this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
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(reposted as the previous one still showed the "joke" thumbnail on my instance: https://lemmy.zip/post/17409989?scrollToComments=true)
Just saw the thumbnail from your instance, talk about bad taste. Edit: the programming.dev post is still showing up with the old thumbnail for me on fedia.io
Nah it was actually funny. Americans are hyper-sensitive when it comes to 9/11 but not the hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths your government has caused in the subsequent "war on terror".
European here and I still find it distasteful and unnecessary for a release announcement post. Since you've mentioned you'd like to mod !linux@programming.dev, I hope you won't be considered to mod this community.
New mods have already been added to the community
I don't think many people would find jokes about any mass murder in good taste.
I think you'll find most people dislike people getting murdered in general.