This wasn’t automod.

It’s just as likely there’s no conspiracy there. It’s reasonable that Reddit was just big at that one particular place, more than other place (per capita), which can make sense given that those people actually talk to each other more than a typical city would.

I do think the US government was pretty good about not propagandizing its own people from within the government. There was a long period of time where non-partisan roles were expected to remain non-partisan. That’s part of why the Biden admin didn’t go after Trump like they should have. They didn’t even want the potential appearance of partisan government. In hindsight, yeah, that may have been foolish. They were fighting a five alarm fire with dollar store plastic squirt guns.

At least from particular subs, those users would get banned and their comment removed within seconds. 24/7. The response times is what convinced me it wasn’t just volunteer mods handling that.

The most prolific posters left and/or came here.

Jesus Christ, people.

It’s not a black and white situation. Hamas don’t get to be the good guys just because the IDF is clearly the bad guys. It’s not that simple, and there are no protagonists in this story. There are people who are committing genocide, and there are people who would love he opportunity to commit genocide (specifically Hamas). I can tell you which is worse, but that doesn’t make the other okay. And it’s all besides the point.

The point was that the administration is totally fine with ICE thugs dying because they’re itching for a chance to escalate.

And much like Hamas, they don’t really care who.

It IS wrong if that’s the one line you read. And I’m not worried about me having a blindspot because of it (in this instance), but everyone else it might influence.

My responses were certainly not rewriting history. BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) has been a thing for a long time. Your first line does a disservice to the rest of the much more nuanced and interesting comment.

It didn’t grow from Gwenyth Paltrow or the left. The growth came from a wholly independent source.

The history you’re providing is valuable. I just don’t like that the opening line was “both sides”. To people who have trouble understanding more than one or two sentences at a time it makes it sound like something it wasn’t. There are a lot of those people, and it turns out to be important.

PopOS with Cosmic did handle my odd 4 monitor configuration better than Ubuntu did.

No, it’s not both sides. A decade ago on the left anti-vaxxers were a small fringe group that was concerning, but was small enough to be ignored as long as it didn’t grow.

This new anti-vax is overwhelmingly on the right and a much bigger issue.

The left didn’t put RFK in a cabinet post.

You can’t just lose hope, especially when things are getting worse and worse by the week.

It does take a long time for anything that the federal government does to actually affect your life or someone you know in a noticeable way. Lots of things might get slightly better or worse, but won’t be directly attributable to government, like policies that affect the economy. Other things might get MUCH better or worse, but only for a few people at a time.

Especially if you’re dumb, these things can be hard to notice. Some people don’t believe us because we’ve been saying the train is coming for a year now and they haven’t seen it. But when they do get hit by it, or they see someone close enough, well… it can start to get through to them.

And we need those few percentage points. It’s important to get people to vote against this shit, assuming we still get to vote at all. Be aware that there’s also levels of cheating in voting. If they do things that suppress the vote by 5%, with the extreme shit they’re doing, we could gain more than 10 points.

Voting still matters. Even if they cheat.

Hint: the comic has nothing to do with gender. That’s all in your head.

This is the second time in an hour. Did we get an influx of incels today?

I wonder how good AI is at deobfuscating code. It seems like the kind of thing it might be good at.

And why? He’s a US citizen in a vehicle. Why is ICE even touching him at all?

They’re not law enforcement and have no reason to touch US citizens. We’re not required to show our papers to them.

The game would have been appropriately hyped if it weren’t for a few massive fuckups.

1. Resource gathering was supposed to be a cat & mouse game. But the potential PvP while gathering resources doesn’t appeal to the masses, so marketing added a “you can’t touch me” PvE flag.

2. Item duplication. There were exploits that allowed item duping. They didn’t reset the economy after those exploits were addressed, and they didn’t catch everyone.

3. They decided the content was too easy (especially given the duped gear above) and made everything much harder after a couple weeks. Again, no server reset. So if you didn’t get in in the first couple weeks and duplicate some items in that time, you were forever behind.

Let’s see who ends up running that. Government by the Walmarts, for the Amazons.

Yeah, guilty people go free when the prosecution and trial isn’t fair.

That IS how that’s supposed to work.

We all chose not to do that. Biden’s idea was that it’s ultimately up to the people to decide the direction of the country.

Anything he does to keep a political opponent out of office is damaging. Relying on the American people to do it is only foolish with the benefit of hindsight.