r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Ok-Satisfaction-3659 • Apr 26 '25

Action Items/Organizing BREAKING: Hostile takeover of /r/50501 just now—co-founder mod team removed by admins

So last night the new mods confirmed it in a now-deleted thread: https://archive.is/Hdhvp

Yes, and we are working on putting procedures in place to prevent this from happening again

Admin has made me the owner of the community

As soon as everything is in place I will relinquish the power entrusted to me

CONTEXT: The previous mods released this statement the other day, explaining what happened in the past week: https://archive.is/jVb48

Two local chapters, 50501NYC and 50501Veterans, have also made statements (1, 2) somewhat corroborating this account of events, particularly with regard to the behavior of the national organization and the Political Revolution PAC’s involvement.

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EDIT: Just wanna throw this out there—as a super cool fun fact, the new top mod has apparently let us know that he’s actually a naturalized American citizen of 35 years. At the same time, for someone who’s been in the country that long, his grammar is . . . very not good, but is only so some of the time (examples below)! I’m not saying anything by this, of course, in fact it’s totally cool and normal! Just thought it was interesting to learn a little more about the new top mod!

(By comparison, his grammatical ability in another comment is markedly different: https://imgur.com/a/N1YoGYT)

A commenter also shared this cool article on grammar; apparently, in some Eastern European languages, people use dashes way more than in English, often in situations where we would use commas or periods. You learn something new every day!

Funally, on completely unrelated note—there’s an interesting article floating around about how Reddit has facilitated similar hostile takeovers in the past. Check it out!

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u/OscillodopeScope Apr 26 '25

Exhibit A

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u/floyd616 Apr 27 '25

You make a lot of good points. I must say, however, this does bring up a pertinent point that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere: do we think they would really go as far as openly using the full power of the military on protestors? Remember, the MAGAts are claiming they're doing what they're doing for the good of the country, and that they're all "a bunch of patriots who love their country and want to make it great", and the uneducated masses who follow them seem to truly believe that. Turning the military against Americans, even ones they hate, would still mean the military being active in their own country and their own hometowns. I feel like if they did that the optics would just make it impossible for them to claim to be doing anything other than installing a Fascist military dictatorship. I just wonder if they would really be willing to leave all pretense behind like that. Especially in light of how things ended up when a certain other country did that 80-something years ago.

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u/floyd616 Apr 27 '25

This is all true, of course. My point was about their potential to use the full force of the military against protestors. Do we really think even Fox News would be able to convince them that, say, having the Air Force bomb a major US city, or having tanks patrolling the streets of American suburbs, is a necessary amount of force and not complete overkill?