Motherfuckers created a rule about how pointing out that overpopulation myths are ecofascistic lobbying is actually "bad faith" somehow so now every post, no matter what it is about, full of "this is why billions must die" bullshit.

There's 500k subscribers btw.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It's scary how many people say shit like "there are just too many people."

Like mother fucker the number ain't the problem, over production of shitty food and plastic, and inefficient city planning are.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also it'd be far more utilitarian to wipe out the west if we're discussing Malthusian bullshit

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Generally found asking people if they're one of the surplus ones when they say this gets them to shut up.

Not that it changes their mind but they generally have enough self awareness to j9t stay "no I mean a bu ch of other people should die" or if they do say they're a mask off fascist and you know talking to them is a waste of time

[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That sub used to be part of the "reddit left" with a decent overlap with latestagecapitalism etc. Bernie era used to be a good time to "educate" people there about socialism, even if just pointing out that collapse is capitalism's fault.

But given the massive overlapping userbase a lot of those old users moved on, as you know the reddit "left" is a shadow now(thats being generous), so this is just another example of the overall trend of the site. Every criticism of capitalism/US is "political" therefore confined within blue vs red MAGA now.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was totally a subscriber back then!

They used to actually moderate against ecofash tendencies iirc

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I never unsuited, just got permabanned for anti-Nazi. The sub got worse as the number of subs grew. I had a few comments moderated out of existence back in the higher science content days for making concrete suggestions regarding the overpopulation of billionaires problem. If that's ecofacism, then I am probably guilty as charged.

[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I remember that and shitliberalssay being pretty good back then.

Shitliberalssay was great because you'd get the odd confused conservative wander in and start agreeing with stuff before they realized where they were. I wonder if it's still decent, probably a lot of crossover between that sub and here honestly, there was a similar vibe

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

sls is still decent, but activity seems to have dropped off lately though

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

I remember when /r/enlightenedcentrism was a place where people made fun of centrists rather than people saying that Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Anybody left of Clinton and a lot of people probablly slightly to her right correctly realized reddit wad a blighted place or got banned for saying dems aren't going to save us.

Fash has spread by like 50% over what it used to be in pretty much every subreddit putting some fo them at about 149%.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

All of the legitimate, principled left on Reddit has been stamped out. All that's left are the Vaushite types, and unabashed libs. The more decent subs are gonna get banned sooner or later and they know it. Even the subs for the good podcasts are in starvation mode.

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's so stupid because there's such a simple gotchya response. You think there are too many people for the resources we have, and some need to go one way or another? Then it makes sense to start with the people that use the most resources, right?

In fact we probably don't even need to get rid of that many - let's just off the 5000 or so richest people on the planet, expropriate their stuff, and that will free up far more fuel, land, water, energy, money, whatever than you could possibly hope to get from letting millions in the global south perish.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

in other words, mayocide now

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Wow thanks everyone for keeping our little friend occupied while i was at work, good job everybody.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This post makes me think a shitredditsays community might be a good idea.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Dunk tank exists

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Theres also shitreactionariessay on lemmygrad

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Dunk tank banned fun

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Didn't dunk tank ban random reddit posts

[–] booty@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

random internet posts are explicitly not allowed there anymore, you have to be posting some shit elon musk said or whatever

[–] xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 1 points 3 months ago

Seconded, although to be fair we already have a community called shitreactionariessay that I feel definitely should overlap

[–] FugaziArchivist@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Are they fetishizing the Rust Cohle "humans need to walk hand in hand into extinction" line? Lol. Anyway, Marx helped settle this issue against Malthus and lazy Malthusians by showing how the material level of production sustains whatever the population is at

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