Australia/NZ-specific subreddits, in particular, were always absolutely fucking awful (everything from city subs, to politics, to finance), but this is worse than even during ‘Rona…
For context, this week the Australian Tax Office (ATO) essentially declared war on small (but not big) business, and said that they will use every tool at their disposal to squeeze every unpaid tax dollar out of said businesses, no matter what consequences that has for insolvencies, the economy, and hell, everything that follows that.
I am not kidding when I say that they literally said “Well, if this destroys more businesses than the GFC, that’s too bad.”
In a normal world, such an announcement would have been treated with… At least some degree of disgust, but not on Reddit. On Reddit, people were literally saying they wished that the ATO could employ lynch mobs. In the AusFinance sub (the irony), they were saying they hope small business owners kill themselves over this, because they clearly deserve to…
It’s pretty crazy to me, to see how toxic this discourse has become.
That place is… Well, it’s probably worse than I ever expected it would become, honestly. And that’s just with me lurking, not even wading back in to discussions again…
I gave up on r/KIA2 when it became clear that the tranny topic is too locked down to really discuss anything.
My account was banned by admins because I criticized the trans movement. They never gave a reason for my suspensions, but all of them happened shortly after I criticized it and the disastrous effects it's having on society.
They went after me for calling out Spez's feminine penis addiction.
I got banned for posting the nashville manifesto. The admins love trannies too much
My account was suspended for posting "the age of women is over, the time of the women+ has come"
Hey! Same here. I made a comment on a post in a default sub about how I'm not a "transphobe," because I'm not scared of people with mental illness.
Knew the ban hammer was coming as I typed it. Totally worth it.
Ah, the secret rule. Good times! They kept banning anyone who called any tranny mentally ill (even for different reasons), but also anyone who explained that this was against the rules.
So comments were removed with the comment: "this violates the secret rule".
I can't lie, I burst out laughing now that I'm reminded of it.
That's probably what got you whacked. The spirit of their rules is "disappear anyone who blasphemes the Church of Girl Dick and don't tell them why". People were able to infer what the secret rule is, especially once this site got going.
I liked the response from people who were so pure and innocent that they were genuinely confused by it all.
What? You're just going to remove one of my comments and not tell me why, because the reason is a secret?
I think I may have said that to you at least once, on there, I won’t lie…
It was extremely annoying, lol.
I forget what post I made, but I was banned because I posted on The_Donald
I gave up on it when it became more interested in circlejerking about the same handful of shilled videos, and would pull the classic reddit move of "mass downvoting" you for daring to say maybe something that goes against their little echo chamber.