Calls to violence are appearing on the conspiracy subreddit over a gun order from New Mexico’s governor::Users on the “r/conspiracy” subreddit, a prominent message board for conspiracy theorists, have repeatedly issued calls for violence in response to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issuing a temporary ban on carrying guns in public in parts of the state. In response to the order, users on the subreddit suggested that the governor’s order is “how you get assassinated”; suggested that someone should “use[] their gun” to stop the order; called for the governor to be “hung for treason” or “tar[red] and feather[ed]”; threatened “civil war”; and called for militias in the state “to be mobilized.” This violent rhetoric is on the subreddit despite Reddit’s policy barring content that “encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual (including oneself) or a group of people.”

    • @SupraMario
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      -111 year ago

      Normal day on Reddit you mean…even left subs do this shit. Hell you can go to any left sub right now and people are wanting musk killed or tried for treason as well. It’s not new.

      • @doublejay1999
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        71 year ago

        Wanting him charged and tried is not the same as saying he should be shot. Good try though .

        • @SupraMario
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          -41 year ago

          You must be blind, people want him dead as well. Hell there are antiwork subs that have people saying we should hunt the rich. This isn’t news, it’s the Internet being the Internet.