropping the image to just their paragraph (assuming it is an original quote) and citing the creator would be better in that case.

On another sidenote, unlike Reddit, you can edit your posts here to change the image in the post.

Why censor username?

Do you have links to any examples? I can’t say I’ve seen a whole lot of what you’re describing apart from a few isolated posts or comments here or there. I’d suggest checking to see if a significant portion of these posts are coming from a specific community or from a specific instance, and then adjusting your blocks to accommodate.

P.S. Since we’re on the topic, I’m not a bot; I just talk and write like this.

P.P.S. That’s not entirely true. I would have written “I’m not a bot—I just talk and write like this.” but it didn’t seem like an appropriate time to use an em dash.

Edit: after looking through OP’s profile and seeing a couple of apparently AI-generated posts, I’m starting to think that this post is also AI-generated or that OP has some weird false flag-esque agendum that they’re up to

Edit 2: the banner picture on their profile literally reads “LLM❤️”. They are a troll spam account.

puts on tinfoil hat For the entirety of his journeys, Spock uses his telepathic powers off camera to manipulate his starship captains as useful idiots that can take the fall for any error while he executes his personal agendum

puts on a second, larger tin foil hat All of the Vulcans are actually using their telepathy to puppeteer humankind to remotely fulfill their own agendum

puts on a third, even larger tinfoil hat The Talosians are actually using their telepathy to puppeteer Vulcankind into puppeteering humankind to remotely fulfill their agendum

What does a starship captain want with a meme?

I can’t do a thought police, but that is categorically what cults do. It’s not thought policing to advise people to be wary of thought policing or to promote scientific literacy and empathy.

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Yeah, the situation got resolved when harm came in. You gotta commit an actual crime to be punished right?

I was meaning more so addressing the beliefs in absurdities before they result in committing atrocities, to paraphrase Voltaire.

How do you suggest we go about doing that?