this is the funniest subreddit ever. The top two posts are about the deprogram sub, second one is the clutching pearls begging for it to be banned
https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/146n2z4/rthedeprogram_must_be_banned_for_nearconstant/
However, this subreddit somehow manages to be infinitely more vile than CTH ever was.
They don't know how honoured I am to hear that
Thats an amazing endorsement for the sub. If I ran it i'd make it the header.
I have no idea, at worse you could prolly just do it as a sticky post?
CTH has been banned for years yet still lives rent-free in the heads of redditoids.
We were the the third most active sub on the entire site after I think the NBA sub and The_Dickweeds, despite having a fraction of the users.
That's not even true! The Deprogram sub is good and based but it's not even slightly as open to going on the offense and dunking on libs as the old sub. I think the userbase got quite a lot younger too.
Curious if they have something to say about the ukraine sub salivating over the thought of melting Russian soldiers alive in acid. What happened to “respect the troops” there?
*special exemptions for lesser colors willing to kill and die in service of the empire
:amerikkka-clap:
Respect the troops, not the military.
Imagine saying this to an Iraqi's face.
Look, you can't just wish harm on someone who joined the imperialist death machine! They're dumb as shit, everyone knows that!
What is the dprk-soldier emoji in reference to? Never figured that out
We need a lore wiki. Someone should get on that. Not me, of course, I can't remember shit.
I’ve been meaning to get around to making a definitive one for a while
IIRC it wasn't naturally a large photo, they actively upscaled it as much as their computer would let them and then tried to upload it, causing the server to enter a loop of trying to load it, crashing, and rebooting until images in general were disabled while a proper fix was rolled out. IIRC they were extremely apologetic and open about having done it, and it did lead to better safeguards against that sort of thing happening again even though there were no images or embeds for like a week.
i think its wild that pretty much every country was going through famine during that time, but somehow the soviet union is clearly the outlier here and did it on purpose
They were clearly going through some of the worst and a lot of it from bad decision making but the idea that "failed agriculture policies = genocide" is such a wild leap in logic. The entire point of the Holocaust is that it was unrepentant purposeful killing for the pure sake of killing, it's not the Nazi leaders accidently slipping and pressing the kill jews button that they tried to remove but were too incompetent too.
Yeah they fucked up (as most countries were doing on the regular because agriculture wasn't locked down as well yet) but it's not a genocide. Especially when you put it into historical context, this was the same period as the Great Depression. It wasn't like the great capitalist America was living up in luxury while the poor commie Russia starved or something, everyone was suffering.
i mean this was during the same rough span of time as the dust bowl. agriculture was a shitshow back then
There were important differences. The dust bowl was largely localized. It covered a large area, but that area was in America, which is huge. The Dust Bowl was largely man made and didn't effect agriculture outside of that region. And the US had many other regions producing food, as well as significant agricultural mechanization.
In the USSR there was a serious drought that affected most of Ukraine, Russia, and a few other republics. This was a very large part of the USSRs arable land. The USSR was dealing with various kinds of kulak sabotage - Refusing to plant, refusing to harvest. They were dealing with serious failures of communication, transport, and logistics, as well as government policies that were inadequate to provide needed relief until the famine was well underway and mass death had already occured. And their overall agricultural mechanization was not as good as some other industrialized countries.
They're not even in the same league in terms of harm though. But yeah it wasn't like "The West" was so amazing at agriculture.
killed something like 10,000 directly as a modest estimate, and made 2 million homeless. the life expectancy of a modern homeless person is 48 years. i doubt they include those early deaths in statistics.
The low Wikipedia estimate I found for deaths during the Soviet famine of 1930–1933 is 5.7 million. Take a zero off that for localizing it to Ukraine, accounting for propaganda, and whatever else and we're still at 570,000. Take another zero off and we're still several times more than the low estimates for the Dust Bowl.
You have a good point about early-modern agricultural technology and a bunch of contemporary ag crises being important context for the Soviet famine. A 1:1 comparison doesn’t hold water, though.
For me, the big thing about the Soviet Famine (or the early famine in the PRC) is that it was the last famine. If a machine periodically breaks down, you take over maintenance of it then it breaks down once but never ever ever again, you fixed the machine.
Racist Churchill murdering 4 million Bengalis works as a closer comparison. Libs engage in genocide denial and call it the unfortunate effects of a famine, while promoting nazi holocaust denial double genocide theory to throw shade at the soviets. Soviet famine as genocide is projection, as are the denial accusations towards 'tankies'.
I didn't realize it was even that many people. But yeah that "homeless" label is definitely hiding some bad stuff.
My understanding is that there were few if any starvation deaths recorded. The US had enough other agricultural regions that with some serious government interventions they were able to keep people from starving to death, although there was a lot of serious hunger.
Everytime I see someone use that acronym, I assume they are talking about American Horror Story. AHS: Kibutz would be Ryan Murphy's most ambitious season yet.
reddit is somehow kinda usable now without a bunch of the stupid lib subs everywhere. The left/tankie subs should have capitalized on this opportunity and remained open to pump the libs full of propaganda. tbh i don't really give a shit about this little slapfight betweem extremely white nerds.
I felt compelled to reply to the dude that was crying about some filthy commie saying that U.S. veterans should consider offing themselves, they'd at least not have to live with the memories of the women and children they murdered. Just never check the replies and move on with your day. :shrug-outta-hecks:
who cares lmao, if the mods dont wanna keep the subreddits up just shut it down and get off of reddit, jeez
in the comments someone said /r/TheDeprogram has a bot that claims Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars. I've never heard this theory before, and I have no idea what the significance of it supposedly is, or why TheDeprogram would have a bot for it.
not trying to stir up shit if this is some kind of struggle session topic lol, but if anyone can demystify this for me I'd appreciate it
*googling "The Deprogram" "Khazar" turns up nothing.
Their automod is set up to reply to a fair few prompt phrases with giant canned paragraphs, but I've never seen that.
I tried commenting in the linked thread to point out that googling this turns up nothing, but my comments were insta-deleted.
That sub insta-deletes any posts or comments from unverified users. To get verified you have to send the mods proof that you voted for Hillary in both 2016 and 2020
It's a fun theory that most people see is patently ridicoulous and thus it's fun to run with. Chapo's own Felix had a whole rif about how he wants to go on a birthright trip to Istanbul, since he never plans on visiting Israel.
It has also been a locus of legitimate activity to shut down fascist subs, which also means it was involved in a lot of subreddit drama and slacktivist support, so it makes sense.
I feel like there should be an average daily user metric displayed rather than just how many people hit join over all time.
theyd have to read more to learn that famines were pretty regular in that part of the world.
this same shit happened here, one of the now doxxed admins just banned the libs who repeated nazi apologists lol
All I can think of is the Hold The Door scene in GOT CW death
