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Historically, I've perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like

TW: Supporting violence

The students didn’t hurt the bullets, right?

They paid to learn so....... You go learn today

Um...good?

Follow the rules of the people who own the property. If they ask you to leave then leave. Don’t interfere with people’s incomes or you’ll end up finding the fuck out

Got it. The next time I stand on a private piece of grass that I paid 200 grand for the privilege of using, I should expect to be shot at like I deserve. I'll keep that in mind.

When the owner of the property wants you to move on? Yeah. Move on. Or don’t and find out.

And I'm seriously wondering when Reddit got so bad that the hivemind supports calls for violence. Are these humans? Are they bots? Why does reddit allow this conduct?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think reddit is Usally far left ngl (if that's a word) I never really seen racism happening it just gets deleted

I remember someone on reddit saying the n slur to me I reported him and reddit deleted the account (idk?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

'Twas the added limitation of the Public Reddit API. Basically, everyone good left and everyone crappy is staying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

ever since occupy wallstreet scared the elites, reddit and other social media had a target on its back. Even 4chan. Itsbombarded by noise now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

I assume it happened around the time most of us left for other places. The fascist community there probably hasn't grown much in numbers, but as a percentage it increased because the decent people left.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

My theory is that if you were really principled, you would have got out of there a long time ago. So what you've got left are people who are ok to put up with a shitty status quo, so long as they get their fix. You know, moderates.

I don't go on reddit anymore, but if it's full of people who put up with shit, then it's only natural that the shit started rolling in.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

It's flooded with bots as well as karma farmers. You can tell by the way they write down their comments.

For better or for worse, you'll often find real people at the reddit comments when sorting by controversial. Often for the worse, but sometimes for the better.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Probably a bit before The Donald was flooding the entire feed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been using reddit since 2008 and the idea of any conservative bullshit on there would have been really surprising before 2015. Overall though the amount of generic person stupidity has increased in the past few years. Not that all sports fans are like this, but often i get the stupidest reply from someone - like, close minded, blithely cruel about whatever topic - and look at their profile and the ONLY other thing they've commented on is sports.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then you're replying to Russian bots.....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, the conclusion would be that they're replying to me. However I'm quite certain Americans like that exist as well.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Oh, I'm certain that they do exist, but also it's a known Russian tactic to spread disinformation . https://youtu.be/3X2puLun3-8?si=8mL_b72va5bLn2pL

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Its a universal tactic, look up Manufacturing Consent, it's a book but you dont need to read it to grasp how insidious the governmental news machine is instead look at the Wikipedia page

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, I get that. The whole thing is that they imitate legitimate accounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It's so wild to me that the same people who espouse the second amendment to the constitution completely ignore the first part, where freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are.

If you love the constitution so much, why aren't you supporting those who are actually exercising their rights?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

June 30th, 2023. There were always subreddits like r/thedonald that used violent right wing authoritarian cult-like political rhetoric, but after the users and mods who gave half a shit left when they banned third party apps and sided with advertisers over the people keeping it from becoming 99% bots and bootlickers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or in other words, Spez decided to speedrun enshitification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago

Well, you see in June last year, Reddit decided to make some greedy corporate changes. So in response, tons of principled leftists departed the site. What did yall expect? Same thing happened to Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Historically, I've perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives.

Yes, in international subreddits. The national ones were often right leaning (e.g. r/Canada, r/Mexico).

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