Actually this thread in general is a pretty interesting one, people really calling the sub on their BS
Holy fuck every single comment has at least one fucking annoying automod response under it.
Is this what they think is funny say leftist and get an automatic message telling them leftists are morally bankrupt?
Do they realize they have the same politics as a small child with a sit and spin?
They’re trying to use automod the same way left subs do to promote a party line. They don’t like the word leftist, the subreddit itself is pulled leftwards of the “neoliberal” politics (thatcherism/reaganism) its team wishes to promote.
the subreddit itself is pulled leftwards of the “neoliberal” politics (thatcherism/reaganism) its team wishes to promote.
a not insignificant fraction of /r/neoliberal posters feel like keynesians/social democrats using liberal rhetoric.
Yes definitely. The modteam have coasted on the “liberal” confusion and aim to suck in softer libs then pull them right. It’s the same as we do with building pipelines and catching spaces, except they’re shit at it and don’t do nearly enough purging or party line pushing. A problem they have of course is that reality does not conform to the party line they would want to push, so they would open themselves to criticism and ridicule by pushing it followed by having to do mass purges.
Reality does conform to what we push, we typically have to purge for the most inane anticommunist genocide gorillionzillion people reactionary shit ever, which is obviously quite a different problem. Generally we do a very good job of education because we have nothing to fear in doing it.
TBF the Deprogram sub also has that. So less a political ideology thing and more a “literal children trying to discuss politics” thing
The Deprogram ones I kinda get, the idea is if a lib wanders in the bots slam them with info dumps that are mean to dismiss their tired ass talking points. It gets annoying when we have to type out the same 6 or 7 responses to the same 6 or 7 easily debunkable Lib arguments, sometimes I almost wish HexBear had that feature. They’re actual counter arguments not just quippy responses like the neolib ones.
Issue is they get triggered too damn easily and end up clogging up the comments. I feel like it would be better if only Mods could deploy them and did so only once or twice per thread. Or maybe that wouldn’t work either and we’re just better off without it then.
If they aren’t constantly told that they are morally superior to all others, they start to question why everything is rotting away under neoliberalism.
