We are really witnessing the beginning of the fascist oligarch USA.

https://www.indy100.com/news/elon-musk-criticism-reddit-violent-posts-doge-staff

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[–] 186 points 2 years ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am a bit hopeless about Lemmy, I still end up going to reddit to search for tech answers. Also finding answers through Lemmy is hard since Lemmy's own search feature is useless at its present state and doing a web search through any search engine won't return any posts from Lemmy.

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (33 children)

    I'm sorry but inciting violence gets any instance nuked, broligarch or federated.

    Just read this:

    Some of the screenshots say: "Muskrat’s DOGE Henchmen have been identified," "It's time to do more than dragging names, let's drag their necks up by a large coil of rope," "Time to hunt," "I’ll say it. This nazi stooge needs to be shot," and other comments sharing a similar sentiment.

    Now of course we can gloat that Reddit is bending the knee, but if a Lemmy instance was big enough to attract the same attention, exactly the same thing would have happened. No instance owner wants their whole instance get nuked by feds because the users of the instance are inciting violence.

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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Shit like that was frequently posted on the_donald back in the day, except targeting minorities, and the admins were fine with it

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  • [–] [S] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    I mean, I would agree if reddit wasn't filled with hateful and violent content but it is. Last week, I reported a popular post joking about raping two women who OD, just to get told to shut up by the mods. So the fact that this loser got the entire community banned just shows the type of justice you can expect from social medias controlled by tech-bros. EDIT: Also, the only good nazi is a very dead nazi.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The mod of a sub I watch confirmed earlier that Reddit is threatening moderators who don’t comply with removing the names of Elon’s goons from their subs, claiming that spreading those names is doxxing.

    Those names, by the way, are Gavin Kliger, Ethan Shaotran, Akash Bobba, Luke Farritor, and Edward Coristine.

    But nice scapegoat you got there.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Bullshit.

    I saw the screenshots. The upvotes didn't even break 2 digits. At most, the comments would get removed and the users banned. Saying it makes sense for the entire sub to be taken down for the dozen or so idiots is, undeniably, bullshit.

    The same types of comments have been made on lemmy. The instances did not get taken down or any legal action. Suggesting otherwise is nonsense.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean. he's a non elected foreigner who's overstayed his visa and has no security clearance, and he's stealing access to the most sensitive systems our country has. It's absolutely time to hunt. Anyone have links to screenshots showing the identities of Musks henchmen?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    very little is considered inciting violence on reddit, I had a comment get removed for that once it was "I dont like h1b visas, it makes it harder for americans to get jobs when hella ppl are already struggling to find jobs with degrees rnow" they removed that for inciting violence than temp banned me for a week for appealing it

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’m putting the tinfoil hat on here, but wouldn’t it be rather easy to have some users go and post stuff like that in the subreddit? How many upvotes did those comments get?

    At least on Lemmy, the votes are public, so manipulation can be discovered.

    Also, if those posts were talking about Hamas, Hezbollah or maybe Russia, would that also have shut down the subreddit?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m putting the tinfoil hat on here, but wouldn’t it be rather easy to have some users go and post stuff like that in the subreddit? How many upvotes did those comments get?

    Sure, but why whitepeopletwitter of all places? If they're trying to disrupt dissent surely there are more effective places to put their energy

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    Sure, but why whitepeopletwitter of all places? If they're trying to disrupt dissent surely there are more effective places to put their energy

    Not that I think this is what happened, but I think the answer is actually really straightforward - how quickly will reddit bend the knee? Let's find out.

    Thats all it would take is a random thought to get there.

    Again, not what I think happened. Enough people elsewhere saying the same things that its bound to get commented in a reddit thread as well.

    I do, however, think Musk pushed for the entire sub to get banned, or spez did it proactively as a show of support (with a hope to bury his nose in Musk crack).

    Edit: The new banwave makes me think its #2 - spez beak tinted brown with musk crack.

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    [–] 63 points 2 years ago

    Reddit gets a little smaller

    (Yes, I know how serious this is. But by all means, accelerate the downfall of Reddit.)

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "They broke the law," tweeted the motherfucker who never respected it in the first place...

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I liked that reddit. What a fucking pussy cunt. He claimed they broke the law when they didn't. All they were doing was exposing his illegal shit and criminal underlings, who should all be facing at least 20 years in prison for the stuff they are doing now.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    ”They broke the law.” Put me on the jury, and I’ll disagree.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I went and dusted off my reddit account to see how quickly I could get banned. Of course, all the comments I made were in /r/conservative so I'm assuming I'm getting a subreddit ban the second any of their mods wake up.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Thus week on: The A-hole in the K-hole...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    We are really witnessing the beginning of the fascist oligarch USA.

    Acceleration of, sure, but beginning?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    What a snowflake.

    With all those right-wingers being whimsical snowflakes, we can wait for summer or we can create the fire to melt them.

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    Don't they know that inciting and glorifying violence towards the 1% is cool and good?

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    That name makes it seem like some kind of white power racist group. Like stormer, which got shut down a while ago.

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