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Imagine my surprise reading this on the LA Times this morning (emphasis mine):

“I would not acknowledge reproduction as a human right, but instead as a form of rape,” IndictEvolution wrote on Lemmy.World in July 2023. “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely...”

Here is an archive of the article.

Here is his account.

It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn't provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don't specify.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 152 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not beating the Reddit.world accusations. 😏

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 91 points 3 days ago (32 children)

But have you considered .ML is evil tankie!?!!?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

"Tankies are a serious threat to domestic and international politics. Please ignore that only 1% of all people know what that is. Also let us actively keep a terrorist and retroactively remove their comments before it became news, because the FBI made us."

[–] coolusername@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

it's cool that Mali (.ml) is one of the Sahel states that's rejecting imperialism and ML also happens to stand for marxism-leninism

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 103 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

The next terrorist to come from lemmy better not be another edgy fash loser. Do better.

Must be pretty embarrassing for .ml that shitlib central got a terrorist before they did, ngl.

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[–] Staines@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

Lemmy.world? The instance of misanthropic baby killing terrorists?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 115 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)
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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Least fascist lemmy.world user 💀

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (18 children)

I think I am a world user, it was just the top of a drop down menu when I created my lemmy. God damn it.

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 92 points 3 days ago

A fascist on lemmy.world??? shocked-pikachu

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 59 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Oh fuck they’re going to call us all extremists

[–] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We'll have to push back with pointing to the decentralized nature of the fediverse, and that there's gonna be crazies on some instances. I always use email as an analogy when explaining Lemmy, maybe we could continue that and argue you wouldn't blame all of email infrastructure if an extremist had a gmail or Hotmail or whatever.

Actually now that I read that, it just might be more confusing. But there's gotta be a counter angle to argue to get ahead of people thinking "Lemmy=bad"

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also even if the cops shut down world, people will just … move. Like yours and my instances don't even have the word "lemmy" in the domain. I don't think anyone would care beyond "we shut down that radical forum."

Though most likely is it goes completely unnoticed and some bombing or shooting or human rights abuse next week will shoves it down the memory hole for good.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It would not bode well for the future of discourse if lemmy.world of all places gets shut down for radicalism. Our instance is significantly more radical than lemmy.world. Can you imagine some ecofascist idiot who posted on slrpnk.net a couple times committing a terror attack and getting the instance taken down? I can, which is why this news should be very concerning.

Edit: Just looked through some of the bomber's comments and their replies and some users even pointed out that his rhetoric was reminiscent of ecofascism. Anti-natalism and ecofascism are ideological siblings. The backlash to this attack is going to catch environmentalist groups in the crossfire, with many environmental activists being accused of having anti-natalist views. Anyone who's ever advocated for degrowth might get lumped in with them.

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 74 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lmao another victory for hexbear.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 68 points 3 days ago (10 children)

We lost "First Lemmy Instance to produce a Domestic Terrorist" tho

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 67 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Of course it's fash nonsense, too.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 63 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

here comes the influx of fascists i guess?

when they come looking for the dangerous hacker known as lemmy.world

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

lmao, the only mod action on his account was removing him as the mod of !antinatalism@lemmy.world three days ago, after he was already dead.

Which was the day after the bombing, FBI must have been up LW’s ass pretty quick.

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