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[–] 237 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Actually, it's stupider, the original meth subreddit made rules against posting images of drug use because reddit admins were breathing down their necks, some of the userbase deemed that censorship to be communist because something something 1984. Except, obviously, it was done because advertisers don't want to advertise next to drug use. So it's literally classic Americans calling the negative consequences of capitalism communism

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  • [–] 61 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    And way less. It’s still a meth community. If I head to a mushroom community, I’ll see mushroom identification and cooking. If I stroll down to the clothing store, I’ll find clothes and accessories.

    That Reddit is demanding the ability to advertise to meth addicts but only when they make their space more visually palatable, effectively gentrifying a corrosive community, is just peak capitalism.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    The cigar sub used to be one of the best communities, then Reddit banned us from trading or even mentioning it. Many users went over to places like slack. In the mean time an idiot became a mod and trashed the community that was left. So a second cigar community was created for the ability to even post pictures and discussions. Neither sub is anything like what made the community so greata few years ago.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    Lemmy will never truly be mainstream until we can have active communities this granular

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

    You can never have a meth community here.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Tell that to a meth head, watch em set up their own instance

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    We tried. The lefties here hate harm reduction and don't want to be anywhere near anyone talking about it.

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    there's a joke i'm struggling to find that ends with "the intolerant meth"

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  • [–] 48 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Jokes aside, you'll find several instances of "normal community" having a "right wing normal community" spin off, it happened in online chat channels, then in forums, now Reddit.

    The right's ideology is fundamentally unfit for harmonic co-existing with everybody else, so it's no surprise they always need to isolate themselves in a bunker.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It turns out, when you kick people out of a community for being toxic, racist, or otherwise counterproductive to maintaining a community... they go form a right wing spinoff of that community. I feel like it says a lot that when you kick people out for traits that aren't "being right wing", they form communities around that shared identity.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think if you're a little less self-congratulatory you'll realise it's often just the same process where everyone thinks the folks on lemmy.ml are a bunch of nutters and congregate to other places.

    You might be right about what happened here, but it might also be a load of people who call everything to the right of Bernie Sanders Nazism and were sick of it. Forming spin-off communities is what the fediverse is all about, so why would we criticise those guys for doing it?

    I do think the subdivision and compartmentalisation of discourse is a problem, but we sure ain't solving it here in the fediverse lol

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    They can do whatever they want. I never said they shouldn't create spin-off communities.

    I'm well within my right to point, laugh, and recognize the right is so atrocious at harmoniously dealing with differences that they keep creating their bunkers. Simple as that. Go ahead and create whatever community you want, with whatever justification you see fit.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    All the merh boards are just too political now.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    There really is a theme to meth use over the years, isn't there.

    Gonna start calling it fascidust

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    well i mean, the actual nazis used it quite a bit…

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I think that's what they were getting at

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

    Didn't the nazis not only use it, but also invent it?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    no, that was a japanese chemist

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I mean, how else are you going to try and march across the damn Soviet Union? That place was fucking ginormous.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    preferably not in the winter, with adequate clothing, and not while fighting a war on another major front….
    from what i understand, it helps a lot for a day, and then it hurts a lot if the fighting continues after that….
    great for blitzkrieg, bad for war

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Yeah and it's not even a stims thing. I've seen progressives down Adderall between shots and do coke. But the one meth user I've known was a queer republican who tried to lie her way into relationships with people.

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  • [–] 53 points 10 months ago

    No, not "too left wing", just not far right enough for them. The US left wing is the equivalent to right of center in actual developed countries, to put that in to perspective. In other words, the crazy people weren't crazy enough for the ultra crazies.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm on a forum for weed users and I'm surprised by how many right wingers are on it. Maybe I'm naive, but I would have thought most right-wingers are against drugs. I guess I tend to forget right-wingers are hypocrites.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I was wondering who was still on reddit

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    MAGA Tweakers? A lot of things are starting to make total sense. The Nazis were really into it, too.

    It's even more perfect that the Nazis called it Pervitin, making it the perfect drug of choice for PedoCons.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    lol. let's hope lemmy never becomes truly mainstream then.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Cheer up tweakers, only one more sleep till Christmas.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    meth and cocaine,heroin, the hard drugs has been the right wingers choice of drugs .

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    It is unfortunate that a great part of the internet enshittified so intensely and rapidly. Spez appears to be a bad person, it is also unfortunate that so many people refuse to migrate to better platforms. Let's not make our whole identities being mad about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    did pennsatucky make it?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I have a pet theory that amphetamines are inherently fascist. I'd be surprised if the "normal" meth sub is commie, but knowing what chuds consider communist, it's not surprising that they'd make an even more hard-line sub.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    “Amphetamines are inherently fascist”???

    What does that even mean?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    When you use them they put you in a fascist mental state.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, I had (prescribed) adderall for a few months that had me borderline tweaky at my given dosage, but I still remained decidedly not right wing/fascist.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I never thought about it but I had a friend many years back that went on a several months long crystal meth and heroin bender, fell into deep psychosis, was hospitalized, and got clean after a while. He never went back to "normal" and remained much, much more conservative, right wing, and libertarian than he was before he went on the bender. Before that he was basically a militant anarchist.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    I've never known a meth user who was also a leftist.

    People on the left tend to use classier drugs, in my experience.

    Edit: Oh, I'm sorry. Did I offend some meth heads?

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