r/politics - Comment by u/pawnmarcher on ”Portland’s Bizarre Experiment With Not Policing Proud Boys Rampage Ends in Gunfire”
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Edit: went back and checked.. 45 upvotes, several reddit awards and a bunch of dingi replying "it's just a joke bro! You're so cringe for taking the bait!"

Yeah, we're the ones who are cringe...

  • OldSoulHippie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    They don't even know the Chapo sub has been gone for quite some time.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      In a German speaking "leftist" subreddit people were dunking on Chapo for "if the moderators would've done their jobs, they would still be on reddit" and argued for not leaving :reddit-logo: cause you have to be on the same platform as liberals to be able to influence it.

      • OldSoulHippie [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I could almost see that argument, but haven't they heard of brigading?

        Plus, that sub was neutered the very second we all got the first warning. I remember some people advocating for not changing and getting banned, since we all knew it was going to happen, and others wanting to play along. I was solidly in the "not changing" camp

        • JuneFall [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          I don't really think they were interested in material reality of the thing, but preferred their idealized picture of reddit being a neutral space.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I wish I had saved the notices given, but that is what some of us here call 'bullshit revisionist history'. The notices the admins gave the mods were pretty indicative of the fact that nothing they could do, outside of fundamentally censoring/altering the discourse to such a degree to neuter the whole project, would have saved us from the ban hammer. This is particularly funny because the sub quarantine solved the only real rule we broke, which was 'brigading', even though that technically wasn't what we did, it's just that their definition of 'brigading' is so large as to incorporate the practice of pinging chuds on our subreddit.

        However even after quarantining us, the sub continued to grow, though not as rapidly, so eventually they had to put a stop to that.

        • JuneFall [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Completely agree. It proves the Stalin/Lenin/Engels joke about German Social Democrats who will pay to demonstrate on railway station stops true.