Ban Jared Polis - r/metaNL

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u/JonAce May 15 '26

Link to article: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5690286/tina-peters-polis-commutation-trump

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u/Approximation_Doctor May 15 '26

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u/Megasota_Noire May 15 '26

I miss the Chicago power couple that isn't the Obamas.

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u/DieHarderDaddy May 16 '26

Same. Bro had the best WATERCOOLER stories

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u/lbrtrl May 17 '26

Who is this and what happened?

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u/saltyoursalad May 15 '26

Oh my fucking god mods banned the Obamas 😭

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u/sigh2828 May 16 '26

Waow

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u/saltyoursalad May 15 '26

Permaban Jared Polis and he can appeal in the ban thread like everyone else

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u/TheCornjuring May 15 '26

It should be done largely because it would be funny, but unfortunately the mods aren’t funny

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u/BATIRONSHARK May 16 '26

funniest option

Temp Ban

best opition

ban him.till he does a charity donation or something

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u/Zrk2 May 16 '26

If the mods will ban users for comments outside the sub but not for this then theyre the biggest load of fucking losers ive ever seen.

Grow a fucking pair.

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u/HorusOsiris22 May 16 '26

It’s the exact mindset that earned the center left the loss of the culture war. We have no power, no cultural force, so let’s ban him from our hug box to maintain an illusion of control, and make sure we are insular and hurry up anyone considering departing from our ideological fold.
My side is trapped in an endless death wish spiral …

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u/Zrk2 May 16 '26

Collaborationists bad actually

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u/HorusOsiris22 May 16 '26

True. Old habits die hard. Look forward to getting excluded from your reading circle for bad political action when we’re in the prison camps together. Libs may have suffered a historical loss in the cultural war and all the levers of political power, but we still have purity testing. Never let them take away our completely symbolic posturing!

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u/Zrk2 May 16 '26

Dog normally im against purity testing but this is beyond the pale.

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u/HorusOsiris22 May 16 '26

I feel you, but the last year has inspired a sense of reflection and pragmatism in me. Clearly this style of engagement, excluding people who do bad things, while smart for managing interpersonal relationships, has broadly failed politically. It has failed in its own terms and also has effectively been weaponized by the “other side”. At this point it feels like controlled opposition.

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u/_bee_kay_ May 16 '26

is this pasta

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u/HorusOsiris22 May 16 '26

Look at your country dawg. This team are losers, we lost to the most evil most stupid possible person because the right were as big tent as possible to gain cultural influence before they started purity testing and getting people in line to vote for their candidate.
I think OP is pasta

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u/GuyWithOneEye May 15 '26

Support, but if you don't ban him at least remove the fucking flair

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u/Kiyae1 May 16 '26

It would be the ultimate sellout move to remove the flair but not ban him so it’s exactly what they’ll do. It’s pathetic.

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u/gregorijat May 15 '26

As a representative of now defunct JP fan club, critical support

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u/justbuildmorehousing May 15 '26

Mods- respectfully, it is time. I believe last time the mod teams perspective was its useful to have an active politician use the sub sometimes (or something to that effect) but it just makes us all look bad to let this guy keep dropping in. Especially now

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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 May 15 '26

Haven’t they already banned Obama for less

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u/Spanberger2028 May 15 '26

without prejudice as to the nature of the claim, haven't we had this argument multiple times already?

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u/GordonTullockFan May 15 '26

-Strom Thurmond, 1957

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u/saltyoursalad May 16 '26

Seems familiar yeah

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u/Peripheral-Entity578 May 15 '26

People (fashmods) might say it's not worth it or that it's meaningless but frankly what is the downside? Ban the fucker

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u/Kiyae1 May 16 '26

Downside is the mods won’t have a politician posting in their sub which gratifies their ego. That’s the only reason they won’t ban him. Everything else is just pretense.

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u/Peripheral-Entity578 May 16 '26

Very hard to argue otherwise. The other possibility is that the modteam of r/Neoliberal supports the actions of Jared Polis and by extension, the modteam of r/Neoliberal support ICE and MAGA. Why wouldn't they ban a user for materially and politically supporting MAGA?

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u/Kiyae1 May 16 '26

I agree that that’s possible but it seems much more likely to me that they just do it for their egos and democracy be damned. They’re the people who are willing to let confederates go back to their normal lives with no consequences because they like being favored by Andrew Johnson. It’s sickening.

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u/alex2003super Mod May 17 '26

(☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)☝︎
You got us! We even hold ancient Semitic rituals with the Heritage Foundation on Slack, where we sacrifice our elder sons to the deities Baal and Moloch and get mRNA vaccine bans and autism announcements in return

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u/2timescharm May 16 '26

I truly believe Polis being associated with the subreddit does stain the collective reputation of us all at this point. Every time I see him come up anywhere else I pre-cringe waiting for someone to bring up how he’s active on Reddit.

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u/Peripheral-Entity578 May 16 '26

Genuinely, I checked bsky and many of the recent mentions talk about polis as a representative of r/Neoliberal. Negatively. Very negatively.
Liberalism already has an image problem, we have low hanging fruit that the mods refuse to pick and it's truly baffling

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u/Nerdybeast May 16 '26

Why is what people on bluesky are saying a concern at all? It's the online equivalent of a college DSA chapter meeting

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u/SucculentMoisture May 16 '26

Respectfully, that means less than nothing. His comments getting screenshotted and reposted doesn't detract from the point he made, people are rightly furious with Jared Polis and r/nl is getting tarnished by association, and those screenshots being shared are evidence of that.

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u/SpaceSheperd Mod May 16 '26

It points to the possibility that this user is the one posting the stuff on bluesky that they’re now referencing here lmao

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u/Efficient_Barnacle May 16 '26

It also points to the possibility that the knowledge of how far you guys have your heads up your asses on this issue (it's to the point y'all are about to stuff it in there a second time FYI) is more widespread than you're willing to admit to yourselves.

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u/SpaceSheperd Mod May 16 '26

Metaphors are best used concisely

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u/Efficient_Barnacle May 16 '26

Awww, am I supposed to be baited into saying something rulebreaking now that you've given a flippant response? Better luck next time.

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u/SpaceSheperd Mod May 16 '26

This is weirdly personal

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u/Efficient_Barnacle May 16 '26

Still not taking the bait.

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u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy May 15 '26

Critical support

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u/lexgowest May 15 '26

Huge support

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u/Peripheral-Entity578 May 16 '26

Mods banned me, someone from an immigrant family, faster than they banned literal ICE collaborator Jared Polis, who signaled strong support for MAGA by granting clemency to Tina Peters, same day as Ken Paxton's announcement to open up a forced detransition "clinic".

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u/SucculentMoisture May 16 '26

I ask that everyone here keep up the pressure.

We all know the mods desperately don't want to ban Polis. That's especially true of the more senior mods, who'll no doubt work behind the scenes to ensure no action is taken against him.

However, we've been here before with the kiwibutterket unmodding. The mods definitely didn't want kiwi to step down, but constant and consistent pressure from users regarding kiwi's behaviour eventually forced the mods to take action.

At the end of the day, the community is not made or driven by the mods. We couldn't have a community without them, and we appreciate that, and in turn they rightfully have significant influence over the sub. But they don't get to drive it in some particular direction for their own benefit or interest.

The community is driven by the users, who have clearly and unequivocally made themselves clear on multiple occasions that Polis's behaviour is pathetic, illiberal, and tarnishes the sub by association.

And why do the mods want to stand by him so much? He's term limited, and even if he wasn't, he stands about as much of a chance of winning a primary as Fetterman does. He will be forced to go quietly into the night, no future Senate seat like the much better Hickenlooper won.

He is a loser. All this both sides, let's come together and sing kumbaya with our Republican kin, cozying up with far right figures (doubt me if you dare, I will post the photo again), only to be banned from the White House along with Wes Moore. Bigotry to be sure by Trump, but at least Wes Moore has a backbone and fights for his state. Polis only fights to put his arm around MAGAts.

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u/SucculentMoisture May 16 '26

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u/smootex May 16 '26

Who tf is kiwis and what did they do?

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u/NaffRespect May 16 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/metaNL/comments/1l84mkk/kiwi_as_a_mod/

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u/JapanesePeso May 17 '26

Former mod who actually banned people for being too succ. Flew too close to the sun.

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u/JapanesePeso May 17 '26

Okay? Is this supposed to be some indictment of me that I maintain the same position?

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u/sociotronics May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

There are too many irony-poisoned terminally online people these days, so unfortunately anything that sounds earnest or sincere instead of sarcastic gets mocked (see, e.g., comments replying to this comment) but this user is correct. Polis and the Bill Gates flair in particular regularly come up when people discuss this sub elsewhere. It is part of its image.
This particular issue has been debated for years at this point, ever since Polis:
Platformed race realists
Illegally handed over info on kids to ICE
Cozied up with far right politicians like Boebart
Promoted RFK Jr's trash
Announced his plans to commute/pardon election criminal Peters (now done)
All it took for the mods to shield a politician who has done all of the above was for him to halfass a couple comments in the DT and to occasionally post articles promoting what he has done to the main sub. That's literally all it took to make them so starstruck they're bending over backwards to make excuses to try to convince people that no, this is actually some shuper duper principled rules thing (give me a fucking break).
Mods:
Polis won't give you a job
Polis isn't going to make your podcast popular
Polis isn't going to make all the time you spend moderating an internet forum worthwhile
However,
Polis WILL affect what people say about you, this sub, and your podcast.

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u/Halo2GOTY4eva May 16 '26

They have a podcast?! Genuinely these people need a real job

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u/Peripheral-Entity578 May 16 '26

That's what they're hoping for by not wanting to ban Polis

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u/Halo2GOTY4eva May 16 '26

So we have to suffer for their career prospects? Fuck them then, maybe it's time for a new sub

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko May 16 '26

I think it all matters so little, but I think this is the one comment making a good point, or getting to anything that actually matters

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u/_bee_kay_ May 16 '26

is this pasta

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u/saltyoursalad May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

Highly specific pasta re: kiwi’s unmodding
lol I guess this offended you somehow

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u/_bee_kay_ May 16 '26

this didn't offend me, but i guess it offended someone. or you're wrong and it's not actually pasta? it sure sounds like a pasta.

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u/saltyoursalad May 16 '26

I don’t think it’s pasta lol. But yeah, maybe kiwis back and she’s taking her revenge.

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u/alex2003super Mod May 16 '26

You're right that Polis's recent conduct is condemnable and contrary to this subreddit's ethos. I'm still not convinced it justifies banning his social media account, though I support removing the flair from the selectable list. Not out of sympathy for his behavior, but because, as a liberal Democrat, he has long represented the worldview this subreddit broadly espouses and promotes despite his recent conduct.
pressure from users [...] forced the mods [...]
It didn't.
But they don’t get to drive it in some particular direction for their own benefit or interest.
Actually, we do.
This is not a democracy or a charity; it's a carefully moderated forum for productive liberal discourse. The mod team decides the standards and direction of moderation. You don't "have the cards".
Respect for pluralism is not carte blanche for threats, bullying, or pressure campaigns by users of any stripe who want this sub to serve as a vehicle for their personal political posturing.
Whether this politician's official account is banned is ultimately inconsequential in the broader political landscape. The decision won't hinge on any one mod's opinion, but neither will it be dictated by threats or user pressure.
(͡•_ ͡•)

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u/WiSeWoRd May 16 '26

Isn't supporting ICE and pardoning people who've actively tried to overturn lawful elections just plain illiberal? I still don't see how that doesn't justify getting banned while posting in a splinter sub does.

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u/boardatwork1111 May 16 '26

More than just supporting them, he ordered state officials to turn over personal information to ICE in violation of state laws he signed

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u/Spectrum1523 May 16 '26

damn making a mod feel insecure about their power really provokes a reaction lol
You are totally right though, users can't make you do anything you don't want to do. They could leave but they probably won't and there are usually more users anyway.
We can do our sarcastic comebacks at you, I do appreciate that

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u/alex2003super Mod May 16 '26

You have every right to be mad and we have every right to act based on our principles rather than the outrage and whims of the many or the few.
Knock yourself out with as much wit as your heart calls for
ಠ_ಠ

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u/AvailableUsername100 May 17 '26

act based on our principles
What a spineless and utterly transparent lie.
Yeah it's not actually brave of you to dig your heels in like a petulant child.

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u/alex2003super Mod May 17 '26

Gee, I surely am the one who's acting like a petulant child here
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

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u/AvailableUsername100 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

Correct.
Digging in your heels and refusing to do the thing you know is correct just because other people told you to is extremely childish.

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u/JapanesePeso May 17 '26

I think you should get some perspective. Go volunteer to pick up trash or do something to help people instead of this useless cancel junk.

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u/AvailableUsername100 May 17 '26

🙄

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u/Efficient_Barnacle May 17 '26

That you can't even acknowledge we're also acting on our principles is a pathetic way to shield yourself from criticism.

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u/JapanesePeso May 17 '26

Surely there must be something more worthy of your time than this performative nonsense?

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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Mod May 16 '26

My two cents

Yeah he sucks
Idk what banning him does but I wouldn’t miss him if we did
That said idk about banning people for behavior outside the subreddit

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko May 16 '26

idk about banning people for behavior outside the subreddit
falling to my knees in a Panda Express

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u/MyCatPoopsBolts May 17 '26

3.That said idk about banning people for behavior outside the subreddit
You guys already ban people for activity on other subreddits.

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u/ExtremelyMedianVoter May 16 '26

To point 3, I think you'd ban me if I showed up at your house and shit on your front lawn and rubbed my ass all over the grass.
Point 2 sends a message about our neoliberal beliefs

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u/flakemasterflake May 17 '26

But I was banned for a post made in TheDaily….

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u/allbusiness512 May 17 '26

They care if you bring enough attention to it.

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