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The obsession with "brigading" was one of the worst parts of Reddit (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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And we shouldn't allow this concept to go unchallenged here on Lemmy.

Commenting on an active post is not brigading

Posting a link to something is not brigading

Commenting on something you were linked to is not brigading

The only thing that might be brigading, but isn't because it isn't a real thing, is someone explicitly going, "Hey everyone, go here and harass this person"

It's all fine and good that we have some new rules to keep the peace with other instances but we must fight against reddit-logo brainworms

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

Even the reddit admins themselves tried to back away from this. They eventually realised that people sharing links to reddit posts is not a bad thing, and wanted more of it.

The only reason they continued to crack down on it is that there is a historical cultural legacy that was incorrectly fostered around it on the site.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

Also because of things like r/cth posing a problem to them

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it's like drugs. Everyone uses them, but if you keep them nominally illegal you can target enforcement against communities you want to destroy.

I'm sure all my BearBuddies (just threw up in my mouth) know this banger, but for all my FederatedFriends dropping in, this was actually the rationale behind the War on Drugs:

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

That last section is one of many reasons we fly the amerikkka flag here.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

“The 1994 alleged ‘quote’ we saw repeated in social media for the first time today does not square with what we know of our father. And collectively, that spans over 185 years of time with him,” the Ehrlichman family wrote. “We do not subscribe to the alleged racist point of view that this writer now implies 22 years following the so-called interview of John and 16 years following our father’s death, when dad can no longer respond. None of us have raised our kids that way, and that’s because we were not raised that way.”

Doofuses. It'd be racism if he actually believed it. The quote pretty specifically says he knew it was bullshit and did it for political reasons.