the decisions that Reddit administration made to restrict, quarantine, and finally shutter that group off the site, at the times they did so, were probably the difference between Reddit continuing on as a business - and Reddit going into bankruptcy responding to law enforcement and lawsuit evidence discovery processes and liability lawsuits and criminal investigations and consumer abandonment.
LOL. Someone's not up to date. Even though they did shut down T_D they still got a warrant from the feds for all of the activity on T_D that was shut down a half year before Jan 6. If reddit's responsible for riot damage that happens ... they would have shut down antifa and BLM subs.
One of the realpolitik issues Reddit would have faced by shutting down T_D is the fact that DJT was actually opening a law enforcement investigation into the suppression of "conservative" political speech, premised on the talking point of "conservatives being deplatformed for being conservatives".
Reddit did not want to be the whipping post for this Red Scare witchhunt.
This makes zero sense. Reddit would have faced criticism for shutting down conservative speech, so they... shut down conservative speech? It's not even plausible, but Bardfinn thinks he's on to something.
How does a social media platform that relies on the consciences and willingness of good faith moderators to produce thriving, unproblematic communities - then turn around and identify, evaluate, test, remediate, and ultimately remove sociopathic and Machiavellian bad-faith subreddit operators who will say, on camera, with a smile "Yes we'd love to work with you!" while all the while passing out knives off camera.
On AHS there are frequently calls to jail reddit admins for tolerating speech AHS does not like.
There's supposed to be an archive of the sub's front page, too, but the assertion that r/conservative is a hate group is a foregone conclusion, and comprehensive overviews are only really necessary for establishing that a pattern of hatred exists.
It is because Bardfinn declares it so.
It wouldn't be r/Conservative if it weren't a lifeboat for health-threatening medical misinfo, violent and thinly-veiled-violent hate speech, casual hate speech, claims of defending free speech in the same sentence as demands for censoring scholars and authors ...
I'll bet the mods of conservative do violence. Like to their kids and spouses and stuff.
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I used to browse r/boomertown in the morning just for my "red side" news feed after laughing and shaking my head at r/politics.
Its literally just filled with a bunch of milk toasties whining about the inevitable rise of gommunism
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When I modded, surprisingly often, I'd get something in the modqueue that was some gross threat of violence against someone. And I'd go, "That's very unusual and I've never seen this poster before." I'd look at history and it was someone who had posted in sports and other subs to get some karma...no political posts anywhere...sometimes they had gone to the free karma subreddit and then eventually BLAM...they'd try to make this violence post on r/con.
It was usually caught, removed and stuck in modqueue for review, but modding a sub like that you really get a first-hand seat to how there are legitimate attempts to false-flag subs and seed some kind of TOS-breaking shit on them.
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Literally bardy and his collection of CP
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It was not until after this that I saw his comments about having twenty accounts and LARPing so convincingly as a rightoid that he got invited to Atomwaffen servers. I'm not convinced THAT happened, but I'm totally convinced that there's a group out there that organizes this false flagging shit to see if they can get something to post an be outraged about on AHS.
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IncelTears did the same shit, they were caught making incel type posts on minute old accounts which were then screenshotted and reposted on IT for karma and rage bait. People caught on to this when they all realized that these people "found" these posts literally within seconds of them being submitted. Its genuinely insane how much people give a shit about what others say in a forum you can completely ignore.
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That's actual shit that the reddit admins COULD intervene in. Obvious attempts to destroy a community by setting up a competing subreddit and doing that shit. But they won't.
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Seethe moar
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I'm not seething. I'm not on reddit at all. It's been great.
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"false flag attacks"
Its reddit
lol
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Well, I know that NOW, but at the time it kind of surprised me. Congrats on the slots win!
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Thanks but I'm using that as enablement that what I am doing is okay! huffs loudly
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As you should
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WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO IT!?!?!?! THAT WAS MY KIDS FORMULA MONEY!
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Trump inspiring a charge on the capitol was one of the funniest parts of American history.
Iโll never understand why people seethe so much about it
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I mean prison, or any consequences, is unlikely, but there is some legit argument about the legality of Congress' investigation. It'll just be civil suits against the whole government in the end. There were a couple of SCOTUS rulings in the wake of the McCarthy hearings that put them in their place, they're only supposed to be able to investigate the President as part of the checks and balances on him. Otherwise it's the Executive branchs job to investigate crimes. They have also been sidestepping the courts and not getting warrants, arguing those laws only pertain to the executive branch.
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Just two more weeks!
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This is the most important election in history!
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Our democracy is in peril!
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Don't even suggest that it is not the politicians' jobs to be investigating crimes and there are other bodies specifically for that.
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Are you r-slurred? Investigation is an enumerated Congressional power.
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Are you r-slurred?
They have a limited scope in what they can investigate.
https://rdrama.net/post/39358/againsthatesubreddits-is-bitching-about-rcon-again/1255984?context=9#context
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Yea like ELECTIONS, r-slur.
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They aren't investigating a fricking election, r-slur. They claim to be investigating an "insurrection."
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An insurrection that happened to prevent an election, therefore.
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The election already happened. They really don't seem to want to investigate any of the claims of what may have happened with it, either.
At this point I'm ready to raise McCarthy from the dead and go to town.
Let's start here:
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/politics/blumenthal-gets-pushback-for-attending-event-tied-to-communist-party/2676199/
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Until the certification technically the election is still happening.
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I wish he was right, burger politics would be much more dramatic if senators could send each other to the gulags
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Itโd be funny if the burgers just decided they could go full French Revolution- like do the Purge of the Girondins but itโs just Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi
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JAN 6TH WAS LITERALLY THE FRENCH REVOLUTION CHUD
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I'm counting on it at this point.
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