based or cringe? One one hand human right activists in these countries are using Twitter to create awareness about the local isseus. On the other hand, CIA also uses it to manufacture consent to whatever plans they got

  • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    mod team worked hard at ruthlessly crushing liberal opposition and played it the right way.

    Wait, how was this possible if the liberal mods were still there?

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Most mod teams on reddit operate on consensus driven by internal discussions in moderator discords. If the communists in the modteam become the consensus the liberals get pushed out.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Usually because libs aren't selecting moderators ideologically or because a person who used to be a lib becomes a communist. Internal fighting occurs and the communists are usually the correct side in that kind of shit.

          On top of this, in reddit modteams the person who puts the most work in becomes the most influential in the team and this is often the communists.

          There's also the redder over time effect to consider. Any space with communists in it inevitably turns everyone around them redder over time. It only takes one.

          • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Could this happen on the big news subs? Are those too closely monitored by admins and ideological fascists?

            There’s also the redder over time effect to consider. Any space with communists in it inevitably turns everyone around them redder over time. It only takes one.

            Heh, I'm reminded of the old r/cth. Didn't even know how it happened exactly.

            • Dirtbag [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              right? I started off as a fuckin obama lib, what the fuck.

              • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Communists are just really, really good at arguing apparently. People moan about the struggle sessions, but those were pretty damn informative.

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              It absolutely could and there already are communists in some of those teams. The problem you have however is that the modteams themselves are absolutely enormous. The larger the team the harder it is to gain communist consensus. The smaller the team the easier it is to gain communist consensus through mod team expansions or flipping existing mods.