Reddit to lay off about 5% of its workforce

Mr9to5 · 2023-07-12T05:05:09+00:00

I like how there’s supposedly very few people who disagree with Reddit (according to Reddit) but an apparently endless supply of “trolls from 4Chan,” undermining everything Reddit does, which never works anyways.

Mr9to5 · 2023-07-04T16:29:00+00:00

Probably all posting the same super original anti-America copypasta that my crusty punk friends were posting in 2008.

“Durr, why you celebrate this country, Indians and blacks, no freedom, freedom to be slave of Capitalist machine, something something our Army kills people durr, stop having fun, suck like me, please, so I don’t feel bad.”

Mr9to5 · 2023-06-16T05:52:53+00:00

The trick is to become a mod and just ban them on false pretenses.

Seriously though, I went to Gab for 6 months and came back to Reddit briefly and it still amazes me how much more cooperative of an environment Gab was. It’s known for it’s trolls but I didn’t really see much of anyone getting into fights they didn’t help instigate and I had 90% positive interactions as someone who only tried to build people up. Whereas, if I even just search for info on Reddit, I can find old threads where people literally are picking on children for not understanding how the world works or mocking the grocery store people use or fighting over their own misreading of comments. This is the “mainstream” outlet. They’re not even acting like children, they’re below children.

Mr9to5 · 2023-05-28T18:14:57+00:00

I just deleted a throwaway I had because I kept using it every 3-6 months and it is like eating something that is bad for you because it’s still in the fridge, I always leave in disgust. It made me think of why I originally liked Reddit, circa 2012. People discussed how to get around the Beast System, Tor, racialism on select subreddits, etc. It was like an extension of TOTSE. Now, it’s rotted out and the enemy of freedom. It’s like Protective Custody for our prison of a society, the land of snitches, perverts and wimps. Guess call me a keyboard gangster because I don’t interact with PC individuals.

Mr9to5 · 2023-05-28T17:42:53+00:00

“BuIlD YoUr oWn platform! It isn’t about control!”

Mr9to5 · 2022-10-24T21:31:56+00:00

I don’t claim any special knowledge but I’ve never been particularly impressed by Jewish intelligence. For one thing, Ashkenazi Jews, which tend to be the most cited, are admixtured with Russians and Germans. When Ashkenazi intelligence is played up as some special Jewish trait, I’m always like “have you met the average German or Russian ex-pat?”

Most Jews I’ve known have never been particularly skilled at STEM and frankly aren’t even good debaters. They just kind of lazily float back to their own self-interest and are surprised I don’t just agree. For all the hostility at the right for the same thing, many are into “crank” science or social theories but their theories are far less likely. Many are sophists who can come up with very detailed ideas that’s component parts don’t actually add up logically. It’s almost as though their ancestors studied Talmud, a work with these characteristics, for thousands of years. Hmm.

Mr9to5 · 2020-10-06T04:55:31+00:00

But I don’t think Jewish intelligence is the problem. Many Asian and Middle Eastern groups have high IQs. Many of these groups are also ethnocentric. They present job competition, sure. But that’s different.

The problem is Jewish culture fosters a very warped morality. I was pretty philo-semitic when I was young. I had to learn the hard way. Jews who’ve been bathed in Jewish culture - say from New York or the Jewish private school network - think a certain way. You’re going to get hurt by them if you don’t recognize it and put up your guard.

They are competitive to an extreme because their culture is highly materialistic. Simple and plain. No IQ comparisons, it’s about who can keep up with the Joneses. They have no qualms even with knocking each other down to get ahead. Consequently, they “fake good” all the time and that leads to all kinds of shady business behaviors.

This would be messed up enough but not unusual outside the West. Where it gets to be a problem is their overt hostility to WASP presenting people, even when those WASPs are clearly from the lower class. They will never forget the snub to their social climbing behaviors that historically came from Protestants and Catholic elites. Consequently, screwing anyone over who looks related to those elites is totally acceptable to them. This happens on a macro and micro scale left and right. It’s really the foundation of many things in this society that are disguised as something else. They alternate between paranoia and unwarranted lashing out.

You need to read up on ancient Jewish culture. None of this is new. It ultimately traces back to a stew of superstitious nonsense from a supremacist religion, not an IQ test comparison. The “Sages” of the Talmud thought they were better than their neighbors because they kept a Sabbath and their neighbors didn’t. Because they were circumcised and their neighbors weren’t. That mythical Moses was one of them and not a Roman.

Mizrachi Jews are supposed to have much lower IQs but have figured into many equally questionable events, such as the opium trade in China. It’s a reoccurring civilizational pattern that’s the product of the same civilization’s dysfunctional nature.

Mr9to5 · 2023-06-19T20:49:29+00:00

I almost view their violence shitposting as comedy at this point because they are so stirred up and disoriented by their own misinformation. There’s about one half assed “bash the fash” type of post in my local area subreddit a week. Well, by the time they misdirect themselves the wrong way about 10 times, they aren’t bashing anything. They’ll decide some alternative health person who isn’t even political is the fash over some Covid vax type of statement. Then someone with a mean bumper sticker that flipped them off in traffic. Then, a church. A few months ago, someone asserted they heard a racist joke about Asians from a random other customer at a driving range and people suggested everything from finding the mean joker to harassing the driving range with mean phone calls to calling the police and “reporting felony racist activity,” which isn’t even a thing. They are dumber than I ever imagined. Meanwhile, in this area, there are literally some open WNs, Birchers and the like that have been around for ages that they would view as Satan but afaik haven’t had any issues with these buffoons.

Mr9to5 · 2023-06-11T01:16:50+00:00

Great, I’ll call him up and let him know.

Mr9to5 · 2023-06-03T06:53:28+00:00

I was surprised to be reminded yesterday that Reddit wants an IPO. At this point, it’s basically woke urban liberal Yahoo Answers, with pictures and porn. The magic, if you even want to call the old crap that, is long gone.

I was thinking today that even ChatGPT in some ways displaces it - as useless as ChatGPT is in many ways, it won’t instantly delete your more mundane questions for “violating tEh rules” or reply with snarky gatekeeping. Since normal human beings only use Reddit for ELI5 style questions, that’s a serious shift.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-07T05:53:44+00:00

This is why a sane society doesn’t just take the Abbie Hoffman/Crimethinc line about shoplifting - that repeat shoplifting is just a victimless expropriation from capitalists. Repeat shoplifting opens the door to something as simple as a shove happening. A shove can lead to a fatal injury even with a healthy person if they fall on the spine the wrong way. But disproportionately, the victim will be someone vulnerable working a job like that, like this elderly man or perhaps a pregnant woman.

All I can say is they don’t get within arm reach of me. Can’t blame others for not thinking about it that way but hopefully, we all do.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-06T06:00:14+00:00

This looks like an interrogation room scene where they are determining if Ye is going to the gulag. But to make it fun and “American,” they gave Gavin a “if Satan was a used car salesman” suit to wear while conducting the interrogation.

Mr9to5 · 2022-10-31T22:27:17+00:00

I can’t read Thuletide without thinking Shultide. Warren Balogh memes well.

Mr9to5 · 2022-09-23T17:32:03+00:00

I stopped caring about Russia around the time I stopped caring about Trump and for basically similar reasons. Gay op rejected.

Mr9to5 · 2022-09-16T20:25:59+00:00

The RAC scene in my general region seems to have just accepted Mexicans as part of the mix. It’s one of those things that’s surreal if I have to explain it but makes perfect sense if you’re there. They think political correctness sucks, Communism fucked up the places they’re from and they come from places that were flooded with refugees from worse places. It’s kind of funny because when I knew more of those kids pre-Covid, they still had to work so hard to make sure Antifa didn’t dox them. Goes to show how backasswards this society is - “Pedro is picture here with Warren Meikle. Look how they are enforcing the white hetero anti-immigrant patriarchy!”

Mr9to5 · 2022-08-21T16:29:18+00:00

I click on the full video

Sam Harris: “Your capacity to be offended is not something anyone need or should respect.”

I instantly burst out laughing at the premise having a Jewish parent doesn’t matter, when who your mother is probably one of the top three most important nature and nurture factor in who you become.

Mr9to5 · 2022-08-20T21:41:24+00:00

Probably a targeted hit on that company for reasons we’ll never hear, executed by some special interest group to create a “discussion.” It will be used to justify some legislation they already have in mind down the road.

Some of the most draconian anti-discrimination rules in America surround housing because it was the first battleground after integration. People miss, for example, that one of the reasons David Lane was angry was his realtor license was revoked. There have been many attempts to harass Sam Dickson and others related to real estate investment. Several housing related professions, including realtors, have rules that your licenses can be revoked simply for stating the wrong views or joining the wrong group.

Do I believe them? Not for a damn minute. The scenario is too specific - black home owners, white stand in, perfectly executing the switch without people knowing - to not have been manipulated in some way.

Mr9to5 · 2022-08-19T13:04:00+00:00

Gosh, it’s been a while since I’ve even seen one of these. I started to write a comment to someone yesterday to illustrate how the Dissident sphere has improved about how in 2005, Pagan vs. Christian Nationalism speculative political theology was the quality of all you’d find.

“Which is better, if we’re all Wotanist or we’re all Identity? Don’t forget Creativity! Only one can win.”

Visceral psychological pain

Mr9to5 · 2020-11-26T05:21:44+00:00

Thank you for your articulate take. I’m American but my personal sense of identity is strongly Germanic. I look at the way people in my ancestral part of Germany lived and even to a large extent live today and I see much more in common with them than the average “Murican.” I don’t have a hard rule to only date women with identical backgrounds but for example, I think it would be good if I could.

Italians and even certain distinctly different Northern Europeans, like the Irish, are under the same attack as what I think of as my people but it does a disservice if we collapse everything into us being “the same.” It really only benefits Leftists, actually, for us to collapse our shared Western heritage into “being White.” Then, we’ve effectively leveled off our differences into a type of crude One Worldism applied to only one continent. At the same time, we give legitimacy to their lies that we are only standing for an “artificial social hierarchy” and “White is a construct” - because on some level, we’ve then destroyed what was natural and have created something artificial.

Mr9to5 · 2020-09-19T00:16:28+00:00

I’d like to be optimistic but at this rate, it’d feel like a miracle if Trump doesn’t do something like appoint Kushner.

Mr9to5 · 2020-09-19T00:09:15+00:00

I was thinking about this the other day. Something like East Indians present a huge challenge to the Jewish place in the cultural hierarchy. They can’t form a credible “us vs. them” victim position against them because there’s no ground for them to claim to be persecuted by them, unlike with WASPs or Arabs. They are wildly more competent in my experience than Jews. And they are unlikely to even “merge” into the Jews, because unlike East Asians so far, they have their own culture and only tend to marry their in-group.

Of course, it doesn’t help that the sheer number of them getting Visas for technical skills is threat to everyone’s social mobility, too.

Mr9to5 · 2020-09-16T12:54:44+00:00

Over time, I’ve just learned to check certain Israeli or highly religious Jewish media. If a news outlet is brazen in asking only “what is good for the Jews?” in a totally selfish, one sided way, you can get real answers. You’d be shocked how many news outlets are set up just towards answering that online if you’ve only read mainstream media. Some of it is very shameless considering you’re supposed to feel bad to even notice literally anyone thinks that way. I can’t even think of all of them and yet you’re supposed to be the bigoted one to even think they exist.

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1901858/historic-large-minyan-for-mincha-on-white-house-lawn-videos-photo.html

https://forward.com/opinion/454373/i-was-set-to-vote-for-biden-then-trump-made-peace-in-the-middle-east/

Mr9to5 · 2020-09-06T20:32:27+00:00

Above is weird Internet nonsense.

It is kind of a strange thing because the criminal element in my area, the Western US, operates this way. Hispanic and white prison gangs are allies. This has kind of watered down to the street, with many skins and Odinists in my area allowing partially Hispanic heritage and most of the Latino gangs allowing white members. Very distantly removed, I have about as many “fashy” Mexican friends as white advocate friends, through stuff like Oi!

I still don’t believe in it as a “goal.” If American goes full metzizo and some hybrid thing emerges as a next best thing, it’s fine, whatever. But it’s pretty much a guaranteed step down. Yeah, there’s white chollos and Mexican skins but is anyone reading the Western canon? Are “nerdy” white boys having any less of a hard time than the would with blacks? Does it sound like a path to being scientific innovators who can compete with China? No, it’s no bueno.

Mr9to5 · 2020-09-06T20:08:35+00:00

gasp

It’s so close to hate thought. It’s like... they want them to have... a secure existence and a future! So wrong, I need to go sit in a corner and chant “Ibram Kendi” 1000 times just to repent from seeing such genocidal mania!

Mr9to5 · 2020-08-24T00:59:19+00:00

I can’t imagine that there’s a tool on the Internet that you could use to solve this problem besides ranting at people to fix it for you...

Mr9to5 · 2020-07-24T05:09:00+00:00

I was just joking the other day, we need to re-name our military the George Floyd Black Lives Matter Freedom Force, so when we invade other countries, they know we’re the good guys.

Mr9to5 · 2024-01-25T21:24:11+00:00

That site and it’s:

Obsession with normalcy being “toxic” and perceived abuse
Having characters like this move around it.

Mr9to5 · 2024-01-25T21:20:23+00:00

I was never a mod of one but I used to float around the recovery subs under different usernames. They seem to really have gotten locked down by the Reddit purists (and the SD situation has particularly become ridiculous.) It’s been a bummer because I used to be able to help otherwise lost people on there from time to time.

Mr9to5 · 2024-01-01T20:49:08+00:00

The fake cop bashing on Reddit is really tiring. Not just in itself but because you know that most of them are the types who would call the cops for the most petty, frivolous reasons. I saw a thread on one of my local subs where someone said “they thought they heard” a racist joke at a driving range and someone suggested calling the cops in case a racist assault happens nearby. When they think they’re clever and don’t outright say call the cops because they actually want everything policed everywhere, they’re always saying to appeal to some limp-wristed authority figure, like state regulators because your job made you mad.

Mr9to5 · 2023-09-29T15:57:38+00:00

Oh yeah, it’s frustrating because we’ve fought the red light camera battle before. 15-20 years ago, they rolled them out before and people fought it until it fortunately went away.

Mr9to5 · 2023-09-24T18:11:54+00:00

Oh yeah, I was college age and wherever I went, there was “Occupy Something,” with ever declining quality. I come from pretty humble roots and read the Redneck Manifesto as a teenager and pretty much knew the score from Day One. Working class youth grow into marginalized working class adults, except for a minority by very hard work, while “student activists” are generally from a sheltered class and become tenured professors. Still, through Nationalism, I considered myself somewhat open to socialism and wanted to keep an open mind. But one does not feel so nice after a while, when you’re commuting hours each day to a mostly commuter school and you can’t do something administrative because the building is closed because a bunch of entitled, dirty wannabe hippie douchebags want to whine to the center Democrat administration that they can’t make their history degrees free. I’m sure that experience was happening all over America.

Mr9to5 · 2023-09-18T05:24:06+00:00

Yeah, it’s a lot of hippies. Most of the NS/fashy ISKCON people are essentially random Twitter accounts. Prabhupada Truth is the website I think I encounter most often that attempts to promote both. It’s a mixed bag, some Reptilians level content. I did see a skinhead with 14 and 88 tattooed on his cheeks and a bunch of Hare Krishna tattoos at a temple once but I don’t know the background. Someone told me they knew who that was and he died in an accident a little afterwards.

Mr9to5 · 2023-09-15T02:24:15+00:00

There’s some fashy ISKCON supporters out there, you can find them scattered across the Internet and a few publishers that carry ISKCON books, including Patriotic Dissent. I believe Prabhupada is generally known to have viewed Hinduism as having a pan-Aryan element and believed the flowering of it in the West was the re-awakening of it. He also used this idea alongside many incompatible ideas selectively for recruiting, which is why I’m not ISKCON.

George Burdi was pushing a similar line for many years, I believe he still considers himself aligned with Sanatana Dharma. He’s with the Dharma Nation guy.

I studied with a Hindu guru for a while when I was young but ultimately drifted away because I’m too much of a Social Darwinist. I believe life is basically Battle and the Strong and Active survive. I tried many times to reconcile this with “the surviving Paganism” as I understood but ultimately renunciation creeds are anathema to the spirit that births great deeds.

Mr9to5 · 2023-09-15T00:18:53+00:00

How many Hail Marys do you think they’ll have me say afterwards?

Mr9to5 · 2023-09-04T18:10:16+00:00

Honestly, half these guys people think are Feds are just people living their best life. I wouldn’t do what he does but when I was younger, this whole political scene was significantly more LARPy and there were plenty of people the denizens of the Internet now would guess were “Feds” that are still around, a few of whom are in prison (but proud and ready for the day they can be free to do activism again) - many, many more of whom are raising families and looking back and laughing at the wild fun they had, none of whom had people arrested near them or anything like that that would actually warrant a fedjacket.

Mr9to5 · 2023-08-05T05:37:02+00:00

I’d teach them to be good with their hands, just like a generation of white trash taught me. Right fist and left fist.

Mr9to5 · 2023-07-29T21:28:28+00:00

Lol, the very concept of “quality mods.” I know, there’s good and bad mods but it shows what utter shit Reddit is now - people want quality posts, quality advice, enjoyable content, a good laugh - now everything is focused on moderation and who has the control. Hallmark of a fun website, you can LARP the experience of trying to get around Soviet censorship.

Mr9to5 · 2023-07-09T05:03:23+00:00

I did a stint in LA loooong ago and we had a problem at a place I worked with a homeless guy showing up most days, defecating in front and literally wiping his ass with slices of wonderbread. No one ever intervened, he just eventually disappeared. 4Chan didn’t need to trick me to know this is bad.

Mr9to5 · 2023-06-25T18:05:16+00:00

Here’s a clip from a documentary on the topic: https://youtu.be/UvrPJkrE04I

Mr9to5 · 2023-06-10T20:57:58+00:00

He’s been terminally ill with cancer and it was announced around that time when they moved him to a medical facility.

Mr9to5 · 2023-05-28T20:29:23+00:00

I didn’t even notice on first read - it looks like somebody put fake hair on Jonathan Greenblatt for a flashback sequence.

Mr9to5 · 2023-05-28T19:32:23+00:00

I just deleted Gab because I had an opportunity where I was thinking I should maybe quiet down on politics a bit, just in case. I strongly regret it and will get back on there pretty soon. It had it’s trolls but if you know why you’re there and interact with the people you know are going to be similar to you, it’s an awesome social outlet for what many of us are unlikely to get IRL daily life.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-31T19:49:19+00:00

I personally say no, we should put King Tut in charge.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-30T01:45:53+00:00

Oh cool, good for you.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-29T04:44:28+00:00

I wasn’t originally going to play but some of the shittiest people I’ve met are SE Asians and lower class Chinese. When I was a kid, they would work as a unit to succeed - all studying together, doing everything together.

But this wasn’t some benevolent AmRen la la land utopia. They’d often be the bullies, talk about how white kids like me were “inferior” and taunting us about something they had that we didn’t. They were always super materialistic and thought we gave a fuck about their bling or some bullshit. Some became involved in gangs and were really no better than black or brown.

In school, they taught us about “the boat people” like it was slavery and we should feel bad about it, even though literal Communism caused the problem. Meanwhile, Vietnamese particularly took over many of the areas that used to be predominantly white, planting their Southern Vietnam flag that the MAGAtards love so much like a conquering army wherever white people weren’t anymore. Those areas became dens of massage parlors and gambling and even look like shit on the street level.

I can’t even count the number of Vietnamese and Chinese who’ve tried to play political games against me or outright scam me at jobs. Dudes think they’re Sun Tzu when they couldn’t even talk themselves out of a parking ticket. The new generation is much more Americanized but the old generation tries to play the based card sometimes. They’re as fucking “based” as Ben Shapiro - only for themselves and ready to gay op on you always.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-28T17:26:55+00:00

Also, if you're going to get mad at a minority group, East Asians are objectively the worst choice.

Tell me you’re not in an area where whites compete with Asians without telling me you’re not in an area where whites compete with Asians. Asians empowered by their collectivist cultural identities and the ability to also use leftism selectively as an ideological weapon can make life miserable. They are like Jews-lite but with more numbers.

Not that it has much to do with this video but it’s worth stating.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-20T18:33:56+00:00

I just got one from Shine A Light On that was 2 minutes. They’re pushing the canary meme again. It’s almost as though this Canary Problem is connected to all the other problems. Hmm…

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-17T23:22:36+00:00

I know for the most part, we’re not sympathetic to Reddit degeneracy but I thought this was a funny progression of Reddit, the nanny state. All the hard drug subreddits now have this warning. From what I can discern, it only shows if you log in on an account that has posted on pro-sobriety subreddits. I like to encourage young people not to drink or use on an alternate account.

I’ve never used hard drugs but sometimes mindlessly float the associated subreddits because I like things like true crime and outlaw stories and it’s kind of interesting to me to see the real thing. Apparently, if SAMHSA doesn’t save me, I’m doomed now.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-15T21:20:30+00:00

https://youtu.be/4he1uHxkq34

It has mad NPR energy but some comedy value.

Mr9to5 · 2022-12-15T05:05:40+00:00

I personally really enjoyed Carolyn Yeager’s old podcasts, particularly the Heretic’s Hour and Hitler’s Table Talks shows. You can find them on the radio archive on her page. I really feel she’s generally realistic and truthful about what the NS worldview is and how people really lived.

Prussian Socialism on The Right Stuff network is kind of a more current equivalent. I also like Volkish.org’s podcast Manifest Destiny, though (sadly) they make less episodes. I know you didn’t mention podcasts but I love podcasts. All three shows cover material that is from outside that period as well but relate it back to it.

A couple really easy reads I enjoyed when I first was starting out that you can find on Archive.org are:

Ich Kampfe (a Party ideology manual)

Faith and Action (Hitler Youth manual)

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