I never thought I’d side with Disney on anything, but then came Ron DeSantis. I never thought I’d side with Reddit mods on anything, but then came spez.
Makes sense to me. Humans are instinctively opposed to the stronger power when we preceive to have been wronged.
Governments vs business? Government is generally going to be on the losing end, unless the business is clearly in the wrong. (We’ll force government to give power to the people to fight back via unions, or corp wanting to defend the rights of the people when gov wants to restrict it).
Mods have often drawn a lot of ire from their communities, and often rightfully so. But this is business vs an unpaid volunteer. The winner is obvious unless there is some widely known extenuating circumstance or mods undermine the paradigm by upsetting the communities that need to support them.
I don’t want to dislike reddit. They have been better than most everyone else on a lot of things over the years, and having used it for 17 years I’ve seen the ups and downs personally. But things are very different now. They know they can’t win a PR battle, so they’re trying to diminish what’s going on, turn users against mods, and sweep it under the rug as quickly as possible.
Yeah, huh. It’s weird how that happened. Disney, ruiner of many small companies and destroyer of the purpose of copyright law on a deeply greedy level, goes against a sociopath nazi white nationalist, probably kkk.
Ten years ago, I liked Disney stuff but hated what they’ve done to the freedom of law and ruining the opportunities of many.
But here we are, post-2016 trump era, the world is way, way worse, and my activist political aunt was right.
She said to me, back then at a family get together after dinner, that electing trump is an extremely scary thing and would be bad.
I asked her what’s the worst that could really happen.
She kinda stared back at me, as if to gauge what to say. Then said that he was the type of person that brings all the awful things out from under their rocks, and told me to keep my eyes open and pay attention, because if he got elected, the next 4 years will be the type of history that only happens once in a lifetime.
She was 100% serious, as if she could see the future. But she was just in her 60s, big gay, from DC, and confident and loud. I can still see the the look of dread and sorrow on her face as she said that to me, and I doubt I’ll ever forget it.
Power typically begets more power, and the only way to fix it is to forcefully bend it to your will over and over again. I can’t believe Disney is where our trust is for civil rights, but, I guess it can always be worse and Disney knows that and is using us for support. It’s not great.
Fuck spez.
It’s like boomer sociopaths grew old enough in their time, and were like “yeah, ruin everything, yeah yeah”. But then millennial sociopaths grew old enough and are now like, “hold my coke…” Can we reign this shit in for the future generations at least? Because it’s awful.
She kinda stared back at me, as if to gauge what to say. Then said that he was the type of person that brings all the awful things out from under their rocks, and told me to keep my eyes open and pay attention, because if he got elected, the next 4 years will be the type of history that only happens once in a lifetime.
Your aunt was right, but there is a positive force to this happening. It’s like boiling chicken stock. It raises the scum to the top which makes it easier to remove. While it stirred up a mess for us, that mess was always there. Now we can at least easily spot it and collectively work towards removing it.
I never thought I’d side with Disney on anything, but then came Ron DeSantis. I never thought I’d side with Reddit mods on anything, but then came spez.
The sad moral of your story seems to be “there’s always a bigger asshole”
This is why things like antitrust law and inheritance tax are important: to esablish and maintain limits on the size and power of assholes.
Makes sense to me. Humans are instinctively opposed to the stronger power when we preceive to have been wronged.
Governments vs business? Government is generally going to be on the losing end, unless the business is clearly in the wrong. (We’ll force government to give power to the people to fight back via unions, or corp wanting to defend the rights of the people when gov wants to restrict it).
Mods have often drawn a lot of ire from their communities, and often rightfully so. But this is business vs an unpaid volunteer. The winner is obvious unless there is some widely known extenuating circumstance or mods undermine the paradigm by upsetting the communities that need to support them.
I don’t want to dislike reddit. They have been better than most everyone else on a lot of things over the years, and having used it for 17 years I’ve seen the ups and downs personally. But things are very different now. They know they can’t win a PR battle, so they’re trying to diminish what’s going on, turn users against mods, and sweep it under the rug as quickly as possible.
Yeah, huh. It’s weird how that happened. Disney, ruiner of many small companies and destroyer of the purpose of copyright law on a deeply greedy level, goes against a sociopath nazi white nationalist, probably kkk.
Ten years ago, I liked Disney stuff but hated what they’ve done to the freedom of law and ruining the opportunities of many.
But here we are, post-2016 trump era, the world is way, way worse, and my activist political aunt was right.
She said to me, back then at a family get together after dinner, that electing trump is an extremely scary thing and would be bad.
I asked her what’s the worst that could really happen.
She kinda stared back at me, as if to gauge what to say. Then said that he was the type of person that brings all the awful things out from under their rocks, and told me to keep my eyes open and pay attention, because if he got elected, the next 4 years will be the type of history that only happens once in a lifetime.
She was 100% serious, as if she could see the future. But she was just in her 60s, big gay, from DC, and confident and loud. I can still see the the look of dread and sorrow on her face as she said that to me, and I doubt I’ll ever forget it.
Power typically begets more power, and the only way to fix it is to forcefully bend it to your will over and over again. I can’t believe Disney is where our trust is for civil rights, but, I guess it can always be worse and Disney knows that and is using us for support. It’s not great.
Fuck spez.
It’s like boomer sociopaths grew old enough in their time, and were like “yeah, ruin everything, yeah yeah”. But then millennial sociopaths grew old enough and are now like, “hold my coke…” Can we reign this shit in for the future generations at least? Because it’s awful.
Your aunt was right, but there is a positive force to this happening. It’s like boiling chicken stock. It raises the scum to the top which makes it easier to remove. While it stirred up a mess for us, that mess was always there. Now we can at least easily spot it and collectively work towards removing it.
Sadly trump is not likily to be once he may be back by end of next year