The day after reddit.com bans essentially all “right-wing” content, including a few token feminist and left-wing subs, the mood on reddit turns on a dime.
But not because of the censorship – that is welcome.
What happened is that someone put a guillotine in front of the home of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and made a point to support “Chris Smalls, an Amazon employee who organized a work stoppage over coronavirus safety measures at the company’s warehouse on Staten Island, New York, and was later fired.”
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/protesters-set-up-guillotine-outside-of-jeff-bezos-dc-home
NOW, reddit says it’s gone too far:
The only language they know how to speak is what messaging works in their own in groups. They don’t engage with the meaning or implications of their messaging.
It’s borderline historical illiteracy to point to the reign of terror as a positive role model for anything beyond wanton class revenge and political opportunism. It’s calling for violence for the sake of violence under the veil of a joke, not any genuine concern for inequality.
It’s OK as a joke (as in, not particularly funny but not as morally repugnant) in an image macro as a reminder of history, despite many of the victims of the terror being the revolutionaries themselves, but to leave an actual one outside his door is pretty gross.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/hir1vd/protesters_set_up_guillotine_outside_of_jeff/fwi977y/
For the last two months, even as the “Autonomous Zone” in Seattle led the entire country in murder rates, the entirety of reddit, and most other social media outside of the 25% or so of conservative, FOX, Breitbart platforms, unanimously praised and defended everything Black Lives Matter and Antifa did. Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler, D-Tel Aviv, said on the floor of Congress that “Antifa doesn’t exist” and the entire media called every violent BLM riot “mostly peaceful” – even as police stations burned in the background.
Every violent attack was blamed on non-existent “white supremacists” and 100% peaceful counter-protest and defensive actions by white people were described as “right-wing terrorism.”
Random white people, when they weren’t attacked, beaten, and murdered by blacks, were smeared on social media, and fired from their jobs as virtually every Fortune 500 companies signaled their support for BLM. Even liberal journalists at major media companies were fired for being insufficiently woke.
But then, someone signaled a class war, signaled that the target was no longer working class and middle class white people, but actual oligarchs.
And – just like that – BLM/Antifa is no longer acceptable. Now, they have “gone too far.”
The other day BLM-UK announced they supported the Palestinians. Immediately they were denounced and the movement in the UK is now over.
When the riots were targeting regular white people, everyone was on board. Once they went after targets with real power – Zionists and corporate oligarchs – elite sentiment turned on a dime.
Which explains the power dynamic quite clearly. Nothing more needs to be said.
That’s what happened to BLM last time – they went too far and their masters turned them off like a tap. Do they ever notice how easily they are manipulated?
I recall during a Chinese astroturfed protest against the Japanese, one online commenter was quickly banned for saying: ‘They tell us to be angry, and we are angry. Then they tell us to be calm, and we become calm.’ Sure enough, once protesters starting carrying a few sneaky signs complaining about price rises and the like, the CCP called them off and everyone quietly went home.
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“Do they ever notice how easily they are manipulated?”
we all live in mcu, dummy
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I think that The Supreme Court has set up the correct bounds – all speech is allowable, except that which directly threatens bodily violence to a person or people.
I do not support censorship of anyone, not because I am virtuous or virtue-signaling, but, because I know that one of the great achievements of The American Experiment is our tradition of Free Speech, and, as well, because, as a Confederate flag-waving LGBTQ sceptical, Traditional Southerner, I have been on the receiving end of it so many times.
That said, if we are going to live in a Cancel Culture, where the 1st amendment is, for all intents and purposes, selectively undermined by Corporate-Globalist hegemony, then, by all means – cancel the holy hell out of Antifa and BLM!
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your a “confederate flag waving traditional southerner” … with a russian pseud?
you know how alexander ii saved the republic right?
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Dear Nikolai,
Your tone is not conducive to dialogue. Perhaps we will chat on another occasion, when respect for others is more prominent in your breast.
Until then, be well and be blessed!.
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how dare you slobber “dear banned’s” cock and not mine?
this is an outrage
“dear banned”
“you are so right”
“i love so much you omg”
truly sickening
remember that one time your bedfellows, the redcoats, burned down dc…
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i for one welcome our new capitalist overlords
i cant wait to live on the corporate plantation of my benevolent libertarian owner jeff bezos
trust all billionaires
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In his The Mind and Society, Vilfredo Pareto took it as axiomatic that the democratic republic is the metamorphic precursor of the plutocratic oligarchy.
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No offense, but that’s an awful lot of big words!
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Someone always has to ruin it for everyone else. Thanks a lot , Chris. This is why we can’t have nice autonomous zones.
Also, don’t for get they attacked the mayor’s house. I mean, mansion. Her “partner” is the daughter of some Telcom bigshot worth about 400 mil.
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