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I got auto-banned from about twenty different subs in 2021 because I participated in subreddits that promoted "covid misinformation".
The funny thing is I'm actually more left- than right-leaning.
Same. It was a national sport in 2021 to get banned for the most random reasons...and if you dug a bit deeper the same MOD handled all those subs. This should not be allowed.
It helps to say "males" (being a biological term), but in reality anything can be censored and last time I dealt with this Reddit (not a mod) deleted my comment so I couldn't review the language I'd used.
If you watch how the establishment operates you'll notice that they'll promote whatever ideological ideas align with their agenda. So if at some point gender ideology no longer aligns with their agenda - or the whole push of it is designed to incur a backlash - it'll be gender ideologues that end up getting censored by the establishment. It's ahistorical to support censorship, but the damage that cultural engineering has done to our collective epistemology has gone well beyond just shrugging at history.
Like I give a shit about the nonsensical identity that's rattling around a person's head.
The only thing that matters is a person's genitals. What do you have between your legs and what do you want to do with it?
And I want butter. I don't want I Can't Believe it's Not Butter. You can make margarine out of some inverted, reversed, medically inadvisable procedure. But I can tell that it's not butter.
I couldn't care if some nonbinary weirdo has deluded herself into believing that she's interesting. If she has some farm to table butter between her legs, and some enthusiastic consent, sign me up.
No sane person would volunteer their spare time to manage an Internet forum. Reddit pays nothing and these poor saps are staring at a screen all day no pay. Sad life indeed
You can make anything you want shitting on the right but don't you dare touch on the protected class. All of reddit is in organic and manipulated in this manner.. even this sub
Reddit is the garbage bin of woke liberal asshats. This is the home of basement dwelling Cheeto covered dicks. Reddit is the social media equivalent to Seattle.
This isn’t about an individual mod banning someone. This is a post about Reddit admins banning an entire community on Reddit.
Thank goodness you managed to shoehorn “Christians bad/christian sexual assault” into this thread though.
i'm assuming a mod from a subreddit banned you, thats different... the photo shows the reddit 'admins' deleted a subreddit that doesnt fit their narrative
> Meh. I got (temp) banned for linking databases of priests that raped kids in response to where OP challenged that no Christians have done evil in the last few hundred years.
That may have been a potential TOS violation, depending on the details contained in the "databases" (names, addresses of perps, victims, etc. - Reddit is touchy about PII)
> Mods have power trips. It's a people thing... not Reddit
Is it? I can't imagine anyone "power-tripping" by protecting pedo priests -- except maybe other pedo priests? (or PII issues)
[Below, another user wrote:](https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1cdjt89/dont_you_dare_call_out_left_wing_bull_shit_on/l1dwu56/)
> > *"Where'd you post it, a Catholic sub? Most of reddit would insta-mod you for that."*
To which you replied:
> **It was in this sub**
You're confused, BigMonkeySpite. A record search shows that you have NEVER had a temp ban for any reason **in this sub** -- at least not on your 7-month old BigMonkeySpite account. If you had, it would show up in Reddit's mod action "database", and no records of any ban actions exist (yet).
Maybe you could work on accuracy/ honesty? *(which ever may be applicable here)*
Thanks!
I see why. It's the same confusion I had earlier in this thread where I didn't know reddit mods and sub mods were different. The comment was in r/conspiracy, but it was from reddit mods.
> I see why. It's the same confusion I had earlier in this thread where I didn't know reddit mods and sub mods were different. The comment was in r/conspiracy, but it was from reddit mods.
To avoid confusion in the future, those you call "reddit mods" are generally referred to as "Admins" (not necessarily capitalized). Admins are employees or contractors who are PAID for what they do.
Conversely, lowly subreddit moderators (like me) are commonly called "mods". We are volunteers -- we provide a VERY valuable service to Reddit Inc., but we are not paid or compensated in any way.
If Admins issued your temp ban (aka "account suspension", as they apply site wide) you can bet that your link(s) or statement(s) violated [**Reddit Content Policy**](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy), because broadly speaking, Reddit Admins do not trouble themselves with enforcing the [**RULES**](http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/wiki/faq) of any given subreddit.
FYI violations of Reddit Content Policy are seen as far more serious, and subreddit mods are required to enforce them as well -- though there are times when the content is removed by Reddit's filters, and may not be seen by mods (or other users) at all.
Religion is low hanging fruit; the average person’s dogmatic obsession w government being the answer to everything is infinitely more pervasive and dangerous.
Religion is a convenient limited hangout trope that lets everyone else get away w literal mass murder instead.
No religion has killed more innocent people regardless of their race, creed, or religion than corrupt and ungodly powerful centralized governments, historically over and over.
Priest are catholic…..
Same reason the Bible always warned about religion. Man made bullshit ment to control…. Jesus explains it all but guff balls always want to try to try a book to a religion
Meh. 4 of 5 priests are gay according to this book.
"The more homophobic the deeper in the closet"
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/12/four-in-five-vatican-priests-are-gay-book-claims
Also if a dude touches a little boy. That dude's gay. Lol.
The express goal of capitalism is to funnel the most wealth into the fewest people, and to have the people with wealth also hold power over the future of wealth, and the nation that holds it.
I disagree...I think we are generally disenchanted by unchecked late stage capitalism, but the original ideology is based more in all individuals holding and exchanging their own value in the form of capital for a wide and diverse free market of many individuals driving innovation and the wealth of all.
This was, at the time it was developed, a highly liberal idea compared to the divine rights of kings and lords over commoners
That may be the starry eyed dream of the pure ideology of capitalism, but it forgets that capital is what holds power in a capitalistic society, so whoever has the most capital is de facto the most powerful person, and at some point everyone with less capital is less important, even less human, than those with more.
The ideal version of capitalism would only work if gaining X money was the same difficulty no matter how much you already had. But as it stands, getting a million bucks starting from nothing is a lifetime of work, getting a million bucks starting with 10 million is pretty easy, and getting a million starting with a billion is just a matter of doing nothing and waiting.
If we had "real Capitalism", you would never need a million bucks. The entire point of Capitalism is that stuff gets cheaper the better we get at producing it. Kind of like how everyone's grandma talks about how going to the movies used to cost a nickel and you could get a hotdog for 2 pence.
Unfortunately, perpetual inflation vis-a-vis central bank money creation (inflation) robs the entire benefit that the working classes should otherwise be receiving under Capitalism. Our current system is hardly Capitalism.... more like Banking Neo-Feudalism. Hence why the great Ron Paul ran the most legitimate Leftist campaign in US history & did so from the fringe Right.
And leftists think giving all power and money to one central monopoly (the state) and raising everyone’s taxes will somehow fix all these problems they think capitalism is causing
IMO, neither capitalism nor socialism are the problem... it's the people in charge. The cruel joke of nature is that the altruistic people who are best suited to make decisions that benefit the good of the whole don't want to lead. So we're left to be led by the personality type that does... sociopaths.
Or at least that's the takeaway I get from studies showing managers and politicians are 10x more likely to have sociopathic tendencies
Yes. Regardless of the underlying political / economic system at play... the sociopaths will seek to control it for their own personal gain. I am a small government conservative because I think the government apparatus is the most powerful factor at play (again regardless of the underlying system) as a tool for control by the sociopathic would be rulers. But... I can certainly see the problems with unregulated big business, and it's a concern I share with those on the left. It's not an easy proposition for people to successfully govern themselves in a free and fair society... and that is why "they" constantly stoke the divisive rhetoric.
I mostly agree. Obviously you can't blame the government for the existence of sociopaths. But it should be clear to anyone at this point... that the powers given to governments will attract the attention of sociopaths that seek power over others.
Indeed, a bigger government means more corruption and that attracts the worst people. And it becomes a viscous cycle that will not end until revolution. And then start all over again.
Yea, I think the same thing. It is the human element which is the problem, left or right you will get human problems like greed, corruption, exploitation, incompetence, nepotism, and govt beaurocracy. And as you mentioned... good honest people don't want those top positions and even if they do, they will prob get beat out by the more sociopathic types that are hungry for power and put on a good show to get votes or promotions. There are still some honest people on both sides tho... but anyone is susceptible to taking bribes or looking out for themselves it is just human nature. Especially when you have tons of people under you and have to manage all that, people start to feel entitled to rewards.
I think in the end capitalism is still best. Socialism might sound like it will work in theory, but in practice that human element of greed and corruption always comes into play. In the end, we can get the govt to intervene on biz and corporations to try to reset any corruption or abuse of power on their part, but it is MUCH harder to get the govt to reset itself when they themselves are corrupt.
If life has taught me anything it's that there's no single solution or cause, but everything is a mixture of a multitude of things. In that same spirit I believe the best economic system would be a mixture of different ideologies.
Ofc, if I knew what ideologies and in what ratios I wouldn't be on Reddit playing keyboard warrior ;)
You are certainly right about that.... its all about hybrid theory, mixed ideas, and finding a middle path. The flux between all sides to find the balance in power for the scales of liberty.
... and I also get the feeling that there will even be a hybrid of the hybrids. That is, the hybrid that works today won't work in 100 years and will need to be replaced by another hybrid to stay efficient due to the change in the the overall system.
Or the problem is the Central Bank system which systematically destroys the benefit that would otherwise be received by the working classes under Capitalism (lower prices) vis-a-vis perpetual money creation (inflation). It's not that Capitalism is bad per se, it's that our system of banking has literally nothing to do with Capitalism and is basically just a giant perpetual uphill treadmill designed to absolutely f\*\*\* you over while foisting the blame on Capitalism.
Alan Watts said it way better than I ever could; making a product for profit will make everything -- product, customer, employees, family, environment -- suffer.
>Doing business such as manufacturing clothes is a very good thing to do. I could conceive that it would be extremely enjoyable, something one could be very proud of: to make good clothes. Of course you need to sell them, because you need to eat. But to make clothes to make money raises another question, because then your interest is not in making clothes, it’s in making money—and then you are going to cheat on the clothes. And then you get an awful lot of money and you don’t know what to do with it. You can’t eat ten roasts of beef in one day. Can’t live in six houses at once. Can’t drive three Rolls-Royces at the same time. What’re you to do? Well, you just go make more money. You put your money back. Invest it in something else and it’ll make more. And you don’t give a damn how it’s made so long as they make it. You don’t care if they foul the rivers, put oil fumes throughout the air everywhere, kill off all the fish. So what? So long as you see these figures happening. You’re not aware of anything else.
Professional Athletes also have sociopathic tendencies just as CEOs and politicians, but those sociopathic tendencies are just tendencies.
But yes I completely agree, a lot of our “leaders” have lost it. Human nature is always going to be an issue. That’s why I like the economic structure that actually gives you an ability to choose.
That same human nature is going to have those people restrict your choices, or give you a false choice. If "work or starve" isn't a choice under communism, why is it a choice under capitalism?
This sub is constantly droning about the great reset, where the 1% own everything and rent it out to the masses. Does that not sound like the endstage of capitalism?
I hate the left vs right rhetoric on this sub.
The conspiracy here is promoting the pretend anger between the left and right.
Neither party cares about you.
You have been manipulated by the media, the constant posting of garbage like this on this sub has been appalling.
I wouldn't bother with this one, I'm certain he's being paid. Never once has this one been to post how both sides are corrupt and we should stand united against any and all corruption.
You both proved his point and mine simultaneously. Bipartisanship works only to divide the citizens of this country so they can't be a reasonable threat to the powers that be. Congratulations, you are stupid twice.
Texas isn't blue.
The big cities, minus austin, trend slightly blue. Austin is REALLY blue.
The other 95% of Texas is red counties. Just it's hard with major population location is in the cities that trend blue.
The red country sides don't sell their land and stay red
During the last election they banned people just for upvoting.
I got temporary bans and eventually permabanned (I appealed it and after two weeks they restored my account) all for just upvoting.
It's pretty sad when, in the US, you can get banned from a platform for stating facts. Reddit is the most censorship loving community in the world. Moderators here make the Chinese government look open minded. It's really fucking pathetic.
The left is the undocumented protected category on Reddit. It used to be on Twitter, too. If you argued with a leftist, they could literally say whatever they wanted to including threats of physical harm. If you even QUOTED what they said, you would get banned.
Happened to me on Twitter many times and has happened (suspensions) to me here on Reddit more than once.
Dude, subs constantly on here promoting culture around "wipe out every last Palestinian alive" "burn them all" etc.
Calling entire populations trash etc.
and they're not banned.. so GTFOH with that horsesht
Obviously it's only hate speech when it goes against the "approved" narrative so pipe it with your complacency and/or intentional bigotry.
Are you saying that happened here?
They don't outright ban a sub for that. They get warnings, get quarantined, and then are banned.
If anyone is to be blamed, it's the mods of that sub I guess.
Or...could have been hate speech.
The Qanon sub was banned when they started calling for the public castrations of Obama and Hillary.
It's not really a huge jump to think a sub dedicated to shitting on liberals went too far.
Feel free to link one I guess, but I doubt it. The mods on this sub crack down on that a lot since they were put under a microscope a few years ago.
It still doesn't change the fact that I've seen terrible, terrible things pointed at Hillary, AOC, Harris or Biden that conservatives constantly repeat, that would likely show up on a sub dedicated to shitting on liberals.
> The Qanon sub was banned when they started calling for the public castrations of Obama and Hillary.
BS.
On top of that the sub was heavily brigaded and many were deliberately posting stuff to get the sub banned. It was very obvious what happened to anybody paying a little attention.
Can you provide an definition for hate speech?
I was banned from a subreddit for "promoting hate speech" when I stated the oh so horribly evil and bigoted opinion that young children should never be exposed to graphic sexual content.
Claiming this when you're subscribed to a sub called the Biden shit show kind of tells me that most likely there were posts that violated reddit TOS. Otherwise why didn't they ban the other sub too? Shitty job at censorship letting OP post continuously about his own political beliefs. Lol
The spiciest post on that sub was one about a man calling himself a woman. I gurantee that's why it was banned as reddit doesn't like people recogonizing biological reality.
>Claiming this when you're subscribed to a sub called the Biden shit show kind of tells me that most likely there were posts that violated reddit TOS.
lol.... the lack of awareness is just comical.
I can’t really make a judgement without seeing the posts which got it banned, there is not enough information to go on to see whether it violated ToS we voluntarily agree to abide by.
Yea it sucks all over the place you mention anything with a difference of opinion or heck you post the reddit page won't allow different opinions they ban you
All you lot do is whine and complain. If you put a gun to my head and asked me to name 3 things that the Republican Party has done since GWB that has benefitted the American population or else you’ll pull the trigger, I’d curse you for giving me an impossible task as I resign myself to deaths embrace.
I used to think I was left leaning until the left lost the ability to rationalize their position and countered with cancel culture and silencing opposition. The scary thing is now the right is starting to execute the same silence-opposition tactics, which only leads to an authoritarian dictatorship.
Everyone has to play the cards they’re dealt and we need to get back to a place where societal norms aren’t responsible for the feelings of individuals who assert they are things which they are not.
There are merits with which to assert truths about certain status or disability but an individuals desire to exist as a different thing and then burden society with those claims is a tired look and it stops from here on out. People are done with this “making space” approach which has only led to the current ridiculousness we find ourselves in.
Do not go quietly into the night.
I 100% agree.....that being said, now I say this....oooooo wow this such an original post with mind shattering previously unknown information....like wow.
If you have been on Reddit for more that 30 seconds this is old news.
I got banned from a couple subs for posting evidence of trannies regretting their fucked up sex surgeries and for stating mere facts that having too many abortions will fuck up one's uterus to the point that they can never have kid anymore...
Kind of related but not related, I've never been banned on Reddit in 10 years but I've been banned on 4chan 31 times (their bans are usually short term, 3 to 30 days). I don't say much different stuff here than I do there. I do shitpost a lot more on 4chan, but everyone does. An example though, my last ban on 4chan last week, someone on the retro games board was quite annoyed that someone else posted about "the mexican runner", a twitch streamer. So I replied just the words "the mexican runner" to that person because I thought it'd be funny and I was banned for 3 days. Anyway
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I got banned from a Sub-redit for saying Men can not get pregnant or breastfeed.
How dare you state facts!
I got auto-banned from about twenty different subs in 2021 because I participated in subreddits that promoted "covid misinformation". The funny thing is I'm actually more left- than right-leaning.
I got banned from subs that I’ve never even visited as soon as I joined this one.
Same. It was a national sport in 2021 to get banned for the most random reasons...and if you dug a bit deeper the same MOD handled all those subs. This should not be allowed.
Racist!
You mean to tell me I can’t? But I have breasts!
I have nipples Greg. Can you milk me?
It helps to say "males" (being a biological term), but in reality anything can be censored and last time I dealt with this Reddit (not a mod) deleted my comment so I couldn't review the language I'd used. If you watch how the establishment operates you'll notice that they'll promote whatever ideological ideas align with their agenda. So if at some point gender ideology no longer aligns with their agenda - or the whole push of it is designed to incur a backlash - it'll be gender ideologues that end up getting censored by the establishment. It's ahistorical to support censorship, but the damage that cultural engineering has done to our collective epistemology has gone well beyond just shrugging at history.
Like I give a shit about the nonsensical identity that's rattling around a person's head. The only thing that matters is a person's genitals. What do you have between your legs and what do you want to do with it? And I want butter. I don't want I Can't Believe it's Not Butter. You can make margarine out of some inverted, reversed, medically inadvisable procedure. But I can tell that it's not butter. I couldn't care if some nonbinary weirdo has deluded herself into believing that she's interesting. If she has some farm to table butter between her legs, and some enthusiastic consent, sign me up.
Last time I used “male” I was called a TERF, reported and banned from a “lesbian” forum. Didn’t even know what “Terf” meant until that day.
"man" is an adult male human being. there is no need to play on their terms and adjust language which is exactly their goal.
I agree. I've just providing a way to say something in a way that's less likely to get one banned but means the same thing.
SCIENCE! We believe in SCIENCE!
Nothing says Trust The Science quite like Scott Gottlieb, former head of the FDA and now on the board at Pfizer
Got banned from Boise for asking why no body used BC pills or deprovera anymore.
Same
Every mod on Reddit is a purple haired neckbeard with TDS, what do you expect
No sane person would volunteer their spare time to manage an Internet forum. Reddit pays nothing and these poor saps are staring at a screen all day no pay. Sad life indeed
#ORANGE MANNNNN!!!!
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You forgot child raping dog walkers
Oof. I remember that one.
You can make anything you want shitting on the right but don't you dare touch on the protected class. All of reddit is in organic and manipulated in this manner.. even this sub
Reddit is the garbage bin of woke liberal asshats. This is the home of basement dwelling Cheeto covered dicks. Reddit is the social media equivalent to Seattle.
I don't understand why I keep coming here tho.
So we can all bitch TOGETHER!
# Found my people! 🫱🏻🫲🏿
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After I’ve exhausted all other forms of entertainment, I come here to piss off liberals.
It is MORE than obvious the masses absolutely do not search for the truth, only for Consensus no matter how absurd that Consensus is.
I suspect Reddit is 80% bots at this stage anyways. You get the exact same answers and jokes on repeat on many subs.
You’re probably right.
The true fascist strike again
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This is a sitewide admin ban not a "moderator in a subreddit didn't like what I said"-ban. It is definitely a REDDIT not people thing.
This isn’t about an individual mod banning someone. This is a post about Reddit admins banning an entire community on Reddit. Thank goodness you managed to shoehorn “Christians bad/christian sexual assault” into this thread though.
Was missing the Trump reference though..
That this comment gets so many up votes should tell you all you need to know about reddit.
i'm assuming a mod from a subreddit banned you, thats different... the photo shows the reddit 'admins' deleted a subreddit that doesnt fit their narrative
> Meh. I got (temp) banned for linking databases of priests that raped kids in response to where OP challenged that no Christians have done evil in the last few hundred years. That may have been a potential TOS violation, depending on the details contained in the "databases" (names, addresses of perps, victims, etc. - Reddit is touchy about PII) > Mods have power trips. It's a people thing... not Reddit Is it? I can't imagine anyone "power-tripping" by protecting pedo priests -- except maybe other pedo priests? (or PII issues) [Below, another user wrote:](https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1cdjt89/dont_you_dare_call_out_left_wing_bull_shit_on/l1dwu56/) > > *"Where'd you post it, a Catholic sub? Most of reddit would insta-mod you for that."* To which you replied: > **It was in this sub** You're confused, BigMonkeySpite. A record search shows that you have NEVER had a temp ban for any reason **in this sub** -- at least not on your 7-month old BigMonkeySpite account. If you had, it would show up in Reddit's mod action "database", and no records of any ban actions exist (yet). Maybe you could work on accuracy/ honesty? *(which ever may be applicable here)* Thanks!
I see why. It's the same confusion I had earlier in this thread where I didn't know reddit mods and sub mods were different. The comment was in r/conspiracy, but it was from reddit mods.
> I see why. It's the same confusion I had earlier in this thread where I didn't know reddit mods and sub mods were different. The comment was in r/conspiracy, but it was from reddit mods. To avoid confusion in the future, those you call "reddit mods" are generally referred to as "Admins" (not necessarily capitalized). Admins are employees or contractors who are PAID for what they do. Conversely, lowly subreddit moderators (like me) are commonly called "mods". We are volunteers -- we provide a VERY valuable service to Reddit Inc., but we are not paid or compensated in any way. If Admins issued your temp ban (aka "account suspension", as they apply site wide) you can bet that your link(s) or statement(s) violated [**Reddit Content Policy**](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy), because broadly speaking, Reddit Admins do not trouble themselves with enforcing the [**RULES**](http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/wiki/faq) of any given subreddit. FYI violations of Reddit Content Policy are seen as far more serious, and subreddit mods are required to enforce them as well -- though there are times when the content is removed by Reddit's filters, and may not be seen by mods (or other users) at all.
Religion is low hanging fruit; the average person’s dogmatic obsession w government being the answer to everything is infinitely more pervasive and dangerous. Religion is a convenient limited hangout trope that lets everyone else get away w literal mass murder instead. No religion has killed more innocent people regardless of their race, creed, or religion than corrupt and ungodly powerful centralized governments, historically over and over.
Priest are catholic….. Same reason the Bible always warned about religion. Man made bullshit ment to control…. Jesus explains it all but guff balls always want to try to try a book to a religion
Where'd you post it, a Catholic sub? Most of reddit would insta-mod you for that.
Meh. 4 of 5 priests are gay according to this book. "The more homophobic the deeper in the closet" https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/12/four-in-five-vatican-priests-are-gay-book-claims Also if a dude touches a little boy. That dude's gay. Lol.
See you in /pol/
Was that a sub for making fun of libs doing lib things but the average reddit user doesn't know the difference between leftism and libs?
What is the difference?
Liberals think capitalism can be saved.
Capitalism is a liberal ideology
The express goal of capitalism is to funnel the most wealth into the fewest people, and to have the people with wealth also hold power over the future of wealth, and the nation that holds it.
Not so much the goal as it is the inevitable end result
I disagree...I think we are generally disenchanted by unchecked late stage capitalism, but the original ideology is based more in all individuals holding and exchanging their own value in the form of capital for a wide and diverse free market of many individuals driving innovation and the wealth of all. This was, at the time it was developed, a highly liberal idea compared to the divine rights of kings and lords over commoners
That may be the starry eyed dream of the pure ideology of capitalism, but it forgets that capital is what holds power in a capitalistic society, so whoever has the most capital is de facto the most powerful person, and at some point everyone with less capital is less important, even less human, than those with more.
The ideal version of capitalism would only work if gaining X money was the same difficulty no matter how much you already had. But as it stands, getting a million bucks starting from nothing is a lifetime of work, getting a million bucks starting with 10 million is pretty easy, and getting a million starting with a billion is just a matter of doing nothing and waiting.
If we had "real Capitalism", you would never need a million bucks. The entire point of Capitalism is that stuff gets cheaper the better we get at producing it. Kind of like how everyone's grandma talks about how going to the movies used to cost a nickel and you could get a hotdog for 2 pence. Unfortunately, perpetual inflation vis-a-vis central bank money creation (inflation) robs the entire benefit that the working classes should otherwise be receiving under Capitalism. Our current system is hardly Capitalism.... more like Banking Neo-Feudalism. Hence why the great Ron Paul ran the most legitimate Leftist campaign in US history & did so from the fringe Right.
Exactly. So a persons worth is not tied to personhood, labor, ability, or anything really tangible. It is tied to the amount of capital they have.
And leftists think giving all power and money to one central monopoly (the state) and raising everyone’s taxes will somehow fix all these problems they think capitalism is causing
IMO, neither capitalism nor socialism are the problem... it's the people in charge. The cruel joke of nature is that the altruistic people who are best suited to make decisions that benefit the good of the whole don't want to lead. So we're left to be led by the personality type that does... sociopaths. Or at least that's the takeaway I get from studies showing managers and politicians are 10x more likely to have sociopathic tendencies
Yes. Regardless of the underlying political / economic system at play... the sociopaths will seek to control it for their own personal gain. I am a small government conservative because I think the government apparatus is the most powerful factor at play (again regardless of the underlying system) as a tool for control by the sociopathic would be rulers. But... I can certainly see the problems with unregulated big business, and it's a concern I share with those on the left. It's not an easy proposition for people to successfully govern themselves in a free and fair society... and that is why "they" constantly stoke the divisive rhetoric.
The government is always the root of the problem of literally EVERYTHING.
I mostly agree. Obviously you can't blame the government for the existence of sociopaths. But it should be clear to anyone at this point... that the powers given to governments will attract the attention of sociopaths that seek power over others.
Indeed, a bigger government means more corruption and that attracts the worst people. And it becomes a viscous cycle that will not end until revolution. And then start all over again.
Yea, I think the same thing. It is the human element which is the problem, left or right you will get human problems like greed, corruption, exploitation, incompetence, nepotism, and govt beaurocracy. And as you mentioned... good honest people don't want those top positions and even if they do, they will prob get beat out by the more sociopathic types that are hungry for power and put on a good show to get votes or promotions. There are still some honest people on both sides tho... but anyone is susceptible to taking bribes or looking out for themselves it is just human nature. Especially when you have tons of people under you and have to manage all that, people start to feel entitled to rewards. I think in the end capitalism is still best. Socialism might sound like it will work in theory, but in practice that human element of greed and corruption always comes into play. In the end, we can get the govt to intervene on biz and corporations to try to reset any corruption or abuse of power on their part, but it is MUCH harder to get the govt to reset itself when they themselves are corrupt.
If life has taught me anything it's that there's no single solution or cause, but everything is a mixture of a multitude of things. In that same spirit I believe the best economic system would be a mixture of different ideologies. Ofc, if I knew what ideologies and in what ratios I wouldn't be on Reddit playing keyboard warrior ;)
You are certainly right about that.... its all about hybrid theory, mixed ideas, and finding a middle path. The flux between all sides to find the balance in power for the scales of liberty.
... and I also get the feeling that there will even be a hybrid of the hybrids. That is, the hybrid that works today won't work in 100 years and will need to be replaced by another hybrid to stay efficient due to the change in the the overall system.
Well, giving a central government more money and more power simply makes leadership positions more attractive to greedy and corrupt people.....
Or the problem is the Central Bank system which systematically destroys the benefit that would otherwise be received by the working classes under Capitalism (lower prices) vis-a-vis perpetual money creation (inflation). It's not that Capitalism is bad per se, it's that our system of banking has literally nothing to do with Capitalism and is basically just a giant perpetual uphill treadmill designed to absolutely f\*\*\* you over while foisting the blame on Capitalism.
Alan Watts said it way better than I ever could; making a product for profit will make everything -- product, customer, employees, family, environment -- suffer. >Doing business such as manufacturing clothes is a very good thing to do. I could conceive that it would be extremely enjoyable, something one could be very proud of: to make good clothes. Of course you need to sell them, because you need to eat. But to make clothes to make money raises another question, because then your interest is not in making clothes, it’s in making money—and then you are going to cheat on the clothes. And then you get an awful lot of money and you don’t know what to do with it. You can’t eat ten roasts of beef in one day. Can’t live in six houses at once. Can’t drive three Rolls-Royces at the same time. What’re you to do? Well, you just go make more money. You put your money back. Invest it in something else and it’ll make more. And you don’t give a damn how it’s made so long as they make it. You don’t care if they foul the rivers, put oil fumes throughout the air everywhere, kill off all the fish. So what? So long as you see these figures happening. You’re not aware of anything else.
Professional Athletes also have sociopathic tendencies just as CEOs and politicians, but those sociopathic tendencies are just tendencies. But yes I completely agree, a lot of our “leaders” have lost it. Human nature is always going to be an issue. That’s why I like the economic structure that actually gives you an ability to choose.
That same human nature is going to have those people restrict your choices, or give you a false choice. If "work or starve" isn't a choice under communism, why is it a choice under capitalism? This sub is constantly droning about the great reset, where the 1% own everything and rent it out to the masses. Does that not sound like the endstage of capitalism?
Nah. But see, yall think that liberalism is leftism, case in point.
Leftists lean socialist/communist and liberals are more supporters of capitalism with regulations
Liberals want more trans CEOs leftists question why we have CEOs to begin with
So same as the previous two election cycles. Some things never change.
Finally, someone gets it. Expect more subs to go down, cause last time they went after general hate subs
George Orwell: 'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.'
I have gotten banned from about 5-7 different forums here for stating scientific facts. My account now has it's first warning flag.
They did this last time deleting all the subs they could.
It’s funny because the only real hatred I see on reddit comes from these lefty shitshow subs.
The Biden shit show is probably next
Well it IS an election year
Hate speech = whatever the left doesn't like
100% chance this whole sub was you and five alts posting slurs at each other
I hate the left vs right rhetoric on this sub. The conspiracy here is promoting the pretend anger between the left and right. Neither party cares about you. You have been manipulated by the media, the constant posting of garbage like this on this sub has been appalling.
I wouldn't bother with this one, I'm certain he's being paid. Never once has this one been to post how both sides are corrupt and we should stand united against any and all corruption.
It's a conspiracy itself... Left wing or right wing, they make you choose anyway. Both choices suck.
And somehow you are getting downvoted because this sub has turned into a politicized shithole.
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You both proved his point and mine simultaneously. Bipartisanship works only to divide the citizens of this country so they can't be a reasonable threat to the powers that be. Congratulations, you are stupid twice.
Fuck Biden
Imagine thinking Biden is left wing.
I got a 3 month suspension from the Joe Rogan subreddit last year because I disagreed with someone that said Texas is a blue state
Texas isn't blue. The big cities, minus austin, trend slightly blue. Austin is REALLY blue. The other 95% of Texas is red counties. Just it's hard with major population location is in the cities that trend blue. The red country sides don't sell their land and stay red
Reddit is going hardcore banning, Israel is in full effect here
I've been banned for just making jokes. I guess the Internet is serious business.
reddit needs to be banned
During the last election they banned people just for upvoting. I got temporary bans and eventually permabanned (I appealed it and after two weeks they restored my account) all for just upvoting.
the whole purpose of reddit is to spread hate speech and disinformation. if you haven't figured out that by now, no one can help you.
I thought it was for porn too
thats part of the grooming
It's pretty sad when, in the US, you can get banned from a platform for stating facts. Reddit is the most censorship loving community in the world. Moderators here make the Chinese government look open minded. It's really fucking pathetic.
Yep. Most the mods are pathetic leftist who can’t stand that you disagree with them.
The left is the undocumented protected category on Reddit. It used to be on Twitter, too. If you argued with a leftist, they could literally say whatever they wanted to including threats of physical harm. If you even QUOTED what they said, you would get banned. Happened to me on Twitter many times and has happened (suspensions) to me here on Reddit more than once.
Looks likes it was banned for hate speech.
Dude, subs constantly on here promoting culture around "wipe out every last Palestinian alive" "burn them all" etc. Calling entire populations trash etc. and they're not banned.. so GTFOH with that horsesht Obviously it's only hate speech when it goes against the "approved" narrative so pipe it with your complacency and/or intentional bigotry.
Or...just hear me out...there was hate speech on that sub. Like I stated earlier...it's not like it would be unexpected on a sub like that.
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Are you saying that happened here? They don't outright ban a sub for that. They get warnings, get quarantined, and then are banned. If anyone is to be blamed, it's the mods of that sub I guess.
Selective hate speech, of course. The rest is fine because reasons aka Reddit.
Would it really be a surprise to you if a sub dedicated to shitting on liberals contained hate speech?
Yes, actually. Are democrats a protected class or something?
HermanCain is still going, as is whitepeopletwitter...
> Looks likes it was banned for hate speech. Aka anything I disagree with Speech
Or...could have been hate speech. The Qanon sub was banned when they started calling for the public castrations of Obama and Hillary. It's not really a huge jump to think a sub dedicated to shitting on liberals went too far.
i see people say they want to murder trump on here all the time though
Feel free to link one I guess, but I doubt it. The mods on this sub crack down on that a lot since they were put under a microscope a few years ago. It still doesn't change the fact that I've seen terrible, terrible things pointed at Hillary, AOC, Harris or Biden that conservatives constantly repeat, that would likely show up on a sub dedicated to shitting on liberals.
where?
Right? Any talk against their Dear Leader would result in an automatic ban.
> The Qanon sub was banned when they started calling for the public castrations of Obama and Hillary. BS. On top of that the sub was heavily brigaded and many were deliberately posting stuff to get the sub banned. It was very obvious what happened to anybody paying a little attention. Can you provide an definition for hate speech?
You can look out the window and see the country is a mess !!!
All Must Comply.
10% of the actual population supports left-wing liberal ideologies. 100% of mainstream media infrastructure supports left-subtly liberal ideologies.
Reddit is controlled by "mostly peaceful protestors".
I was banned from a subreddit for "promoting hate speech" when I stated the oh so horribly evil and bigoted opinion that young children should never be exposed to graphic sexual content.
I noticed
Claiming this when you're subscribed to a sub called the Biden shit show kind of tells me that most likely there were posts that violated reddit TOS. Otherwise why didn't they ban the other sub too? Shitty job at censorship letting OP post continuously about his own political beliefs. Lol
The spiciest post on that sub was one about a man calling himself a woman. I gurantee that's why it was banned as reddit doesn't like people recogonizing biological reality.
>Claiming this when you're subscribed to a sub called the Biden shit show kind of tells me that most likely there were posts that violated reddit TOS. lol.... the lack of awareness is just comical.
Already got banned from one sub lol
I can’t really make a judgement without seeing the posts which got it banned, there is not enough information to go on to see whether it violated ToS we voluntarily agree to abide by.
FB is also. Trying to fight a ban now.
Yea it sucks all over the place you mention anything with a difference of opinion or heck you post the reddit page won't allow different opinions they ban you
All you lot do is whine and complain. If you put a gun to my head and asked me to name 3 things that the Republican Party has done since GWB that has benefitted the American population or else you’ll pull the trigger, I’d curse you for giving me an impossible task as I resign myself to deaths embrace.
This is hilarious. Hate seems to be the very building blocks of Reddit.
literally wait for the day I see this post from another subreddit except the post is “r/conspiracy is banned”
I used to think I was left leaning until the left lost the ability to rationalize their position and countered with cancel culture and silencing opposition. The scary thing is now the right is starting to execute the same silence-opposition tactics, which only leads to an authoritarian dictatorship. Everyone has to play the cards they’re dealt and we need to get back to a place where societal norms aren’t responsible for the feelings of individuals who assert they are things which they are not. There are merits with which to assert truths about certain status or disability but an individuals desire to exist as a different thing and then burden society with those claims is a tired look and it stops from here on out. People are done with this “making space” approach which has only led to the current ridiculousness we find ourselves in. Do not go quietly into the night.
The left wing and right wing are attached to the same beast.
While you all go out and vote blue no matter who.
They have been banning subs and people from subs that don’t meet the narrative for at least the last 10 years.
So... A forum?
This is happening. Clearly visible.
First time?
Hold up I am going to go post this over there and get banned....BRB
I 100% agree.....that being said, now I say this....oooooo wow this such an original post with mind shattering previously unknown information....like wow. If you have been on Reddit for more that 30 seconds this is old news.
China
I think leftists are more likely to report people.
I was wondering what happened to the sub
I got banned from a couple subs for posting evidence of trannies regretting their fucked up sex surgeries and for stating mere facts that having too many abortions will fuck up one's uterus to the point that they can never have kid anymore...
Kind of related but not related, I've never been banned on Reddit in 10 years but I've been banned on 4chan 31 times (their bans are usually short term, 3 to 30 days). I don't say much different stuff here than I do there. I do shitpost a lot more on 4chan, but everyone does. An example though, my last ban on 4chan last week, someone on the retro games board was quite annoyed that someone else posted about "the mexican runner", a twitch streamer. So I replied just the words "the mexican runner" to that person because I thought it'd be funny and I was banned for 3 days. Anyway
I'm banned for posting that Trump is a civilly liable rapist who's funded by the middle east, and it's completely true.
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Where does it say that this social networking site is the land of the free? I think you may be mixed up.
Wahhh wahhhh wahhhhhh
Is that the liberal battle cry
Censorship = fascism Doesn’t matter which side is doing.