Reddit was founded on free speech and open discourse, especially when it was really uncomfortable
Early Reddit was just a bunch of nerds circlejerking over shitty memes. The biggest discourse was when a woman dared to criticize a vibeo game, and there was no discourse considering everyone agreed women = bad. There was no “uncomfortable” or “open discourse” on Reddit in the first couple years, and the free speech was the freedom to post cp. Only pedos want to bring back early Reddit.
When I discovered reddit, I thought it was great. That's because I have only ever used it as a link aggregator, no comments for me please thank you.
The best part about reddit was never The Community, it was the fact that you could find a ton of niche communities in one place that would answer questions you had.
This is why you add shit like mandatory pronouns tags to all accounts. You have to make deliberate ideologic decisions that piss off reactionaries. It’s boring that vanilla Lemmy has refused to add pronoun tags. Best hexbear feature hands down.
It's why I like the content warnings for meat. Something about that enrages the rightists on reddit whenever I mention Hexbear. They :kitty-cri-screm: over something that doesn't inconvenience me at all and doesn't stop me from posting that content. It keeps away the insufferable whiny babies and makes them out themselves if they do post here.
Literally this. I’m not even fucking vegan & i support it because of how pissed off & triggered it makes dipshits.
R*ddit was founded on free speech and open discourse
the :reddit-logo: that this user misses was a site for gore, racism and pedophilia
we need to get back to pitchforking. im chomping at the bit to get some fascists fired from their jobs
Here for it. If you wanna plan some shit, DM me. I have a bit of experience with this.
it would be great if everyone who complained about free speech just had their appendix randomly burst.
then you won't get replies and you won't know you need to go back in to bully a lib some more.
We can always defederate if we need to. Seems like Lemmy and Lemmygrad want us to federate to help them out though.
No, and in fact you should link to the comment in the OP. If they get mad, tell them it's free speech
drag every asshole out into the sunlight an expose them
"authoritarianism is when you stop me from being a bigot"
:yes-chad:
They unbanned the transphobe, looks like rule 1 doesnt include transphobia
Not a good sign. Lemmy continues to apparently learn nothing from this site lmao
https://www.reddit.com/user/Jassmith
Assuming it's the same user, which I think it probably is given that they had the same exact hangup about jokes ten years ago, here's one of their last comments:
I'm just writing to tell you I don't think there was anything wrong with what you did. Telling teenagers they can't have sex is one of the more absurd things about modern society. Many 15 and 16 is legal in many countries, for good reason: because most 15 and 16 year olds are mature enough to be able to decide what to do with their own bodies. 100 years ago people had families by the time they were 14. The idiots downvoting you live in a magical world where people are suddenly mature only when the law tells them they are.
Also a mEn'S rIgHtS aCtIvIsT
edit: from another comment-
Furthermore, the way men are treated if they so much as dare look at a child, let alone take pictures of them, talk to them, or decide to become school teachers [heaven help them] is quite frankly offensive.
oi
The immortal science can spot pedos from a light year away
Also huge self report
Some people want to go back in time and kill Baby Hitler. I want to go back in time and ask this goober why he's taking photos of children that presumably aren't his.
Furthermore, the way men are treated if they so much as dare look at a child, let alone take pictures of them, talk to them
There's a book called "The Gift of Fear" that likely explains in detail why he in particular gets suspicious looks from parents while being around children.
I work with kids all the time and I've never had that problem. I've dealt with parents pissed at me for a number of reasons, but chances are if a parent thinks a person is creepy, it's because of subtle but often quite accurate red flags that their intuition picks up.
either that or unexamined bigotry, but this dude is clearly a fucking psycho. I agree with you, btw, I’m just grumpy & drunk
Before talking to them. I think that implies he's taking photos of other people's kids from a distance.
this pos was all over lemmy today with transphobia and "you can't call me a nazi just because i want to genocide minorities" takes
"Let's not be one of those sites where mods are allowed to ban me for trying to open some polite discourse about my belief that trans people should be murdered in the streets."
So tired of chuds and their "quotation marks" (newest fad).
I wonder if JasSmith would describe /r/Jailbait and /r/Creepshots as "really uncomfortable."
Look, free speech-wise, all I'm saying is that liberals should be put into labor camps.
I’d love to know how much coal a fucking transphobe could mine in a day. How about that
