Yea a good deal of transitional writing is gone, thankfully for the right as well with the ban hammer going to darkhumorandmemes and thedonald, less people going down the fascism rabbit hole
The truth is banning thedonald at this point is a meaningless PR gesture. The mods locked it months ago to force users to migrate to their .win website replacement and most of the users either moved to that or simply moved to the /r/conservative sub or any number of other large and long-existing reactionary communities where they continue to spew fascism and reactionary thought freely without worry. The unfortunate fact is the problems with reddit go deep, any given meme sub is often easily infiltrated and subverted by them, they walk freely among the young in subs such as the teenager sub, and so on.
Look no further than how huge the pewdiepie memes sub is and he’s pretty much a nazi with a mask half on as are many of his fans.
Yup. Which makes this just an excuse to ban CTH, the only really popular sub still in use in that list.
Reddit sits firmly in the silicon valley coastal elite democratic party camp, so while you might not see neo-nazi stuff on the front page as much since TD self-migrated, we’ll still see rampant xenophobia and racism, particularly against the US’s current enemies, China and Russia.
The state of the ramp-up of anti-China propaganda for the new cold war is truly nauseating on the rest of Reddit. It’s enabling and drumming up more and more open (and state dept sanctioned) racism from your Democratic party affiliated liberals. That’s another tragedy because CTH and the mod team (well at least one active mod) were active in pushing back against the anti-China circle-jerk and pointing out the manipulation and invention of this evolving reality. And they never really tolerated people spouting the Russia-gate hysteria.
I think the founder of reddit and current CEO is a reactionary in the libertarian vein and the site reflects that. He obviously and publicly doesn’t like Trump but well the biggest sub on reddit for years was the jailbait sub and if you look at all the hate that is permitted and how they only really take actions against violent fascists when their activities get them on the news (or are very likely to) it is clear he either has some sort of warped semi-absolutist* view of free speech (which excludes violence or strenuous and “uncivil” speech of course in favor of a false peace that favors fascists and capital, the current established structure of power) or is genuinely just playing politics and trying to encourage a site with mildly reactionary, pro-capitalist tendencies and only acts to prune his garden when the vines start getting too close to choking his ad money off or killing the site or its ability to grow.
That’s what’s so bad about reddit, the insidiousness of it, just beneath the outcroppings of violent white supremacy that are intermittently pruned and beneath the liberals who hold sway over the biggest subs lies this wild forest of racism, misogyny, white privilege, and reactionary tendencies that comes out on command for China or around BLM when they make demands for more than token action.
I didnt think of it that way, thank you for telling me as I didnt know the whole story. I was more looking on the bright side but now I see it really is a thinly vailed mask to silence the leftist community on their site.
Yea a good deal of transitional writing is gone, thankfully for the right as well with the ban hammer going to darkhumorandmemes and thedonald, less people going down the fascism rabbit hole
The truth is banning thedonald at this point is a meaningless PR gesture. The mods locked it months ago to force users to migrate to their .win website replacement and most of the users either moved to that or simply moved to the /r/conservative sub or any number of other large and long-existing reactionary communities where they continue to spew fascism and reactionary thought freely without worry. The unfortunate fact is the problems with reddit go deep, any given meme sub is often easily infiltrated and subverted by them, they walk freely among the young in subs such as the teenager sub, and so on.
Look no further than how huge the pewdiepie memes sub is and he’s pretty much a nazi with a mask half on as are many of his fans.
Yup. Which makes this just an excuse to ban CTH, the only really popular sub still in use in that list.
Reddit sits firmly in the silicon valley coastal elite democratic party camp, so while you might not see neo-nazi stuff on the front page as much since TD self-migrated, we’ll still see rampant xenophobia and racism, particularly against the US’s current enemies, China and Russia.
The state of the ramp-up of anti-China propaganda for the new cold war is truly nauseating on the rest of Reddit. It’s enabling and drumming up more and more open (and state dept sanctioned) racism from your Democratic party affiliated liberals. That’s another tragedy because CTH and the mod team (well at least one active mod) were active in pushing back against the anti-China circle-jerk and pointing out the manipulation and invention of this evolving reality. And they never really tolerated people spouting the Russia-gate hysteria.
I think the founder of reddit and current CEO is a reactionary in the libertarian vein and the site reflects that. He obviously and publicly doesn’t like Trump but well the biggest sub on reddit for years was the jailbait sub and if you look at all the hate that is permitted and how they only really take actions against violent fascists when their activities get them on the news (or are very likely to) it is clear he either has some sort of warped semi-absolutist* view of free speech (which excludes violence or strenuous and “uncivil” speech of course in favor of a false peace that favors fascists and capital, the current established structure of power) or is genuinely just playing politics and trying to encourage a site with mildly reactionary, pro-capitalist tendencies and only acts to prune his garden when the vines start getting too close to choking his ad money off or killing the site or its ability to grow.
That’s what’s so bad about reddit, the insidiousness of it, just beneath the outcroppings of violent white supremacy that are intermittently pruned and beneath the liberals who hold sway over the biggest subs lies this wild forest of racism, misogyny, white privilege, and reactionary tendencies that comes out on command for China or around BLM when they make demands for more than token action.
I didnt think of it that way, thank you for telling me as I didnt know the whole story. I was more looking on the bright side but now I see it really is a thinly vailed mask to silence the leftist community on their site.
Best to have saved a copy of good posts on your own devices
Try various reddit copying or archive sites if you kept the links somewhere