They just sent out the emails for offering their 75k most valuable users advanced purchase. It's based on your total karma and/or your total moderator actions. It's that latter where I think they're really going to get fucked. Volunteer labour is such a massive part of reddit not immediately being consumed by redditors and bots. If I took on a dozen moderators for a smallish subreddit like /r/snackexchange, maybe one of them would stick around past a month. Of those who did they either treat it like a 24/7 on-call job or they do advanced labour like programming 3rd-party tools. It's absolutely terrible work and the only reward for it is more work, now with extra enshittification from investor pressure.
Lose those mods and it's a doom spiral for the entire website. What's the Plan B? Hundreds of paid customer service agents doing that work or trying to do the mod coups that failed last year because the new guy sees he's being fucked just as hard as the old guy? Organic user traffic is going to plummet once that quality filter is gone and they see the
version of the front page. The next wave of admin crackdown to enforce investor demands is going to provoke another mod strike and compounded with the stock price falling I think reddit might be going the way of Digg very fast.
edit: Also, the top tier for moderators is 5k actions. The loyalty of someone willing to do 5k un-fun things is now dependent on the value of a stock for a company that can't turn a profit, and they can't turn a profit without making things massively worse for the person willing to do 5k acts of labour for them. There is no way to make any of those 5k acts of labour fun and any attempt to short of being paid is a pizza party NFT which will only piss them off more.
The scariest thing about liberal warmongering in Ukraine is that they not thought about the possibility of losing. All the money being lost for nothing, the weapons being lost to anyone with money, the massive group of war-hardened Nazis who blame the west for their loss, the re-invigoration of Russia after training it on how to defeat all of our weapons/tactics, the permanent refugees powering the far right the same way Syria has. They're so psychotically devoted to this obviously hopeless war that they think they can win it by pretending to be dogs on twitter alone, with no Plan B if that doesn't defeat a superpower. It hasn't and it won't. With each conscript they sacrifice, the survivors around them have one more valid reason to want to turn their drones westward.
Looks like a Sonnenrad. Definitely popular as a hate symbol, but the article ends with this:
"Because sonnenrad imagery is used by many cultures around the world, one should not assume that most sonnenrad-like images necessarily denote racism or white supremacy; rather, they should be analyzed carefully in the context in which they appear." https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/sonnenrad
EDIT: I zoomed in on the tattoo and saw the swastika in the middle, so I'm less likely to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Adjusted for inflation, OJ Simpson's legal fees during his murder trial were about $10m. I wonder what kind of lawyers you could get for Assange with $45m.
You're right, there is no sanctity. There's a genocidal freak about to legally sign onto it and he's lecturing us about morality. So go on you fucking monster.
You guys aren't wrong, definitely a genocide. I'm balancing foreign genocide vs potential domestic civil war and/or successful authoritarian coup, both of which seem like a remarkably high probability by my estimation. We've got the groundwork in place. The redcaps are ready to rise up and have been for a while now, they just need marching orders and a coherent mass.
I wish to christ this wasn't the equation I was balancing. But it is. I'm voting for not-gop, which happens to take the form of fucking daRk BraNdOn.
lol.
edit: Also question from the back. Why are you voting for a genocide for the sanctity of your right to vote for the person committing a genocide? Is it to make yourself sound like Christ sacrificing yourself for the sanctity of democratic norms which have resulted in the 99% Hitler you're voting for committing genocide?
Democrats have to protect their genocide at all costs. Even if it's forcing you to deny obvious reality in a way that's somehow more egregious than Baghdad Bob. This is just pathetic, even for Blue MAGA.
Those things are terrifying. There's a video out there of a transport truck that was hit. Behind the truck is a pile of corpses. They look in the back and it's completely swiss-cheesed, full of corpses. The cameraman then walks around front and every inch of the truck had been struck by a tungsten ball that went straight through it. The engine block looked the same as the canvas top. 180k of them saturating an area with enough force to penetrate any kind of cover.
There are few people I trust less as a leader than the decaying husk of Jim Crow.
Kamala Harris is one of them. Cognitively I'm more concerned about her. I would be less likely to vote than I am now and my current plan is to vote for my dog.
Put him under actual pressure. The two times I've seen it, at one of the first 2020 primary debates and this most recent disaster of a press conference, his eye exploded and he couldn't name the group he's currently at war with/blaming for why someone might think he's senile. Let him face hostile town halls and press conferences without sycophants until either he either proves our lying eyes wrong or pieces fall off of him.
Democrats gaslighting the public on this so that he can commit a genocide is the most insane/on-brand thing I've seen them do in my lifetime. I can't even wrap my head around how fucking depraved liberals are anymore. This is actually no shit for real 100% no cap bruh the hill you choose to die on?
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I'm not saying anything is wrong with it. I just know they were wearing one.