Five gets you ten that Reddit will purge the moderators, get lackeys into the mod positions, do a content prune to get rid of NSFW-ish posts and comments, then try to bring it back as “business as usual”.

Reddit has already demonstrated that they have no problem breaking their own rules.

“We only hire ninjas, maybe rockstars”

Came to the comments looking for Chad Engels.

One reason and one only: torture is self-defeating. Torture is universally understood by people who have basic empathy as something Bad People do. (That’s why when it was revealed that the US had torture as SOP in their black sites, people would automatically say “The US does not torture” because they couldn’t square with reality and needed to repeat the lie to themselves.)

It doesn’t give reliable intelligence, and hardens the individual and anyone associated against what you are trying to communicate. Critical support for Vietnamese comrades, but using torture played into the hands of the imperialists by giving them an easy way to say “Look! They’re the bad guys!”

I’m not of the opinion that one has to “play nice” but using torture is always a bad move.

Edit: corrected a word.

Either ice pops or the name brand otter pops. Ignore what others say: blue raspberry is truth, beauty, and love.

https://www.vox.com/culture/23622610/jk-rowling-transphobic-statements-timeline-history-controversy

https://news.yahoo.com/j-k-rowlings-transphobia-controversy-102506549.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64729304

Yep. It lets you know exactly where their head is at. I love the Mark Twain quote about (to) Vanderbilt:

You seem to be the idol of only a crawling swarm of small souls, who love to glorify your most flagrant unworthiness in print or praise your vast possessions worshippingly; or sing of your unimportant private habits and sayings and doings, as if your millions gave them dignity.

That’s… that’s kind of the point.

What’s happening is that the Reddit CEO is cannibalizing the community aspect of the site in pursuit of profit, and he keeps doubling down.

Various subreddits opted to go dark.

Reddit said to the moderators of those subreddits “open back up or we’ll replace you with someone who will”

Cue mods reopening with new rules. In the overwhelming majority of the wakes I’ve seen, these rules changes were ratified by community vote.

The whole thing reminds me of the end of Little House on the Prairie. A robber Baron decided that the entire town belongs to him as he technically held the deed for the land. Rather then accept his draconian rule, the people of the town jointly and severally blew up every building in the town and went elsewhere.

The robber Baron was pissed, but couldn’t do anything about it: the land may have been his, but the town they had built was theirs.

Edit: in regards to the John Oliver pictures: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35819

Looks like Disco Elysium.

Let them fight.