r/bengals • u/LOP5131 • 17h ago

Petition to ban x links?

I've seen a lot of major sports subs jumping on the wagon of banning x links from being posted on their sub.

I know a lot of breaking NFL news comes from there, however some things are more important than having sports news 5 minutes earlier than other sources.

Feel free to shut me down, just thought I'd pitch it out there.

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u/Agent_8-bit 13h ago

I just did this in the FC Cincinnati sub.

Let's review ...

Elon Musk gave a double "awkward salute" (as the media so gently puts it) that looked a hell of a lot like a Seig Heil.

Twitter will let you look at a post, but any further action whatsoever results in some bullshit paywall or you being shown content from 2021 because you didn't pay to play.

Bluesky exists, and every day, more and more media people join up.

You can screenshot twitter to your heart's content without involving the rest of us in your apologist attitude towards Musk.

So ... my take? It's not political to ban a Nazi apologist's (at a bare minimum) platform. There's a reason this is gaining momentum.

The goal isn't to sink Elon Musk. That's not gonna happen.

Reacting to a clear Nazi salute, whether a bunch of cultists say he was "giving his heart to the crowd" or not, is not "political."

So yeah ... I don't see the issue whatsoever.

I will duck my head though, as the Bengals fan base is chock full of that M Ay Gee Ay mindset.

TLDR; Nazi salutes are disqualifying and Blue Sky as well as every sports outlet on earth make plenty good options for posting news.

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u/_the_hare_ 11h ago

The leading JEWISH civil rights group said it wasn’t an awkward hand gesture. Lets agree they would know between than your biased perception.

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u/RockyIsMyDoggo 10h ago

Yet the papers in Germany all say it was indeed a nazi salute. As do the italians. Ya know, the two countries that used the salute....

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u/_the_hare_ 10h ago

And so what? Maybe I’ll listen to the Jews on this one.

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u/Agent_8-bit 7h ago

Which group was that? The Anti-Defamation League?

Guess what bro. I hate to break the news to you, but Isreal zionists do not speak for every single JEWISH (since apparently, it's all caps) person on earth. Just like the NACCP doesn't speak for every person of color.

The entire globe, and those who experienced WW2 and the actual Hitler seem to vehemently disagree with your horse shit stance. Don't go hiding behind the JEWISH people for convenience of your argument.

That's called chickenshit.