This thread appearing on lemmy.world is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
748 points (99.2% liked)
News
23627 readers
2432 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Fuck Reddit. Astroturfed garbage filled with literal and metaphorical bots
Fuck Reddit.
Classic Reddit: "Reddit is meant to be a bastion of free speech"
2024 Reddit: "All hail corporate! Click on more ads!"
classic reddit wasn't even about any type of speech(in the comments), it was a news aggregator site. Once it became "social media" it went off the fucking rails.
Is Spez a CEO now?
Spez is a cunt
They're afraid.
Good.
“Longstanding”
Which longstanding? Reddit for the longest time had links to all kinds of gore and violence, and still did when I last happened across some before I left. “Longstanding” must mean “since we decided to enforce an interpretation of it when we wanted to go public.”
Longstanding means since Reddit went public (or since Reddit started gearing up to go public)
Reddit has become a place where you have to fear saying anything. Bots are permabanning people from subs for dark humor and obvious hyperbole. The internet used to be a place you could go where people understood that mode of speech and didn't suspect everybody of being a homicidal maniac.
Reddit is performing propaganda for the US government (who represents the owner/wealthy class), just like most other social media or news sites.
"The shareholders demanded we lie to keep advertisers"
Spaz is worried that people give enough of a shit about him to target him. No one cares about Spez. He runs an internet forum. He has weird dystopian power fantasies where he owns slaves. The dude is a joke.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
Fuck Steve Huffman
No he isn't.
Let's not act like bunch of idiots. It's all about money. If advertisers see posts they don't like, do you think they want to see their brand next to a post about Luigi?
WE CANNOT BE THIS STUPID. It's how they win. You might be making that comment as a gag or joke, but many clearly aren't reading it as such. The answer is ALWAYS money.
You are correct, but the rest of their comment is sadly true.
Is it posted on Lemmy?
Yes, but I've only seen the transcript, not the original.
And I’ve seen a lot of fakes.
“To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but has our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”
Wow. All he was missing at the end was, "I keep it real!"
I've seen it many times here.
view more: next ›