Motherfuckers created a rule about how pointing out that overpopulation myths are ecofascistic lobbying is actually "bad faith" somehow so now every post, no matter what it is about, full of "this is why billions must die" bullshit.

There's 500k subscribers btw.

  • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    4 months ago

    "Why are you concerned with the normalization of the notion that some people being alive is just simply over the limits?"

    • rah@feddit.uk
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      4 months ago

      normalization

      You're talking about Reddit, not the New York Times.

      • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        You're talking about Reddit, not the New York Times.

        whats the difference

          • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            were you surprised to discover that the new york crimes echoes the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on reddit

            they aren't anything new and have been around since at least the green revolution (in their modern iteration)

            • rah@feddit.uk
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              4 months ago

              were you surprised to discover that the new york crimes echoes the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on reddit

              No idea what you're rambling on about.

              • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]
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                4 months ago

                I gotta ask, are you incapable of reading or are you unwilling to read? Because DivineChaos100 responded to you with two links to NYT articles about this issue, in this comment, which was posted before CarmineCatboy2 asked you to comment on those NYT articles. And yet, you're here acting as though this didn't happen. But I can read and I understand what time stamps are, so I know that you have been shown evidence that the NYT believes similar things to the r/Collapse subreddit before this comment where you pretend such a thing never happened.

                So I'll repeat CarmineCatboy2's question to you, and maybe you'll answer it this time: Were you surprised to discover that the new york crimes echoes the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on reddit?

                • rah@feddit.uk
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                  4 months ago

                  I gotta ask, are you incapable of reading or are you unwilling to read?

                  You've missed an option here which is the option I noted: I didn't understand CarmineCatboy2's question.

                  which was posted before CarmineCatboy2 asked you to comment on those NYT articles

                  CarmineCatboy2 didn't ask me to comment on those NYT articles, they mentioned "new york crimes" which only now that I've read your comment do I realise is a play on the name "New York Times".

                  you're here acting as though this didn't happen

                  I'm not acting. I didn't understand what CarmineCatboy2 was going on about and I said as much. If I might be so bold as to offer some unsolicited advice: maybe in future just assume that when someone says they don't understand what another is saying, they're doing so because they don't understand what the other is saying.

                  Were you surprised to discover that the new york crimes echoes the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on reddit?

                  I'll rephrase this question in order to favour clear communication:

                  Were you surprised to discover that the New York Times echoed the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on Reddit?

                  I made no such discovery, I didn't look at the New York Times articles that were linked to. Had I discovered that, I would not be surprised.

                  • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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                    4 months ago

                    I didn't look at the New York Times articles that were linked to.

                    sounds like you have a tendency to resist leaving your ideological tribal traps

                    • rah@feddit.uk
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                      4 months ago

                      LOL not sure what tribal ideological traps you think the New York Times would have the weight to cause me to leave

                      • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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                        4 months ago

                        i don't know, you tell me why you refuse to read links to ecofascism in the mainstream media. after all, you're the person who thinks there's nothing to be concerned about.

                        • rah@feddit.uk
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                          4 months ago

                          you tell me why you refuse to read links to ecofascism in the mainstream media

                          I haven't refused as nobody has asked me to read the linked-to articles. They've only expected me to.

                  • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]
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                    4 months ago

                    I admit it never even so much as crossed my mind that someone on the internet (and specifically commenting all over this thread) might not understand that the phrase "new york crimes" refers to the NYT. So one point to you I suppose.

                    This probably also explains why you're confused in the subthread where someone told you this isn't the first time recently you've defended reddit-logo You probably think they're actually talking about the website actually called Stormfront. They're not. They're talking about reddit, which you did, in fact, defend not 20 hours ago.

                    • rah@feddit.uk
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                      4 months ago

                      They're talking about reddit, which you did, in fact, defend not 20 hours ago.

                      I disagree. I wasn't defending Reddit, I was questioning the rationality of a Lemmy poster. There's a difference.

      • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        Reddit communities with 500k subscribers, for better or for worse, can influence culture at large. Making a post to begin a discussion on the potential dangers of such a large community's moderation policies is not an unworthy endeavor.

        • rah@feddit.uk
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          4 months ago

          Making a post to begin a discussion on the potential dangers of such a large community's moderation policies is not an unworthy endeavor.

          This doesn't seem like such a post. Firstly, it doesn't seem to me like beginning a discussion on a Reddit community's moderation policies here has any worth. It might have worth if the discussion was begun in the Reddit community itself but I can't see any worth beginning a discussion here.

          Secondly, this post doesn't seem like an effort to begin an earnest discussion about potential dangers of moderation policies at all, it seems more like a mindless "ZOMG1!!!!1 LOOK AT THE FASCISTS ON REDDIT!!! WERE AMAZING AND THEIR STOOPID!!!"

          • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            "ZOMG1!!!!1 LOOK AT THE FASCISTS ON REDDIT!!! WERE AMAZING AND THEIR STOOPID!!!"

            are you... personally invested in this?

          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            lol,this isn't even the first time you've defended reddit-logo on here, shut up nerd

            • rah@feddit.uk
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              4 months ago

              this isn't even the first time you've defended reddit-logo on here

              Firstly, I'm not defending anyone. Secondly, I've no idea what you're referring to.

              • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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                4 months ago

                I saw very little misogyny or rape apology. I see lots of hate towards the particular woman who lied but only one or two posts with misogyny out of hundreds and none with rape apology.

                Can you provide any links to the "rampant" comments which are misogyny or rape apology? As is, your post seems completely deranged.

                You don't remember posting this 19 hours ago, apparently.

                • rah@feddit.uk
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                  4 months ago

                  You don't remember posting this 19 hours ago, apparently.

                  LOL of course I remember posting that. There's just no connection between your comment and mine, that I can tell.

          • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            4 months ago

            It has been brought up multiple times there but it's banned outright as it's being "bad faith".

            • rah@feddit.uk
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              4 months ago

              I'm not suggesting doing that, I'm just contrasting the difference in value of discussions in the different fora.

          • amphibian [she/her]
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            4 months ago

            holy shit you are certainly one... spectacle of a human being

      • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        4 months ago

        https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/the-unrealized-horrors-of-population-explosion.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/15/sunday-review/overpopulated-and-underfed-countries-near-a-breaking-point.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/opinion/human-population-global-growth.html

        And also we're talking about a sub with half a million people.

        • rah@feddit.uk
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          4 months ago

          half a million people

          In a subreddit. You consider half a million subscribers to a subreddit to be worthy of concern?