If someone is “authoritarian tankie trash” (which is a form of Othering FYI), then they’re not actually communist are they? They’re Authoritarian.
Authoritarian and Totalitarian organisations/governments have been co-opting “communism” and “socialism” for many years as a way to doublespeak legitimise themselves. But they can label themselves communist/socialist until the cows come home, doesn’t make it true.
I totally hear you that comments like this can feel insensitive of people who have been abused. I’m an abuse survivor so I get where you’re coming from and appreciate your intent.
What I disagree with is that we shouldn’t make this comparison at all. The same relational dynamics and structures that give rise to mental, emotional, physical, sexual, etc. abuse and exploitation give rise to this behaviour too.
It’s like the pyramid of rape culture (https://www.11thprincipleconsent.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rape-Culture-v5.png). The stuff at the bottom isn’t one for one equal to what’s up the top. But the underlying structure and foundations are the same no matter how far up you go.
The same as any form of abuse, no matter how big or small, is underpinned by the same thought patterns, behaviours, power dynamics, culture, societal attitudes and practices, etc.
EDIT: removed preview of pyramid so no one gets smacked in the face with unpleasant descriptions scrolling down. Typos.
I found another post and multiple comments undeleted today. I’m now appending periods . to every post and comment that comes back so I’ll be able to count how many times I’ve had to delete the same comment.
e.g. If I see DELETED - GDPR . . I know that comment has been restored three times.
Ridiculous that I have to delete over and over again.
I wish I could do that. But I’m disabled which is isolating by itself but also makes maintaining friendships difficult let alone making new friends.
So unfortunately the few friends I do have are firmly entrenched in FB and I have little recourse to make more friends. They’re good people. Genuinely good people so I don’t want to ditch them anyway, they’ve just been wicked into social media addiction and entrapment the same way many have been.
I know for a fact that (so far) one post and at least one comment (there may be more, I’m still going through) have been restored. How do I know this? Because every single post and comment I deleted, I edited with “DELETED - GDPR” first and then deleted. I did all this systematically. I knew that if I saw any post or comment with that text, it would mean it had been restored. And now, today, a few days after that post and comment were edited and then deleted, they’re back with the edited text. This is also well with that 1000 post comment/limit too.
This time I’ve taken screenshot first and deleted again. I’ve also recorded video of me editing and deleting a comment. If that one comes back as well, I have proof.
All my edit/deletes have been over several days so it’s not like I’m hammering the servers and causing them to glitch out on deleting correctly (I fully refresh the page after anyway to check deletions have indeed happened).
Edit: typos
r/MadeMeSmile devolved into constant reposts and increasing animal abuse. The number of times I would have to report posts for unsafe shit or animal cruelty was really getting to me to me at the end there.
It was by no means the only sub that went in that direction. As others have pointed out, all of Reddit was going down the crapper but that sub for me epitomised how shit Reddit became - repost bots, comment bots, karma farming, fake content that was dangerous or abusive… it had it all.
For Firefox (don’t know if it’s on Chrome/Chromium) there’s also the LibRedirect Addon which can also do YouTube, Tiktok, Imgur, Quora, and a bunch more to help protect your privacy and eyeballs.
I thought you were being facetious calling the admin, Δεῖμος. Like implying the Tilde admin rules with such an iron first he instills god-like levels of dread in users. And then I discover the admin’s username is indeed Deimos 😅