It reminded me that if you browsed Reddit from Spain many of the ads were literal scams, like the typical fake photo of a celebrity or even the Spanish king recommending you to invest in a very fishy crypto platform.

Spanish users were complaining and reporting these ads for months but last time I checked these ads were still running.

The conclusion is that Reddit didn’t even check who is running the ads and with what purpose as long as they pay them, and of course they don’t give a crap if their users get scammed.

In my country, one of the most successful supermarkets is run by a fascist and he uses part of his fortune to finance our local fascist party, which is gaining strength every year by the way. Do we support fascism by buying in that supermarket? What if we suddenly started to boycott the supermarket to hell?

My point is that they earn profits by using their services and in today’s society money is power. And from where the CEO got his power? From the millions of people with the mindset of “if it benefits me I don’t care”.

Of course that’s not possible, the issue here is being aware and not caring and in some cases supporting it for convenience and selfishness.

That’s the winner (Elijah Johnson) of the contest art organized by Reddit’s former CEO Yishan Wong.

Here’s the article: https://medium.com/@yishan/solarpunk-art-contest-2025-7fa29f1bd5b9

That’s the logic of as long as it benefits ME I don’t care and I support them no matter what they do. This same logic has been applied to all the shitty things done in history like slavery, war and so forth, and the reason the world is the way it is.

Signed, thanks for sharing.

I follow the Gelug School from Tibetan Buddhism. The practice is a lot of study actually and reflection and meditation of that. We study texts of authors like Arya Nagarjuna, Lama Tsongkhapa, Shantideva and so forth… The meditation is analytical but we also practice Shamatha (single pointed concentration) as a fundamental practice. And we also study psychology and logic.

The foundation is what is called the “Three Principal Aspects of the Path”, which I think it should be the same of other Mahayana schools: Renunciation, Bodhicitta and Wisdom of Emptiness. And all the meditations and study that comes from it

And after a solid foundation of these three is built then comes the practice of Tantra, which I can’t say too much because I haven’t reached that point yet.

On a note regarding relationship advice, that’s so fucking true and I was always being downvoted there for pointing that out. I wonder how many relationships got broken because of Reddit’s advice on some of the minor and normal relationship problems that could be solved by talking it out instead of “that’s a red flag just dump them bro”.

slrpnk.net doesn’t require an email, makes it optional in case you want it for password recovery. And as far as I know it doesn’t have the restrictions you mention.

I recommend you watching this: https://youtu.be/Kc3GHWIprWU

It is an interview with a former neo-nazi who explains how he got into that, and how it works exactly as a cult. Nothing to do with Buddhism at least in a direct way but very interesting. If you can have some compassion with him, you may also have compassion with the people who are still in the cult and all their world is hate.

In the end it is all rooted in ignorance and the same to some extent can be also applied to us, our ideologies, our beliefs and so forth.

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Glad to be back home! Thank you guys for the effort to bring it back and for keeping us informed, you’re great!

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Just in case you didn’t know this, here is a program that lets you mass edit and delete all your comments on Reddit:

https://redact.dev/services/reddit

The free version only edits all your comments with random words, but for me was good enough just to delete my main account asap.

That’s actually a good idea. Well I think tankies are beyond reparation, they’ll confidently think that my grandma is being paid by the CIA or something similar… But just for having recorded her experience of how it was living under the USSR dictatorship could be worth.

Peaceful liberation, you have to be kidding.

I’d love you to talk with my still alive 90 years old Polish grandma who happened to directly experience all the bullshit when Stalin and Hitler were best friends forever and later the 50 years of post war “liberation” of Poland by the Soviets. I can ask her questions on your behalf if you want. Direct experience no propaganda books.

It’s crazy how their propaganda extended so much brain rot.