Sometimes I like to cruise the politics sub so I can drive by downvote libs and report them for breaking their precious civility rule, and honestly, I’ve gotten a decent amount of them banned for it, which is hilarious.
That is all
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
I’d almost guarantee there’s more to this story.
Dunno why you’d think that when sitewide reddit bans are performed by AI with an absolutely massive error rate.
And if it’s a subreddit ban it’s absolutely 100% believable because more than half of us have had stupid fucking bans by mods for opposing libs. Even off reddit half of lemmy’s lib instances have defederated us entirely purely because libs are so far fucking right they can’t cope with hearing anything to their left.
If I remember correctly I got banned from Reddit for “misinformation” or something like that for debunking Adrian Zenz which is something you could literally do yourself right now. Unjustified bans based on vibes and not facts or actual rule-breaking behavior is pretty common on Reddit.
Reddit bans are distributed on a pure vibes basis. Whatever the mod is currently feeling goes. There’s no second recourse, because the subs are too flooded the bad actors to sort out the grey cases. Everyone just makes new accounts anyway, so who cares?
When I modded the sub I configured the automod to delete 80% of gucci’s (stupidpol founders) posts based on the last digit of the post/comment ID. That was funny
What is TDS?
Isn’t that a Trump meme or what?
I’ve kinda gone back and forth on whether or not it’s a useful term.
Chuds do use it. But it’s a valid observation, libs tunnel vision on Trump to a huge degree. On the other hand, chuds usually suffer Trans Derangement Syndrome where they’re so tunnel visioned on their transphobia they’d vote for politicians who hate them (see: Catholic Latines voting for republicans).
I can see where you’re coming from. I probably wouldn’t say it outside of hexbear. The explanation of how I’m not a right wing nutjob would eclipse the usefulness of the word. And really, it’s probably not worth engaging with people that “have TDS” because you will go nowhere. They have every thought terminating cliche you can think of at the ready.
They invented it but what else do you call it when the front page of r/politics has been half a dozen articles about how Trump is 48 hours away from a jail cell for 6 years.
Blue MAGA is absolutely a thing.
Things I’m gonna have to start stealing
Getting libs banned? I think it’s hilarious
Also, I love the idea of them being forsaken by their echo chamber and I love when their precious rules can be used to bite them in the ass. Yes, it’s petty, but I don’t care. I’m usually just standing in line somewhere or on break at work when I’m doing it
I wish libs would stop pretending they support free speech
Nobody really supports free speech for their political enemies, but libs are the only ones sanctimonious to pretend they do
I saw one the other day talking about how the Nazis that recently rallied should be allowed to because the poster “fought and bled for this country so they could”. Motherfucker, were you in WWII? No? Huh.
Everyone loves to pretend they’re open to debate. Nobody wants to admit to being closed minded. You need to be receptive with a well-rehersed rebuttal.
But this invites sea lioning, which everyone agrees is obnoxious. So the argument eventually becomes “I’m up for informed debate, but you’re not engaging seriously.”
That’s where all this stuff ends, and it illustrates the limits of any discourse.
Do they pretend to support free speech for their enemies? Or do they pretend that the people they support free speech for are their enemies?
