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Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued To Protest

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This is correct. This article is reddit-approved propaganda. People were not shown nsfw content without their consent until reddit admins removed the subs' nsfw status and set them back to sfw. This article also doesn't account for the fact that subs' own users voted to change the content of the subs, and then reddit claimed that subs must remain open and available to the users who have formed communities on them. The communities decided they wanted a different type of community, and reddit said no.

I wish people would stop working for free for this multi-billion dollar corporation so they'd actually have to pay for moderation and not get to profit off of the free labor of its users.

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Stop using Fandom

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And then you learn about Fextra's embedded twitch player that artificially inflates their twitch view count and pushes out smaller content creators who are actually trying to engage with a game's audience.

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Yeah, about that...

Basically self-diagnosed at 35 due to this. Therapist backed it up and agreed, but there isn't really anything anyone is going to do with a 35 year old other than maybe give you some anti-anxiety medicine occasionally after hassling you about it.

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Marcus Flowers ran against her in 2022, and really had two things working against him in Georgia - he's black and a Democrat. He's a veteran, smart, committed to doing the right thing, ran a clean campaign on policy, and worked hard. Meanwhile, she trolled, filmed videos of herself wasting time at his campaign office while he worked, etc, etc, etc. And all of that happened while she was removed from all of her committee assignments which meant that she couldn't even do anything to support her district for 90% of her first term.

They gerrymandered her district as much as they could by reaching down to Cobb County suburbs to pull as much away from Atlanta as they could afford to, and Marcus lost by a lot. I'm not entirely sure we're not stuck with her for a very long time, unless she loses a primary, which I don't see happening with the Republicans in their current state.

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More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble

We all know this. We are all powerless to change it. Corporations and governments control whether or not it can be changed. Politicians worldwide are being fed by the pollution industry. The poors voting changes nothing until the corporations and politicians decide to do something about it.

Walkable cities? Great idea. Needs politicians to approve zoning restrictions. Don't drive cars? Great idea. Needs politicians to build public transportation infrastructure. Electric cars? Great idea. Needs corporations to produce them at an affordable cost. Etc etc etc.

There will never be a day when 10 billion people in the world get on the same page to demand the end of anything. We can't even get a tenth of that many to agree to stop killing each other over border squabbles.

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Abortion clinics saw record surge in out-of-state patients post-Roe, report says

Abortion bans don't stop abortions. People with the means will travel out of state. People without the means to travel will obtain abortions by whatever means necessary. Women will die.

There were reasons why Roe was decided the way it was. Some people have forgotten history or never learned it. Women they know and women they love will die. They will remember, they will learn. It will be too late.

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Bemoaning Ohio results, Santorum says ‘pure democracies’ aren’t how to run a country

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It's also the reason they always say "We're a republic, not a democracy," despite the fact that a republic is a type of democracy. They abuse language to justify the fact that they don't want everyone to vote, only the people who vote for them. They also don't govern for all of their constituents, only those that contribute to their power. It's definitely not new.

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George Takei's Based Voting Take [Rule}

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Bernie Sanders was the best-positioned potential third party candidate in probably the last 50-100 years. Why, then, didn't Bernie run as a third party candidate? Because it's not a viable strategy in the FPTP way we run elections here. He knew that it would be the worst option.

There isn't a viable "other way".