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by Eisenstein 1103 days ago
> To be a mod I would have to cozy up to the current mods and play politics to become one.

Anyone can start a subbreddit. And in your subreddit, you can do all the work it takes to create a community, and then you can ban people for whatever reason you want and feel that tasty power that the mods love so much, and see how awesome it is to get cursed at, told how terrible you are and how much your community sucks, and how they are going to dox you and plant meth on you so that you lose custody of your children.

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“Yes, but you see the problem is I want to pee in YOUR pool. If I were to build my own pool then I’d have to swim YOUR pee.”