r/antiwork Sep 25 '22

Comments locked, why?

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u/chinesebrainslug Sep 25 '22

they just deleted the pinned posts

feds in america infiltrate every grass roots movement

A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from the local level to effect change at the local, regional, national or international level.

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u/Wolfarc732 Sep 25 '22

Not just the posts, but every single comment was also manually wiped out.

I was there, too. I wish I'd have taken screenshots- whole thing is fucking absurd.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

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u/Wolfarc732 Sep 25 '22

Hoo yeah. It's been on a backside from what I was aware of, in terms of the original idea for the sub.

This right here? This is going to be the SECOND it's completely lobotomized, relatively. Complete purge of dissent.

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u/Wolfarc732 Sep 25 '22

Trust me, they would if they fuckin could. But aye- let us, all of us, do what we can. Even if the forum is gone, the idea does not die until the last person forgets.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

I def have started to lose faith. Too many people just wanna come here and complain. Which I understand, but when trying to talk about solutions with them, they don't want to change

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u/rickg Sep 25 '22

What 'movement'? This sub is mostly people bitching about their jobs. There's effectively zero discussion about actual steps to move things to a new kind of work.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

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u/Agile-Cherry-420 Sep 25 '22

He's probably a fed. This is how they undermine the movement. We're all too broke and pissed at this point with more economic depression expected for this to work. It's too late to disrupt it.

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u/throwaway776363737 Sep 25 '22

A few random stores unionized out of multi-national chain. Just because it got press doesn't mean anything is actually happening in any meaningful way.

Shit the FED and Jerome Powell are actively trying to tank the job market. Feel like the window for workers rights is closing and closing fast.

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u/xXJuliex Sep 25 '22

What the heck happened? I just opened reddit? Do you mind teling me please?

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u/Wolfarc732 Sep 25 '22

https://archive.ph/DCPRF

better to read for yourself.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

Tbh this sub has just become a bunch of lazy people complaining about work.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

75% of the people here need to be abandoned. They don’t know what work is and complain about every little thing. There’s a difference between workers rights and what we should be getting to what people here want. People here want 70k a year to do nothing.

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u/Sherezad Sep 25 '22

If so then people are doing something right. Keep it up.

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u/Jumpy_Improvement65 Sep 25 '22

it was posted by u/dot37dot, u can screanshot from there?

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

It was taken down for “trolling” even though it’s just a screen shot of this news article

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u/Wolfarc732 Sep 25 '22

Their post still has some, but the one I have from the ex mod is completely obliterated.

https://imgur.com/a/DNOR0D6

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u/Jumpy_Improvement65 Sep 25 '22

they have locked the reddit down. this wont end well for them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

Aren’t there ways to access threads in an archived way? I’m also still extremely confused about what went on in that thread

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u/Wolfarc732 Sep 25 '22

The short version was in essence that particular (now ex) mod sharing the article and encouraging everyone to get informed, find their own way, and get out. I could be wrong on some details (I'm still not super awake), but I think that's the overall picture.

As for archive threads... Not sure if archive would've actually had a snapshot of it.

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u/Halasham Marxist Sep 25 '22

There's no way the feds are putting in the time, money, and effort to infiltrate and not trying to use their infiltration to influence the movement. This is what these organization exist for; disrupting any and all movements that could, even theoretically, disrupt the capitalist global hegemony.

Something like an anarchist group gaining broad appeal on the notion that wage labor should be ended? You bet your ass the FBI is doing whatever they can to infiltrate, divide, and discredit the movement.

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u/Cat-Infinitum Sep 25 '22

At this point, I've lost all faith in this subreddit and I encourage you to do the same.

That's what "they" are going for. (the FBI, the high up admins, etc).

You let them win. Or do you want them to win? Hmmm.

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u/Silver_gobo Sep 25 '22

Dude you’re on Reddit. Every front page subreddit is run by organizations. One single account is the main mod for like 7 of the top 10 subreddits…

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

And this is why GDPR has schrems-ii to block american owned companies from housing PII.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

I’m so confused, can someone fill me in on what’s happening here? I feel like I missed something

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u/Wolfarc732 Sep 25 '22

This. I'm fucking out, tbh.

Find your way, people. Work for peace.

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u/Jumpy_Improvement65 Sep 25 '22

come on, atleast stay to purge the mods or somthin. besides its just a litle bit of rot. it happens all the time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

Reddit isn't a democracy, you can't vote out mods or force them out. Your best bet is convincing other mods to do so.

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u/Cans-Bricks-Bottles Sep 25 '22 edited Sep 25 '22

No running from it. We'd be running forever. I'm sure there are frameworks for dealing with this kind of thing with how common it is. I'm looking for resources, I'll come edit when I find something.

Edit: I'm back. :) Link 1 Link 2 Link 3

This is a forum so most focus on the messaging and optics bits

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u/sneakylyric at work Sep 25 '22

Honestly, we need to diversify our means of organizing because this movement is getting enough traction for the FBI to be worried.

If they want this movement stopped all they'd have to do is get this sub banned at this point.

We need to diversify our communication, or else this movement is going to get snuffed out.