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That was most definitely ironic, for the most part. Any irony on the internet attracts those that believe it un-ironically, however.
Yep. Consistent irony and in-jokes become real over time.
"Ha ha only serious."
Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
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Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
#472Never checked it out. Don't regret it
The problem with T_D was that it mainly functioned as an echo chamber. And I don't mean that as a liberal person just disagreeing with their politics - they'd literally ban and delete _anything_ even slightly critical of Trump.
When you cross that point, it just becomes another channel for propaganda. No different than what you'd see in actual dictatorships.
But that kind of culture / behavior is not unique to T_D, every time someone posted anything remotely critical of Bernie on /politics, they'd get downvoted at the speed of light. Same with pro-Biden threads before Sanders threw in the towel.
But T_D is probably the worst offender. It just functions as pro-Trump worship, and "owning the libs" memes. Everything else will get you banned.
Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
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As a trans person myself. All that subreddit did was target hate towards trans people. Anyone care to elaborate on what else they did with actual proof?
Asking for actual proof now is a bit of a tall bar since the subreddit is no longer accessible!
Oh I'm sorry that you don't know of https://archive.org/web
Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Both sides have free speech rights and both have outcomes that support that speech... Free speech has 2 distinct meanings: 1. The legal right to be free from government interference to most speech. 2. The cultural norm to tolerate speech you disagree with in order to foster political inclusion. You're correct under meaning 1; you're not correct under meaning 2.
This is correct, those two ideas are often mistaken for each other. Reddit is not a governmental entity, and as a private platform, has every right to decide what speech it will or will not publish. But we can wish that Reddit as a speech platform would embrace the principles of the First Amendment rather than suppressing all the speech it doesn't like.
> But we can wish that Reddit as a speech platform would embrace the principles of the First Amendment rather than suppressing all the speech it doesn't like.
That's easy to say when you aren't liable for any damages caused by said speech.
Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
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Would something decentralized help? I don't think people want that. The_Donald involved a lot of spreading their message / fake news sites / spamming across other subs and etc. Do people want to be on a platform where other folks on the same platform are targeting their community with dishonest and often bigoted content? I'm also not sure how much The_Donald was as a community. The sheer volume of users at its height…
>The_Donald involved a lot of spreading their message / fake news sites Like none one the cnn "news" stories on /world news aren't fake
I mean websites / twitter accounts that put out actual fake news as a matter of process.
I wasn't thinking of any of the major media outlets when I noted that.
Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
#476This final banning of /r/The_Donald is part of a concerted effort to eliminate any sense of normalcy for being pro-Trump. Even with no content for the past few months (after the mod removal), it stood out as a historical reference point to show thousands of people that supported Trump's 2016 campaign and presumably would continue to support him in 2020. They had a choice to leave it up and locked, but instead chose t…
Weird. If anything I'd be more prone to believe that The_Donald was some kind of false-flag operation used to make trump supporters look bad. I'm really surprised to see someone say that it made trump support look normal.
Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
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Just because something is hated by most of the left doesn't make it "not left".
As a trans person myself. All that subreddit did was target hate towards trans people. Anyone care to elaborate on what else they did with actual proof?
is it hateful to be skeptical of gender?
Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
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r/AHS staged a massive public brigading campaign in 2018 to get as many right-wing subreddits banned as possible.
> r/AHS staged a massive public brigading campaign in 2018 to get many HATE subreddits banned. FTFY.
So much of what the right says is perceived as hate by the left.
So much of what the left says is perceived as hate by the right.
Remember this every now and again when you're correcting others, because you might be wrong.
Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
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>And yet Reddit happily ignores vote brigading and other negative externalities from any subreddit that toes their party line, so it seems bizarre to single T_D out Do you have evidence for this, or is it just your gut feeling?
A counterpoint to the post: wasn't r/ShitRedditSays, a subreddit that repeatedly brigaded threads that had racist/bigoted comments, one of the first prominent subreddits to get in trouble for brigading?
What do you mean “get in trouble”? It still exists and doesn’t seem limited in any way...
Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
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/r/ConsumeProduct was antisemtic? I never saw that in the posts of theirs that made the front page. It was always memes about over-consumption, they might make fun of disposable make-up wipes for example ("And when you're done, just throw it away!" cue gallery yelling in a robotic voice: CONSUME PRODUCT ). Genuinely curious what the link to antisemitism is. Is the thought that consumerism = big business, and big busi…
I don't know how common it was, but I found this in the first comment section I looked: > Could it be the Chosenbergs? Although a small group, they seem to control the majority of US record labels, as well as the news outlets, the pharmaceutical companies, the bank institutions, the pornography industry, the entertainment industry, ect. (9 points, replying to "I wonder who runs these record labels?" which was setting…
I guess this is the risk of lurking the front page nowadays; Glancing at a subreddit's memes and never reading their comments apparently put me in the antisemtic camp.
Fuck the modern internet, I'm out.