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by Miner49er 1523 days ago
They cracked down on the baseball thing way before they got banned though; after they got quarantined. Yeah, they were saying killing slaveowners is good, but who doesn't think that? It's what the American Civil War was. It's self-defense, and no worse then everyone on reddit that is cheering for Ukraine to win the war against Russia (by killing Russian soldiers) or all the people that said what Kyle Rittenhouse did was good, or countless other calls for violence that occur on all types of subreddits.
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>They cracked down on the baseball thing way before they got banned though; after they got quarantined.

And the_donald literally disallowed submissions for months before being banned. When reddit has a sub in their sights, they will find a reason.

This defense falls apart once you remember that this is a pro-communist subreddit that believes 'wage slavery' is a thing. And besides, this is hardly the only instance where content that breaks the sitewide rules was left up by the mods even after being reported.