Graham Platner to @daveweigel.bsky.social:
"How do you expect to win back men when you go back through somebody’s Reddit history and just pull it all out and say: ‘Oh, my God, this person has no right to ever be in politics?’"
DSCC Chair Gillibrand: “It’s up to the voters of Maine to decide.”
I rarely spend any time at all at Reddit. But his take really makes me laugh because when I used to post there regularly - if politics or the news were involved - I’d often go into people’s histories and look around. It’s something you can’t do in real life. If you overhear somebody in public who seems like a nasty piece of work - you can’t go backwards back hours or days to hear what they said and to check if you’re right. But you certainly can go backwards on social media.
And it can be so funny when you quote people back to themselves. They can get so mad when you show others that yeap, this person is a turd. See? This is what they wrote just yesterday.
Its so unfair that people judge me by my words and deeds
I rarely spend any time at all at Reddit. But his take really makes me laugh because when I used to post there regularly - if politics or the news were involved - I’d often go into people’s histories and look around. It’s something you can’t do in real life. If you overhear somebody in public who seems like a nasty piece of work - you can’t go backwards back hours or days to hear what they said and to check if you’re right. But you certainly can go backwards on social media.
And it can be so funny when you quote people back to themselves. They can get so mad when you show others that yeap, this person is a turd. See? This is what they wrote just yesterday.
The moment Reddit got rid of n-word count bot, it was over.
They recently added the ability to hide your post history and its made reddit way less fun
Oh, shit. I had no idea. I wonder if regular people (non-assholes) hide their histories too. For me half the fun was having a look in there.