/r/TheDeprogram has really gone downhill.

It's basically the new /r/GenZedong.

They should've done this way before this became a problem.

I'd like Nakoichi's thoughts on this as well.

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in leftist spaces its best to assume anyone posting materials about illegal shit that the atf would send you to prison for is an actual fed
- Precisely.
- there were people discussing how to make weapons on hexbear earlier this week and it was pretty uncomfortable that they'd received so many upvotes
  comrades, I just want a space to support each other and shitpost

"Heheheh would be a terrible shame if these instructions on how to make an IED got spread around", Mixter Performative Radical said, and then proceed to never make an IED
- People who want leftists to commit violence never do it themselves.
  Curious.
  
  Geez, it's almost as if revolution has phases or something!
  
  Actually doing a thing is hard.
  Talking about doing a thing is comparatively much easier.
  
  They do but it's to leftists

Fethishizing violence is the easiest way to identify a childish leftist
- Yeah, it's not a fucking video game
- Oh but when I say this, I get ratioed. Ok. At least I'm glad people universally agree on this here.

- AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Zero serious discussion -> nihilism sets in
did genzedong actually say anything to get quarantined or was that another disinformation strike?
deprogram is pretty much identical memes but sides neutral/against assad putin & maduro
- did genzedong actually say anything to get quarantined or was that another disinformation strike?
  Being openly pro Russia when the SMO started. The reason given was a vague reference to "disinformation".
- Deprogram is like if you mixed genzedong with 196, inserting a lot more radlib and literal children
  The users there seem very young and internet naive, like they are blown away by common leftist facts and have a hard time parsing cynicism and sarcasm, often misinterpreting meaning. Contrast that with the old Chapo or TrueAnon subreddits where there’s a bunch of heterodox weirdos with tons of esoteric knowledge and references, and lots of humor/sarcasm and world weariness, it’s night and day
  
  That's probably true overall yeah, that's why you can just as easily have a thread that's like "what do we think of these guys?" and a picture of the Communist Party of the Philippines (where all the commenters are like "they give me a good feeling. great stuff") as you can have a thread giving Sison a raised eyebrow for calling for attacks on companies the Philippine govt & the US had recently sanctioned from the Netherlands shortly before his death
  
  tbf, its the literal deprogramming sub. a lot of people there will be new to leftism because the three deprogram hosts make content for new leftists
- It was and it wasn't, afaik.
  GenZedong was too blatant and shitposty with its content and was quarantined for being too toxic.
  Or that's what I was told anyway. They also kept brigading others too.
  But yes, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a disinfo strike on top of other factors, which I'm not entirely unsympathetic to.
  
  "Brigading" is a nonsense concept. These aren't private communities. Coming to the community and engaging with the content isn't an invasion. That's just using the website 🙄
  
  [speaking from within your walls] If the impression reddit follows an actual system with moderating communists makes you feel like Tankie Bunker subs are safer, I won't disturb that.
  
  Being blatant in your communism is good. Genzedong was better than any subreddit that exists on Reddit today
- GenZedong was cool, although very shitposty. The subs that replaced GenZedong (Dongistan and such) were terrible though, allowing actual fascists to vibe in there just because they happened to support Russia at the start of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
  
  every version of Dongistan is trash, that's worth mentioning lol
  turanic racism caucus

i can understand removals of actionable threats, but bans are a bit much. removals are more for safety than anything

We should host c/thedeprogram for all the people that want to post how to make bombs, guns and drugs.
- a left-unity cookbook, perhaps
  
  plz the anarchist cookbook is a bad book
- I made a comm request already.
- Exists on the grad already comrade but no harm in more than one ;)

crime is cool

The mod there is in the official Deprogram Patreon trying to police it without actual mod powers. Harassing people for literal jokes. They have always been a little unhinged.

Wait what happened to r/GenZedong?
- Quarantined.
  
  Then a lot of us left for lemmygrad, but the culture somewhat changed after that. And it changed a lot after Hexbear federated, for much better I'd say.

that subreddit is really funny sometimes, theres a post there where greta thunberg was marching at some pro-palestine march or smth and most of the comments were like "wow greta is getting cool now"
but there were a couple of dumbasses who spotted a Ancom flag in the background and started bitching about how greta is a "anarkiddy" and how they hope she would educate herself about "the only viable form of socialism"
- my guess is most of the users on that subreddit (and listeners of the podcast tbh) are <20 years old
  
  I'm exactly 20, so yeah you're most likely spot on.
- Mr Fujiwara, this morning you gave Greta Thunberg a pink slip, employee of the month award, and Mother’s Day card all at the same time. I would like to know what is going on here, as I am the last remaining employee.

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