stop going on reddit

Hexbear is pretty much the only Internet place I still respect. Ofc it's not perfect but I swear there's not a single other Internet third space that's actually principled

Ableism

Podcast: has slogan "be normal"
Podcast's Subreddit: is bigoted against people who society considers abnormal

everyone on reddit is a stupid asshole

Brace only stopped saying the r word because he thinks it's cringe because the right likes it too much now.

Like, explicitly he said this a few times.

On a chapo call in episode one of the calls was about how they keep having to defend chapo to their friends who say they use the r word. One of the chapos said "if we're still gonna get flak for this why did we even stop saying it?" To which brace replied "i never stopped saying it!"

I love the show but they've been problematic the whole time

Yeah it has a lot of semi-"ironic" cultural tailism (that is sometimes actually not ironic). They take the "be normal" dictum to mean using the slurs of the "common person" and just generally don't police many of the reactionary tendencies common on Reddit.

There's also good posters there that reject this and there's regular cross-posting there and here from among those ranks. But yeah I don't go there anymore.

Not gonna defend the trueanon sub .....but a place like Hexbear is the very rare exception from the rule. Like there are places that dont allow slur usage etc but they are usually liberal or radlibs at best. The wider internet either doesnt really care or activley encourages stuff like slur usage.

a lot of casual antisemitism

super fans

Always has been lol, there are some gems but it is generally pretty shit imo

It certainly hasn't been about the podcast/conspiracy culture for a while. I'm an r/TA refugee so perhaps things have changed but it really seems like the inevitable forces of reddit finally catching up with them. Memorable posters like throwaway numbers or opencommune disappearing, refugees from the latest banned 'left' subreddit not integrating, a lot of reaction/image stuff instead of interesting text posts, multi-thread discourse, etc. It's reddit.

I'm banned there

I blame Young Chomsky, he's a mod

its like a bizarre 50-50 mix of DSA libs and 4chan brained chuds

every other post is like "zohran isnt perfect but hes doing a rent freeze" or "did you know that jews got kicked out of 109 countries"

Doesn't Brace use the R slur regularly? Or am I thinking another adjacent podcast?

I've always seen it as the cth refuge for people who really want to be able to say slurs and remain on reddit

I was reading it for a bit a few years ago but they seemed to really hate trans people. I remember at some point they were posting pictures of Natalie Wynn and picking apart her appearance as to whether she was passable or not. Just a general lot of commentary about trans people being freaks and stuff. It was intolerable.

This has been the case for a long while