Out of all communities that was probably the one i missed the least. Most users there are "auth-right" and post flat out racist shit.
PCM here is bearable though.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Ye I checked as soon as it started. Pugjesus has the right approach on this.
I just want my funny colored squares. Let me have my political astrology without having to worry about Nazis! DX
Seeing PCM decline so damn fast, shortly before the Trump years (or... first Trump years. What a fucking mess), really hammered in for me just how important moderation is to maintaining a community.
Literally first post i saw. With the title "FINALLY, a western leader who know how to talk to the people of the middle east"
who know how to talk to the people of the middle east
Well fuck you too, buddy :) I'm not palestinian but i'm pretty sure not wanting to be nuked for a group's actions in your country is a pretty fucking universal feeling. God i hate these scum.
Political Cum-Piss memes
Luckily, there are still good ones that show up, but were I still a regular reddit user, I sure as shit wouldn't be subbed just to catch the 1/10 left or silly PCMs, along with the 6/10 low-quality shitposts and 3/10 right-wing shit
THESE POOR FOLK WITHER IN THAT ROTTED, SUNLESS ENVIRONMENT
Finally, a meme that doesn't amount to "i drew you as the virgin and myself as the chad"
And... no bootlicking to the auth-right? What is this mythical meme???
I'm not willing to drag myself back there to check, but I would bet even money that it's got a very low upvote ratio.
They must liberate themselves (from their right-wing community) if they are ever to taste true freedom 🧘♂️
Once in a billion years PCM W. It isn't downvoted to oblivion, strange
Amazing. Bottled lightning, right there.
Like I said, there are still left (or at least, not right) folk there in some numbers. They're just usually drowned out by the people most dedicated to claiming the community as their own.
Well then i wish you the best in pulling them out of purgatory 🫡
Ew wtf we don't want PCM users here
Are they that bad? Haven't followed that sub (or any, except my local one) for a while
The big problem, essentially, is the "All viewpoints are legitimate uwu" pushed by the moderators, and the fact that right-wingers used that to shitpost to their heart's content, driving out less pugnacious non-right wingers and resulting in an overall majority (or at least, vocal plurality) of right-wingers and the normalization of their views showing up in PCMs.
There are still legitimately left-wing posters on there. They're just the minority. And don't trust the flairs that say 'left' or 'libleft', because there are plenty of false-flag right-wing chuds.
Reddit's PCM is a bad place to go to, but as someone who enjoys PCMs themselves, especially back in The Good Ol' Days, I also know what it is to like something but hate the only community of note.
So an illustration of the nazi bar.
There may still be left-wing people there indeed. Worst case they raid us and we can document the drama on Reddit x)
Yeah, basically. r/PCM let the far-right post as long as they tread the lines of the rules, and it turns out, even 'within' the rules, Nazi shit is still repulsive to anyone with a hint of morality. Which means the only non-Nazis/non-Nazi tolerating remaining on the sub are those who don't mind fighting with Nazis mixed in with their memes. Which is a much smaller population than the Nazis and Nazi-toleraters.
As a side effect of this, the whole sub is dominated by low effort wojak memes because online fash has a terminal case of 4chan brainrot. Our own pcm comm quality is much closer to the very early pcm sub which I think will go a long way to bring the good audience here.
Thank you @[email protected] for posting there
I can't believe it's my first post on PCM.
I mean, I can believe it, since I didn't become a proper Redditor instead of a lurker until PCM had become shit
But still, it feels odd
Dude wtf why are you inviting a bunch of nazis onto lemmy? That's a terrible idea.
There are still left-leaning posters in PCM, as evidenced by the arguments and the 0-upvote PCMs that mock the right-wing. They're just in the minority.
But in any case, I don't imagine many PCM users will take up an offer to join a 'left-leaning' reddit alternative, as I described it. I'd be surprised if any joined, tbh, but raising awareness is done on many fronts.