CNN Panel Blames Trump for 'Culture Wars'

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-08T14:18:26+00:00

The culture war was happening before Trump was running for office. Not to glorify being a keyboard warrior, but I know because I've been a part of it since before then. Trump was just the outsider people could rally around to fight this shit. Trump himself barely understood it compared to anyone supporting him under the age of 35 back in 2016.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-08T13:56:41+00:00

Literally out of 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5#:~:text=The%20phrase%20%22two%20plus%20two,Eighty%2DFour%20by%20George%20Orwell.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-08T13:49:19+00:00

It's weird opening my browser and not habitually typing reddit.com now. I used that site for hours almost every day for the last 12 years. Even days I didn't, I still had some subs I'd check up on throughout the day on my phone. I just hope something like saidit can take off for topics not related to politics or the reddit purge. I don't mind talking about that stuff, but there're a lot of miscellaneous subjects I used reddit for, but they've upped their ban evasion tools to basically need at least a VPN to use it. At least I assume, since I was ban evading some subs for years with many accounts, and over the course of a week, every single account I've ever had, including ones I never posted from, or hadn't in years, got permanently suspended. Same with some people I know who I don't think even were ban evading.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-08T13:47:33+00:00

I think this pandemic caused a lot of people to have enough immediate problems in their lives that they don't have the mental space to pay attention to celebrities, so they've just started to seem extra full of themselves. Also, younger people seem like they pay more attention to internet figures or niche music artists than your standard hollywood A-listers.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-08T13:44:45+00:00

No doubt, there're click farms from all different entities in it driving propaganda and trying to radicalize young people, but the worst part is a few of the big obvious ones, Russia and China simply trying to create destabilization, and the democratic party trying to radicalize the youth, are using the same methods. Not saying democrats want destabilization, but if it gets them power, they will and have been doing it. Foreign entities just want to weaken the US.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-07T23:54:53+00:00

Google "American inventors", it's sad. People who've made minute adjustments to existing technology listed up front while people like Benjamin Franklin are pushed to the back. Alexandar Graham Bell is basically black faced.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-07T23:05:14+00:00

I heard ruqqus was more active, but I've been mostly hanging out here the last week or so since the purge since saidit hasn't gone down once and ruqqus is pretty much always down. When ruqqus has been up, I haven't noticed much difference in the activity level or the sort of content being posted.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-07T22:58:35+00:00

Hot take and I love it. But this would get into some legal grey area as you might as well ban reddit which is basically a gigantic Chinese psyop.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-07T22:46:50+00:00

There's nothing wrong with it, that's the point. It will rile up and expose leftists for what they are, anti white racists.

It's up there as a favorite of mine along with "Islam was right about women". That one does have some wrong things about it IMO, but leftists can't acknowledge it, without by their own rules being islamophobic. It makes them short circuit.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-07T22:43:53+00:00

As someone who was in OP's boat about four years ago, just lose the damn labels. I went from progressive to liberal but not progressive to independent, to libertarian, back to independent.. I'll probably vote republican this year, but I wont call myself a republican because it comes with a whole lot of assumed stances I don't agree with. There isn't a label for what I am now, and at the end of the day, there's probably not a label for anyone who doesn't blindly align with a lot of views they haven't thought through because those topics weren't their priority.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-07T21:03:48+00:00

It blows my mind people are still using reddit oblivious to it basically being a Chinese propaganda tool. Nearly every post on the front page has some anti american gov/culture agenda. It's run in part by a Chinese company, which like all Chinese tech companies, is basically an arm of the Chinese government.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-07T16:39:30+00:00

I was 100% indifferent to her until hearing her in interviews, and wow, she sucks.

Her role did nothing for me in the movie TBH. I don't remember anything about her, other than she seemed like she was shoved in for no reason other than some marketing ploy to feminists.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-05T21:13:59+00:00

What?

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-03T16:24:22+00:00

It's okay to be white.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-03T16:19:27+00:00

You can go down the line with this one. I'm all for platforms giving people the boot for dropping N bombs and such, somebody farther to the right could claim my own "PCness" eventually turned on me.

But yeah, censorship has become a huge part of some feminist circles, but it seems to be more on the progressive feminist side, the ones who aren't really fighting for feminism, rather, the whole church of woke / intersectionalism whatever you'd call it.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-03T03:45:17+00:00

I’m cool with it. Censorship has gotten so bad that cat ladies are having to deal with the same issues as angsty conservative young men. 🤣

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-03T03:25:19+00:00

Yah I noticed a ton of users from the actual feminist subs posting. Guessing a lot of the trolls or more hardcore right are more down with /pol/ etc than some of the other demos who got swept up in the purge. Either way, cool with me.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-01T23:56:58+00:00

It was essentially dead months, even years ago, depending on the sub. Now it's 100%, in writing, on the corporate level, dead.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-01T23:55:04+00:00

I feel like anyone who'd bother to seek out this website really loved reddit for what it once was, but was driven away at some point by some thing. It doesn't seem like people here are looking for a circle jerk like 4chan or voat, seems like they genuinely just want old school reddit back.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-01T23:52:10+00:00

Yah, get on my level already.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-01T03:18:56+00:00

Yup. A few moderate / conservative users I know of are mysteriously suspended on their accounts and mine all got permanent suspension messages. Another user on here mentioned to me their accounts all got it too.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-01T01:11:00+00:00

This isn't simply about feminism. There's a growing cult in the US and you're not part of it. It's as much against white cis straight men, Christians, people who want to own guns to protect their families, and people who don't want communism as it is against feminists who don't buy into a neckbeard throwing on a dress and calling himself a girl.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-07-01T00:37:32+00:00

Some of them, nothing. Accounts were banned that I've never even posted on before.

I've ban evaded before, that's about it. None of my accounts had been banned in a very long time. Guessing they rolled out a way more beefed up system to ban all accounts that have ever ban evaded.

Some of the people I've seen banned, I was surprised since to my knowledge, they've never broken rules.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T20:29:58+00:00

Mine didn't either, but all of my accounts got purged, and other users I know who are conservative or moderate and don't generally break rules were also purged.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T19:55:39+00:00

It's perfectly sound. That's why you've been banned from reddit. Welcome.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T19:24:00+00:00

But it would also make you a literal nazi in their minds, who, also in their minds, are the majority and hiding behind every street lamp and corner.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T19:22:16+00:00

It's the same criteria it's been for a while, just being enforced at the most extreme they literally can now. Which basically the intersectional stack. All the stuff those whacky people who get called "alt right" or "nazi" all the time (who are mostly moderate liberals growing more conservative by the day) have been going on about for several years now.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T18:16:39+00:00

Have yet to see others talking about this, but they've changed something that they're mass purging users right now. All of my many accounts, some new, the oldest being 12 years old, have been permabanned in the last 48 hours, and multiple other users I know have the same suspended message on their accounts.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T17:52:19+00:00

New users not being able to create subs is probably missing out on some opportunity during all this.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T17:50:32+00:00

Something I think is probably hurting this site during this reddit exodus is not being able to create a community for two weeks.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T15:51:28+00:00

Agreed. I'm against censorship overall, but in favor of censorhip/moderating based on the environment you want to create. If the front page is all conspiracy theories about jewish people, the site will never be more than a barely active extremist circle because normal people don't want to associate with it. Same with porn all over the place.

The problem with reddit is they present themselves as normal and open, but only moderating extreme stuff, but the reality is they aggressively moderate with a hard left bias.

Perhaps the answer is having minimal oversight on communities, but curating what is allowed on the front page? That's what reddit did years ago, and not doing so seems to be what caused voat to become antisemetic shock and outrage porn.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T15:18:36+00:00

Well, their new rules specifically highlight groups "in the majority", so women, as not being protected by their insane "hate speech" rules. So welcome.

I truly don't understand how people don't see what's going on with reddit as anything but insane. It's literally internet animal farm.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T13:34:29+00:00

Been screaming this from the top of my lungs for five years now. The left have become the authoritarians in this country. If you look at your basic political compass, the x axis is left / right, the y axis is authoritarian / libertarian. You can have left or right authoritarians just like you can have left or right libertarians.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T04:26:39+00:00

As am I. Welcome.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T04:21:41+00:00

I have no clue. Only found it today looking for reddit alternatives. There appears to be this and ruqqus, but ruqqus has been down all day.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T04:15:07+00:00

Sorry about your uncle.

As for reddit, I'm right there with you. I spent over a decade on reddit, IRL meetups in multiple states included. The last two spent dodging censorship, evading bans, nuking accounts. At this point, looks like they're purging sane people from the site entirely.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T04:11:45+00:00

GL. Mine was. They all are eventually, and given they just banned a huge amount of moderate/conservative users, don't expect that site to get less extreme.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T02:58:16+00:00

Here from reddit.

Will possibly be using ruqqus when it's up again, depending which community seems more active.

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T02:44:31+00:00

Am I the only one who's not just here because of subreddits getting banned, rather all of their 20+ accounts are suddenly getting permabanned in the last 48 hours?

Current_Year_Acct · 2020-06-30T02:01:05+00:00

Nobody's talking about it, but reddit also rolled out some kind of ultra connected account detection for ban evaders. All my accounts have been permabanned, and the accounts of other users who I had no idea were in violation of any rules have been banned.

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