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I have no problem with people making mistakes, accidentally suspending an account for example, it happens.

This wasn’t an accident. The admin intentionally deleted posts just because he personally disagreed with them and removed moderators because he disagreed with them.

When you are in a position of authority and you have power over others, if you give in to that urge to use that power for your own benefit to the detriment of others, even once, you will do it again. It is seductive and easy. This is just human psychology. It’s how authoritarianism thrives.

By allowing a corrupt admin to remain, the admin team have demonstrated that they find that behaviour at least somewhat acceptable, and therefore there’s no reason to learn and grow, except to learn how far you can go before there’s backlash.

To have their admin powers revoked, obviously.

You have more choices beyond voting for either Trump or Harris.

Voting for a third party is the opposite of laziness and apathy. You’re intentionally spending the time and effort to place a vote which you know will not succeed, entirely because you believe in doing the right thing, even when it isn’t popular.

The US needs a revolution, the current system is impossible to change without it. All you can do is harm mitigation.

It’s honestly disgusting that this anti-semitic bullshit is upvoted.

Reddit also was open source, until it wasn’t.

• this is a worldwide news sub. the bot is ridiculously US-centric. everything it considers left or centre is right wing at best.

• it’s the pet project of literally one guy, based entirely on his opinions. he’s very clearly got biases, too: very pro-right wing, pro-israeli.

• it has extremely ridiculous justifications for a lot of why the “left” publications are considered “mixed”, and right-wing publications don’t get the same treatment.

It’s just totally useless garbage. It would be just as worthwhile as having a bot to automatically post my personal opinion of every news website beneath every post on this community.

I don’t disagree on principle - society is better with some people dead - but I don’t agree that the state should ever have that amount of power over anyone.

I think you have a conclusion that you’re arguing towards rather than letting observations draw you to a conclusion. Here’s a link to an article you might find interesting - https://archive.org/details/sim_columbia-journalism-review_july-august-1998_37_2/page/n29/mode/2up

The media sold out loooong before the Internet took off. They’re entirely to blame for the position that they’re in. And they’re, at least partially, to blame for the state of modern society.

Imagine if you subscribed to a YouTuber and they had good content. You subscribe to their patreon. At some point later, they take on a bunch of sponsorships, and eventually they just become a corporate mouthpiece for their sponsors. Then their entire channel just gets bought by the corporation and is ran as a corporate social media account. At what point would you cancel your Patreon subscription? Would you say that refusing to pay that YouTuber for their videos means that you have a part to play in the process whereby they ultimately ended up as a corporate social media account?

Because that is ultimately what happened with the media, in my opinion.

I think that would be an example of a wildly unpopular change, yeah.