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."

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Extraordinarily stupid decision for a reddit mod to go on fucking Fox News with a completely predictable outcome

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Everyone thinks they'll be able to beat the system because they are exceptional.

      Oh yeah, sure. All those other losers got dunked on, but they were dumb. I am smart.

      • mimeschoolprof [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        What's crazy is that this is exactly what Fox hoped would happen. A single bad interview shut down a platform threatening capital.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          Eh. They wanted a bunch of people to click on the Jessie Waters interview and like, comment, and subscribe. I doubt they care one way or another what happens to a subreddit.

      • berrytopylus [she/her,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The most inane part of it is that Fox News here doesn't even ask hardball questions, the mod just decided to self destruct from the start. Any basic planning would have beaten the system in this case.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Or if you're uncomfortable with that (many valid reasons to be), just do an audio only interview. Like it's also an option

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          It would have helped. But any serious push back would have just resulted in Jessie yelling "Cut his mic" and abruptly ending the interview.

          • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            It's what I've been saying: Fox News has 30 years of experience in this shit. If that moderator refused to answer a single personal question and tried to steer the conversation back to antiwork, the interview would have ended before they got 5 words in.

            You are never gonna beat Fox News at their own game, in their own house.

      • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        You better make it a 3-second speech then. That's how long you'll get before they shut you down and then complain how evil radical communists don't want a rational conversation.

        Maybe the interviewer will try to talk over you before the producer realizes what's going on, then you might get 5 seconds.

        Like, I've seen a video of Fox instantly cutting away from a Trump press secretary speech because she said "illegal votes". Two words, boom, cut off.

    • tudortudor [any]
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      3 years ago

      Reddit moderators and their consequences have been a disaster for human civilization.