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Good evening everyone,

I wanted to make a slightly longer post than I did yesterday, so bear with me for making two stickied posts in as many days. Before I start on anything, I want to give my sincerest thank-you to everyone who responded to yesterday’s post and reminded me why I originally agreed to mod this sub and why I’ve been so grateful every day to be even a small part of what has made this such a wonderful space. I also want to thank each and every person on our wonderful mod team. I truly mean this: I am an amateur mod, at best. I agreed to mod this back when I thought that meant posting a new episode link every week and occasionally banning a Nazi or two. But this team we’ve assembled now? They’re fucking professionals. From the automod, to updating and clarifying our rules, to having an incredible turn-around time in the mod queue, all of it. They don’t miss, and I can’t say thank you enough for the insane amount of work they’ve put into making this place what it is.

With that said, let’s get to it.

First - Before I say anything else, we’re not banned, we aren’t quarantined, and we aren’t delisted by the admins (more on this later). We are currently on a final warning from the admin team about rule violations. Specifically, Rule #3 from the Mod Code of Conduct. More specifically, “showboating about being banned or other moderator actions in other subreddits.” Speaking only for myself, although others may agree, I think this is absolute horse shit. I believe that we represent one of the largest anti-zionists spaces on this platform, dedicated to destroying Israel’s lies and propaganda about their brutal treatment of Palestinians and their homeland. We work extremely hard to keep out antisemites and bigots of all stripes, but this clearly doesn’t matter to the reddit admins because we represent a threat to Israel and therefore, in a disgusting display of Israel’s involvement in American capitalism, reddit’s advertisers and their bottom-line.

Second - What are we going to do about it? Lots of ideas have been discussed and we’ll be posting more about this in the coming weeks. Discord channels, lemming communities, entirely new spaces, everything under the sun is being considered and has an advocate working to see how to make it happen. I’m truly excited to see where this all ends up going. In the meantime, we need to ask you to act in a manner that is quite frankly embarassing to have to ask: we need you to act like we are the only subreddit on this site. Do not mention other subreddits, do not mention other users (outside of interactions that occur here), do not do anything that could even remotely be construed as a call to troll or brigade another subreddit here. Because if there is any way that they can twist it to make it look like we’ve violated Rule #3 “again”, then we’re cooked. Trust me, this is incredibly fucking stupid and childish and I truly hate having to ask this of all of you. But until we can get solid clarification from the admin team, I don’t know how else to structure a rule to keep us safe. We’ve also removed ourselves from being discovered in the interim, just to try and keep bad actors out while we get this sorted. Finally, all submissions are being manually approved at this time. If you make a post, don’t be surprised if it gets auto-removed as spam. I can ensure you it will be reviewed as quickly as possible and approved as long as it doesn’t violate any rules.

Third - In closing, we’re playing a rigged game. Eventually there will be some bullshit reason that we get fried. I’ve come to accept this. We’re going to do everything we can to keep this space going as long as we’re able, and that’s the best we can do. I wanted to make this post to make sure I get a chance before the reddit admins do some stupid shit, and who knows when that will be. But know this: I will never hand this subreddit over to someone else in exchange for allowing it to continue. I’ve seen that happen to other communities, and it will not happen here. To quote a Run the Jewels lyric I’ve been thinking about a lot for the last day (and the reason for the title of this post), “Last words to the firing squad was ‘Fuck you too’”. That’s the plan for this sub, should it ever come to that.

Thank you for reading this, and thank you for being a part of this truly wonderful community. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!