Yeah. I meant pointless in the sense of “we as the reddit community want to change the companies business strategy shortly before an IPO”.
You being brought here (same as me) through the backlash-posts is great. But unless certain highly frequented subs go dark PERMANENTLY I dont see much that could sway the reddit leadership towards a more community friendly approach.
They took my RiF. The CEO seems like an absolute bastard. It got more and more toxic over the years. I can take some abuse but this was a bit too much. If it continues to be popular I’ll use it for information gathering just like always, but they wont get any content, interaction or ad revenue from me.
This blackout thing, while surely sending a message, will be pointless in the end imo. The bosses have decided how they want to proceed and that’s that.
on it my good sir!
Same boat. It’s kind of amazing, you can literally watch the userbase grow with popular entries getting more and more general upvotes.
short answer: yes
Honestly I didnt expect much else. The AMA announcement alone was downvoted to hell.
Why he even did it, knowing already that he wont change his mind, is a question for smarter minds than me. There was nothing to gain as far as I can see.
Doubling down on defaming the apollo creator was just the cherry on top.
What a piece of human garbage. I really wish them (reddit) to fail hard at this point.
The most pathetic performance of an AMA in the history of AMAs. Maybe ever.
In all seriousness: I am trying. Hard to break the habit of lurking. But on the other hand I’ll often upvote something, so thats engagement right there :-)
edit: also since someone said “less memes” - I’d recommend you this watch on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If you want me to comment, there will be SOME memes. Heck, look at OP’s handle, how did you expect me NOT to do it? :O
You say a lot of sad truths there.
Of course it is not Trumps responsibility that our planet goes to shit. That people get more alienated from each other in general. That hate and fear spread like wildfires while empathy and humanity is in short supply.
But what IS Trumps accomplishment is that he is responsible for giving all those hateful, ignorant people a voice. He normalized saying shit that you’d only dared to share in the company of a few close friends in the past. He normalized the complete lack of empathy towards adversaries. He normalized acting like a complete moron against all evidence. He normalized distrust in science. He normalized abusing a political responsibility for selfpromotion. … I could go on.
But what is really grinding my gears behind that context is, that he normalized all that shit not only in the US, but basically worldwide due to the insane reach he had as US president. Parties in my home country are beginning to do exactly the same shit, not on full-removed level yet but we will get there.
/rant sorry
Beautifully said!
But what is the solution on the political front then? Is it to get new blood in while forcing the “old garde” out? How do you do that through brigades of lobbyists that prevent according laws from even existing? From the outside, the whole system seems pretty fucked.
You have two parties. Both are basically center right, one a bit more right than center maybe ( R ). The whole county is “gerrymandered” to the point where the actual voices of the citizens dont seem to matter anymore because some individuals decide for thousands.
While it would certainly be possible to run as an independent 3rd party, the cost of that would be prohibitively high because of the established apparatus the two main parties already have.
The leaders and high functioneers of the two main parties do their damndest to stay there because power is power and wealth is wealth.
Then there is a gigantic lobbying industry, so buying votes seems not only tolerated, but even encouraged. (sidenote: how the fuck did that even happen? not only in America ofc.)
And then there is the media. I do believe free speech is a good thing. But I honestly believe that what eg. Fox News is allowed to send is more like “incitement of the people” than “information”. And I know they get away with it due to calling it “entertainment”. Well, a good third of the country is certainly “entertained” to the point of starting revolts.
To me it seems, the only way would be to get in good (as in, ethically) new blood at the local level, feed and groom them, then rise to regional, then national level. While simultaneously waiting for all of the old garde to die. LoL.
I bet I missed a thousand things but that seems to be the gist of it to me. What are your all opinions?
*edited with paragraphs for readability and fixed the minor mistakes
undefined> setting the precedent that a former president can be charged is still important
absolutely. It is already a win, but I believe the US really need the BIG win which would be to actually sentence him for the serious crimes he commited. Literally every other US citizen would be a prisoner long since for doing a microscopic part of what Trump did. The damage that one person did in 4 years, and not just locally in America but also internationally, is sheer unbelievable.
Honestly, with all the shit this disgusting wannabe dictator has already gotten away with, I’ll hold on to celebrations until there is some kind of definitive verdict.
And dont get me started on the sentence even IF they convict him for something. He’s old, he’s rich, he probably still has some buddies in higher places - I’d be absolutely surprised if he would go to a genpop prison. - Even though thats exactly what he would deserve the most.
Most definetly. Could also be a technical necessity if they got spammed hard (as they should).