God, every time I hear Steven Cheung open his mouth, I think of Baghdad Bob or a North Korean news broadcast. I know that’s the point - he’s just poisoning the well - but I don’t get how anyone can listen to that response and think “Ok, that’s a legitimate response from an adult.”
Getting a little tired of the world being ruled by people whose psychological age never reached double digits.
Sane people: “Trump is a pedophile rapist!”
MAGA: “NO, he’s a pedophile rapist!”
You’re still implying they have a right to my thoughts. I strongly disagree.
Counterpoint: No, I’m not. You’re making the life of internet users who are looking for a solution worse, and hoping Reddit is somehow harmed as a side effect. Nothing in that implies I think that I or they have a right to your thoughts. You are just following a poor strategy, lashing out using the only lever you have, without any logical basis to think it will achieve what you want. Your methods will not produce the results you seek.
If you feel differently, feel free to explain. I’ll read your post. But I think I’m done replying to this thread for now - my original post said what I mean.
It’s awkward to fight for democracy while simultaneously mirroring Trump’s efforts to effectively disenfranchise voters.
What the author doesn’t get is that our priorities have shifted (and must shift) from being a democratic standard-bearer, to fending off an ongoing coup from fascists.
We are only 7 months into the presidency, and nearly all of our democratic institutions are not just being tested, they have definitively failed.
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The D-state redistricting plan is not even pushing the envelope, it is a long-shot hail Mary to put a roadblock in front of a fascism machine that these same media companies helped build, which is driving full speed toward a cliff. It may not even work if Trump’s sycophants have captured election boards in enough states that 2026 is no longer free and fair, it’s just all we have left to try.
We’ve already lost whatever standard this article is arguing for. Our only hope to get it back is to hold off long enough that winds shift, voters get fed up, and we go hard at rooting out this authoritarian element in the slim chance sane people are put back in power.
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Buddy, this is in my original post: “It’s their - and your - right, sure. They’re by definition done on comments the user owns. But this is just punching desperate Internet users in the face hoping it gives Reddit a bloody nose.”
I’m making a point about cause and effect, and started out conceding that you can do what you want with your own comments. You’re arguing with a phantom projection of your own pet peeves.
Edit: Removed duplicate quote.
See the last paragraph of my post. I both addressed this, and am talking about past comments, not future comments.
You’ve reposted all of your deleted Reddit comments to Lemmy?
“Yes, it’s fake, but it sounds true so it’s still valid!” is pretty much where we’re at for critical thinking in 2025.
Ah, where are those books now? Which shelves can I find them on?
I get the metaphorical point, but it’s a point without effect. “Removing with no possible present or future access” is the same as “burning” for society’s purposes.
Can we please just have one day during this presidency that isn’t the least qualified people maximizing harm?
Like, can this bumbling idiot just waste some money on a harmless holistic cure side project while not actively trying to kill us by destroying modern medicine? Is he trying to outdo Trump’s pandemic score and get the medal for killing the most Americans?
Not sure I understand your NPR comment. Distrust among Dem/Lean Dem is 3%, the lowest level tied with The Atlantic and Axios (for some reason). Affirmative trust among Dem/Lean Dem is 47%, which isn’t the highest but clearly in a very trusted category.
Sure, as an absolute rust number 47% may seem low, but the distrust number is the more important one, and in general there’s less affirmative trust than expected across the board for generally reliable news sources.
I hear these justifications a lot, but the conclusion doesn’t follow from the premises.
The value of the archival data that can be affected by deleting or editing is almost entirely only user-accessed value. Reddit isn’t harmed at all from the edits. It primarily needs active regular users to improve its stock value. Alternatively, it can sell archival data for AI training.
Editing old comments removes neither value source from Reddit. You moved away from it so deprived it of both the material value of new comments and the statistical value of being an active user. Reddit also assuredly has saved data from before the API issue and can likely spot and clean the mass edits to sell the data from training purposes.
Conversely, the value to users and society is high. So many solutions to problems that are gone forever. The Internet is decaying already and it gets harder to find useful information, and those leaving decided to just burn down a library of Alexandria.
It’s their - and your - right, sure. They’re by definition done on comments the user owns. But this is just punching desperate Internet users in the face hoping it gives Reddit a bloody nose.
When their kink is non-consensual, or otherwise with unwilling and unwitting participants, that’s when you know it’s not “just a kink” and they’re actually just a bad person.
Edit: CNC is “consensual” if done legitimately, in case anyone thought this was kink-shaming. My take is, everybody over the age of consent should be free to do what they want with their own bodies, including consenting to things other people don’t like.
one of the most Lunchables faces
I know this is a typo, but yes, it still works.
That’s literally what I wanted you to feel!
Excellent, thank you. Bonus getting that guy shouting “Healthcare is a human right!”
I skipped out of this once the CNN talking heads appeared, but the initial cut of questions and answers was cathartic. That said, I didn’t see this interaction (“free healthcare”) here, but if anyone else saw it, glad for a timecode.
Missed that - hope I have a good lawyer.
A decade ago I would have thought this would turn off the “independents,” those news-allergic rascals who make decisions on the future of our country and everyone in it based on how they feel election day after polling their Facebook feed. But I agree with you, knowing what I know now about fellow Americans.