So I decided to make a post in the subreddit for my nearest city. It was about development corruption by the University, and the fact that they have used money, power and influence to skip due process and corrupt both local and state government.
The first hour or so? Pleasant enough. Highly upvoted. Tolerant discussion. And then the fucking shills and trolls came. And they attacked. They attacked hard. Full on slanging match.
Guess what? Turns out they all, all work for the Uni, or at least claim to. We "outed" one of them as a fucking Zoom lecturer (surprise surprise that she referred to the fucking vice chancellor on a first name basis), after she had attempted to personally attack me, and even went for the full doxx.
It's crazy, there, now. Wild. Everything pointing out the obvious corruption, or widespread community disagreement (literally no one in the community, and off Reddit, wants this. Not a single person in any other forum, except for the manufactured consent on Facebook, has been positive. Not one) has been heavily downvoted, and every comment "supporting" the University, and saying how anyone in disagreeement is "dumb, ignorant hicks", have been highly upvoted.
It's frankly... Bizarre. Totally inorganic. Almost like they must have... People whose job it is is to to literally search out posts like mine, and run damage control. Like a very local version of hasbara, or Russian trolls...
Absolutely wild. I reckon they'll ban me, soon, for "being aggressive", or some bullshit.
Oh, and guess who one of the main "defenders" of the Uni, and the council, has been, all over social media? My old philosophy prof, at school, who was literally sacked for being an alcoholic ebebophile (you know, paedo for teen girls) and drug dealer, and has fled the country, but who feels the need to still comment on all local socials, because he is "a distinguished academic", and also happens to be "a philosopher", just like the completely corrupt VC of the Uni.
Former VC, who started all this shit, happens to have also been outed as a paedo, and sexual predator. Funny that. Almost like there's a pattern, innit?
Why are these places, and people, always like this? Lol...
Imagine the type of person who would waste their life just to spend the whole day online. That's your reddit mods and most of the users.
Reddit as a whole is a tranny-infested, pedo-protecting left wing shithole because that's their userbase.
It's only their user base because they banned everyone who openly contradicted postmodernism, which they're doing to maintain their ESG score because their investors demand it.
There's definitely software that monitors public forums for mentions of your business. Peole wouod would show up on reddit saying their software had told them someone was talking about their product, though in context they would say it outright they were usually friendly.
For some people, the only source of joy in life is making other people miserable. They have nothing else.
Final point: I know Reddit isn't representative of "real life". At all. That was partly what I was arguing with these people about - that the community at large fundamentally disagrees with them. That's what made them so angry, too.
But... I do think that this sort of stuff is representative of wider issues, here, as I pointed out below. You know when a place has a dark, insular sort of vibe, and severe... What we call in Aus "tall poppy syndrome", where those who "stand out from the (in this case, "progressive") norm" are shot down, and eventually driven out of town..?
This is a real, genuine problem, here, and I don't want to sound like some sort of... Whining leftist, but I really do think that... There are better places than this. To live. At least for me.
Living here also contributed to giving me a chronic illness (MS). Like, with 100% certainty, it did (highest rates in the southern hemisphere, baybe! lol...), so...
Fuck it. I'm pretty done with trying to make this place work for me. I'm done with the "community" here. So... Maybe that's a good thing.
If you live in the US, imagine, I dunno, fucking Pennsylvania is what it comes closest to (including Quakers, very prominently, down here), probably. But with like, 1/20th of the population. Rhode Island, maybe?
Rust belt shithole with decent environment and fucking hipsters. Odd combination.
In Canada, I guess it's very much like any of the Maritimes. "Labrador of the South", let's say. or PEI.
For the UK, yeah, it's the North. Or fucking Wales. You get the idea, anyway...
Fuck this absolute fucking dump.
Oh dude, you should see it, at this point...
I refuse to delete it, because... Fuck letting them win. But they've gone full doxx attempt, now... :-(
I don't exactly wanna link it because I like to keep my socials separate (obviously), but FML it got really, really bad...
Full-on trawling of post history, full doxxing attempts, some of the vilest insults and attacks I have heard in probably a couple of months (i.e. directed at me)... And these are supposedly my fellow fucking citizens, in this place...
Yeah, look, I'm honestly pretty done with the internet for today. Unfortunately.
I know I shouldn't let it get to me, but I really... I just didn't expect this. See the links I posted above, for more context of just how bad this has gotten, towards other people who did the same/called this shit out. :-(
I left this place (i.e. the state itself. Not KIA2), for a reason. It has taken a very, very short amount of time to be reminded exactly why.
Is most of this happening in private messages? Like I said in another post, I found the thread in question. Out of respect for you I'm not linking it here but I'm not seeing the sort of invective that you're describing. Most people are disagreeing civilly and you're escalating by losing your cool with them.
Social Media elevates mental disorders.
Yeah, that's nuts.
Hey man, you should be careful. I was able to find the post pretty easily and put some other pieces together too.
I'm not threatening you or anything, just advocating caution. If I didn't have new account restrictions I'd send you a more specific message but unfortunately I can't.
You know how when people get nasty here it generally gets called out, unless it is "warranted"..? Or we actually know when someone is joking, or it's banter?
Well this has been... Not like that.
It's not friendly. It's not... "Jocular". It's not "banter". It's just endless vile attacks and the very worst TOS violations you can imagine.
But these are the same people who were literally calling for a lynch mob (an actual one, to burn down his house. Not a digital one) last year, against a... Let's say "white trash" person who "escaped" hotel quarantine, at the height of Covid panic...
So they're not just garden variety internet spergs. They're very possibly actually "banal evil".
I called them out on it, so they temp banned me for a while. I posted about it here, at some point, I remember.
That's how bad the place is, dude... :-(
It's nuts how they reproduced Nazi's. I mean they changed the target a bit but damn, these are literally the people who would form lynch mobs to hang innocent people back in the day.
In the total state, everything must point back to the glory of the regime, and the tranissaries are the chief enforcers of the commissariat.
Peddit is literally a vector for black magic mind control.
Don't let them get to you.
Cheers man. Trying not to. I honestly and genuinely appreciate that, heh. ❤️
Really just… I’m done with most of Reddit, including the geographical subs, here. Today was… Extremely brutal. And I just wasn’t “mentally prepared” for people to treat me the way that sub did, for fucking zero justified reason, lol…
I thought I was done with that shit. If not high school, then “college”. If not “college”, then work. If not Facebook, then Reddit.
Bowling for Soup wasn’t far off the mark. High school really does never end, lol…
But hey, at least I didn’t get “suspended” from my job, or get death threats, like that academic did…
That’s so amazingly fucked up (especially the Uni itself playing a part in that) I can’t believe it is coming out of Tassie. I really… Just can’t, lol.
Hope you’re having a good one, bud.
Cheers again.
Oddly, I think today, being probably the worst I’ve felt in a couple of years, made me realise that I have to tell someone that I’ve loved since we were kids that I miss her. Just that. That I… Would love to be in touch again.
I don’t think I realised until today that she is probably it. She’s the one. I always told myself “Maybe one day, but you’re not good enough for her right now.”
Well, I don’t think that’s good enough anymore. I have to at least try. So god, at least that’s something.
It was always her. Always. And damn I wish I had told her that 10 years ago.
I think before you do anything, the first thing you need to do is to clear some of the energy you have now.. chill out and clear your head. You seem a bit rattled, so take some time to re center yourself. That's my advice.
It's actually funny. Like, you have to laugh. Because shit like this is so fucking bad, that it is the only appropriate response.
To be clear, there is no way I deserved this. Not in a million years. So that is totally on her to such an extent that it, well it makes me wonder how the hell it got to this.
But it isn't my fault. I do at least know that.
No one deserves to be treated this way by someone who they literally would've trusted with their life, a few years back, lol.
At least not when just saying "Hey".
So... We move on, right? And we just keep moving on.
Sorry that happened man.
Well, I did it. But it went worse than I could ever have imagined. Like, in my wildest ideas of how badly it could possibly have gone, I didn't actually picture this.
She literally didn't even let me finish typing before she blocked me. There and square. Straight away. Without even reading it. No response. No answer. Just an instant block on all forms of contact, as soon as I finished typing.
Basically all I said was "Hey, I'm really sorry it's been so long. How are you?", but obviously with more words. And she blocked me. As I was typing.
I'm honestly too shocked to really feel anything, at this point. This is someone who I used to be very close to, even though we never... Did anything. So... This is quite a shock.
Totally, totally unprovoked. The only thing I've done "wrong" is not messaged her or been in touch in a long time.
So thus, it actually ends. In a bizarrely anticlimactic, terribly sad, and really very... Odd, way.
I'm too disappointed to let it upset me too much, tbh. I don't deserve this. Not from her. Not now.
But oh well. Fuck her, quite honestly, if that's her fucking response.
Slight update: wow, I have never been so heavily attacked on Reddit in my life. Ever... Despite saying what I would have thought were far more "controversial" things in the past...
Gee, Reddit really doesn't mind brigading, as long as it's far left/woke corporate types doing it, does it..?? Fuck that shit, man... :-/
You need to take a step back, they are pulling a nasty little trick.
The DMs and doxing are unnerving you and making you sound defensive.
This is then affecting your comments and your mood. This is not your fault, but it is what is happening, they are inside your loop. Now that we have identified the pattern, its how we break their control.
Calm and collected, that's what the public needs to see, but they are currently seeing your justifiable anger, that because they don't see the provocation, looks unjustified. Do not let them get to you.
Do not let the scummy communist apparatchiks working for that shitty uni get to you.
2: You have broken down the barriers between your accounts. Delete this info. Unconnect the two. Burn this account imo and don't mention Tasmanian bullshit for a long while. Or, come back on an account called [reddit username]. It's burnt anyway. Or now just consider this one also burnt.
It's reddit.
That's it that's the while thing. It's filled w and controlled by communist jews.
It's jews.
ALL of reddit skews overwhelmingly left wing. Same with twitter.
all users skew left wing
upvoters/downvoters skew even more left wing
commenters skew the most left wing of all
The percentage of people on Reddit who actually write posts and comments are an insignificant fraction of the whole. So every sub ends up being a far left echo chamber unless the sub is designed to naturally counteract that. Any sub which counteracts it, gets targeted for destruction by the admins.
There are MANY such people.
why so much opposition to them moving the college? is there some faggotry here that it's just assumed you should know?
It's... Complicated.
But it's $600 million dollars (!!!!). The entire state's GDP, for a couple of years. That's how much it is estimated as planned to cost. And the council has given them a permanent "rate freeze" on all the buildings they have ALREADY bought, without public consultation...
But it's way, way more complicated than that. I'm on the "leave it where it is" side, if that wasn't clear, because I know enough about this to fundamentally disprove their arguments...
See the links above, if you want more context. And/or my other post.
This is a huge thing, down here, right now. Like, we're talking a once-in-a-century, multi-generational decision, here, that has far-reaching implications for the whole state. And yet... Some people would "rather" we didn't discuss the pro's and con's, and the alternative proposals, at all, smh...
This is actually much, much worse than I expected, and goes far, far deeper than even I knew...
I should honestly thank the shills and trolls for making me search this further, because this shit juicy, and largely hidden by the bloody MSM, too...
See: https://archive.ph/Lhajc
(This story was so inconvenient that the ABC later suppressed it on Twitter. That's how bad this has gotten)
And: https://archive.ph/F3RfJ
Wow. Just, wow. Explains a lot of what I have seen, and experienced, today...
Most subs are centerish, with some leaning a little left and a little right, but never too far beyond. As soon as heavy moderation sets in, they're extreme left. Always.
It's a reflection of the user base and the site, everything there is hard left.
Local subs, even for areas that are heavily conservative, are always flagrantly left-wing. It's not uncommon to see partisan posts, extreme bias, even and outright attacks on local conservative politicians or people when in a local sub.
There's really no fixing it, so just try to not let them get to you and don't bother posting there in the future. The very design of Reddit makes it easy for extreme views to suppress all other discussion, even when they're obviously wrong about something. And unlike ideological discussions elsewhere on Reddit, people on local subs seem to take their personal attacks much more seriously, because you're the "bad" person with the "wrong" opinions in their own backyard.
Always full of hideous but egotistical people
Propaganda is real. My local sub used to be very conservative , now it's just agenda pushing and there are lgbt ppl just mass posting agendas in the sub as well
It's because we live in a world of repressive tolerance, at least in big cities and online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ju2BGLAi9A
If you don't want to listen to James for 4 hours, he succinctly summed it up:
Repressive tolerance can be boiled down to "movements from the left must be extended tolerance, even when they are violent, while movements from the right must not be tolerated, including suppressing them by violence."
BLM can literally burn streets to the ground, but Patriot Front gets arrested on the way to their protest. (Not that I know anything at all about PF, but the point is that they will never even get the chance to commit even a fraction of the violence that the left does, and gets shut down simply for existing).
I think I might take a sabbatical from posting and commenting, again, guys. Here and on Reddit (like, fuck it, there's no way I want to experience yesterday again, like, ever...), pretty much anywhere.
I just... Clearly I'm not in an appropriate life situation to be "clear-headed" about this shit. Clearly...
That's not really my fault. It just is.
So... I'm sorry, but I'm just gonna have to take a break. For a while. Until I find something to be happy about.
All the best, genuinely. And thanks.
These same idiots got me banned from a different city, in a totally unrelated state (also in Australia), today, even though I stopped responding yesterday (they kept abusing me all through the night and into this morning), and then they got me warned by Reddit using a feature that is designed to prevent suicide threats, but is frequently abused ("Reddit Community Support")...
I essentially had to prove I was "not suicidal" in order to be able to keep using that Reddit account...
Jesus...
What an absolute fucking debacle.
They pulled the same trick on me when I used reddit, but I never had to prove that I wasn't suicidal to keep using my account. Did they add that 'feature' recently?
Militant leftists are the lowest of the low, and they're great at finding new ways to prove it.
Yeah, I.... Probably actually reached that point, today. I checked back. It... Got worse.
I haven't really had people behave like that, in such a big "mob", on Reddit for a while...
Like Facebook at it's worst. It actually... Hit me harder than I might have expected it to. Because it has gotten really, really nasty.
Which I suppose means I "hit too close to home", for them. I mean, who trawls through post history, if they aren't desperate to try and "win' an argument? Who attempts to "doxx" someone, just because they disagree with them??
Facebook did it to me a couple of times. And then I just... Gave up on it.
When I was just finishing High School, some absolute shitheads thought it would be funny to put up a fake ticket-selling ad on a Craigslist-type site (Gumtree), with my number and name linked.
The way Gumtree works? You can't, or at least couldn't, at that point, report a fake ad, or a "spoofed" number. So I had weeks of unsolicited calls, texts and emails, from randoms asking me for music festival tickets. It was evil, in the most brutally clever, and technically legal, way...
That's what today was like. That level of... Fuckery. So honestly, while I won't... Delete anything, or back down (because FUCK THEM), I'm just... Really over the whole thing.
I'm trying not to let it "get to me", but fuck me, people down here can be utterly brutal sometimes. :-(
Isn't human psychology fun?
You mentioned you were in Aus, which means there is a slightly different dynamic than the usa - you mentioned tall poppy syndrome, which I actually researched for my senior capstone 13 years ago.
What is most likely is there are some bots and inorganic users -- they are going to be your most vitriolic. But what they are also doing is providing an anchor point for discussion. They start being rude and inorganically upvoting themselves, and normies will fall in line because that is the cultural expectations they have grown up with.
Same is true in China and eastern collectivist societies (different culture and different manifestation, but same principle). Same is true in Europe to a much lesser extent (but the highest concentration would be in cucked, pro-eu countries in the west - belgians for example).
Don't really have much of that here in the US. Or... we didnt. Universities are creating fragile adults who are terrified of not doing things the 'consensus' agrees with.
My big point is this: I bet there are a good number of organic users also dog piling you because consensus has been curated to say its okay. So many people are blind psychological followers nowadays, and it is a major contributing factor in so many shitty governments. They dont need to build real consensus - just a loud minority.
Sorry its happening to you.
Yeah. You’re right, I think. Oh well.
It got so low, today, that I decided, “Fuck it, may as well message this girl I used to be close to” (not on Reddit. She doesn’t know about any of this).
She blocked me. Instantly. Before even reading what I wrote. Before I even finished typing my message of “Hey, I know it’s been a while, sorry about that, but how are yo-….”
Wild. Totally unprovoked. Totally… “Out of character” with the girl I thought I knew. With the girl I loved, though I never told her.
So that… Took over my evening. Far outweighed all this other petty shit. I would love to say I just moved on, and didn’t give it another thought, but nah, that’s not how this works, is it?
Still in shock, honestly. That someone who I still thought was great, even if we hadn’t spoken in a while, would slam the door in my face like this, literally without even a word, lol…
So… There’s that, I guess.
That's just women everywhere mate.
Anyway, it turns out this bitch moved states to the same place I was in (and didn’t tell me), befriended some of my classmates (outside of Uni, for her, lol. Through sport), and joined my local (suburban) football club…
A place I passed nearly every day, for 3 years, and had some involvement in…
I know all this, now. That place is mine, just as much as hers. I haven’t even been there for some time, now, but when I get back, I will live my life to my utmost best, in that fucking town, oh, and well she damn well ain’t keeping me out of the footy club, either. Not when the lads are playing.
If she has a problem with that, then, much like tonight, that’s on her. 🤷🏻♂️
I got there first. I lived there first. I had friends involved in that club first.
She damn well doesn’t get to move to the other side of the country, to my new local area, and take that away from me.
Petty? Maybe. But fuck that, lol…