Crysta from Fern Gully

Or Gadget from Chip 'N Dale.

My family including my parents moved from rural conservative to progressive left (probably somewhere around Social Democrat).

I’ve spent A LOT of time trying to truly reach out to conservatives, Trump supporters, from this angle. It requires a lot of time, but know two key things:

1. All you can do is plant seeds for neurons to grow. Belief structures get locked in like worn paths through a jungle, and so carving new ways requires an immense amount of time. You’ll never see the fruits of your labor yourself — both because the vast majority of people have an ego they protect at all cost, and because by the time something “clicks” and new neural paths build, you’ll be long gone.

2. Always recognize that your target audience is not the individual, themselves, necessarily, but the onlookers to the discussion. Always hold the high road. Always be courteous and let them throw the first punches. You’ll have a much easier task convincing the fence-sitters whose egos aren’t directly on the line as a direct participant in the conversation.

You can increase the probability you’ll reach these people by ending the conversation on a cordial note once you realize arguments are starting to become circular. You also know you made some decent ground if they just ghost the conversation or delete their entire comment chain without warning. You pierced their ego; they feel embarrassed. You’ve given them food for thought. Try to also frame how you got out of the echo-chamber so it’s not necessarily an attack on them, but an example of growth on yourself.

It’s a thankless task, the victories you’ll never see until we see it on a statistical level. The problem is that it’s a competition for who commands their attention the most, and you’ll never compete with Twitter, Fox News. You just have to hope they have that eureka moment, combined with perhaps a direct run-in with the fascism you warn about.

You asked a straight-forward question and got irrelevant responses you didn’t ask for based on their own priorities… As they’re browsing a Reddit community… on Lemmy. Weirdman. There are other reasons to be on Reddit, obviously, and you can simultaneously grow this community while having a foot there as well.

To answer your question: To my knowledge, Reddit uses a mixture of IP banning, Web Browser fingerprinting, and behavioral analysis (e.g., which subs you frequent, upvote, etc.). I think the IP ban only lasts so long — some things I’ve read after 100 days (except original registration IP)? After all, IPs are not often static for an individual or may be a gateway for many users. Which is why they associate an IP with a web browser fingerprint. They not only pull the cookies, but additional info independent of cookies about the browser used but other information like your computer monitor setup are utilized.

TOR browser used to work, but Reddit changed their log-in page and its CAPTCHA requirements fuck with its log-in.

VPN + Incognito alternative browser from what you traditionally use, or if you really want to get fancy, a VM instance. DO NOT use your phone that was linked to your banned account either to log on. Alternatively you may be able to request a new IP from your ISP? You basically have to come up with a scenario that gives a plausible scenario that you are a different user than the other person who was banned.

As so easily predicted, immediate deflections away from the most clear-cut logical and ethical choices anyone could possibly make. Trump thanks you for your service, you good little accelerationist, you ;)

I’m pretty sure they were attacking people over their stupidity in falsely equating Harris to Trump and the comparative damage they’d have for not just the genocide in Gaza, but also Russia’s genocide in Ukraine. Anyone who felt they were the same deserves many “🤣” for their performative BoTh SiDeS grandstanding.

I’ve already planned with my wider family that for the next 4 years we aren’t doing jack shit for holidays. No black friday (tbh we never did anyway), no cyber Monday. No gifts for Christmas.

A surprise half day at work. Outside, it’s beautiful. Bonus if it goes into your weekend.

Nobody cared about boots on the ground when MAD Theory kept the Cold War cold.

Oh no! Never had a cellphone until I was an adult. Just his family’s land-line.

I was just recently thinking that I barely know my own phone number or my wife’s but I still know my childhood best friend’s number instantly.

Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

“Joe Rogan presents both sides of the vaccine debate!”

Joe Rogan may have brought two different opinions; he did not bring on a proportional number representing the actual consensus.

Which would be like 99 vaccine scientists and infectious disease specialists for every loony.

lol gtfo bootlicking simp. You exemplify why Trump said he loves the poorly educated, bud.

Honestly? If I had it my way, there would be a DEFCON 5 Alert across every single subreddit in solidarity with the literal fucking crisis that is happening right now. This extends well beyond how much I care about some subreddit and how randomized the platter of pics are. At the end of the day, you can’t “force” generality in a sub with loose rules on submissions; hell I think they even allow people to filter them as they’re tagged as political to begin with.

Nah r/pics is pics and pics of anything are permitted there.

Naturally it represents the zeitgeist and what is on the collection of people’s minds who frequent that sub will determine the content.

Beggars can’t be choosers. If you want more specific rules, then find more niche subs. Simple as that.

Alternatively, don’t shove fascists down our throats and this wouldn’t happen.

I’ve noticed:

• r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.

• r/pics locking many political anti-maga comment threads with hardly anything there and never an explanation for transparency.

• r/conservative feels like it’s being artificially amplified.

The mosquito likely evolved to try, but the body evolves to defend just the same. Your irritation is your own body’s immune response after all.

“Federation”? Wtf is this, star trek!?

36 hours of work through the weekend. I’ll try to sneak my guitar when it’s slow and organize my To-Do list that’s a mile long.

Realistically I’ll probably just doomscroll and get into political arguments…

You do you. A lot of people here are probably bullshitting themselves; and honestly, leaving will only exacerbate the problem of media silos. They want to take over Reddit and turn it into another X when there it still has a massive Anti-Trump presence, evidently by this sub getting temp-banned.