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*the joke still isnt funny*
*this is still going on*
*can you believe the first time you saw this was almost 9 years ago?*
*and they're still doing this like it's funny*
Like people just assume every reply they get is a debate
This is definitely true! Whenever I saw I had replies on reddit, my first thought was always oh fuck who did i piss off this time. Here, I’m genuinely happy and interested to receive replies because the mood here isn’t so combative.
My favorite one of these was when someone posted the Parenti quote from Blackshirts and Reds about the Ford plant in Cologne, Germany that Allied bombers were instructed not to hit; I think it was in /r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM or some similar radlib-adjacent sub, and one of the replies was someone demanding sources and insisting that they were going to fact-check Michael goddamned Parenti. lmao
All the china rhetoric started flying and then people started saying things like
“I’m as bleeding heart liberal leftist drum circle kumbyah as the next guy, but we should fireboard every Chinese person”
It’s the ratchet effect in full motion. They don’t believe in anything aside from beating republicans, so their rhetoric keeps moving to the right, because they think that the best strategy is to become a republican to beat them.
They don’t see political parties as tools to change the views of the population, they see them as brands that must market themselves within whatever the existing views are to “win” and THEN change the country after winning.
Socialists on the other hand do battle to change the views, opinions and culture of the population itself.
Oh yes. Subs like neolib especially, it’s all about being “electable” according to the voting population’s current whims, never about changing voters’ views. It’s all about being elected… to get elected. That’s why there’s support for people like Manchin in Blue MAGA spaces.
The China narrative has actually been really disrupted, in nearly every thread about Uighurs either the top or the second top comment will be calling out Adrien Zenz
This is good to remember. Reddit does suck and has sucked for a while, but a large part of the userbase is at least open to moving to the left of the Democratic Party. That’s how CTH got so big on there in the first place. You can pretty easily find left criticisms of Biden on /r/politics, too.
This place writing off the whole of reddit is like libs writing off red states.
I was in a thread of public housing in china and people were like “man, that would be so cool in america, why can’t we do that? … fuck china though”
Like, I’m an anarchist, but sometimes I can say good things about China without qualifying it. It’s like the word “fuck” is a little caboose following around China in their brains.
Like, okay, watch this: China preventing famine in the DPRK is good.
Did you see that? No qualifiers!
I mean I think the explanation is pretty obvious, they deplatformed all the leftists and left with no obvious place to hang out, they all left the site.
I think a large portion likely just logged off, thats why its important to ban fascist hangouts, the technique works.
Reddit has certainly gotten worse and most of this community has also gone much further left even since the site launched.
What almost bugs me more is the excessive advertisement. The ads in the comments are just too much. Like they weren’t making enough with the awards and subscriptions.
