I don't know just why they wanted to call this a confession; I certainly don't feel guilty about being a Redditor. I've always been a Redditor. My friend is, his friend was, the whole clique is a Redditing clique. I complained about SRS the first time I ever commented; I posted a copypasta the last time. But when we come to /r/The_Donald, now it seems to me we're up against a very different kind of subreddit. This sub scares me.

Now maybe I'm wrong. A friend of mine just said to me, "Listen, just because a subreddit sounds a little irresponsible during a shitpost doesn't mean it's going to act irresponsibly." You know that theory, that the mod team makes the sub. I don't buy that. You know what I think makes a subreddit - I mean, aside from complaining about fat people, free speech - are the men behind it, his moderators, the heads. And so many men with strange ideas are modding /r/The_Donald. You hear a lot about what these guys are against - they seem to be against just about everything - but what are they for?

The hardest thing for me about this whole campaign is to sort out one /r/The_Donald statement from another. An outsider will go to /r/The_Donald and he'll say, "shitposters, on such and such a day, you said, and I quote, 'We're the last bastion of free speech on reddit', end quote." And then some mod says, "Well, I wouldn't put it that way." I can't follow that. Was he serious when he did put it that way? Is he serious when he says I wouldn't put it that way? I just don't get it. A subreddit ought to mean what it says.

/r/politics, /r/politics at least is somewhat normal. They say, "Look, we've got a degree of moderation and because of that you get to read X number fewer stupid comments every day. We've got Correct The Record and because of that there is X percent more paranoia." But, but /r/The_Donald, often, I can't figure out just what The_Donald means by the things it says. I read now where it says, "Buy a rifle and ammo. This is their last chance to get it right." What is that supposed to mean? If he means that everyone wants to rise up over Donald Trump, he's wrong. I don't. When I read some of these things that /r/The_Donald says about rigged elections, I get a little worried, you know? I wish I was as sure that /r/The_Donald is as against political violence as I am that its against some of these other things. I wish I could believe that they have the imagination to be able to just shut their eyes and picture what this country would look like after electoral riots

Sometimes, I wish I'd been reddit HQ in San Francisco. I mean, I wish I'd been an admin, I really do. I would have fought, you know. I wouldn't have worried so much about free speech because if you unite behind a sub you don't believe in, it's a lie. I tell you, those people who got control of that subreddit: Who are they? I mean, when the head of the Ku Klux Klan, when all these weird groups come out in favor of this forum on my reddit — either they're not Redditors or I'm not.

I've thought about just not visiting until November, just staying off — but you can't do that, that's saying you don't care what's posted, and I do care. I think that reddit made a bad mistake in San Francisco, and I'm going to have to vote against that mistake on frontpage of /r/all

MALE NARRATOR: Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd. The stakes are too high for you to stay home.