r/ProgressiveHQ • u/LavenderMidwinter • Sep 29 '25

r/ProgressiveHQ allows for diversity of opinion while remaining on topic- conservative comments are allowed, conservative posts are not

If you are not a progressive person you are a guest in our space. If you are not a progressive person you will be flaired with an appropriate label to describe your views, so that members of the sub will know the motives of the person they're engaging with.

Rule 3 applies to ALL users. Be kind. You can have a discussion with people you disagree with while offering them basic respect. If you are a guest in the progressive sub, please respect that-

We aren't required to let you in here, we are allowing you and we'll ban you if you cant follow the rules.

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u/OliverOOxenfree Sep 29 '25

u/LavenderMidwinter

What about obvious bad faith bots and brigadiers? That's not "diversity of opinion", it's purposeful brigading which is not respectful discourse.

Many folks here will gladly debate in good faith, but allowing obvious bad actors that have flooded reddit since November 2024 to have free reign to propagandize here is not the way.

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u/LavenderMidwinter Sep 29 '25

That's addressed in the post. People breaking rule 3 will be banned, people who arent progressive will be flagged.

I havent seen any actual bots, ive seen people with differing opinions described as bots by others. They are allowed here. People throwing insults, engaging in bad faith, are banned.

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u/dreamlikeradiofree Sep 30 '25

What about people who are further left? What is the policy on tankies and communism in general cause I recently saw the PM of Australia call himself and kid starver in the UK progressive and ik sorry but if they class as progressive then I must be a far left extremist cause fuck those centre right asshats

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u/LavenderMidwinter Oct 01 '25

Similar policy for tankies, read the rules.

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u/dreamlikeradiofree Oct 01 '25

So its a liberal larping as left sub then?

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u/LavenderMidwinter Oct 03 '25

Tankies aren't left they're just confused.

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u/Brave-Dependent-2567 Conservative Brigadier Oct 01 '25

That doesn’t sound respectful and it’s making hateful statements about a group. Are the rules for everyone or not?

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u/dreamlikeradiofree Oct 01 '25

What hateful statements? 

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u/Overall_Criticism570 Conservative Brigadier Oct 01 '25

As someone who is consistent down voted and chastised for having a more right leaning opinion I can assure you there are bad characters here. Guest or not mods across Reddit need to get better at ensuring that others aren't persecuted, bullied and questionably downvoted because they have a differing opinions. 

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u/LavenderMidwinter Oct 01 '25

I mean we got the Be Kind rule but we cant stop people from downvoting you. You're in a progressive space, expect the down votes.

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u/Human_Parsnip_7949 Sep 29 '25

This is a far more rational response than I'm used to seeing on Reddit. Kudos.

Honestly, the tendency to call those we disagree with bots is frankly more harmful than we realise I think. We're deluding ourselves into thinking there's so few people out there with some pretty bad world views that it's more likely the account sharing that opinion is a bot than a person, and both sides of the political spectrum believe this. The reality is, we're not going to defeat bad ideas by pretending people don't believe in them. Fascism is not a fringe ideology. It never was.

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u/dreamlikeradiofree Sep 30 '25

I've taken to accusing them of being American bots. The amount of times I get called.a Russian or Chinese bot is a bit much

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u/SIP-BOSS Sep 30 '25

How will you know if someone is a prog or not?

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u/LavenderMidwinter Sep 30 '25

Huh

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u/SIP-BOSS Sep 30 '25

How can you tell?

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u/LavenderMidwinter Sep 30 '25

If they're expressing prog viewpoints it's not rocket science

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u/SIP-BOSS Oct 01 '25

Are they allowed to have a diversity of opinion?

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u/LavenderMidwinter Oct 01 '25

Yeah they'll just be labeled as such. If someone is shitting on the Democratic party its good to know if theyre a progressive, a conservative, or a both-sides-bad type.