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      Youtube nazis are actual people, reddit’s just fascist astroturf. Youtube is (effectively) unmoderated, reddit actively antimoderates.

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        That’s a good point actually. I haven’t heard the term “antimoderation” before now, but it is very fitting for reddit. Every subreddit I was a part of back when I still had an account was either quarantined or had the mods change suddenly, with an equally sudden change in what is and isn’t acceptable there. Redditors often talk about how a sub goes above a certain number of subscribers it loses what made it good in the first place, and that’s probably due to general astroturfing and making sure to control the narrative.

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          The admins literally install fascist moderators in any subreddit that gets too big, and at least half of them have direct ties to the three-letters. The only time they don’t is if the modteam is already fascist like was the case with bonehurtingjuice and that one alt-right subreddit that the admins revived against the will of its creators/modteam after they had a change of heart and realized what they were doing was fucked up.

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          Reddit is actually where I coined the term “progressive fascist”

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              I don’t like that at all, not only is it using right wing language but it also clobbers the fact that you can be a progressive and still be a fascist. A lot of these types think that because they’re progressive they can’t be a fascist, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. The essence of what Nazis wanted was progression towards a perfect human race. Progression isn’t always a good thing like all progressives just assume, in fact, boiling everything down to a single bar that should go up and not down is the core of fascist thought.