On a real note, though: Instagram didn't notify me of my post's deletion up until one hour ago where they told me they reviewed it and allowed it back online. This makes me believe one thing: it was automatically taken down, due to the number of reports or something of that kind, and a special system activated where an Instagram employee needed to confirm it going back online. Automated, or third party. Something that isn't Instagram or one of its representatives / employees per se. An automated algorithm. Very very thankful for Mastodon automatically telling you when something happened. The work of our moderators can be intransparent, yes! However, never so intransparent that the platform doesn't even have control over what post is deleted. #PissGate

remember how they told us that North Korea was such a horrible dictatorship for if the people didn't mourn some random guy's death correctly they'd face consequences? yeah...

in the united states of america, you will lose your job if you don't cry about the passing of the president's favorite youtuber

Jimmy Kimmel Live has been indefinitely terminated as a show due to Kimmel's statements regarding the Kirk shooting.

“The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish [...]”

— Source: BBC, 2025.09.18

The first is a correct analysis of the Republican instrumentalization of Kirk's death, the second is poking fun at Trump for his terrible eulogy.

They are instrumentalizing this assassination, and they will go around on a killing spree, justifying the restructuring of universities, media, human (especially trans) rights, and basic government principles in his name.

First they came for the Kimmels, and I did not care, because I didn't find his jokes funny

Teachers, university professors, troops, talk show hosts and news reporters, or anyone with a publicly voiced opinion alike, are being forced into silence over rational statements.

From a government that formed under the pretext of claiming that “hate speech” doesn't exist, there's currently an awful lot of tone policing for when a fraction of their violence and indifference is applied to one of their figureheads.

It was always the goal to use the notion of freedom of expression as a Trojan horse for one's hatred against marginalized groups and their subjugation, never truly because so-called libertarians or conservatives believed in it. Free speech for me, but not for thee.

Did you notice that? It's been one week since the Kirk shooting, yet a decade passed.

Jimmy Fallon, like every comedian or political commentator, now needs to make points like a court jester to prevent being beheaded like Kimmel.

these transcripts are truly damning wow

we used to be a real country

so why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the podcaster died

These are the statements that got Jimmy Kimmel fired – a rational observation based on news reporting and a few jokes regarding Trump's indifference. Nothing new, except for a precedent.

Charlie Kirk has been nominated for the EU's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2025. We live in the dumbest timeline

@ErikUden I think Trump was nominated for the nobel peace prize.. a nomination doesn't mean much

Seeing Kirk's white privileged ass alongside Palestinian journalists as if his assassination or work is by any means comparable to the “mass assassination” (genocide) of the Palestinian people is another disrespect by the fascists of Europe I will never forgive them.

@eris2cats in the case of the EU, it needs at least 40 MEPs to make such a nomination. I know it means nothing, but just the idea makes me mad, which is what this is about.

@ErikUden Who?

@adipoeserPursch Banger

here's how you can make international headlines from the privacy of your own bedroom by offending the president of the United States of America

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