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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (51 children)

Did you even look at their post histories or just add the first people to volunteer?

One of them is running around this sub right now arguing for the dismantling of public education because they didn't enjoy highschool

Edit:

The top mod started pming me...

Apparently he just accepted the only people who said they wouldn't remove disinformation because that would primarily effect "the right"

Only two did and we chose them, wish we had more not trying to censor the right since some were saying “I’ll remove disinformation and etc.” Which violates one of our policy in giving the right a voice since look disinformation may be bad, but removing them is censorship and our goal is not to reform that echo chamber that was r/politics

https://i.imgur.com/0Maach1.jpg

This community is fucked.

No one is going to become a mod here unless they agree to let people spread propaganda...

[–] AToM_exe@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (48 children)

20 years old, no job, far right and emotional unstable. I think we got the perfect candidate!

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[–] oats@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

thank you for pointing this out. guess i'll be unsubscribing and looking for another politics community to join.

[–] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's worse...

The top mode just pm'ed me saying he only accepted people who said they wouldn't remove disinformation.

Because that would mean more conservative comments got removed, and apparently that's biased and not what this sub is for.

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