The Reddit community is not happy. As of writing, the mod-post has a karma score of almost 5000 and the comments are almost unanimously against the admin's decision.
Looks like we may end up with another Reddit exodus?
The more I get to know this place, the more I fear this kind of exodus.
Glad to hear it. I've already seen such an amazing community here. The more you have, the more you have to lose and all that.
I haven't really seen any Trump supporters on here. There might be one or two that are hiding but the pro-Trump presence on here is non-existent.
And has that Yiannopoulos troll as 2nd mod.
Truth be told, I haven't logged into Reddit in about six months. I added /r/subredditsimulator to my feed and ceased to be able to distinguish reality from parody. Then about a month later I realized I vastly preferred the parody to reality. Then I left.
It was a bit of a letdown. Most of the comments where exactly what you would expect to find on the news article itself but I always just figured people who comment on news articles are weird. Now I'm pretty sure the redditors are the people who comment on news articles.
I do remember a time when that sub was better, but then again you could say that about most subreddits.
Interesting. Just the other day I read a comment about how June is always the month that shit hits the fan on reddit (fatpeoplehate, etc) in which the commenter predicted a major event within a few days. I wonder if there's some sort of motive that drives such a predictable "upheaval."
Bored teenagers out of school for the summer seems like the obvious thing to point to.
Wouldn't that be Übermenschen if we wanted to go full pedant? Just sayin'.
But seriously, and not having read the context of that comment, that sounds like the cliché misinterpretation of what Nietzsche actually said. So not only are they wannabes in that sense, but they're wrong in how they're justifying it. I hope there's a German word for "wrong in premise, wrong in conclusion."
In the way reactionary uses of Nietzsche always misunderstand him, because it's still ressentiment. It's unfortunate that there wasn't a strong right in Germany at the time Nietzsche was writing, so while you can quote his objections to the left but actually have to read and understand the Geneology of Morals or infer from aphorisms against nationalism and antisemitism and The Flies in the Marketplace that his aversion to the left doesn't mean he was a friend of the right. His sister being a protofascist nutjob and promoting him as the same didn't help.
The comment I quoted didn't actually mention the Ubermensch, I was just using that as shorthand for the type that quotes Nietzsche but doesn't read him. It's not completely irrelevant though; the Ubermensch is neither master nor slave. Even if the commenter was correct in his implicit identification with the master morality, they would be incorrect in treating that as a thing to be proud of. The master morality is also a thing to be overcome.
I've really wanted to read Nietzsche and try to understand him directly. One of a thousand things on my self-improvement to do list.
But yeah, I know enough to know that the Fascists distorted his message quite a bit. Such a shame that it seems to still be working.