The reddit echo chamber gets more echo-y -- users now allowed to effectively moderate their own posts

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-14T18:27:40+00:00

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AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-18T03:18:01+00:00

Reddit used to!

...used to....

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-09-29T15:13:46+00:00

Playing the "donated salary" card again? I really thought the spin cycle would've come up with a better excuse by now.

Whatever, I'm sure his followers will buy it.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-08T16:07:20+00:00

Lol how the fuck you go from listing all these problems to the conclusion "we need a new Hitler"

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-06T21:42:10+00:00

Antifa breached a secured federal building and planted IEDs? When was this? Oh that's right, it didn't happen.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-03T18:42:30+00:00

This isn't news;
What the fuck

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-12-02T21:25:20+00:00

Holocaust denialism? Are you fucking kidding me Saidit?

Guys, let's talk about chemtrails next

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-11T03:06:16+00:00

The internet has been corporatized.

When Google dropped "don't be evil" shit really started careening.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-13T22:32:20+00:00

What makes you think Biden will be a threat to Saidit?

Biden also said he would restore net neutrality; that's a big win for freedom of speech online.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-09-30T13:55:44+00:00

You can "clearly conclude" all that, huh?

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-12-08T02:20:37+00:00

Someone accused of a non-violent crime? Better go in guns a-ready, boys

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-12T16:59:21+00:00

Imagine thinking Americans are stupid enough to elect a corrupt idiot for a second term, and being so adamant in this belief that you think the election was stolen, all despite Trump's team being unable to find any evidence at all capable of holding up in court, and the multiple postal workers/poll workers/etc claiming that they do have actual evidence all later admitting they made it up and some admitting they were being paid to do it.

🤷‍♂️

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-08T21:01:14+00:00

Trump: attempts coup and incites a riot in the Capitol

Trumptards: "Democrats are cementing their coup"

Lolwut

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-05-02T01:26:51+00:00

Why TF still be a drug dealer if you got $40m?

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-20T17:18:48+00:00

How is this Orwellian?

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-12-10T16:42:38+00:00

"Republicans steal SC seats and then get mad when Democrats try to do something about it, more at 11"

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-23T23:05:27+00:00

Lol Trumpets can't read

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-11T17:25:17+00:00

The logical leaps in this....oof.

The most obvious one: you praise Chinese autocracy while also denouncing Mao. So yes, while the "benevolent king" archetype is the "easiest" form of government, the problem lies in what happens when your king is no longer benevolent--"lunacy" as you called it. And from history we know that this happens eventually to a society with certainty.

The whole point of Western democracy is to reduce the concentration of power to prevent that lunacy.

two corporate puppets every four years.

And here you point out our current problem. Despite our elaborate system of checks and balances, government power in the US is currently very concentrated. Your proposed solution is to concentrate it even further? Ridiculous.

While many of your complaints are valid, your conclusion is way off the mark.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-12-21T05:55:13+00:00

Trump's coup failed so call it a conspiracy? Ok.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-14T04:09:45+00:00

That's a wild hot take.

Pay Comcast $8/mo for the privilege of using Saidit to continue this conversation now!

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-02T14:44:20+00:00

I'm still mad at the DNC for fucking over Bernie, but any criticism of the DNC is often perceived as support for Trump, so I typically keep my mouth shut.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-09-29T18:01:48+00:00

"run of the mill tax avoidance"...sad how it's so normalized you don't even see it as a problem.

And yeah, I am worried about the unexpected extra income from becoming president that the report confirmed. Quite sus.

Oh, and the massive debts to unknown foreign entities.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-09-23T17:33:00+00:00

Microplastics affecting fetal development is honestly terrifying.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-13T02:48:13+00:00

Trump was a total fuckshow. From day 1 he was appointing his completely incompetent family members everywhere so they could help him grift off the taxpayer's teat.

You've been manipulated by propaganda.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-08T20:58:51+00:00

Advocating for Hitler makes you a fucking retard, full stop.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-12-10T18:01:20+00:00

These are some pretty loaded statements (though I guess that's the point?). For example:

"I hate America."

Do I hate the current government? Yes. Do I hate where it seems this country is going? Yes. Is our history marred by shameful acts? Yes.

Do I think we are the best country in the world? Absolutely not.

But do I hate my fellow Americans? No. Do I hate the idea of America and what it is supposed to stand for? No. Do I think we could do better? Yes.

So I'm not really sure what this question wants.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-14T16:39:09+00:00

It's the use of commerce to restrict speech. You're just arguing semantics--the outcome is the same.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-09T02:04:38+00:00

Where did he lie? Are you saying Trump's lawsuits weren't thrown out?

(Hint: they were.)

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-23T20:36:36+00:00

The Pentagon has trillions of dollars of "accounting errors" all the damn time.

The military industrial complex is a thief.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-15T23:56:54+00:00

How about:

In a country where police can murder with no repercussions and seize assets at their leisure; protests can last for months, bringing violence, but still be completely ignored in terms of meaningful change by the government; and the President can spend all day tweeting lies and inciting civil war, why is it so far fetched to think that the majority of Americans were indeed fed up with Trump's constant bullshit and abject failure to govern?

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-13T02:51:40+00:00

Ah yes, the grand conspiracy of every judge in the country!

Or could it be...Guiliani says different things in the courtroom than he says on TV, and the judges find it absolutely ridiculous because they aren't retarded? 🤔

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-12T22:27:43+00:00

It's almost like we could've foreseen the riots in the streets, the thousands of Americans dead, and economic collapse coming...Some may wonder, how did you know Trump would be the worst president of all time? Magic, perhaps? Was there any evidence beforehand of his woeful incompetence and corruption?

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-08T20:56:17+00:00

I just browse All, dude.

But I'm glad you'd rather be enslaved by a genocidal maniac. Have fun with that

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-08T00:53:15+00:00

Interesting post. Responding as someone who you would consider far-left:

conservative values

How about we start by defining what these are? Because in modern times, it seems to be "whatever the left doesn't like." And when I ask individuals this question, the answers usually either 1) seem pretty fucking left to me, or 2) are not at all what Republican/conservative politicians are doing or have expressed desire to do. And then it becomes a "no true scotsman" shitstorm conversation that gets nowhere.

Something I also find difficult - separating conservatism from Republicanism. No one seems to have a clear answer, other than "Republicanism is the aspects I don't like."

without providing any positive and constructive solutions

Another bit I find puzzling -- one of the central tenets of modern conservatism is "if we ignore a problem long enough, it won't be a problem anymore." Conservatives are the opposition party. It's in the name -- progressives present solutions (attempt to make progress) and conservatives move to conserve the status quo and block the changes. This often seems to be a mindset of "don't fix it if it ain't broke", "the cure will be worse than the disease", or the aforementioned "just ignore it" as reasons to just keep doing the same stuff we've been doing.

So it's interesting that you seem interested in actually, you know, improving things. 🙂

One small correction:

the Left controls the media

The neoliberals control the media. Don't forget that they shit all over Bernie.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-07T03:38:01+00:00

Ah yes, alternate reality. Lovely place.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-07T03:36:56+00:00

Lol are you fucking kidding me?

Let's review the timeline:

Trump has been telling his supporters to do the thing since November
Trump supporters do the thing
...Guys, it was antifa all along!

🙄

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-12-21T23:28:03+00:00

The letter A is a well-known pedo and illuminati symbol, clearly you should know that!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-16T18:22:56+00:00

Reagan told me it would trickle down any day now... 🙃

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-14T18:29:14+00:00

Weird how Republicans kept blocking all those election security bills, huh?

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-10-01T01:31:27+00:00

As economies improve people tend to have fewer children. This map lines up pretty well with that, I think, from my limited knowledge of recent history.

So yeah, I think you're going to have a hard time dodging Occam's Razor, but sure go ahead.

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-14T20:59:44+00:00

Bizarre? If there's one thing Dems and Republicans can agree on, it's giving money to the MIC.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-11T19:24:54+00:00

How would you maintain ideology in the military? That's just the same problem but with guns and camo.

Don't forget that the Supreme Court is supposed to be "ideologically loyal" (via lifetime appointments) and is now heavily politicized, as well as the Senate (originally supposed to be "the best of the best" appointed by States), now corrupt corporatists. (Seriously some of the comments about the Senate in the Federalist Papers are just funny to read nowadays.)

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-08T18:46:31+00:00

Hitler was one of the absolute biggest problems of the twentieth century. Excuse me for assuming this guy is retarded for trying to unironically present Hitler as a solution.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-07T05:50:58+00:00

Ah yes, fighting for the freedom of having a failed businessman steal your tax dollars, and the freedom to ignore democracy. A cause most noble.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-12-21T06:01:52+00:00

I have a feeling it just means there won't be any social websites based in Poland ever again. If you can't remove spam or off topic posts, your forum goes to shit pretty quick.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-13T18:08:14+00:00

You are a fascist, not a patriot. America values are based on freedom. Not servitude to the oligarchy. Real patriots do not want to live in a dark ages feudalistic society, thank you very much.

But hey maybe if you suck the Viceroy's dick every night he'll give you more share from the parcel of land that your family is allowed to work on.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-09T02:03:59+00:00

Random YouTube videos are these people's primary source of news, it seems. Trumpets in my family are the same way.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-10-22T05:25:09+00:00

Eh, it used to be different. There were tons of forums running phpbb or whatever all over the internet, with decent userbases and varieties of topics. But then google took away the ability to scope search results to forums. And started ranking them lower.

Subreddits, while a genius idea, have pretty much eaten the userbases of whatever forums existed for that topic. Some other communities moved to discord.

And yes, those independent forums still do exist. But they are harder to find and far less used. And the users that are there tend to be fringe in some way (cough alt-right cough).

My point is, it's gotten too consolidated. Too many users in too few places, with too much corporate control. It used to be the only real worry was net neutrality, because the only threat of censorship was from the ISP. But now it's more than just Comcast threatening the internet.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-10-20T16:31:31+00:00

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise-of-victimhood-culture/404794/

Victim culture vs. dignity culture.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-09-30T04:10:04+00:00

Did I miss something? Has Trump addressed this at all?

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-16T16:14:08+00:00

Lol at conservatives now trying to distance themselves from the alt-right

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-03T14:17:39+00:00

"lol"? If you think the wealthy won't still be getting abortions, you are sorely msitaken

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-01-29T00:31:25+00:00

Did you know murder has been committed by white people in America? More than once? That's right, multiple instances! Fucking wild.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-09-01T16:28:00+00:00

I don't care what you stance on abortion is, this law is fucked.

Encouraging citizens to become spies on behalf of the government and rewarding them for ratting on their neighbors is some CCP shit.

Imagine if this was applied to other things beside abortion.

Suspect someone of improperly storing a firearm? Rat em out, here's $10k.

Suspect someone is unvaccinated but told their employees they were and went to work anyway? Rat em out, here's $10k.

This basically allows people to file frivolous lawsuits against anyone, even if they have no standing or no claim to damages. and it sounds like they don't even need evidence!

Better not get doxxed on the internet or you'll be drowning in legal fees from defending yourself over and over from 4chan trolls!

This is the party of "small government" for ya...

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-08-30T00:32:14+00:00

Unfortunately half the country thinks "freedom = guns" and are unable to look past that.

Yes yes, keep your AR-15 and your quarter acre of land, we'll be over here sucking the country dry of its resources and destroying the earth...Pay no attention to us, there's brown people at the border!

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-06-16T14:38:54+00:00

Have schools stopped teaching the "and then the Indians and Pilgrims were best of friends" narrative?

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-12T22:32:00+00:00

Shit man, you better bring this evidence to Guiliani so maybe he can actually win a court case. 🙄

Urban counties voting Democrat? My god, unheard of!

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-11T19:31:23+00:00

There's questioning and doubting, and then there's literally just making shit up. Trump and the alt right absolutely love the latter. I'm sure Feynman, as a scientist, would love to argue about your right to just pull data out of your ass and pass it off as fact.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-07T03:33:17+00:00

From "Trump is the only one who can defend us against the deep state!" to "he was actually a pawn all along" in such a short time. Y'all desperate I guess.

But at least many of you are waking up to the fact that it's actually us vs the billionaires.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-03T19:57:42+00:00

Sounds like the same bureaucratic BS they pulled in MA. Took years before shops opened and they are so heavily regulated. Fortunately growing your own is pretty much whatever.

But states should just follow Colorado's example (or Canada's) and let it flow.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-19T19:44:34+00:00

Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever

I'm curious what is his basis for this claim. Way back in March, the initial thinking was that masks were not a good idea, since it would lead to people touching and grabbing at their face. Then Austria issued a mask mandate anyway and saw their rates plummet almost immediately. Since then, the effectiveness of masks seems to be well-established, except by conspiracy nuts who think fabric squares somehow take away their rights.

Also his comment about people under age 65 is interesting. Old people don't matter I guess? Surprising to see to the "fuck it, let the old people die" attitude from a medical professional.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-13T20:18:57+00:00

Haha, Trump is most certainly wearing criminal boots.

Since, y'know, he's a fucking criminal.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-11T17:41:24+00:00

Really? The GOP was actively trying to stop people from voting, and you blame leftists?

Christ, you people are in the fucking woods.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-10-01T16:44:56+00:00

False.

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-14T20:55:50+00:00

They have no way of knowing? What do you think a pregnancy test tests for?

...Which aren't always accurate within the first 6 weeks? Those pregnancy tests? Or are you talking about magical Republican only tests that no one else is allowed to have?

As for the rest...Jesus Christ, these mental gymnastics must have hurt your neck.

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-04T01:00:03+00:00

"women are incubators, not people", a classic

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-03-02T16:27:52+00:00

Saiditors complaining that reddit is censoring them and creating a leftist safe space and echo chamber
Saiditors complaining that Saidit isn't a rightard safe space and echo chamber

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-21T14:09:53+00:00

I love how you just assume what stuff I believe. Are you that desperate for a strawman?

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-21T14:08:45+00:00

🙄

The economy is not a zero-sum game;
- You should be more worried about losing your job to automation than immigrants;
- If your employer hires an illegal immigrant, is that the immigrant's fault, or your employer's?

Are we talking about the protest where people planted IEDs, brought molotov cocktails and zip ties, and had lists of names of targets? That one? The one where their expressed goal was to kill Nancy Pelosi?

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-13T13:38:16+00:00

LOL of course it's the SJWs fault Trump's team can't muster any evidence. LOL the mental gymnastics, I love it, fucking adorable

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-12T02:25:22+00:00

I'm far left, but Greenwald is actually pretty legit.

Although the claim of "zero" is hard to believe since there were a lot of people. But I'll chalk it up to hyperbole.

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-08T21:52:07+00:00

I do not lobe my cage, but I'm also not retarded enough to think fascism is a good thing

AcceleratedWallops · 2021-01-07T05:47:04+00:00

No mention of antifa.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-12-10T16:39:05+00:00

The app is ok. Takes some getting used to.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-25T19:38:19+00:00

Would seem so. Though this is at a food bank, so presumably they are giving a lot more than just bread to each family.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-13T22:33:07+00:00

Divide and conquer.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-13T16:51:49+00:00

Lol OANN, straight unabashed propaganda

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-11-09T03:08:01+00:00

Half of the country is composed of Trump supporters who can't distinguish reality from an episode of NCIS and would rather rush us headlong into a Mad Max Fury Road future than dare think about fixing our broken healthcare.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-10-22T20:31:42+00:00

Fuck the CCP.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-10-01T16:49:00+00:00

The left villifies him, the right treats him like a hero. Really he's a dumbass kid who went too far playing GI Joe.

He's not Evil Incarnate but we shouldn't encourage this sort of behavior either.

AcceleratedWallops · 2020-09-30T13:53:13+00:00

It'll start trickling down any day now! Just you wait!

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-07-13T13:38:27+00:00

Nah, safety is just an excuse. This is to prevent unionizing.

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-06-11T02:54:02+00:00

If you need to scrub, just use salt instead of soap.

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-27T15:23:25+00:00

"self-reliant artists"

🗿

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-26T18:40:22+00:00

How about "why did the police officers on scene wait over a half hour to do anything, meanwhile the shooter is in a classroom executing children?" That seems a good question, let's ask that question.

Also the argument in this article is nonsense; starts out by (correctly) pointing out that there are more guns than people in the US, but then gets mad about people questioning how we got here.

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-16T20:21:35+00:00

What would be the motive for the FBI to alienate Republicans? This is a new one to me

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-04T00:59:18+00:00

Well too bad anti-abortion laws don't give a flying fuck about exceptions

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-03T16:24:17+00:00

Ah the classic "rape isn't real", "ectopic pregnancies aren't real" argument. Conveniently ignore reality so you can expand control, typical conservative

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-05-03T14:16:09+00:00

But government deciding what people can do with their bodies is ok?

True goals of this: 1. Organ harvesting 2. Inflating the labor supply to keep wages down

AcceleratedWallops · 2022-04-25T22:42:18+00:00

More public discourse owned by billionaires, yayyyyyy

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