• arbo@lemmy.world
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    there’s a joke i’m struggling to find that ends with “the intolerant meth”

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    MAGA Tweakers? A lot of things are starting to make total sense. The Nazis were really into it, too.

    It’s even more perfect that the Nazis called it Pervitin, making it the perfect drug of choice for PedoCons.

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      It is unfortunate that a great part of the internet enshittified so intensely and rapidly. Spez appears to be a bad person, it is also unfortunate that so many people refuse to migrate to better platforms. Let’s not make our whole identities being mad about it.

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    Actually, it’s stupider, the original meth subreddit made rules against posting images of drug use because reddit admins were breathing down their necks, some of the userbase deemed that censorship to be communist because something something 1984. Except, obviously, it was done because advertisers don’t want to advertise next to drug use. So it’s literally classic Americans calling the negative consequences of capitalism communism

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      The cigar sub used to be one of the best communities, then Reddit banned us from trading or even mentioning it. Many users went over to places like slack. In the mean time an idiot became a mod and trashed the community that was left. So a second cigar community was created for the ability to even post pictures and discussions. Neither sub is anything like what made the community so greata few years ago.

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          No, I don’t have time to run a sub. I did that 3 times on Reddit and I’m done with that. I’ve got to much going on in the real world.

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        And way less. It’s still a meth community. If I head to a mushroom community, I’ll see mushroom identification and cooking. If I stroll down to the clothing store, I’ll find clothes and accessories.

        That Reddit is demanding the ability to advertise to meth addicts but only when they make their space more visually palatable, effectively gentrifying a corrosive community, is just peak capitalism.

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      Except, obviously, it was done because advertisers don’t want to advertise next to drug use.

      Isn’t that what the “quarantined subreddit” feature was added for? Advertisers that don’t want their ad next to a picture of meth use most likely don’t want their ads in a methamphetamine subreddit in general

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      How do you know this drama? Like my head is also full of useless internet drama, but this specific drama I feel like requires some origination explanation.

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        Well, if you browse any of the drug related subreddits on reddit you can’t really miss it. Heck, I browse almost only /r/steroids and I knew about it

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    No, not “too left wing”, just not far right enough for them. The US left wing is the equivalent to right of center in actual developed countries, to put that in to perspective. In other words, the crazy people weren’t crazy enough for the ultra crazies.

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    Jokes aside, you’ll find several instances of “normal community” having a “right wing normal community” spin off, it happened in online chat channels, then in forums, now Reddit.

    The right’s ideology is fundamentally unfit for harmonic co-existing with everybody else, so it’s no surprise they always need to isolate themselves in a bunker.

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      Also they did it to punk, emo, goth and metal subcultures through subcultural parasitism.

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      I think if you’re a little less self-congratulatory you’ll realise it’s often just the same process where everyone thinks the folks on lemmy.ml are a bunch of nutters and congregate to other places.

      You might be right about what happened here, but it might also be a load of people who call everything to the right of Bernie Sanders Nazism and were sick of it. Forming spin-off communities is what the fediverse is all about, so why would we criticise those guys for doing it?

      I do think the subdivision and compartmentalisation of discourse is a problem, but we sure ain’t solving it here in the fediverse lol

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        They can do whatever they want. I never said they shouldn’t create spin-off communities.

        I’m well within my right to point, laugh, and recognize the right is so atrocious at harmoniously dealing with differences that they keep creating their bunkers. Simple as that. Go ahead and create whatever community you want, with whatever justification you see fit.

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      It turns out, when you kick people out of a community for being toxic, racist, or otherwise counterproductive to maintaining a community… they go form a right wing spinoff of that community. I feel like it says a lot that when you kick people out for traits that aren’t “being right wing”, they form communities around that shared identity.

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    There really is a theme to meth use over the years, isn’t there.

    Gonna start calling it fascidust