So here’s what just happened.

I called a public figure who spends her days creating resentment by labeling people “fascists” a “plastic-faced communist goblin.” Facebook took it down for “harassment and bullying.”

Meanwhile she can say JD Vance needs “pistols firing at all times” toward him, call him a racist, a failed drag queen, a man who isn’t fit to be a father, and an Anti-Christ-style sociopath, and the same platform shrugs and leaves it up.

The difference? She has a fan club of people who treat the report button like a participation trophy. They mass-report anything that stings, and Meta’s reviewers—operating under rules that are “applied equally,” except when they’re not—decide that mocking someone’s face, despite the fact that she obviously got plastic surgery (making “plastic-faced” an observation—the one claim that can actually be verified by looking at her face), is a grave offense, while weaponized rhetoric about a sitting vice president is just spicy podcast content.

This is what you get when enforcement is complaint-driven and one side treats every disagreement as a community standards violation. The rules are written in neutral language. The outcomes are not.

One side’s violence-inducing rhetoric stays up because the reviewer agrees with the diagnosis, so calling JD Vance a racist failed-drag-queen Anti-Christ is perfectly tolerable, but calling a hateful woman a plastic-faced goblin, now that’s over the line.

The other side’s insults disappear because the report queue is full of people who view political mockery as violence, but shooting a CEO in the back or the murder of a young father who is effective at changing the minds of young people away from hateful leftism is “celebration time.”
An actual political assassination gets a shrug and a “context” essay.

It’s asymmetric energy. One group has the time and the incentive to police speech, and those reviewing the cases ideologically side with them. The other group is busy generating the wealth the Commies want to take away; if you protest too much, they shoot you. You know, advocating “pistols firing at all times” can produce that, almost as much as calling someone a plastic-faced goblin.

Platforms notice which side generates the tickets, and the employees allow coded leftist calls for violence through without a second thought, because apparently we need more Charlie Kirk shooters, but calling a hateful woman “plastic faced” is way over the line.

And then they wonder why half the country thinks the moderation is a joke. Half the country already knows the moderation is a joke. The other half is still reporting the punchline.