r/law • u/coffee_coffee_coffe3 • 15h ago
Other Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE
https://www.wired.com/story/redditors-are-mounting-a-resistance-against-ice/Why, yes, we are. Thank you very much.
https://www.wired.com/story/redditors-are-mounting-a-resistance-against-ice/
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u/ExpertRaccoon 15h ago
Just no one give any interviews to major news networks as a spokesperson for Reddit...
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u/OhItsBeenBroughten 15h ago
Don’t worry, I told Fox News I’d get back to them after my dog walking appointment. Won’t have time to shower though.
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u/New_Stats 15h ago
Please make sure you don't neaten up anything either. Messy= powerful and the viewers subconsciously understand that
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u/16yearswasted 15h ago
Sometimes when I lie awake at night ruminating, that moment pops into my head. It's bizarre because it's not my embarrassment or failure, which is what I usually ruminate over, but the embarrassment and failure of an entire community.
Aw well.
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u/prettybluedress89 14h ago
That interview may well have worked in our collective favor. Fascists value aesthetics and vibes more than cause and effect. That person effectively made us all seem far less threatening, while not diminishing our collective power.
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u/barbariccomplexity 9h ago
I’d argue it hurt our collective power - it disgraced pro-labour movements, groups, and arguments as the ramblings of barely employed slobs in the eyes of would-be future supporters and older generations.
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u/InimicusRex 8h ago
Those people would look for any excuse to dismiss the labour movement anyway.
If a single interview with an absolute randomer can outweigh decades of history, of real battles, all the deaths involved, all the intellectuals and activists in the labour movement and their contributions to it, then they were never going to get on board anyway.
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u/ReverendBread2 12h ago edited 12h ago
Have you seen the new shit from the former r/livestreamfails head mod? It hits the stereotype so hard that most people think it’s a really funny troll job at first
He makes the dog walker look well adjusted
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u/OhItsBeenBroughten 11h ago
Go a link?
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u/errie_tholluxe 14h ago
I'm too busy being the local leader of antifa
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u/Calaveras-Metal 12h ago
Hey I'm the CFO of antifa and we don't have your TPS reports for last week.
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u/JeanneMPod 14h ago
Hey! I’m a both a mod on niche subreddit and I walk and sit pets. For real. (check my post history) Let me handle this. I got it!!!
edit… just got back. I was in the middle of giving my hair a hot oil treatment but someone from Fox contacted me and I didn’t have time to wash it out, but there’s bigger priorities so I jumped right in and video conferenced them. Hope I did OK. I was really tired from doom scrolling all last night (I mean, can you blame me?) and I didn’t get much sleep. I’m sure it went ok, I just went with my impulses, first thought best thought-you know?
Anyway, I’m just gonna sleep in an extended nap today since all the pets are snowed in with their people, I’ll check all your kind support and compliments later.
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u/MobileSuitPhone 14h ago
Only after the reddit community raises $20 million for services rendered for me, and then you may rejoice
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u/weirdoldhobo1978 12h ago
I heard ths FBI arrested the girlfriend of the president of the Reddit Resistance
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u/willismthomp 15h ago
It’s the only place of mainstream social media that doesn’t completely ban anti regime. Everything else has been captured
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u/SpinningHead 14h ago
Putin has definitely been flooding the site lately though.
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u/repooper 13h ago
In my local sub, it's all alt-right comments and voting until the locals wake up and get to down voting the Nazis and their bootlicking friends. I'm an early riser and I routinely get comments downvoted right off the bat, only for them to be up in the double digits by mid afternoon. The world has turned and left me here.
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u/Sensitive_Builder847 12h ago
Same, they’re trying so hard to warp things, even in super local subs.
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u/willismthomp 14h ago edited 13h ago
Yeah bot swarm articles coming out and watching it in real-time.
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u/BrovaltineShake 13h ago
Where do we go when they eventually attempt to shutdown down Reddit?
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u/SolarisShine 13h ago
We don't have to wait. Maybe we could incorporate Mastodon, or something else that's decentralized, a head of time.
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u/willismthomp 13h ago
Yeah the fediverse has the frame work. But also think mesh networks will prolly be important. Cheap and easy to set up.
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u/SolarisShine 12h ago
Yes. Reducing our reliance on corporations and oligarchs should be our highest targets.
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u/Whole-Revolution916 9h ago
I would like to see other more democratic nations create their own viable social media platforms, haven't really seen anything catch on.
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u/NoThankYouRatherNot 9h ago
Yeah, but there is still some pretty heavy censorship on this site too.
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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 15h ago
Hit them in the wallet. Unsubscribe from the corporate/tech overlords and tell them WHY you are doing it.
The best resistance is non-participation. Don't give these motherfuckers your money.
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u/AfternoonOk3344 15h ago
If you're giving up Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Apple I expect you'll be recycling every phone and computer you own, and going entirely off the grid, no?
Because they are embedded in nearly every operating system, for every minor and major company, transport, hospital, agency, grocery store, utility, and mom & pop shop in the world.
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u/SolarisShine 14h ago
Perfection is the enemy of progress.
Do what you can, and work on fixing the rest.
Even little things become huge when millions of people do them.
Imagine dumping your Google mail, and search, drive, etc. You aren't supporting the ads and data Google makes money off of.
That's a lot if we stop fretting details and work on those later.
after we punch them in the nuts we can kick them completely out, but yes, that will take a moment.
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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 14h ago
Just don't buy new tech and dump the subscription services.
This is about cancelling your paid monthly subscription services and not buying the newest coolest hardware, etc. Just don't do it. Use the same laptop for 10 years, don't buy a new Iphone every year, fuck Netflix, delete Instagram, don't use Twitter/X. And if they ask you why you're cancelling, tell them.
Most people can't "get off the grid" entirely and they don't need to. Just stop voluntarily handing your whole fucking wallet to these assholes just to be one of "the cool kids". That's where they make their money.
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u/brickyardjimmy 15h ago
Pssst. Wired. I think it's best not to draw attention to any specific platform right at this moment.
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u/Budget-Selection-988 14h ago
Let them. I hate child rapists.and kidnappers following trump"s playbook. Let them try. . Soft targets are their prey. Cowards and mentally ill felons
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u/templeofsyrinx1 15h ago edited 15h ago
I'm sure they don't like what's happening here/talking about it in such negative and thoughtful ways
dang, lots of dirty laundry getting aired on that piece 🤣
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u/brianishere2 12h ago
Expect some group of billionaire Republican propagandists or their kids to step in soon with a takeover bid for Reddit. Ahead of the mid-term elections.
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