Idk man friend. I’m kind of worried that this is the start of a big economic recession due to isolationist, regressive, accelerationist etc policies by far right govts.

Killem with kindness

It’s been very wholesome so far.

Thank you :)

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Ye im still somewhat looking into reddit (also to just realize what similar communities I should follow here)

There’s just so many whack websites as basis for discussion. Like newsgeek or other tabloids and people act like it’s the most official matter.

Feels like everyone only reads the headline and starts mashing their keyboards. And your reception tends to be less text = lie. The recent behavior and interaction feels similar to today’s Twitter in terms of rage induction, just for nerds

13 years and change here and yesterday I did the deed of hand deleting my years of comments and posts - wiped out my RES settings - deleted my account and that’s it. Big time nostalgia going back through all those comments though,

It’s way too frustrating to deal with.

Exaaactly!!

They put in so much effort to stop bots (restricting new accounts alot: read experiences how they wont directly let you know that stuff isnt loading anymore, read about hidden scores and also I remember years back in the beginning how confusing and weird the system was towards me with errors not allowing to post being “unavailable”, etc)

And then, they dont offer any supports like ticket systems for actual humans to apply and seek dialogue. (I mean they do, but its all automated responses into complete support restriction after deny without any non-automated input)

They really dont care about the users. And its has the same silicon valley agenda behind it. Especially with the accumulated changes to algorithms. It seems so based on baiting user’s interaction rather than seeking genuine connection and helpfulness

And its shocking how hidden this issue is on reddit. And people talking about reddit: all criticism you hear is how its a bubble (esp politically used). But nobody talks about how crazy the handling of users is. I literally been seperated.

Maybe thats the essence of mentioned bubble issue in disguise after all

I’m not sure if reddit devs are even aware of it

They likely are, but management is also likely rejecting any attempts to fix it.

No it’s a reference to .ml being an authoritarian shithole. Just as reddit as this point.

I think you’re mistaking socialist critique for right wing. I’ve done that myself in the past. I automatically assumed that people critical of centrist or liberal politics are rabid right wingers. Turns out people from the left also criticize those politics. Throughout most of my life such criticism always came from right, so I used to assume it’s coming from right wing nuts. If you don’t ask any questions about why, the single-sentence critique can look identical. E.g. “Democrats are hot garbage.” But if you ask why, it often turns out the reasoning and the proposed solutions are quite different. E.g. workers in the US are struggling. A right wing nut might want to get rid of government to solve that. A socialist might want to strengthen labor unions, tax the rich and nationalize healthcare. They both think the Democrats are shit since the party is doing neither. People from .ml are overwhelmingly comrades criticising from the left. In fact .ml stands for Marxist-Leninist.

I don’t mean standing on street corners. I mean replacing ads, billboards, graffiti etc

there was a petition on reddit a few days ago, it got 16k signatures … 16 fucking k in a country of 350 million!

meanwhile, there was 800.000 people on the streets of belgrade a couple of days ago, 4 months after the protests began still going stronger and stronger

americans don’t know shit about protesting

The atomization of the citizens have had decades to fester in the US.

Single family houses, car dependent infrastructure, lack of private communications will all move people away from forming groups, and make it more difficult to organize.

Living in an apartment makes it easier to form a small group of common interests, you meet other people in similar situations, have ready access to private areas to discuss sensitive subjects, same goes for public transport.

Once a small group has been established, it is far easier to keep it going, than to establish a new group.

And once you have a group it is far easier to organize protests.

Just remember though, that excuse didn’t matter during the WoT or 1% protests, Americans were able to gather in huge numbers and coordinate globally.

But somehow in the last 10 years America has physically elongated until those distances that were doable before are now the biggest barrier to stopping literal fascism.

Please stop repeating this self defeating myth.

That’s like saying “I wish EU knew how to protest” because the states differ about as much as European countries. I don’t hear of a ton of the Eastern European countries protesting like the French, or the Poles do. I think there is a lot of ignorance of how it looks like to be an American from the inside

As did Ford and GE, and… something about a business plot?

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You know how the Germans see it. " If there are 4 people at the table and one of them is a nazi, then there are 4 Nazis at the table"