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Conservatives Quickly Turn Against “Idiot” Marjorie Taylor Greene
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this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
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I got perma-banned from Reddit for saying that I wished she’d trip and swallow her own head. That’s inciting violence apparently.
I got a warning for saying I wished tory voters get to experience the policies they voted for. Same reason
Uk subreddit ?
so right wing these days.
I used to be able to write it off as misguided young men…but there is a bit of a cabal of mods than run lots of the UK subs. I’ve had multiple accounts banned.
That's all subreddits. The kind of people willing to do the unpaid labor of moderating Reddit are not the stable or rational types.
The thing reddit should have clamped down on, was the careers mods - there are a dozen or more people, modding 80 plus sub. That’s never going to be healthy.
Spez only cares about revenue. Hurting people and enabling genocides is just fine.
Why would they clamp down on the free, unpaid labor that is the only reason their site still functions?
That’s a huge lie by the way.
Reddit is built on content supplied for free by users, not the work of overseer mods.
Ukpol
What a surprise.
I don’t have evidence- but I strongly suspect not everyone there is quite who they purport to be.
It’s just a feeling, based on similar experiences, but I suspect some people are there in a professional capacity.
Oh wow, that's a pretty damning reaction on their part
That's because the politics sub was long ago taken over by people who wish to abuse the system for their personal gain. Amongst them are some right-wing trolls who have no problem with abusing their power.
I got all my accounts permabanned just because I commented in a sub that one of my other accounts was banned in. And they kept banning any account I made afterwards. Of course we all know reddit turned to shit and that's why we're here.
Yeah that's ban evasion dude, that's on you. Not sure sure why you'd engage with people who have explicitly said they don't want to hear it. Think of the spam/trolling possible if that wasn't enforced.
Wasn't like I did it on purpose. I had like 3 accounts and switch between them all the time. Just because some idiot conservative mods banned me for telling the truth in their shitty sub a few times, I get permabanned from reddit. Never had any issue with it before they banned third party apps and forced me to use their shit app.
Also so my accounts are banned so what I can just make another yet they keep fucking banning every account I make before I even make any comments. One butthurt trump mod is all it takes to get permabanned from reddit.
No, you are banned because you broke a reddit-wide rule, don't use a second account to get around a subreddit ban. One butthurt trump mod can only ban you from their subreddit. Without that rule there would be no way whatsoever to stop people from flooding subreddits they don't like because "so what I can make another".
You are being seen on the same devices and from the same range of IP addresses. They were always going to fingerprint and catch you. Now they are actively watching for you.
Should have used an agent switcher and a VPN.
I got banned for commenting "guillotine". Nothing else. If that word is all around banned they should say so
I mean, context does matter. If you're replying to a post or comment about a person or group of people, "guillotine" comes with a pretty clear implication: "they should be sent to the..."
If you were responding to a question like, "What tool did Mel Brooks' character use to provide circumcisions in Robin Hood Men in Tights?" "Guillotine" may be an acceptable response. Again, context matters.
Saying they can't ban a word is the same excuse white supremacists use when they coopt shit like the "OK" gesture to symbolize white power.
A very thin veneer of plausible deniability doesn't somehow make a call for violent executions align with policies against violent rhetoric.
Even if I say "we should guillotine the billionaires" why is that wrong? I fully believe we should, and literally eat one as a message. Why would some low wage mod care that I'm calling for the death of billionaires? Billionaires aren't people.
Look, billionaires are bad for society, but normalizing this kind of dehumanizing violent rhetoric is how we get violent extremists.
When someone finally decides to act in this language and mails a bomb or goes to Tesla HQ with a gun, guess who is probably not going to be there
The mailroom worker or the receptionist are going to be in the line of fire while Elon probably isn't even in the same state.
3.5 million people died during the French Revolution, only a tiny fraction of them were actually part of the ruling class. Acting like this is some ideal to strive for is childish. The "joke" stopped being funny the 27-millionth time it came up in the comments of a "Billionaire Bad" article.
At best, you're distracting from people discussing real solutions to wealth inequity, at worst you're promoting violent extremism. If I were moderating a community I'd probably boot you as well to make room for more productive conversations.
Let's cry liberal tears for the poor billionaires while they continue to fuck us. Nobody has balls, that's why we keep getting fucked