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The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by tux2bsd »

3np wrote: post #459
noasaservice wrote: post #320

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From Wikipedia: Woke is an English adjective meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination" that originated in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism, and has also been used as shorthand for American Left ideas involving identity politics and social justice, such as the notion of white privilege and sla…

> Being woke means understanding "Hip hip hurray" is a deeply antisemitic slur regarding the Hep-Hep riots in 19c Germany where many thousands of recently-freed Jews were lynched. There is no consensus on the obscure origins of the expression - either way calling it a "deeply antisemitic slur" is baseless. You're taking this a bit far.

Douglas Murray - What it Means to be Woke [3m30s]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_APjzWh5d0o

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by tux2bsd »

glitchcrab wrote: post #442
tux2bsd wrote: post #369

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> Not everything is about wokeism. It changed "they're" to "xer", looks like you're wrong.

Had you thought that they may have done that to troll you because you're being unnecessarily argumentative? And yes, I said 'they' because I do not presume to know their gender, unlike yourself it seems. Not because I am being 'woke'.

Of course it was trolling. You're not being woke, you are woke.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by shitlord »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #341
3qz wrote: post #319

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This is pure FUD and very dangerous. Firstly, you're talking about a different sub that what I linked to, grouping these together. The subs I linked are female led and moderated, at least BFHS. Secondly, they also have large numbers of participants from a range of backgrounds with a range of motivations. The subreddits they are discussing tend to have 10s of 1000s of followers actively engaging in various levels of h…

I don't know about the child pornography claim, but the rest of it seems to check out.

The user revealed their name in an interview here: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026860/a-brief-rundown-of-the-s...

According to one of the sources linked in a sibling comment, this user was arrested for domestic violence. A quick look at their user profile shows they are the top mod of r/garland, which isn't far from where the arrest occurred.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by Dan_Sylveste »

antifa wrote: post #438
schrodinger wrote: post #330

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You're being downvoted but even as a progressive liberal I do think that pushing political correctness too hard and too fast has resulted in this conservative backlash we're now seeing across our country. Change needs to be iterative and sensible. I was amazed at how quickly public sentiment opened up to gay marriage and legal marijuana for example, but now equally dismayed by how quickly the conservative backlash is…

I'd hate to be the one to have to tell the minority picked last that their civil rights isn't scheduled until 2050.

Without being snarky, though, what's left to add? What minority is left disenfranchised?

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by Dan_Sylveste »

multjoy wrote: post #388
himinlomax wrote: post #385

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What do you expect me to do? Hack reddit's Postgres databases to recover deleted comments?

Offer up something more than a vague "I saw this thing one time, trust me on this"?

I saw this thing many times. Trust me on this.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by glitchcrab »

tux2bsd wrote: post #473
glitchcrab wrote: post #442

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Had you thought that they may have done that to troll you because you're being unnecessarily argumentative? And yes, I said 'they' because I do not presume to know their gender, unlike yourself it seems. Not because I am being 'woke'.

Of course it was trolling. You're not being woke, you are woke.

Yes, you're a fool.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by dTal »

coffeeblack wrote: post #304
dTal wrote: post #252

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https://globalnews.ca/news/8902503/us-capitol-riot-jan-6-cha... "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 destro…

Typical deceptive article. It says “inside the Capitol or outside” and many paragraphs later concludes that none of the guns were actually taken inside. Also interesting that a handful of bad people carrying guns make everybody else a criminal. Is that the world you want to live in?

What do you suppose would have happened if the angry mob equipped with zipties had actually got ahold of any of the public figures they were looking for? If Nancy Pelosi had been in her office, say? Or if they'd somehow cornered Mike Pence? Just because it was incompetent and disorganized doesn't mean it wasn't earnest, or planned.

Anyway, I stand by my initial position that it is disingenuous to act so innocently amazed that people might regard an angry violent mob storming the capitol with a gallows chanting to hang the vice president as an insurrection.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by aqouta »

Philadelphia wrote: post #315
thefz wrote: post #113

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On the other hand it's full of Americans touting their free speech is true like no other country on earth and blah blah, so I guess, free speech except for those you disagree with

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” There’s nothing in there about Reddit making moderation policies

You're conflating 1A with free speech. Free speech is the principle that inspires 1A but it's a larger concept and the same reasoning applies to things like reddit. This whole "don't let you political opponents speak or coordinate because you happen to have the power to stop them" is the weapon of a tyrant, one of these days a real tyrant will seize the reins of these platforms and show us all how they're really used.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Post by aqouta »

schrodinger wrote: post #335
swat535 wrote: post #273

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And yet the violent BLM mobs that literally set on fire and looted businesses and shops that had nothing to do with the actual cause were not only not condemned but also glorified and celebrated. You will not convince me that stealing TVs from target during riots that let to many unjustified injuries and deaths is about seeking justice. I’m not even American and this was completely obvious. Please let’s not pretend w…

I live in NYC and was first-hand there for the BLM protests. Can attest that they were almost unilaterally peaceful from my anecdotal experience. The police were extreme in their responses. I was at Un Sq and ppl in the streets were just chanting "no justice, no peace" (but peacefully doing so, I suppose a bit of irony), and suddenly the police yelled out to disperse. I was off the to the side just to observe a momen…

I watched from my roof as someone rammed a moving van into multiple store fronts. I'm going to stick with my lying eyes.
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