# Seen on Reddit: The time to do anything was last year. But the time to resist is now **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 27, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-on-reddit-the-time-to-do-anything-was-last-year-but-the-time-to-resist-is-now/1017574 "2025-04-27T20:23:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-on-reddit-the-time-to-do-anything-was-last-year-but-the-time-to-resist-is-now/1017574/41 "2025-04-29T22:02:13Z")
It doesn’t have a lot of productive yet substantive argument, but its threading system means the back and forth of the arguments are contained enough that you don’t have to read the flame wars if you don’t want to, as opposed to traditional message boards in which derailing a thread by two people arguing is much easier. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-on-reddit-the-time-to-do-anything-was-last-year-but-the-time-to-resist-is-now/1017574/42 "2025-04-29T22:50:44Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Maybe at the moment, but it’s unlikely to avoid promotion by Russians. They snuck into recent California and Texas secessionist movements. Yes that has happened with a couple of organizations, we’re aware of that and are carefully vetting our volunteers to make sure that doesn’t happen to us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seen-on-reddit-the-time-to-do-anything-was-last-year-but-the-time-to-resist-is-now/1017574.md?page=2)