Motherfuckers created a rule about how pointing out that overpopulation myths are ecofascistic lobbying is actually “bad faith” somehow so now every post, no matter what it is about, full of “this is why billions must die” bullshit.
There’s 500k subscribers btw.
Why are you concerning yourself with this?
Why are you concerned others are concerned? You like the idea of fascists hyping each other up in a 500k subscriber echochamber, is that your thing?
I would say I was curious, not concerned.
No. I’d love it if people were reasonable and rational and didn’t fall into tribal ideological traps like fascism or communism or religion but that’s not the world we live in.
lmao “tribal ideological traps”
Here’s a simple question smart guy, define fascism and communism and don’t be shy, clearly you’re an authority on such matters
“Man I just wished everyone was an enlightened centrist like me!” - that guy, probably
I don’t even know what that word means.
So why comment on politics if you don’t even understand basic political terms?
I haven’t commented on politics in this thread.
What do you think fascism and communism are?
You clearly also don’t know what communist or fascist mean either. Makes me curious if you know what any words mean
Indeed, a fascinating conundrum. Is it possible for humans to communicate?
oooh a fascinating conundrum.
Shut the fuck up nerd.
It’s possible for the rest of us, but I’m not sure you understand how it works
Do you believe overpopulation is a major contributor to climate change?
Edit: lol no answer 4 hours later I know you read this coward
Everyone, look, it’s the world’s most enlightened person who’s figured it all out! Whoa, such wisdom.
yeah OP stop concern trolling its just fascism
So you go around the web and comment on all the fascism you find? To what end?
nah i usually go around ratio-ing dumbasses
“Why are you concerned with the normalization of the notion that some people being alive is just simply over the limits?”
You’re talking about Reddit, not the New York Times.
Reddit communities with 500k subscribers, for better or for worse, can influence culture at large. Making a post to begin a discussion on the potential dangers of such a large community’s moderation policies is not an unworthy endeavor.
This doesn’t seem like such a post. Firstly, it doesn’t seem to me like beginning a discussion on a Reddit community’s moderation policies here has any worth. It might have worth if the discussion was begun in the Reddit community itself but I can’t see any worth beginning a discussion here.
Secondly, this post doesn’t seem like an effort to begin an earnest discussion about potential dangers of moderation policies at all, it seems more like a mindless “ZOMG1!!!1 LOOK AT THE FASCISTS ON REDDIT!!! WERE AMAZING AND THEIR STOOPID!!!”
holy shit you are certainly one… spectacle of a human being
no no no
are you… personally invested in this?
Lol
lol,this isn’t even the first time you’ve defended
on here, shut up nerd
Firstly, I’m not defending anyone. Secondly, I’ve no idea what you’re referring to.
You don’t remember posting this 19 hours ago, apparently.
It has been brought up multiple times there but it’s banned outright as it’s being “bad faith”.
I’m not suggesting doing that, I’m just contrasting the difference in value of discussions in the different fora.
Maybe the “value of discussion” you see here is a direct consequence of the fact that normal discussion cannot be had about the topic over there.
I don’t see any value though, that’s the point.
whats the difference
O_o
were you surprised to discover that the new york crimes echoes the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on reddit
they aren’t anything new and have been around since at least the green revolution (in their modern iteration)
No idea what you’re rambling on about.
No investigation, no right to speak.
I gotta ask, are you incapable of reading or are you unwilling to read? Because DivineChaos100 responded to you with two links to NYT articles about this issue, in this comment, which was posted before CarmineCatboy2 asked you to comment on those NYT articles. And yet, you’re here acting as though this didn’t happen. But I can read and I understand what time stamps are, so I know that you have been shown evidence that the NYT believes similar things to the r/Collapse subreddit before this comment where you pretend such a thing never happened.
So I’ll repeat CarmineCatboy2’s question to you, and maybe you’ll answer it this time: Were you surprised to discover that the new york crimes echoes the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on reddit?
You’ve missed an option here which is the option I noted: I didn’t understand CarmineCatboy2’s question.
CarmineCatboy2 didn’t ask me to comment on those NYT articles, they mentioned “new york crimes” which only now that I’ve read your comment do I realise is a play on the name “New York Times”.
I’m not acting. I didn’t understand what CarmineCatboy2 was going on about and I said as much. If I might be so bold as to offer some unsolicited advice: maybe in future just assume that when someone says they don’t understand what another is saying, they’re doing so because they don’t understand what the other is saying.
I’ll rephrase this question in order to favour clear communication:
Were you surprised to discover that the New York Times echoed the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on Reddit?
I made no such discovery, I didn’t look at the New York Times articles that were linked to. Had I discovered that, I would not be surprised.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/the-unrealized-horrors-of-population-explosion.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/15/sunday-review/overpopulated-and-underfed-countries-near-a-breaking-point.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/opinion/human-population-global-growth.html
And also we’re talking about a sub with half a million people.
In a subreddit. You consider half a million subscribers to a subreddit to be worthy of concern?
Yes, i do.
Can I ask why? Like what consequences do you envision from the existence of this community that concern you?
Do i really have to spell it out why it is bad that the idea “some people are ballast” spreading is bad?