On Saturday morning, a Reddit user who has posted about living in Minneapolis for years shared a video on the city’s subreddit, r/Minneapolis, with the title “Another ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts.”

The 40-second clip showed a group of federal agents tackling 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and beating him. About 20 seconds in, one of them begins shooting Pretti. At least 10 gunshots go off, from multiple agents, and a person can be heard yelling “Did they fucking kill that guy? Are you fucking kidding me dude? Not again.” (The agents who fired on Pretti have not been charged, nor has ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good on January 7. They have been moved to “other locations,” according to CBP official Greg Bovino.)

The video was upvoted more than 60,000 times, reaching the top of Reddit’s homepage.

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[–] 60 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Don't count on reddit being much better. spez explicitly protected r/TD multiple times and is very much a follower with a desire to be in the "big" techbro leagues, including Nazi affiliation.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    The former mod of r/jailbait likes a pedophile?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    That's an oft parroted line yes. Back in the day (pre-2015 for clarification) subreddit mods could add you as a mod without your consent. That's what happened.

    Not that this excuses reddit for hosting child porn to begin with.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If you're giving spez the benefit of the doubt, that's what happened.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    spez is shit enough without fabricating more shit. Being accurate is worse anyways: He was admin of jailbait. Still had admin access rights before his official return too.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Everyone knows /r/conservative is Russian operated and full of alts and/or bots at this point yeah? Not just that one sub, but it's most well known example for my point.

    spez knows this too I'm sure. So, he's complicit.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Yeah and reddit will remove links to lemmy/piefed/etc... on its platform. I dont think they should be the example some people want.

    I personally think reddit is the designated place the elite want the left leaning individuals to go to. Its much easier to track literally all up/downvotes, they ditched their old interface and now you get sponsored links, etc...etc... Theres a lot of gaslighting there. At least here, we can see the mod actions and not get "shadowbanned".

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