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    • lvysaur [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "somebody did business with china"

      WTF TIBET TIARA MEN SQUARE 1998 SZECHUAN SAUCE FREE HONK HONK HONK

    • post_trains [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Politics is spectacle and us genociding people just isn’t spectacular.

  • Alkiebo [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I can't possibly see how literal concentration camps being run within the country and passively or actively being encouraged by both political parties is political. Yes I would have voted for Obama a third time, why do you ask?

    • Alkiebo [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      But seriously, fire everyone involved in this into a fucking live volcano.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      encouraged by both political parties

      Then it's not political. By definition. I say, understanding politics.

      • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        To be fair in the American context, it is not at all political.

        Things like the CIA and the federal reserve kind of run themselves. Institutions that are in many ways more powerful than the supreme court. There is virtually zero debate about how these institutions are run by design as well.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    politics is televised interviews, and the bigger the network it's on, the more political it is

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        it's way more bad faith than that

        the shill mods will remove a post, then restore it after it's stale enough to get no visibility, then ban new posts of it because it's "already been posted"

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          You're right. What I was trying to say is "This is how r/politics proudly claims to work right on the sidebar." The moderation is even more insidious, but I haven't posted there ever since the astroturfing got turned up to 11 for the South Carolina Primary. There's no point arguing with interns shitposting for David Brock and Neera Tanden. I'd rather talk to humans.

          • Chapo_Trap_Horse [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Were around in 2016 when, during the very beginning of Bernie's mainstream ascendance, over a single weekend, it went from a strongly pro-Bernie sub to an almost 100% Hillary Clinton pro-centrism orgy? You know, right around the time it was announced that Correct The Record was spending 16 million dollars (that we knew of) to shape online discourse on Reddit and Twitter about Hillary?

            And then in true fascist-projection fashion, were already saying all dissenters to the mainline were paid-for comments coming from Russian troll farms. They were saying back then that BLM was a Russian psyop to foment racial discord. I always wondered just how many of those lovely folks were on the take. Fuckin buncha shit-ass losers.

            Haven't posted in r/politics really since. It's like making an account at CIA.gov so you can try to post "rational arguments" about statecraft on their private message boards with their agents.

      • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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        4 years ago

        i was banned for asking a chapo to change a politics link to np, (not joking, that's what they told me) but it was really bc i was posting shit about Tara Reade on there.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      lmao I never knew this and had wondered about the self post ban

    • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That guy briefly tried to keep making those kinds of wall of text with many links posts with regard to Trump Russia stuff but r/politics wasn't having it from him in particular.

  • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Posting this to r/news on Reddit resulted in the post being silently removed.

    https://snew.notabug.io/r/news/comments/isx4me/whistleblower... (removed by moderators).

    There are no duplicates on the subreddit, and the moderators have not sent any message.

    • disco [any]
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      4 years ago

      this story is currently on the front page of /r/news/

        • disco [any]
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          4 years ago

          https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/iszskm/ice_detainees_faced_medical_neglect_and/

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            So much China bad. Someone literally linked "multiple sources" that were both verbatim. One was the AP and the other was Fox and both cited Zenz and VoC.

            Edit: the person who posted that DM'd me after I posted a response about zenz and actually seemed to come around, so that's good?

          • scramplunge [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/california-prisons-forced-sterilizations-belly-beast Just continuing what we’ve always done.

      • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yup, they removed my post which was sent before, presumably because they wanted to time it at midnight so it would not spend too much time on the front page. Same thing happened at r/world news.

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    4 years ago

    What sub was this on? It looks like /r/politics but usually anything they can say "Trump bad" to is prime front-page material for them