Here’s the actual note from Reddit to the Mods, which is perhaps worth reading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/c5setv/quarantine/
My favorite part is this:
Custom styling has been disabled to restore the report and downvote buttons.
The mods had disabled the report and downvote buttons? I mean it takes a lot to force Reddit into action I suppose, but what did they think was going to happen?
Uh… no, not like that at all…
ETA - But if it was like that, then wouldn’t that be evidence of a center?
What have I said to suggest that they are?
While I have little doubt that the people involved were personally threatening the police, I have to note that they could easily have just been directly quoting Senator Brian Boquist, since he literally threatened to murder any cops coming to find him. Looks like we’ve reached the point where internet trolls are being held to higher standards than our politicians.
Yes, I would say so.
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon, Republican, started the Environmental Protection Agency.
This just in…
I disagree. Ideologies do not shift, and you can judge where you are on a scale of Marx to Friedman (to pick just two names). The true political centre is far closer to Bernie Sanders and AOC than it is to Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. This is the only centre that matters.
A shifting centre just allows people to lie to themselves and potentially commit atrocities with the self-justification that they aren’t as bad as the extremists.
Yeah, I think I’ve got some better things to do with my time…
There is if you’re a cold blooded sociopath who only moves left when 50.01% of the population forces you to.
The Overton window has looked like the back of a 1963 Corvette for 25+ years.
there is no left right dichotomy, join me in the bottom left corner of the compass we have weed guns and kinksex but DONT believe in an invisible man in the sky hand in the market
https://www.politicalcompass.org/
I added it to my filter list long ago along with r/PewdiepieSubmissions
The 2D political compass is such old hat.
What happened to that 3D one that was going around a bit ago?
Edit: Here’s one with 4 axes! That’s twice the axes of the political compass! Come join me in the socialist-liberal-peaceful-progressive, uh, area.
I’d like better shoes, but apart from that…
I like trying to break these with honest answers.
The first question
Oppression by corporations is more of a concern than oppression by governments.
Does disagreeing mean that you think that oppression by governments is a bigger concern, or is my view that oppression is oppression and it doesn’t matter if it is by government, corporation, religion or an individual also in there?
A few more questions in and it is clear that they are working on a scale from state run economy to ayn-cap. I’ve broken another one!
I’ll see what I end up with by picking the least worst options.
I’ve been there for the last fifteen years. I’ve been in the bottom left quadrant for even longer.
It’s almost like you can’t get wholly accurate answers from answering short questions on a simple “strongly agree -> strongly disagree” spectrum, isn’t it?
Doesn’t stop me amusing myself with it though.
this has been a problem that has gone unaddressed until it threatened the police state. it will continue to be a problem so long as the operators of the site turn a blind eye to what they seem to feel are more “civilized” ways of making non-white non-males feel afraid and unwelcome.
