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Do people really unironically believe that?
That's pretty disingenuous, considering that the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is currently headline news.
But as it is, it's unclear who won the election without fraud.
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That's pretty disingenuous, considering that the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is currently headline news.
“Attack”? With no weapons?
"More than 250 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement who were trying to protect the Capitol, including more than 85 accused of using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer. Others have been accused of assaulting members of the media, including one Associated Press photographer, or destroying media equipment."
A trivial google search turns up this newsweek article, which lists half a dozen people indicted for firearms, including one who also had more guns than he could wield himself as well as molotov cocktails stashed in his van. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-were-there-armed-protest...
I hate how many online communities have centralized themselves around reddit and discord. I'm involved a lot of communities and fandoms where everybody congregates on those two platforms, and those two platforms alone. Things were a lot better in the 00s when these sorts of communities existed primarily on webforums. That said, I'm not sure how many of the problems are problems with reddit itself vs how many of the p…
I mean sooo many things are centralizing around Discord now which is just as bad—except its worse since it can't be indexed by search engines. I appreciate that most big-enough programming language communities offer a Discourse which is self-hosted and you can choose to subscribe and reply in many manners.
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The problem with Reddit is that they banned unilaterally the right wing.
Because the right wing were organising insurrections?
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Yeah, that’s a lie. Try having what used to be the standard opinion about a certain topic less than 10 years ago and expect to be banned. Not just by moderators but by admins.
Give an example - you can do that here.
1: https://old.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/vjpvsa/in_honor_of...
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One word: transgender. Any light criticism or joke results in a subreddit and site wide ban.
There is an entire and big-ish sub (I forgot its name) which basically just bans anything that mentions the word "trans", doesn't matter if it's a positive mention or a negative one, just straight up ban. It's not that they are pro or against the trans issue (they're an "edgy" sub, that I do remember), it's just that the mods don't want their sub getting nuked by the admins and, as such, staying as far as possible fr…
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Honestly, I'm not sure if anyone is really interested in advice from someone who somehow managed to get permabanned on reddit.
Yes, being permabanned on some Internet discussion forum is the single defining characteristic of a human being! Off to the Gulag with him and shame him whenever he speaks up! /s
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Why would it not have a definition? Here's one. "Woke": an extreme form of contradictory progressivism popularized in the 2010s, which favors censorship and ostracization over intellectual engagement. The idea that you can't define it is an example of the dynamics at play. The notion that non-woke people know exactly what's going on is unbearable to the woke. It implies that they are not at all "changing the status q…
The point being that was a definition pulled out of your ass that not everyone shares, and then you got on a soap box of opinion-based nonsense that you "feel" is right. You are speaking from nowhere but an emotional place and trying to dress it up in pseudo-intellectual analyses of the state of the world, and it shows. For some, the term Woke goes no farther than "they cast a black person in this movie."
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I'm permabanned from Reddit, as in all my accounts (yes, I let it get so bad I had multiple accounts) and any new accounts (yep... tried making more) are banned based on previous logins and IPs (they're actually pretty thorough with it). Some mods are power tripping, but also the value of a user is now near-zero. As long as you don't piss off too many, your subreddit will be fine. Especially for popular keywords - it…
Honestly, I'm not sure if anyone is really interested in advice from someone who somehow managed to get permabanned on reddit.
Or perhaps you work as a Reddit mod and can't feel empathy for normal users any more... meh...
Does anyone have a good Reddit alternative, that's kindof a niche like HN?