I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.
I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.
Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.
I didn’t want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn’t comment or post for the first month.
Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn’t take long before it inevitably became political.
I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.
But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.
I’m not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.
I appealed, I do not expect a reply.
Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.
This time I lasted only 2 months
To further clarify on the point you were making in the post, he didn’t just mean he was going in spirit. He fully intended to go, but he was prevented from going by people who knew when to tell him “no.” He even physically grabbed his driver and the steering wheel of the car in a tantrum insisting that he be taken to the Capitol instead of the White House.
Everyone should have watched the January 6th Commission hearings, but now it’s like they basically never even happened.
they sanewashed the hell out of it, plus most of them got a slap on the wrist from 1/6. i think one older lady admitted she was wrong to go 1/6, and denied her “commute sentence” because it was the right thing to do.
I wish he had actually gone. I imagine things would have been easier.
I gotta be honest, in no way do I think anything would change if he had gone. Unless he got shot by a cop (lol), he still would have been impeached, McConnell still would have declined to convict on that impeachment, Garland still would refuse to even think about prosecuting a former president, the maga crowd would still crowd around him, and dems still would have lost in '24. MAYBE the Republican talking points would sound more insane by an nigh indistinguishable amount.