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drmeow

(5,012 posts)
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 06:23 PM Aug 2017

I LOVE these hijacks

Another delightful resistance movement involves messing with white supremacists and other bigots on Reddit, one of their favorite online gathering spots. As Ben Collins of The Daily Beast reported, a group of Redditors have started launching takeovers of forums that might attract the fascist-curious, turning them into clown shows. For instance, r/WhitePolitics is now flooded with posts discussing paint swatches. They also were able to defeat a request from former Breitbart writer and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to take over the forum r/Faggots, which is now dedicated to discussing the bundling of logs. They also conquered a misogynist “pickup artist” forum, which is now mostly threads about picking up heavy objects.

ROFLMAO - paint swatches, bundling logs, and lifting heavy objects!!!!!

https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/lets-fight-alt-right-also-lets-be-smart-about-how-we-do-it

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