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“A police spokesperson said Friday that investigators believe they have arrested everyone who is involved and are not looking into Soldiers of Christ any further.”

Not sure which prewritten response to choose from… Do I make a joke about how if we defund the police, there won’t be any police around to decline to investigate possible human trafficking rings? Or do I make one about QAnon ignoring yet another case of human trafficking coming from there own bizarre christofascist orbit?

We had sustained national protests for months just a few years ago. The problem isn’t that we’re placid, but that the barriers we face to organizing mass movements are close to insurmountable and there’s no available and responsive avenue to successfully lobby for change in our so-called democracy.

It’s the state and all of its carceral powers against a politically uneducated population that’s one arrest away from getting fired and then one missed paycheck away from homelessness, or one injury at the hands of a too-excited cop away from medical bankruptcy.

Friendly reminder that we imprison people at the same rate as the USSR did at the height of the Gulag system. Behind all the euphemisms, we’re living under the boot of a grotesque police state.

Just expropriate vacant houses and Airbnbs. It’s not hard.

Americans are so propogandized, you can offer a conservative free endless clean energy from the actual, already-existing sun and they’ll say no. It’s embarrassingly pathetic.

Add another to the ‘not a drag queen’ list.

The Peter principle in action.

Minor tangent, but why are so many comments guilded on that post? Hopefully they all came from free coins…

I don’t know why, but I’m still in shock it actually happened. RIF is the only way I’ve ever used Reddit. Spez is burning down one of the best and most informative communities just to up his future net worth a few percentage points. It’s disgusting.

Agreed but for the opposite reason lol. Whenever I see UnpopularOpinions on All it’s always very popular opinions being upvoted.

Pretty much all of the ironic “oh we’re just pretending to be bad people lololol” ironic circlejerk subreddits. Best case scenario, they eventually attract people that don’t recognize it’s ironic, worst case the mask just falls off. PCM is probably the worst of the bunch. Writing fake tweets to mischaracterize political opinions you don’t like is just such a bizarre hobby.

What the hell. Being spied on by the state because a family member is accused of a crime? The powers of the carceral state are terrifying.

On a lighter note, this seems like a good time for some malicious compliance. Stream legal fetish porn and gore 24/7 on all your devices.

I assume it’s just a biased sample size? The people left on Reddit are the people that don’t support the blackout. The people that do care are here instead.

TIE Fighter! It’s the reason I really got into gaming, PC gaming specifically. Mario on NES and such were fun, but TIE Fighter was the first game I’d spend all day at school thinking about and then spend all afternoon and all weekend playing. It’s on Steam and GOG and has aged really well.

Kudos to Sid Meier’s Gettysburg, too.

This is honestly the only major issue I have with the Fediverse. Most of my Reddit/social media posts are related to three or so niche interests. My first Mastodon account was on the central hub for one interest that later defederated with the central hub for another interest. Not being able to interact with 1/3rd of the people I want to interact with just defeats the whole point of joining these kinds of platforms. Moderators just carving out a chunk of the Fediverse for their users is just unacceptable.

I have a Pixel 4a 5G mostly just because of the 3.5mm jack. I honestly don’t know what I’ll replace it with when it dies. I’m not exactly an audiophile, but I have too many headphones that I love. Ugh.

I think a lot of (Americans, at least) have poorly understood ideas about what protesting is and how it’s supposed to work–in no small part, I think, due to the sanitized way we’re taught about things like the Civil Rights movement. The idea that a simple show of solidarity with an announced end date would, I guess, guilt trip(?) Spez into doing the right thing was always an absurd idea, divorced from reality, and only slightly better than doing nothing at all. There’s been headlines all day about Spez’s comments about waiting for the blackout to blow over, but that’s pretty explicitly what the people behind the blackout said would happen.

Admittedly, prolonged blackouts will probably just lead to the offending moderators being replaced with new, compliant mods, but that’s still the preferable outcome. It at least leverages the unpaid but not unskilled labor moderators currently put into Reddit into something vaguely tangible–the effective and smooth running of otherwise unwieldy subreddits. Large-scale subreddits that can only function with expansive moderator tools, automod, etc. will potentially suffer noticeably when being operated by new scab mods. That decreased user experience would actually be potentially effective.

It’s also why federation is important. Maybe I’m just old and miss the web 1.0 days, but the current social media landscape is a cancer of enshittification. Kevin Rose killed Digg, Mark Zuckerberg killed Facebook (and Instagram), and Spez is killing Reddit. We need a decentralized internet, even if it’s intuitive at first.