I didn’t compare a vaccine to an assassination attempt.

No, we did not. We are not restricting discussion (those are your words) because this is a life and death situation. We are requiring sources for life or death claims, and we are removing purely speculative and baseless assertions of fact, because this is a life and death situation.

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The Lemmy.World content policy prohibits advocacy of violence. We are enforcing the rules of Lemmy, not our own personal preferences. If you prefer an instance without such limitations, you are free to engage with another instance.

No, we are not. Our sidebar rules are posted and have not changed, nor have the rules of Lemmy.

Given the state of American discourse right now, I’m going to hard disagree with you there.

We remove comments that make objectively false claims, especially when they involve life or death situations. Covid misinformation is a good example.

If you have evidence that it was staged, feel free to share it. If you don’t, then we ask that you not speculate. It’s no different than any other claim for which we’d require a basic amount of credible substantiation.

No. I’m saying the risks of a contested convention turning sour are not what they were in 1968 when this happened.

I didn’t say anything about whether the party can or cannot afford to lose support.