As someone that's been watching /r/all every now and again for an embarrassingly long time, I've been blown away watching /r/The_Donald wagging the Reddit dog for so long. The more the Reddit admins try to bury it, the more obvious it is that they're absentee landlords not quite up to the job. Reddit, like most link aggregators, is a form of usury.
Then again I remember T_D's founder, /u/jcm267, from /r/Politics back in the day. So yeah, I don't have a lot of trouble making all the goose-stepping and sieg-heiling out to be what it is. Persecution fantasies fueling fantasies of persecuting are part and parcel of brownshirt outfits like that. Not everyone has the grace, the tact of a /u/SuperconductiveRabbi.
Angry brigading mobs being what they are, and that moderation team being what they are, I'm not going to second guess Reddit's limits on T_D. Mind you, I've been mistreated by Reddit corporate in my own ways. I'm not blind to their many, many fatal flaws, ruinous choices, and backwards policies. I don't think Reddit admins are uniformly Democrats working to suppress the deplorables, the way some might. I think they're more of an iron law of institutions shop.
Will say though, if your fascist movement depends on a platform like Reddit, it's not really your movement, is it? It's Reddit's. There're still brigadiers here from T_D, but then they don't pull the same antic shit here either. Conversation's better for it. That's what Reddit was supposed to be about. You know, in Aaron Swartz days, R.I.P.
As someone that's been watching /r/all every now and again for an embarrassingly long time, I've been blown away watching /r/The_Donald wagging the Reddit dog for so long. The more the Reddit admins try to bury it, the more obvious it is that they're absentee landlords not quite up to the job. Reddit, like most link aggregators, is a form of usury.
Then again I remember T_D's founder, /u/jcm267, from /r/Politics back in the day. So yeah, I don't have a lot of trouble making all the goose-stepping and sieg-heiling out to be what it is. Persecution fantasies fueling fantasies of persecuting are part and parcel of brownshirt outfits like that. Not everyone has the grace, the tact of a /u/SuperconductiveRabbi.
Angry brigading mobs being what they are, and that moderation team being what they are, I'm not going to second guess Reddit's limits on T_D. Mind you, I've been mistreated by Reddit corporate in my own ways. I'm not blind to their many, many fatal flaws, ruinous choices, and backwards policies. I don't think Reddit admins are uniformly Democrats working to suppress the deplorables, the way some might. I think they're more of an iron law of institutions shop.
Will say though, if your fascist movement depends on a platform like Reddit, it's not really your movement, is it? It's Reddit's. There're still brigadiers here from T_D, but then they don't pull the same antic shit here either. Conversation's better for it. That's what Reddit was supposed to be about. You know, in Aaron Swartz days, R.I.P.