Site with over a million users and one of the biggest agitprop vehicles of the last five years and now it's private. Lol. Lmao.

Edit: Ok, now the mods are saying making the site private is only temporary while they "deal with the cleanup from ongoing brigading."

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Worried this means the good mods will step down and the libs will have full power and then it will reopen fully coopted and controlled by :cia: er I mean :reddit-logo:. Would be better if it just shutdown permanently than have that happen

    • Koi [any]
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      2 years ago

      homie that mod may have well been a psyop with how surgically perfect it fed inti right wing propaganda. i cannot imagine a worse representation of this movement or leftism in general and fox news got handed it on a silver platter.

      the spooks could literally brainstorm for months and not come up with a better way to sabotage that community than what the lead mod did themselves.

      lol and lmao.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          And the guy interviewing them was apparently named Ryan Wrecker :agony-4horsemen:

        • Ursus_Hexagonus [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          As they say, giving a bad defense of something does more harm than a good criticism of it.

          • scraeming [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The "Never Play Defense" strategy is basically inviolate when it comes to media presence, especially in the context of internet activity and communities. You can never, ever go into even marginally hostile environments to speak for a politically charged group, act with any form of contrition, and expect to walk away not having given your enemies free ammunition.

            Going into an interview with Fox News without having he entire interview completely locked down on subject matter, questions, length of discussion, etc., is such a bad fucking idea that I'm amazed anyone on the mod team was not screaming at everyone else to just ignore the invitation.

        • eXAt [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Failure on the other mods who did not immediately have alarm bells ringing in there heads when a reactionary outlet is hand picking somebody.