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."
A truly hilarious arc.
Starts with grassroots nascent class+consciousness of people telling their bosses to fuck off.
Mod team gets/exposes anti-"tankie" brain worms, bans communists on sight.
Community continues to be a catharsis for nascent class struggles but has no action that can be taken because (1) they're mostly libs, (2) they banned the posters that spend the most time agitating for building organizing structures between locales, (3) the lines that mods do push are "post-left" navel gazing.
One such mod pulls a definitely-not-authoritarian move and embarrasses the community by going on FNC.
Mods ban piles of users that complain about the embarrassing things the mod did.
Classic Reddit slacktivism takes over and they whine so much that mods can't contain the posting about the embarrassing interview.
Mods take the whole community private citing brigading.
Just pure painful lol. This is why we need coherent left unity, folks. We can't appeal to the libs if we let lib garbage masquerade as socialism/anarchism. It sucks all the air out of the room.
They really turn it into joke and the interview just end it. I do wonder if there’s some shady shite going on since there’s no way the mod could go on to fox news without knowing they going to ask question in bad faith.
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Then why didn't she ask Fox for an audio only interview? Just explain to them that she has no experience with video interviews and doesn't have a team of professionals to make the presentation look good like Fox does, etc. If Fox won't accept those terms just reject them.
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That's just pure naivety then. It sucks, and she definitely does not deserve any of the abuse that will be sent her way. She should just turn off her computer and phone for a week and ignore all the online BS.
I think she was just naive, personally. This is an American "post-left" mod, she won't actually know what she's talking about, she's just a victim of liberalism that thought she'd do well against some FNC ghoul. I think of her as a representative of the larger problems in these kinds of communities and don't have anything bad to say about them as a person.
Lots of reasons she might have thought she'd do well, but my guess is we don't need to look much farther than the :reddit-logo: format where you can have lots of bad takes and spend three hours crafting a response to own someone and everything works out, which in no way translates to handling a bad faith FNC charlatan.
Edit: forgot that we knew her pronouns.