transformer
Member
I'm sure that guy is also a "secret Nazi" sticking up for Elon... At least that's what will be posted on Reddit.
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I'm sure that guy is also a "secret Nazi" sticking up for Elon... At least that's what will be posted on Reddit.
ManaByte
Gold Member
They won’t post it on Reddit because it’s from X.
Aesius
Member
They'll say he has internalized Nazism and fascism. Or they'll just blame capitalism somehow.
The Pleasure
Member
Beware of the reddit brigade
Tams
Member
Most people literally do not care.
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
I'm not sure what there even is to talk about here
Did he do a nazi salute on purpose? Yes
Did elon do a nazi salute because he is a neo-nazi? No
Did he do it because he is an egomaniac that loves attention and thought it would be funny to antagonize/trigger the socalled Libs ? Yes
Does he care about others feelings? No
Is he addicted to shit posting and ketamine? Yes
stop giving this grown child attention over stupid shit like this
El Muerto
Member
He's been hyping up the alt-right in Germany. The German govt is sick of his Nazi shit.
apnews.com
German leader is more worried about Musk's backing of a far-right party than his insults
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's staying “cool” against critical personal comments made by Elon Musk but finds it worrying that Musk makes the effort to get involved in Germany's general election by endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
apnews.com
Cyberpunkd
Member
Germany’s government is donkey shit and has been for years now. Jesus Christ, CDU makes a coalition with SPD, they literally hacked the system so no matter who you vote for people in power stay in power. Don’t know what’s worse, this of French system where a president can throw temper tantrums and nominate no matter who for a PM.He's been hyping up the alt-right in Germany. The German govt is sick of his Nazi shit.
German leader is more worried about Musk's backing of a far-right party than his insults
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's staying “cool” against critical personal comments made by Elon Musk but finds it worrying that Musk makes the effort to get involved in Germany's general election by endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
Lunarorbit
Member
Yup. Elon endorsed the ADf in Germany.He's been hyping up the alt-right in Germany. The German govt is sick of his Nazi shit.
German leader is more worried about Musk's backing of a far-right party than his insults
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's staying “cool” against critical personal comments made by Elon Musk but finds it worrying that Musk makes the effort to get involved in Germany's general election by endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
But please keep telling all of us how he's a clean upstanding citizen. Yall got brain worms
captainnapalm
Member
The whole thing was very coordinated - apparently many subreddits got record upvotes in very short spaces of time for these 'should we ban x' posts they all put up. I mean it has to be a coordinated thing from within Reddit.
This seems like a last gasp attempt to try and keep the censorship and thought control going by maintaining as closed an echo chamber as possible. Don't think it will work. It's interesting some of the really big subreddits are also banning Instagram/Threads links - likely because of Zuckerberg's recent moves to allow more freedom of speech. Very shady - but then Reddit moderation is fundamentally shady.
This seems like a last gasp attempt to try and keep the censorship and thought control going by maintaining as closed an echo chamber as possible. Don't think it will work. It's interesting some of the really big subreddits are also banning Instagram/Threads links - likely because of Zuckerberg's recent moves to allow more freedom of speech. Very shady - but then Reddit moderation is fundamentally shady.
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Reddit is becoming more and more of a far left shithole by the day. I'm just subbed to gaming subs but get constantly recommended political posts in from non-political subs. I really wished there was an alternative to stay informed about more niche games. Don't really like the structure of X and there doesn't seem to be anything else.
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Pejo
Gold Member
The number of bots in the replies lets you know for sure that it's coordinated. Then you have the most pathetic existence on the planet known as "super mods" that are mods of multiple popular subreddits all doing the same thing.
Not surprising considering most big Reddit subs are controlled by the same +-10 mods. The site also has a huge bot problem (like most social media sites)
The Fartist
Gold Member
Guess we know where people-who-believe-everything-the-media-tells-them go. I will think of them like quarantine zones.
Richard Packer
Member
Have you heard about a website called NeoGAF.com
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I run r/gaming and we’re not banning X links.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of X (or ironically ANY social media), but I don’t think outright banning platforms is the right answer.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of X (or ironically ANY social media), but I don’t think outright banning platforms is the right answer.
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Cyberpunkd
Member
I don't know if that's still the case but this was the situation 5 years ago:
Reddit is a personal power trip.
SidViscous
Member
Didn't they uncover that Epstein's girlfriend was one of the top 6 moderators on reddit, or did I fever dream that?
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Generation of pussies.
Pegasus Actual
Gold Member
Can someone inform Reddit that they have to ban France too? I keep trying to link this to them but it's not working.
Emmanuel's heart grab is a little casual but I appreciate how more forward facing his actual salute is. Elon's way off to the side... like... pretty sure that's not how you Heil ol' Hitler. You'd probably turn towards him I mean I don't know I'm not an expert...
Can we add a poll on who has better form? Where's a mod when you need one?
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Yeah, if Elon donated to the other team and was pro censorship and pro DEI and an advocate of gender madness, then the people trashing him now for the gesture would be defending him. It just is what it is. And the same applies both ways. If people feel someone is on "your team" then they couldn't give a shit less what you do, and if people feel you aren't on their team it will be constant hyperbole and hysteria. One of the best points I saw that is totally legit is a lot of the people crying foul of what Elon did are Hamas supporters. If you fall in both categories, then you have zero credibility, and no one should ever listen to anything you have to say.
ManaByte
Gold Member
There is literally no alternative. If you want an echo chamber to talk to people, sure. Anyone can make those. But for news there's not an alternative at all.
Rat Rage
Member
Which is quite sad. There have to be smart nerds out there, who could pull that off easily (creating and offering an alternative).
There is a good alternative to almost everything, but why is there no good alternative to social media, some sort of open source, no profit social media that is in the hands of THE PEOPLE and not single entities? It's quite baffling.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Like forum mods playing Cyberpunk for "research" purposes, Redditors can't let go of X. Despite links and screenshots being banned, they're now cropping X screenshots so you can't tell it's from a Tweet (spoiler: hashtags give it away, idiots) because they have no other source of news to link to on the site.
What do you think is going on? r/gaming is gigantic - any insights to share? Is it bots upvoting? Activists coordinating? Organic?
JoeDanny
Member
Any social media site is only as good as the people using it. Twitter/X just has better and more interesting people posting stuff there. I tried Bluesky but it was obvious that it was another boring political refugee thing instead of a genuine platform. Nothing on there was really all that interesting.
The death of Reddit has been sad to see. There's always been cool stuff on there. The Le Meme era was pretty annoying but you could still find your community to stick with. Now it's all pretty obviously astroturf'd to hell and back. I deleted my account a few days ago when all the Twitter/X bans started happening.
Social media is going through growing pains lately. It's still such a new thing within the context of civilization. People have figured out how to make money off of it, but not really how to make it a place of genuine discussion. I think Reddit had it somewhat figured out with sub-reddits to focus communities together, but they couldn't help themselves but sellout to whatever political entity handed them cash and took over.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I'm on Reddit talking about MY specific likes ... OnePlus, Wing Fighter (mobile game), extramile (big grin), Switch 2, etc. I dip out of a subreddit goes full tilt politics. We're supposed to be talking about the STATED topic... Not which team you root for.
Doomtrain
Gold Member
One of the music subreddits I frequent had a big post about removing and banning X links. They said that if anyone complains or defends Musk, that person will be banned. Naturally, saying "I don't think he actually did a nazi salute in the first place" constitutes "defending" him, and is banworthy. The post said that it was clearly a nazi salute, end of story, and that there was no possible way another gesture could be mistaken for one.
Underneath, they had a large edit, which I assume was in response to the photos of other politicians doing similar gestures. In the edit, they said that obviously Kamala Harris et al. were doing different gestures, and that people were mistaking that gesture for a nazi salute in bad faith. So if you argued that they were doing a nazi salute, you would be banned.
My takeaway: the gesture itself has nothing to do with any of this.
Underneath, they had a large edit, which I assume was in response to the photos of other politicians doing similar gestures. In the edit, they said that obviously Kamala Harris et al. were doing different gestures, and that people were mistaking that gesture for a nazi salute in bad faith. So if you argued that they were doing a nazi salute, you would be banned.
My takeaway: the gesture itself has nothing to do with any of this.
March Climber
Member
Technically, you're describing 4chan. Have fun.
Soodanim
Gold Member
Reddit went from an endless supply of subreddits to the few places that I haven't filtered out entirely. Opened up r/all the other day and it was Elon's gesture constantly. All from r/gifs. As soon as I filtered it, no more Elon. So now that's gone forever too.
The whole thing's a mess anyway, anything that isn't a niche just gets whatever posted and up voted regardless of if it's in the right sub or not. It's all about engagement, they might as well just merge the top 50 into one pit of chaos.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
More and more Germans are tired of seeing themselves and their children slaughtered by foreigners, and they’re voting accordingly. Their own government wants to deny them a choice, but somehow Elon voicing his support is the problem?
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Cursory Google search on crime statistics and immigration... Crime hasn't increased due to immigration as compared to what is carried out by white Germans (I don't know if they count 2nd or 3rd gen born from immigrants... I don't think y'all have birthright citizenship which legally made African ex slaves and Native Americans in this country recognized as citizens). So much of Germany I find confusing, though (politics and social issues mostly).
Kings Field
Member
Reddit:
JORMBO
Darkness no more
I left any subreddit I saw that banned X links. Places like Steamdeck, Tomb Raider and Xenoblade Chronicles all banned links. I noticed some of the mods of those subs also mod subs like "Antiwork" and other political charged places. That's the problem with Reddit. A few losers moderate most of the site and let their political beliefs moderate subs that have nothing to do with politics.
The Lord of the Rings sub is the only place I saw that posted a definitive "no" to a banning. All other subs either jumped on board or ignored the banning.
The Lord of the Rings sub is the only place I saw that posted a definitive "no" to a banning. All other subs either jumped on board or ignored the banning.
Draugoth
Gold Member
r/games, r/gaming and r/Smashbros didnt ban them yet
Cyberpunkd
Member
Subbed
bighugeguns
Member
Shouldn't speculate, Reddit was always weird, though. The small subreddits can be cool but the big ones are dodgy.
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CoreyFlawless
Member
I was glad some of my Reddit places ignore it and kept going on
Pegasus Actual
Gold Member
The purple forum's thread on the subject includes a pledge in the title to ban Twitter there as well down the road 
It's always the same tired cancelation playbook with these people but I think normies are done with it at this point.
It's always the same tired cancelation playbook with these people but I think normies are done with it at this point.
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