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[–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hard disagree. I started picking up bans in formerly mildly left subs like therightcantmeme, more left leaning subs like completeanarchy, and the place was suddenly full of insidious left-passing communities like ultraleft over night. What were once spaces that banned no one, embraced many different leftist schools, and prided themselves on thinking for themselves now banned leftists who broke rank and file and instead offered the correct opinions on any host of issues the second one asked. To put another way, there was an influx of posts like, "im new, whats the [insert leftist branch here] thought on [insert modern political issue here]?" There was a time when these posts were not only hardly existent, but such asks would be met with, "go and read up on theory and see what u like, dont ask for ur thoughts to be spoon fed to u."

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess I was just referring to the larger subs on reddit like politics, news, and worldnews. I'm not part of any smaller political subs.

[–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ahh understood. I remember worldnews turning into, "and heres why the IDF is holy and Gaza should be leveled," which, while batshit as well, is the opposite of what the tankies are saying.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The big subs really ramped it up when it came to Israel. Worldnews would have whole threads with 600 comments all saying [removed]. Prior to that it was much more subtle.

[–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

Lol i remember all that in worldnews, but the other big subs i remember being much more sane in that regard. Politics and news i remember acknowledging that its a fucking genocide