Can we have a thread about the /r/anarchism reddit drama?
Apparently, site admins will no longer tolerate the phrase "bash the fash" and has already banned one user. Most left subreddits have bandied around /r/anarchism's stand that it will not ban the phrase, and generally most left subreddits have pledged their support to /r/anarchism.
Reddit users fear that /r/anarchism is about to be banned. Get ready for an influx of more reddit users if that happens.
While I find antifa to be a bunch of cringey retards, Reddit admins are stupid babies for trying to ban that phrase.
Landon Lee
Oh boy more leftcoms and sectarian retards
Zachary Perez
David Frankfurter is a Hero. Original Fash Basher.
Gavin Torres
I personally only use /r/Communalists now, seeing as how seemingly every leftist subreddit is incredibly cancerous.
Alexander Fisher
The only leftcoms I've ever seen have been on this website
Lincoln Lee
leftcom subs are ok
Evan Green
/r/leftwithoutedge /r/anarchismonline /r/radicalchristianity are good.
But yeah if people start memeing bash the fash and fully automaded luxury gay communism on here because of a redditor influx I will upload a video of me hanging myself.
Robert Murphy
this is good, fascists are people too and deserve to be treated as such.
Julian Mitchell
I hope the hotpockets are warmed up for what we're gonna get.
Kayden Cook
Agreed.
Jack Sanders
Actually, redditors will probably sooner fuck off to voat than an image board. Voat is a reactionary hotbed but it can be molded into its own communities while to redditors 8ch is known as "that place with CP and Holla Forums".
Zachary Baker
leftcoms won't be affected. they hate edgy larping and the glorification of violence. their shitpost sub already made fun of antifa at berkeley too.
Ian Lewis
so you're saying voat is exactly like 8ch?
Isaiah Nelson
Every time we have a re editor influx its cancer for about 4-5 days and then they all either adopt our… Unique flavor or leave.
Gavin Roberts
if 8ch had a 1:1 reddit layout and no CP, yeah.
Jordan Ross
im excited to bully newfags and idpol shitlibs, should be fun
Levi Lewis
Daily reminder the redditors are mostly 14 year olds and are therefore all lifestylist scum.
Asher Flores
What percentage do you think stick around?
Christopher Hernandez
leftcoms are implicit white nationalists lol
Leo Ward
I think leftist redditors created their own voat like thing a while back.
Gabriel Morales
So what will they tolerate, then? I know it's Reddit, but we should make a huge deal out of this.
Hudson Hughes
crazy that christcoms are actually pretty reasonable people, considering their right-wing cousins are straight up retarded
Ethan Ramirez
Why do you think this? Sincerely interested.
Ryder Williams
The purpose of all those social media companies is to make money, they will tolerate whatever is profitable and ban whatever scares off advertisers. Expect censorship to become even more arbitrary.
Hunter Phillips
Of course they will. That doesn't mean we can't have a lot of people calling them out on it very publicly.
Ryder Nguyen
Censorship is going to be framed as an effort to curb 'harassment', 'trolling' or 'extremism'. Also,it doesn't necessarily mean banning people: you can dramatically reduce the reach of stuff through some light tweaks to the algorithm. and normies are just going to be like 'duh it's a private platform'.
Anthony Baker
That's because that get banned from almost every other community for being annoying faggots. They do have their own reddit sub and a few colonies tho.
Jaxson Carter
'no'
Isaac Cook
right
Xavier Watson
Yeah, I hope they get deleted. R/socialism too. Free the redditor masses from their mod overlords and educate them about non-idpol socialism
Carson Hall
Reddit is mostly edge lord Tankies who don't read
Robert Bell
I never thought the day would come, reddit's found a persecuted minority they want to defend: fascists.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
/r/anarchism went downhill ever since the tankies and sharpies took charge. At a time when the potential for new lefties is at an all time high, the fact that both /r/socialism and /r/anarchism ban not only curious new people but spend an overwhelming amount of time purging their own ranks.
/r/anarchismonline may be a lot smaller, but at least the people there actually appear to be activists in real life .
Jeremiah Rogers
It's wonderful that r/anarchism will likely get banned. I don't know why anyone here would sympathize with them and other edgy leftist subreddits that insist on defending their autism.
Leo Lopez
Is that you PK?
Andrew Cruz
It's not about whether r/anarchism should get banned. It's about this place being where reddit has decided to draw the line. They had to get wide pressure to ban literal pedophilia subreddits. There remain subreddits that exist for the sole purpose of posting pictures of dead non-whites. But for some reason, at no external prompting, "bash the fash" is where reddit admins have decided free speech ends.
Jose Lewis
Reddit admins banned plenty of subs before, they're not singling out /r/anarchism in any way.
Benjamin Murphy
I would love to see edgy leftists getting banned by the admins.
David Roberts
This. We should be working as hard as we can to use this flashpoint to get the admins to ban both subreddits, and then we or Prince_Kropotkin's group and snipe the new replacement subreddit, and then finally we can run a socialist subreddit with actual growth.
Joshua Gomez
wow yes i am sure you guys would do great in an actual revolution
Isaac Davis
Please no please stop
Camden Hernandez
There is actually an anarchism board on here that died because of lack of users
The reddit system in general is garbage, the up votes, down votes, everything is easily manipulated, you see brigading all the time, bots, the mods are bought off, you get shadow banned from subs. Imagbaords are the true revolutionary movement of the internet, its the complete opposite of identity politics, you are no one on here, you have no identity, no one knows what you look like, who you are, where you are. Anonymity brings out humanities shadow, its true essence, turns out humans are giant shit posters when the mask comes off. The cage of liberal political correctness is shattered on image boards, the things you would never say in real life are discussed.
Liam Allen
this.
the problem is that imageboards are still too centralized, making the site owner and board owners single points of failure. nntpchan tries to distribute those roles amongst several nodes but all nodes right now are run by feds so you might aswell go on 4chan/pol/. retroshare has a pretty good admin system by now but the software is written by feds and is so full of vulnerabilities on the code level and protocol level there is no way to fix it.
Samuel Ramirez
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Jayden Hall
Ah yes, what a contribution
Nolan Gonzalez
Thanks porky for taking out your own usefull idiots.
Levi James
Fine with me. The more leftists we can get away from reddit and other pernicious forms of social media the better.
Jeremiah Morales
They have to go back.
Logan Kelly
what are you doing on Holla Forums if you hate inane shitposting
James Young
What happened to that website, Voat? I heard they became one of those "fuck original website" clones that ended up being what they hated.
Justin Flores
Hell no. /r/Socialism and associates purge leftcoms. It's 90% SJW tankies and particularly retarded anarchists.
Cameron Cruz
I've found right wing Christians to be pretty damn reasonable compared to Holla Forumstards and edgy libertarian "conservatives". What I find most harmful is the endless liberal demonization of them as "retarded" when the reality is many of them I've spoken to are much more welcoming of debate than the other groups and are often open to concepts like labor exploitation whether or not they fully get on board.
Connor Sanders
It's the accompanying meme subreddit for /r/leftcommunism/. Which is basically dead, as there are very few LeftComs on Reddit. Even /r/Ultraleft has a large population of smashies and shitposters who don't actually know shit about the ultraleft.
Isaac Fisher
Yeah, reddit admins are porkies to the core. Literally the only thing that matters is the bottom line. They might talk up free speech but it's a really superficial appeal to centrism. This purge is just happening so they can attract right-wing advertisers.
Cooper Reed
voat got overtaken by stormniggers due to Holla Forums, stormfront and ironmarch conspiring to take major boards and ban anyone who wasn't in the torture chamber. Additionally, the DDOS' and server fuckups made any normalfag run off to stabler pastures.
Jeremiah Fisher
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Kayden Bailey
More people really should see these pictures. Maybe we should get Muke or BadMouse to put them in a video.
Hunter Clark
We ought to take it to the /leftytrash/ thread. One of them will probably show up there eventually. We could get them to make a video about the history of the leftist Reddit drama too. If Reddit is going to start taking these measures we should put something out to counter it, and videos are a great way to do that. If it gets enough traction it could force big YouTubers to respond.
Leo Taylor
You confuse principle for dogma and straddling of the fence for compromise.
Christian Rivera
Maybe it's just because I'm a filthy socdem but generally I've found "traditional" conservatives (the ones who generally look down on the consumerist decadence of the 80s) to be among the most reasonable people i've ever spoken to politically.
They cling to low taxes like I cling to nationalization, but somehow there's a synthesis where we recognize the two are "compatible.", Peter Hitchens is a good example of that kind of thinking. (Or perhaps it's just that they care more about "social" issues where I care about "economic" issues, so with a wink and a nudge they can abolish divorce so long as they keep quiet about the tax rise to fund the national monorail service, where a proper marxist or reactionary would recognize the economic/social distinction is illusory.)
Maybe the horseshoe theory thing that winded up with communism in the centre, socdems on the "left" and christian democrats or whatever on the "right" was accurate after all.