Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    “Well, I do mind because I motherfucking live here, and I’m not having a good day. So how about you stop being a fucking knob and answer my question?”

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    Reddit is so wild now, man. I got a three day site-wide ban for commenting on a LAMF thread about Mitch McConnell not liking the direction of the Republican party now even though he was one of the architects. My comment agreed. Apparently I was harassing Mitch McConnell.

    Why can a mod in one subreddit ban someone from the whole site?

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      12 hours ago

      Wow we can’t even criticize our politicians anymore? Land of the free, my ass. And fuck reddit, toxic wasteland.

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    Haven’t been to Tennessee, I went to Louisville Kentucky, I hated it there. It was like going back in time, all white people in suits, the only black person was homeless. The homeless guy was moving place to place so shop owners wouldn’t have time to harass him. Nothing like a fancy meal in a high class restaurant full of well off white dudes and a homeless black guy outside the window.

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    I’ve checked the Tennessee subreddit and it doesn’t seem very active. The first post is 17h old and about the special election. The news article that was posted, is not positive for the republican party. The reddit comments are overwhelmingly against Van Epps. The post itself was posted by a mod. https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1pajj2w/tennessee_congressional_race_becomes_unlikely/

    This doesn’t look like a rightwing echo chamber to me. Maybe the outsider that was calling for action, was removed because they take their rule about removing agitators seriously. Imo there may still be a problem of too strict modding, because of how inactive the subreddit looks.

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      At one point it was a glorious place. Then 5 people became admins and mods of the most popular 100 sub reddits and began controlling the narrative to fit their beliefs. In my opinion reddit has been dead for at least 5 years now

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      Front page, I believe was what they called themselves. But yeah, it’s been a glorious fall.

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    2 days ago

    The mod of a fascist sub about a fascist state of a fascist country on a fascist website is behaving like fascist? I’m shocked.

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      Yeah but greedy little pig boy Spez just became a billionaire, so it was worth sacrificing your speech for his wealth.

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      To which I disagree.

      With all the cases on reddit where it seems that outcome serves republicans - there is a counter-argument of how most major subs are democrat-sided subs. Maybe mods are republicans, but still user base is majority of democrats. r/pics, r/adviceanimals, r/therewasanattempt, r/clevercomebacks, r/facepalm - these were never primarily about politics. And now they are and these are only democrat-sided.

      Or, maybe, it is astroturfing and political bots swarm these subs. Who knows at this point?