What a terrible take on this. Did Reddit make this post? This is essentially erasure of knowledge searchable by anyone. Does anyone looking for the answer also not deserve it any different?
If that user in the least somehow exported their comments so they are available somewhere else, fine. But thats quite unlikely.
Now if Reddit starts to restrict access to comments like Twitter/X did for their content, agreed, fuck 'em.
That’s not the point… it was eight there… right there, no need to dig deeper… and it wasn’t like a 30GB bluray rip went missing, it was just a few lines of text, a few very valuable lines of text… but no, some people thought it’s more imoortant to protest than the freedom of information 😒… info that they once shared BTW, no one forced them to do it, but no, some of the protesters thought it was a good idea yo delete all of the content and their accounts… please explain how this is a good idea.
I deleted 14 years of reddit comments and submissions. Years. That’s a huge investment of time and energy. When reddit made it crystal clear that they see users as a replaceable commodity that they can use and abuse with impunity many of us decided to call them on it. Note how I did not say “call their bluff”, neither they nor us were bluffing. Now because reddit made poor choices we’ve got people such as yourself blaming us for not putting up with abuse from a narcissistic asshole named Steve Huffman. Well I’m here to tell you that if you can’t understand what happened or don’t care then you can go to hell too. When I got that data I linked to set up I was going to come back and give you what you’re looking for but now you can have this instead: 🖕 Do it your goddamn self.
Well here’s the thing. Mr. Huffman, Reddit CEO, thinks that he and his board of executives owns the content in the screenshot and all other posts on Reddit. He’s even gone out of his way to let it be known that this belongs to him, and it’s his to profit from any way he damn well pleases.
Why the hell should the guy who deleted his comment give away his hard earned knowledge to benefit Steve, who clearly has shown he thinks the rest of us are just ants in his anthill of capitalistic endeavors.
Dude you want the Reddit protests to work but also that they don’t affect anyone? That’s literally the opposite of a protest. The important thing for a protest is to show how much someone depends on something to level the playing field for negotiations.
These are the exact things that make the protest effective. You admitted it yourself: because of this action, you had to find your information somewhere else. Isn’t that the point of the protest? Driving people away from Reddit to show the admins how critical their userbase is to their success?
I mean I get why you’re mad, but if you are pissed at spez and where Reddit is heading too, this is the wrong thing to be mad about.
Rather be mad the Reddit holds such a monopoly on this kind of knowledge that you can’t find it almost anywhere else.
Not affect anyone, it will affect search engines… but, not much nore than that.
And the protests proved inaffective, as I initially thought and said to many, just move, no need to protest, just leave for Lemmy and leave your accounts. That was all that was needed and no protest in the world is gonna beat reddit or the admins that will just overried your NSFW settings. Leaving the platform says way more than protesting this or that.
And no, if the point of the protest was to just delete all info from reddit, then I would’ve never been behind that protest. The delete everything idea was promoted by some extreme protesters and unfortunatelly, some users went allong with that.
One of the points of the protest was to drive down engagement to the reddit website entirely. You searched for a problem, found that reddit no longer has the answers, and posted about your frustrations on lemmy, a direct competitor to reddit, driving up engagement on lemmy instead.
I’m pretty sure the protest is working just as intended, even after it “ended”.
I’m really sorry about your problem though. I wish I had the expertise to help, but I don’t.
I don’t care about that. I care about the fact that American soldiers committed fewer murders with Trump as president compared to GWB or Obama as president.
“The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families,” Trump said.
The Trump administration’s quiet decision this week to roll back part of an Obama-era transparency rule that mandated reporting of civilian casualties from airstrikes has renewed the stark debate over who dies, and how, in U.S. military action abroad.
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Well its pretty convenient to state that your guy didnt kill anyone if he orders the military and government to stop keeping count, now doesn’t it?
Thats like saying you arent broke because you refuse to look at your bank account and see those overdraft notices.
Your government. I don’t care about that. I care about the fact that for a brief period of 4 years American soldiers committed fewer murders around the world.
Trump assassinated an Iranian general, who was largely responsible for the downfall of ISIS. This almost started a war, but for the fact that Iran shot down their own airliner.
You have a source for Trump killing fewer people around the world? Because from what I’ve seen, he killed more. The U.N. says that he killed more people in the middle easy than Obama and ordered more airstrikes.
He wanted to bomb shithole countries and kill terrorists’families but was too inept to know how to actually get it through congress. Painting him like a dove of peace is a weird way to interpret how shit played out
That’s just objectively wrong, but go ahead with the disinformation.
If we consider the Koran War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq War, Trump joins Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower in not having officially brought the United States into a new war since 1945. - <a href="">Link</a>reuters.com/…/uk-factcheck-modern-us-presidents-n…
Yeah it’s actually insane that the dude is accusing someone else of spreading misinformation and he’s covering up Syria and Libya. Lmao and people say this community is unbiased…
Fwiw, all he said was that Trump was the first president in his lifetime to not start a new war. If he was born in 2016 or after, this would be correct by default. And judging by the quality of their comment, I wouldn’t put it past them
Obama involved us in Syria and supported the Saudis bombing Yemen.
Clinton got involved in the Balkans.
Reagan funded rebel groups in South America.
Carter… Actually idk anything this far back.
You should listen to Noam Chomsky. He’s very very liberal and has some good criticisms of the US involvement overseas. I don’t agree with everything he says but it’s worth listening to.
Our involvement in Syria was to annihilate ISIS, and was the largest post-WW2 coalition allied against a common enemy. Comsidering that they were about to genocide millions of people amd conquer half the middle east, ill give obama a pass. It would have beat watching LA amd London being actually nuked by terrorists.
“They are trying to prevent any comeback by the Islamic State group, which swept through Iraq and Syria in 2014, taking control of large swaths of territory.”
Unless the person you replied to is almost 70 years old, Eisenhower wasn’t president during their lifetime. They’d have to be over 50 for Nixon to have been, 60 for kennedy, 45 for Ford, 42 for Carter.
Reagan, Clinton, and Obama are probably the only ones applicable from your list, and “starting new wars” can be applied to a few of them in terms of the USA becoming infolved, as others have mentioned.
Because much of US politics at the moment is wedge issues. The leadership of both parties agree that Israel has the right to exist, but there’s a split there too. Democrats have started calling out Israel’s excesses with settlers in the West Bank and extremist right wing politics. Meanwhile, Republicans have allied themselves to extremist right wing authoritarian Israel politicians.
Imagine using phones. Fucking cringe. Back then, we did actual cool things like randomly getting drafted and shipped to Vietnam. Kids these days… SMH my head
Do you remember when you walk there’s punji sticks everywhere? And also do you remember when you were singing while taking a piss under the trees it suddenly became a duo? Such a fun time
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