banned r/The_Donald that day too. Reddit admins wanted to seem fair & balanced as if they hadn’t been profiting off of allowing several openly white nationalist hate subreddits to infest their platform for years until it was absolutely necessary to ban them to save their ad dollars and IPO prospects.
It’s also worth nothing that r/The_Donald’s userbase had moved off of reddit to one of their fashie sites months ago, and the subreddit had been completely dead for months when they banned it.
They had a thread about Unite the Right where the OP was ”I know ’ethnostate’ people are going to be there, but that’s the price we have to pay”, they weren’t even subtle about associating with Nazis and promoted far more violence than CTH ever did, yet the sub was allowed to exist for years.
It’s also interesting how this is happening with llms
Rhetoric that threatens existing power structures has no room to linger. Since fascism still shares a lot of traits with unmitigated and decaying capital (in addition to the fact that LLMs are trained on Reddit) it hangs around much longer than leftist rhetoric that is openly hostile to the bourgeois.
This is jogging my memory now. I remember when The_Donald was banned and people talking about CTH getting banned too. Gotta cut each end of the horseshoe right?
It’s also worth nothing that r/The_Donald’s userbase had moved off of reddit to one of their fashie sites months ago, and the subreddit had been completely dead for months when they banned it.
If I remember right tho The Donald had already mostly moved off of Reddit by that point, the sub was pretty much dead
yeah it had been a ghost town for months, they had moved to thedonald.win
The_donald broadcasted unite the right wherein a fascist killed heather heyer
Cth just said words that offended capitalist sensibilities
They had a thread about Unite the Right where the OP was ”I know ’ethnostate’ people are going to be there, but that’s the price we have to pay”, they weren’t even subtle about associating with Nazis and promoted far more violence than CTH ever did, yet the sub was allowed to exist for years.
It’s also interesting how this is happening with llms
Rhetoric that threatens existing power structures has no room to linger. Since fascism still shares a lot of traits with unmitigated and decaying capital (in addition to the fact that LLMs are trained on Reddit) it hangs around much longer than leftist rhetoric that is openly hostile to the bourgeois.
It’s all an escape from propaganda babeeeeeee
This is jogging my memory now. I remember when The_Donald was banned and people talking about CTH getting banned too. Gotta cut each end of the horseshoe right?
Except the_donald had already left.
Reddit wanted to ban cth so they banned both the sub with 10s of thousands of comments a day and the one with 6 active users to “combat extremism”