He genuinely thinks flattery will convince people to be taken over by a budding dictatorship.

That’s because he is convinced by flattery. It’s widely known around the world that if you want something from Trump, you flatter him. That’s why he thinks it works on everyone else.

I know exactly one trans person in real life. They are a super small minority of people. If trans issues dominate your life, then you are either a trans person, or a demented fucking lunatic who is obsessed with trans people.

Whelp…

You can openly call for the death penalty for people seeking an abortion, or for the extrajudicial execution of immigrants, but Satan forbid you up vote a cartoon of your favorite green hat wearing Nintendo plumber.

It’s wild. You can go on Reddit and openly discuss why you think Hitler may have been the good guy, but if you up vote some AI art of Luigi, you get banned.

I’ve had two accounts on Reddit, one got permabanned a few months ago, and I deleted the other a few days ago. The first one was my oldest account. Over a decade old, and massive karma. I also had my own sub where I shared my writing, and had a few thousand subscribers.

Back when that incel neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes got doxxed on Twitter, I made a joke saying “as an incel, he should be glad that women know where he lives now in case they want to share a cocktail with him”, with a gif of a Molotov cocktail. Permabanned for “promoting/glorifying violence”. I thought it was funny, but fine. That one is on me.

My other account, which was seven years old and had high karma, got banned from probably half a dozen subs in the past week or so for just mentioning Luigi, or even just up voting posts and comments mentioning him. That was when I decided Reddit was no longer for me.

It’s one thing to ban someone for the kind of joke I made. While it was obviously a joke, it was still an overt glorification of violence. So I get that. But just for up voting a comment mentioning Luigi’s name in a nonviolent context?

FUCK. THAT.

Also keep in mind that the chuds have been making a concerted push to go around Reddit and report every anti-fascist post and comment they can find. Between that and the recent Reddit crackdown against anything Luigi related, the place is quickly turning into StormFront 2.0.

How long till a President ends a speech with “smash that like and subscribe for 10% off RAID: Shadow Legends”?

My venting wasn’t about Philippines. If you hate them that much, go complain somewhere else.

I was clearly defending the actions of the Philippines.

Back on topic, reading the other comments, it’s looking more and more like a rival dictator got him done in. So this really ain’t about courage, it looks more and more like getting rid of the competition.

The International Criminal Court does not operate on the orders of world leaders. So no, a rival dictator did not get an ICC warrant issued for Duterte. Maybe don’t get your information from the comments section.

Do you think the Philippine police should go to Russia and Israel to arrest Putin and Netantahu?

I don’t understand what your complaint here is. It’s up to the individual countries to enforce ICC arrest warrants. The Philippines chose to enforce it. That’s a good thing. If your complaint is that other countries don’t enforce it, then you should take that up with those countries, instead of crapping all over the Philippines for doing what those other countries don’t have the courage to do.

So you’re wanting a return to some status quo,

Absolutely not. I have no idea where you got that from.

Without radical change, we’ll experience climate collapse. There’s no way to avoid that by straddling the middle.

Radical change doesn’t always involve burning everything down. Believe it or not, there are more options than “do nothing” and “destroy everything”.

My only permaban on Reddit was making a joke about Nick Fuentes being doxxed. I said “an incel like him should be glad, now the ladies know where to find him if they want to share a cocktail with him”, with a gif of a cartoon Molotov. Inciting/glorifying violence. Ok fine, that one was on me. Still funny though.

I was replying to a comment about how a lot of Leftist subs have been taken over by tankies. I was mentioning the growing accelerationist rhetoric among those same tankies. They don’t want to hear anything about fixing the world we live in, because there’s no glory in that, so all they focus on is armed revolution and collapse. They see Trump and MAGA as a good thing, because it will being about collapse of the American Empire faster.

I will never understand people who think the only way to build a better world is to destroy the one they have.

Yep. I am done with Reddit too. Just deleted my account after this bullshit.