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Can we talk about the irony of a fed banning a 'tankie' for asking they implement democratic measures for there userbase lmao

Reddits antiwork has at least one openly fed mod

Caledric — Today at 7:05 PM Did you miss the part where I said I was fucking part of the US Intelligence network and had first hand knowledge of how they were using the platform, and their plans on how to manipulate people with it? You are exactly the type of apologist that they were seeking to create. Someone who will blindly defend them with whataboutisms and turn a very specific issue into a wide general issue.

New Navy Seal copypasta

Just so everyone here knows. If Teia Rabishu is removed as topmod the subreddit will fall back into leftist control. They are the sole barrier to completely fixing that subreddit.

I won't explain why I know this information or how it would be fixed but it would be quite drastic.

Just in case anyone here has the skillset to make that happen.

@chill-left My argument is that it's got nothing to do with the state actually. If your argument is to ban TikTok because the Chinese may have access to information or make the algorithms favor them or something you also need to ban every American social media site including youtube and reddit.

Teia Rabishu — Today at 5:32 PM This is the standard tankie argument and it's designed to ensure that nothing gets done, rather than operating in good faith.

chill-left — Today at 5:32 PM Dude you say everything you don't like is tankie.

Fucking taaaaannnkkkiiieeessa!!!

@chill-left What's the deal with the "china is a hostile foreign government" thing? Hostile to who exactly? Do we seriously think China is a threat to American people in any way? They're not even a threat to the US ruling class let alone average citizens.

Teia Rabishu — Today at 5:28 PM Yes, we do think they're a threat to the average citizens. Believing that they have the people's interests in mind is as foolish as believing the USSR had the people's interests in mind.

Nerds the and are a threat to the average amerikkkan

Honestly the reason I'm against allowing Tik-Tok and Rednote posts on the sub is because China is well known to be one of the absolute worst countries as far as worker treatment and worker's rights go. Also banning tik tok and rednote does not hurt the chinese workers in the slighest. A) Chinese workers have no access to Tik Tok, it is the international version of Rednote owned and used by the Chinese government to push out propaganda to the world as well as gather information. Rednote does the same thing just internally. Both are completely state run and used as a tool to suppress Chinese workers from getting information outside of what the government wants them to know.

everyone in rednote is a spy send by xi jinping guys

this dude basically says he’s been unemployed for years but somehow has “firsthand knowledge” that china is using tiktok to brainwash “sympathizers”

in other words he has a porn addiction from not working and wants to blame china

i wonder if someone could basically take marxist theory and change the terminology around and have people actually get into it. I read this article that I think was from antiwork earlier and the author basically reinvented the idea of surplus value but called it something like "privatization of progress". They're reaching for it but man their brains are so fucking broken from years of anticommunist education and cold war and anti-china propaganda.

Military and its contractors like to feel cooler than they actually are. This guy bragging about being part of the intelligence community is not that different than wearing tacticool gear and pretending you’re John Wick.

I believe this guy was part of (un)intelligence work, but I don’t believe he’s as cool as he wants to appear. Just a random marine who was made to shitpost on forums for four years before he got out, propagandized the whole time about how scary China is.

is this information being posted anywhere that antiwork users can see it?

Can't say I'm surprised. Reddit in its entirety is an op

Just one? Could’ve sworn it was more.

Merari01 — Today at 6:02 PM My worry atm is that we will not live this down, same as we haven't lived down "dogwalker" and will in perpetua be confronted with leftwing reddit seeing us as an enemy. Unless we publicly say "we made a small error and based on feedback we're reversing this decision" (edited)

I forgot about the dogwalker! This person is right though, they will be viewed as the enemy.

Yeah they're not going to be avoiding the dog walker allegations anytime soon lmao

i got to the part where the mod started unironically quoting 1984 newspeak and then had to dip before i pulled a muscle from cringing

This means that feds know the word “tankie” and use it lol

I joined the anti work discord a few years ago and left almost immediately because I was convinced they were a fed op. Granted I dont recognize these people so I can't say that these are the same mods I was arguing with, and my other comrades discouraged me from taking that view so I just dropped it. That was a few years ago and I'm a bit more even keeled in my interactions these days. I can't say for sure if I was right but the vibes were terrible. So like, I'm not sure if this qualifies either, but I'm not nor would i be surprised.

Although saying that a reddit sub is infiltrated by feds is like saying a 5 year old's birthday party is infiltrated by kindergarteners. Its like, wtf did you expect?

If they hate algospeak, they should ban youtube too.

(algospeak is using weird puns and euphamisms to get around word filters)

ZiggoCiP - he/him GMT-5 — Today at 3:46 PM That's what I thought. [3:48 PM] They have an assortment of their own native (stolen from western ones of course) versions of said platforms if I'm not mistaken. Certainly would be easier to influence westerners if they got on said platforms. Like Cal pointed out, Tiktok as we see it isn't what it is in China.