It would be fairly easy to set up a template of copypastas to highjack the top comment spot on rising posts with popular leftist ideas and maybe even edit to be more radical if it gets top spot
certain subs are good targets like r/politics, /lsc, /me_irl you get the idea
/r/publiclibrary did this. The sub is private, so I'll paste some below. Not sure how good they are since I've only read a few, but if there's interest, I'll back up the whole thing.
Response to "coproganda" posts with "cute" police dogs
This is a propaganda account. Accounts like these tend to post constantly, and especially whenever the police are in the news doing something horrific—which is pretty constant anyway.
Police are not your friends. Police dogs are not "cute".
A breakdown of why cops are bastards.
What does it mean when libertarian socialists say that all cops are bastards?
If it were an individual thing, you'd give them the benefit of the doubt, but it isn't; it's an institutional thing. the job itself is a bastard, therefore by carrying out the job, they are bastards. To take it to an extreme: there were no good members of the gestapo, because there was no way to carry out the directives of the gestapo and to be a good person. it is the same with the american police state. the job of the police is not to protect and serve, but to dominate, control, and terrorize in order to maintain the interests of state and capital.
Who are the good cops then? The ones who either quit or are fired for refusing to do the job.
cops across the nation constantly engage in violent, hateful rhetoric on facebook, illustrating the curation of a culture of violence. luckily for us, it was tracked and collated
Being a taxi driver is literally more dangerous than being a cop.
cops are more of a danger to themselves than anyone else is to them
they've admitted to stealing as much -or recently more- than burglars through "asset forfeiture," and the rate of their thefts has been climbing yearly. Keep in mind, these numbers only articulate what's been reported. It's probable that they've stolen far more than just this.
police are literally allowed to rape people on the job in 35 states, as they have the power to determine whether or not you consented to sex with them while in their custody.
up to 50% of the people police murder are disabled
the police are being trained to kill as if they're an occupying army and we're an insurgency. this is an inevitability, as the military-industrial complex needs to keep expanding into new markets.
Eugenics was still alive and well in the prison-industrial complex up until very recently, and could very well be continuing for all we know, as it was forcibly sterilizing inmates as late as 2010. I honestly don't see a reason to believe it's stopped.
the police, as an institution, are so completely steeped in violence, that up to 40% of them commit acts of domestic violence and abuse
you can't even really defend yourself from a cop, and if a cop murders you for no reason, he's almost certainly going to get away with it
Think you're safe if you just follow directions? Yeah, no. And if they don't just outright kill you, they could make their instructions so arcane and hard to follow that they'll kill you for not following them, and they'll usually get away with it. He got away with it, by the way. Surprise!
They'll prosecute you for even knowing about crimes cops have committed.
Police exist to control and terrorize us, not serve and protect us. That's only their function if you happen to be rich and powerful.
the police as they are now haven't even existed for 200 years as an institution, and the modern police force was founded to control crowds and catch slaves, not to "serve and protect" -- unless you mean serving and protecting what people call "the 1%." They have a long history of controlling the working class by intimidating, harassing, assaulting, and even murdering strikers during labor disputes. This isn't a bug; it's a feature.
The police do not serve justice. The police serve the ruling classes, whether or not they themselves are aware of it. They make our communities far more dangerous places to live, but there are alternatives to the modern police state. There is a better way.
Further Reading:
(all links are to free versions of the texts found online - many curated from this source)
white nationalists court and infiltrate a significant number of Sheriff's departments nationwide
an analysis of post-ferguson policing
why police shouldn't be tolerated at Pride
Kropotkin and a quick history of policing
Agee, Christopher L. (2014). The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Camp, Jordan and Heatherton, Christina, eds. (2016). Policing The Planet: Why the policing crisis led to Black Lives Matter. New York: Verso.
Center for Research on Criminal Justice. (1975). The Iron fist and the velvet glove: An analysis of the U.S. police. San Francisco: Center for Research on Criminal Justice.
Creative Interventions. (2012). Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence.
Guidotto, Nadia. (2011). “Looking Back: The Bathouse Raids in Toronto, 1981” in Captive Genders. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Eds. Oakland, CA: AK Press. Pg 63-76.
Herbert, Steven. (2006). Citizens, cops, and power: Recognizing the limits of community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Jay, Scott. (2014). “Who gives the orders? Oakland police, City Hall and Occupy.” Libcom.org.
Levi, Margaret. (1977). Bureaucratic insurgency: The case of police unions. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books.
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. (2013). Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense.
Mogul, Joey L., Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock. (2015). “The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex.” From Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012.
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. (2010). The condemnation of blackness: Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Murakawa, Naomi. (2014). The first civil right: How liberals built prison America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Neocleous, Mark. (2000). The fabrication of social order: A critical theory of police power. London: Pluto Press.
Rose City Copwatch. (2008). Alternatives to Police.
Wacquant, Loic. (2009). Punishing the poor: The neoliberal government of social insecurity. Durham: Duke University Press.
Williams, Kristian. (2004). Our Enemies in Blue: Police and power in America. New York: Soft Skull Press.
Williams, Kristian. (2011). “The other side of the COIN: counterinsurgency and community policing.” Interface 3(1).
Fascists deliberately forum creep and spread propaganda on Reddit.
Fascists have been targeting social media for recruiting for literally years now.
Stormfront, a Nazi community, has a mantra they use for recruiting.
They have guidelines for how to effectively spread their propaganda. This also includes a set of rules to follow, which includes calling for help.
Stormfront has a thread where they post updates of where they've spread their mantra.
Here fascists discuss raiding /r/politics, including step-by-step instructions on how to use Reddit.
Here they discuss manipulating /r/europe to incite racism.
Nazi website The Daily Stormer called Reddit "fertile ground for recruitment."
They also squat on subreddits like /r/holocaust, /r/ferguson, and /r/TrayvonMartin. Even innocuous subreddits like /r/xkcd were taken and appropriated to suit their agenda.
The alt-right are basically these people rebranded. They even give Nazi salutes in conferences.
The alt-right was busted pretending to be French to manipulate the French election.
They also use bots to get hashtags trending on Twitter.
Examples of them discussing co-opting subreddits to push their agenda:
List of reputable scientific and social organizations which affirm the validity of transgender people.
Transgender People are Valid
An incomplete list of the reputable scientific & social organizations which affirm the validity of transgender people (that transness is not an illness, that trans people are deserving of respect and equal rights, etc). This also serves as a list of the institutions which recognize the difference between sex and gender.
American Psychological Association pamphlet on transgender issues Affirms psychological consensus - that transgender people are valid, have existed throughout history, are subject to discrimination, and that transness is not a mental disorder.
A 2008 Gender Identity Resolution by the American Psychological Association which expands upon the premises listed in the annotation above and supports total equality for transgender people - affirmation of the institutional legitimacy of transness in psychology.
Identical to the above, essentially, except pertaining to trans and gender-nonconforming youth.
Booklet on LGBTQ issues from the American Psychological Association, outlining their policy and attitudes towards aforementioned communities. Expressly positive.
Human Rights Campaign document published with the American Academy of Pediatrics & the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians which affirms the validity of transgender youth, encourages appropriate care and respect for their transness and provides resources on how to do so.
The UK’s National Health Service report on gender dysphoria, which affirms the validity of trans people and discusses ways in which gender dysphoria can be alleviated, the best of which is said to often be social and physical transition.
The American Psychoanalytic Association’s statement on gender identity, in which transness is validated, social stigma against transgender people is cited as a serious cause of harm and ‘reparative therapy’ - attempts to suppress one’s transness and force them to live as the gender they were assigned at birth - is medically invalid.
The World Health Organization recently stopped classifying transness as a mental disorder.
Multilateral condemnation of ‘conversion therapy’ from essentially every medical institution in the United Kingdom, with reasons provided.
Transphobia? The United Nations says no.
Gender Transition has a Positive Effect on Trans People
ENORMOUS meta-meta-analysis on transgender people and the effect gender transition has on their mental health
Of 56 studies, 52 indicated transitioning has a positive effect on the mental health of transgender people and 4 indicated it had mixed or no results.
ZERO studies indicated gender transitioning has negative results
This pretty much ends the argument right here.
Longitudinal study on the effectiveness of puberty suppression & sex reassignment surgery on trans individuals in improving mental outcomes.
Meta-analysis of studies concerning individuals who underwent sex reassignment surgery
80% of individuals reported significant improvement in dysphoria
78% of individuals reported significant improvement in psychological symptoms
72% of individuals reported significant improvement in sexual function
Children who socially transition report levels of depression and anxiety which closely match levels reported by cisgender children, indicating social transition massively decreases the risk factor of both.
“A new study has confirmed that transgender youth often have mental health problems and that their depression and anxiety improve greatly with recognition and treatment of gender dysphoria”
Longitudinal study which indicates transgender people have a lower quality of life than the general population. However, that quality of life raises dramatically with ‘Gender Affirming Treatment’, the nature of which is detailed extensively in-text.
The beginner's guide to using the public library resources.
I see a lot of people on Reddit have this misconception that the goal of stunts like this is to convince your opponent that you're correct; this is wrong. First and foremost, your primary goal here is to sway the audience. Audience, audience, audience. Sometimes you'll be able to use the person you're arguing with as a foil to sway the audience; that should take priority over convincing the person you're debating.
It's also worth noting that what you do in the comments section can make or break your standing with your audience. If you've won, you don't want to lose them, so it's important to be mindful of what you're doing.
#How to avoid fucking yourself over
#How to deal with other Redditors
You can also incorporate some stuff from Stormfront's rules that you think would be useful to you.
Torture doesn't work.
From the conclusion of the 2015 study/book Does Torture Work?:
Shane O'Mara takes a neurological approach to the question of torture in their book Why Torture Doesn't Work:
From Ronnie Janoff-Bulman's Erroneous Assumptions: Popular Belief in the Effectiveness of Torture Interrogation:
He goes on to conclude that:
In Darius Rejali's hefty tome Torture and Democracy he examines the idea that:
The answer to this thought however is that:
He concludes that:
Torture does not work.
Police are abusive.
#Police domestic violence:
The famous 40% study: Findings are that between 24 and 40 per cent of officers have committed domestic abuse, self-admitted or partner-admitted. Data, however, dates back to the 90s, and hasn't been updated.
Fox in the Henhouse: A Study of Police Officers Arrested for Crimes Associated with Domestic and/or Family Violence (2013). Read it. It's good and nuanced. It doesn't provide definitive figures - or percentages - but rather provides empirical data on many reported cases of domestic violence. Especially relevant is the relatively low rate of separation of officers from the force:
And the fact that previous studies may not have taken into account child abuse, or abuse of non-married partners:
#Cop dog murders:
The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.
From the Sheriff National Association. Yes, they even acknowledge this shit themselves, we have this gems:
You can also refer them to Police Dog Murders, for up-to-2015, close-ups of the killed dogs.
This does not include federal agencies. ATF has had several high-profile dog killings; no stats have been put forth that I could find.
#Excessive force, brutality, deaths in custody:
First, there is no official recollection of excessive force incidents, despite it being mandated by law. This should tell you a lot.
In-depth, variously sourced, analysis of police violence. Some highlights: