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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by shakezula on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:45PM (#23680041)
ChapoTrapHouse has been laughing for months about their incoming ban, though. They knew it was coming and they've been preparing for it by migrating to other subs, moving to Discord, etc... T_D users are probably doing the exact same.
Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by SauciestGNU on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:24PM (#23680605)
I posted on cth periodically and while I think it was banned largely so the admins could claim "balance" I don't care at all. Nothing serious happened there, the daily chat threads were fun, but it was clearly eventually going to be banned and I knew that and didn't get invested.
Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by pmiller2 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:57AM (#23688427)
+1 to this. Chapo wasn't bad at all, in terms of breaking actual rules. I saw people on the announcement thread claiming it was full of tankies, and that was reason enough to ban it, but it really wasn't. You wouldn't get very far on Chapo by unironically talking about what a great man Stalin or Mao was -- though, guillotine jokes, including applying them to the necks of landlords, would certainly get you upvotes.

I never saw any actual brigading on the sub itself. Others talk about "organizing brigades through Twitter," and I think it's kind of BS to punish people for that. Reddit doesn't get to police Twitter, and vice versa.

Never saw any actual advocacy of violence against any specific person, either. Sure, there were "kill the landlords" type jokes and memes, but the closest I think I ever saw it get to actual incitement of violence was stuff like "Kissinger needs to fucking die already," or "I would prefer that Trump exit the White House feet first, in a box." You can call that whatever you like, but it's certainly not advocating violence against anyone.

Meanwhile, there's literally a Stalin meme on the front page of r/fullcommunism that says "death to capitalism." Then, there's r/latestagecapitalism, which is a toxic shithole of a sub where you literally can't say "that idea is crazy and will never work because $REASONS," because they have a blacklist of words that are "slurs" of one sort of another that they don't publish, and which will get your post removed if you try and use them.

Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by SauciestGNU on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:02PM (#23692176)
/r/fullcommunism is also quarantined though. I'm honestly a little surprised it didn't get banned in this wave. And late stage capitalism has had a bunch of mod coups and stuff over the years that have negatively affected the quality of the sub.
Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by fernandotakai on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:50PM (#23680117)
the donald users are already on a another site (which i won't link because i do not remember the url lol) and have been for a while now.
Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by ComputerGuru on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:49PM (#23684361)
For posterity’s sake, I believe the commenter is referring to thedonald.win, which I’m purposely leaving un-linkified.
Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by SmokeyHamster on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:22PM (#23684032)
Oh yeah. They began advertising thedonald.win last year.