John Brown killed 50 gorillion people after eating up all the grain in Kansas with his big spoon 
This guy is semi-notable on Twitter. He's best known for being kicked off a somewhat successful podcast for being a creep.
John Brown killed 50 gorillion people after eating up all the grain in Kansas with his big spoon
This guy is semi-notable on Twitter. He's best known for being kicked off a somewhat successful podcast for being a creep.
Other way around, The_Donald had been shut down for months by the mods with a pinned post linking to their own site. They banned The_Donald so that they could pretend they were being fair and getting rid of "extremists" on both sides when actually all they were doing was purging the entire left wing from the site
I appreciate the correction; that does make sense in a cynical neoliberal way.
I noticed a lot of leftist subs never came back from the blackout.
It was definitely part of an intentional, concerted effort to purge
of the growing leftism on the site, with r/cth eing the most threatening example because it was the most popular. Like most social media platforms at the time, reddit was really starting to lock down what was ideologically acceptable. I've commented about it before, most recently here:
That may have been their excuse to pull the trigger but the reason they banned us was because the sub was becoming very well known, with posts regularly making it to the front page. During a time when reddit was really starting to actively sanitize itself of any actual leftism (for the sake of advertisers, profit, etc. as well as for the sake of becoming the major NATO propaganda hub that it is today) r/cth represented the complete opposite of the direction they were steering the platform. It was quite literally a purge of leftists across the platform and it would have happened whether or not we toed the line by not saying slave owners deserve death anymore or posting John Brown memes. In short, the sub was just starting to get some hints of more mainstream internet attention and there was no way in hell they were going to let that stand.
Edit: fixed the link. But also want to mention that Booty is totally correct about the_donald getting banned as cover, using the "both sides" justification when wiping out anything to the left of Liz Warren stans from the site.
Even /r/Gamerghazi died and that place was vaguely succdem at the best of times.
/r/SneerClub died and that was almost certainly a targeted grudge from the admins because the admins go to the same "math pet" SV parties that
does.
Yep, along with other fairly well-known ones like genzedong, there were a few niche leftists subs I subscribed to that either got banned or quarantined to death within a year of CTH or had a kind of mini mod coup and veered immediately the right. And subs like r/collapse and r/capitalismindecay that may not have been explicitly leftist but were fertile ground for it and had leftie regular posters got usurped and their narrative steered back towards a course that could still fit within the parameters of neoliberal acceptability.
/r/collapse had potential to at least be somewhat leftist but after the Reddit soft coups were done, it became a hive of ecofascist Malthusians.
For sure. r/collapse is the perfect example of how leftism was asserting itself somewhat on reddit and what the outcome of that was to be. Although that sub always had an odious element of ecofash and reactionary garbage masquerading as progressivism (we are talking about
here of course), previously that shit would get challenged and corrected. The malthusian dreck used to get actual pushback. But after the long purge, it just became the default and even what defined the sub. Reddit was always reddit, but for a time it actually had some redeeming qualities. Not anymore, not for a while.
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