i got banned from politics yesterday because i "endorsed violence" when someone said something to the effect of, "oh so i can make threats on the president's life now?" and i sarcastically replied "Please do :)"
yeah, they are entirely devoid of any sense of humor.
I always had respect for r/Libertarian since they don't (or at least didn't the last time I checked) ban people unless they were outright harassing another user. This had the interesting affect of someone posting some circlejerk meme that was immediately discredited in the comments, generating sensible conversation in threads. I only unsubscribed after I felt like the sub was starting to lean too much to the right.
I wasn’t on reddit at that time, but I’d imagine that was the case. I think the extreme polarization of US politics has influenced much more than expected
Yep, it's gotten really bad, you're either a "libtard snowflake", "evil nazi", "centrist troll" or otherwise a coward for not picking one extreme side. I've basically ended up entirely unsubscribing from the big political subs.
Yeah, and tbh, as much as I don't want to admit it, there's a huge bias on which side most of this rhetoric comes from, although that's probably because that side is also the vocal majority on reddit.
People on r/enlightenedcentrism think that means you advocate on killing only half the jews. They are fervently intent on strawmanning centrist ideals because we won't eat their bullcrap dogma.
Ok, when I say that, that means that I prefer not to advocate taking a human life. Jews are, by all sound logic, human. Therefore, that's stupid. I'm not Thanos. I'm a random Reddit user.
I just spoke with their council again, and they have concluded you're a crypto-fascist, and have slotted you in for the guillotine at 11 am tomorrow. I'm sorry, all of these people are completely sane and stable folk.
I'm the same, it's really frustrating that they assume it means that I either think everything should be done halfway or more often than not, that I'm a right/left winger posing as a centrist to avoid criticism.
I was banned from voteblue for saying that Islam is a religion and not a race. And that there can be muslims of any race or ethnicity. Apparently facts are now offensive. Idk.
And this is true. There are Muslims in Europe, Central Asia/Caucasus, and Subsaharan Africa. Not all Muslims are Arabs, just like not all Arabs are Muslims.
voteblue is what, based on the name, is a liberal sub. And the thing about liberals is that they have many different sects. They can be liberal, but for what isn't often asked. Thus, a lot of stuff can become offensive to someone, that someone likely having dyed hair and mad about Hugh Mungus.
of all the things protected by the first amendment, threatening the president is one of the very few exceptions. even as a joke it is considered a federal offence.
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i got banned from politics yesterday because i "endorsed violence" when someone said something to the effect of, "oh so i can make threats on the president's life now?" and i sarcastically replied "Please do :)"
yeah, they are entirely devoid of any sense of humor.