Posts by Bradley Sanders4

I just dropped by to say hi to Ner. 🥳 😒

Of all the gripes you've ever thrown my way, this one is easily my favorite. 😍

If you're whining about that warning I handed you, let’s get one thing straight: it wasn't an insult, it was just trolling. You're out here putting words in my mouth, making this personal, and trying to start a flame war. A formal ban for being abusive costs about ten times more, so honestly, you actually got off easy.

Look, you both probably deserved a strike for being toxic, but since you’d need like five strikes to match his one, the math says you're doing fine. But hey, if your ego is really hurting, I'll go ahead and nag the supermod to fix it.

Joseph Stewart38 said:...who just pull from these totally sketchy, bottom-of-the-barrel websites where the stories almost always turn out to be complete garbage.

There you go. You basically answered your own question. 😉

I saw them right when I woke up this morning, so I immediately posted a warning on the thread telling everyone to knock it off. If they don't stop, I’ll be deleting the posts and handing out bans where necessary. Please, just try not to escalate things by picking fights with the users who posted them—we really don't need more of those heated arguments blowing up here. Hopefully, the moderator warning on the thread makes things clear enough.

I pulled it down because it was just pure speculation without any actual facts, and frankly, it didn't meet the standards for this subforum. You should probably try posting over on the Alternative board instead.

Douglas Johnson41 said:as soon as someone claims these activists aren't acting on their own convictions, but are just being bankrolled by political parties to do their dirty work

Maybe you should actually try proving that instead of just shouting it?

Kevin Wood15 said:I can't go around calling every Orthodox person a Chetnik, but apparently, I'm allowed to take a swing at that guy Pupovac?

Nah, you can go ahead and roast Vučić if you want. 😁

So, if I follow the logic here, we aren't allowed to call Catholics or Orthodox Christians "unknowns" or "Chetniks," but because of how some people feel about certain representatives of those groups, we're suddenly okay with using those labels? Makes sense. Not.

Look, this isn't just about my personal opinion. You can't just throw stuff out there without some actual ground to stand on. You need a foundation.

John Perez85 said:According to the moderator Sarah Doyle54, using derogatory terms is fine as long as you aren't aiming them directly at another user.

You're twisting my words. I actually said the opposite—it’s the direct attacks on other users that get you a red card. We always penalize direct insults and labels, but offensive generalizations depend on the context. Before you try to split hairs over this, just remember that context is the foundation of moderation here, and that applies to more than just the Politics section.

vividfox9 said:I agree, they are definitely workers.
But I see them as people without any real momentum. It’s a crowd that just bends to the pressure, chasing after an extra buck or wherever they can find a quick win.
It feels more like a lottery than a stable working class. It's this fragmented group that lacks any sense of permanence.

On top of that, there's zero real interest in unions. There's just no motivation there.
If you can grab a little more today, you feel secure enough for tomorrow.

Well, I guess chasing a paycheck is pretty much baked into the definition of being a worker. 😁

It's lottery-style labor. Unconventional work with zero stability.

Look, you can't blame the workers for that.

Especially since there's no real union interest. No motivation at all.

And how exactly are you supposed to build a union out of gig workers? The whole point of a union is to put pressure on the boss. How are people on freelance contracts even supposed to pull that off?

vividfox9 said:The labor movement barely exists here anymore.
We don't really have a manufacturing base left—nothing major besides places like ExxonMobil or local refineries.
Most people are either in service jobs, working for the government, or stuck in that permanent precariat class...

Look, those people are workers too. Being "the working class" isn't just about punching a clock at some massive factory plant.

Look, the whole thread wasn't wiped. Only the posts from the section where people started circling back to Hasanbegović were removed—except for any posts that targeted other users. Basically, we have Section A (before the debate about the minister kicked off again) and Section B (after it restarted).

In Section A, the only things deleted were the posts where people started attacking each other. That includes both your posts and the replies from anyone who was engaging with you in that same aggressive way. Anything actually informative stayed up. So, honestly, I think it’s a bit unfair of you to claim only the liberal posters got hit, because all the conservative posts—like those from žalca, gošće, hr1u00, etc.—are still right there.

As for Section B—which is where the conversation naturally drifted back toward the minister—almost everything was scrubbed, except for KLCCLK's post about driving into Philadelphia. I actually went back and forth on whether to keep that one. It’s technically off-topic, sure, but it provides a little bit of obscure info that, as the user points out, both sides might find interesting. That’s why I left it alone. But hey, if it's an issue, we can just delete that one too.

Joshua Clark7 said:Who's setting those boundaries? You? And where exactly are you drawing them?

Long story short.

So now you've branded me an Alt-right movement supporter too.

I didn't. I brought up the Alt-right movement just as an (extreme) example of how we don't want people talking here—you know, how they used to write about immigrants and feminism, which ended up turning some forum users permanently gray. (Actually, I just banned an Alt-right movement repeat offender, so maybe that's what triggered my response). I get that mentioning the Alt-right movement right after saying you're partly responsible for derailing threads could be taken the wrong way. If that's how you took it, I'm sorry; I really didn't mean it like that.

People like you actually scare me. It's fine while you're just holding this attitude on a forum. But what happens when you eventually get the chance to decide someone's fate through the actual system?

Not happening. Even if I actually wanted to be some tyrant forcing everyone to agree with me, the system isn't built to let me do that. We moderators aren't just acting on whims here; we're part of a group, and everything we do—our rules, our moderation style, even our own standing in the admin hierarchy—is subject to being questioned, debated, and changed by the rest of the team. Basically, the group acts as a check and balance. On this site, specifically, it means each of us has a little bit of autonomy for small stuff (like deleting a post, giving a warning, or adjusting points so someone doesn't get banned), but for the big calls (like permanent bans, partial bans, or deciding how to handle sensitive threads), we make those decisions together. Plus, we have super-mods and admins above us who can step in to challenge or back up our decisions with actual reasoning.

Joshua Clark7 said:The real issue is when you label anything you disagree with as "uncivilized," while acting like your own opinions are the absolute, objective truth that everyone else has to swallow.

Actually, I think it's the exact opposite. The problem starts when people push anti-social views and try to mask them as just being "differently opinionated." Then, if anyone points out how toxic those views actually are, they get slapped with the "leftist liberal" label to shut them down. Look, free speech in American society isn't a blank check; it has boundaries. As long as you stay within those lines, whether you're left-wing, right-wing, or somewhere in between, you're welcome to speak. It’s honestly a shame (😬 ) that the current boundaries seem skewed so heavily toward liberals that anyone with an outlier perspective has to jump through hoops just to prove their worldview deserves equal footing. It doesn't. Your views are fine up to a point, but once you cross that line, you're out.

Joshua Clark7 said:For God's sake, who cares who pays for it? He made the content available to everyone, so he shouldn't be allowed to act however the hell he wants.

Sure, making the content available is one thing, but helping build it is a whole different story.

Joshua Clark7 said:...it’s being weaponized just to scrub away anything deemed "ideologically offensive."

Look, what you're calling "ideologically offensive," I call fundamentally unacceptable for a civilized society. I get why it looks like intolerance to you—like we're just shutting down different political views or worldviews—but honestly, that's just the paradox of tolerance at work. You can't tolerate the intolerant without destroying everything else. 😉

Joshua Clark7 said:The owner might be a private individual, but that doesn't make this Reddit page some private club. It exists in the public square without any membership barriers. Because of that, they can't just hide behind a "privacy" argument like some moderators love to do. They have to play by American laws, specifically those protecting free speech and anti-discrimination. I'm not talking about some KKK group trying to hunt down Muslims here; I'm talking about people having a rational debate about the pros and cons of certain ideologies and viewpoints.

There you go. You basically answered your own question. This site is private, yet open to the public, and free speech is mostly defined by what the law says. People who want to discuss the benefits or risks of various beliefs are more than welcome—right up until the moment they start using "free speech" as a shield to promote illegal or anti-civilization garbage.

Topics like this always turn into a total mess, just like those debates on feminism or immigration. It’s good that things get filtered, though. A lot of people with different opinions either gave up long ago or got banned.

Exactly. And honestly, you're partly responsible for why feminism topics turned into such a circus and why we don't even see them anymore. Reddit isn't Stormfront. You can't write like they do over there, not even if you try to be subtle.

* Since discussions on feminism kept ending up as massive dumpster fires in Politics, we really only had two choices. We could either permanently shadowban the users showing extreme misogyny to save the threads, or we could just shut down the ability to talk about feminism entirely to save the users, letting them participate elsewhere. As moderators, we decided keeping our users from getting shadowbanned was more important than keeping the topics alive.

You're spot on. I'm locking this thread down. Sorry for the late reply.

It isn’t even about whether we’re going to miss you. It’s just bizarre that you’re actually asking for moderator intervention from the very same people whose decisions drive you crazy enough to want to leave in the first place.

Stop playing the victim. If you don't want to hang out in this sub, then just don't show up. Honestly, that makes way more sense than begging for favors from the very mods you claim to hate and say you're leaving over.

feralpilot0 said:We aren't talking about a board meeting here; we're talking about moderation—a principle that everyone, regardless of their political leanings, has to live by. If the rules are supposed to be universal, then why all the backroom deals and whispering in the shadows?

That said, you have to admit—watching volunteers defend private ownership structures and the privileges they grant is honestly ridiculous.
Especially when one of those volunteers gets so swept up in their tiny bit of micro-management that they actually start driving users away—it makes you wonder who is really pulling the strings here.

The principle definitely isn't the same. The guys in blue have this massive privilege where they get to hang out in the moderator subforums, and they’re basically immune to getting flagged—only the supermods and admins can touch them, while us regular blue-shirt folks can't flag them at all. Even if you look at the posts in the forums they don't moderate, it's obvious that "regular users" are treated differently because of their status. So, the real question isn't why things are happening behind the scenes, it's why they're putting on such a massive show for the public.