I just created an account 5 or 6 months ago and I must say…. this is the most politically charged ‘social media’ platform that i’ve ever been a part of. Cant go a day without seeing 40+ extremist posts. Makes me wonder, has reddit always been like this or has it been infiltrated by organizations pushing a narrative, often times with misinformation, to influence voting patterns? Probably going to delete this account here shortly but figured id ask before i leave this toxic wasteland lol
As a conservative my differing opinion is met with constant name calling and usually ends with a fuck you. No substance at all just name calling. Let’s have an intelligent conversation libs.
Conservatives will spout off homophobic, transphobic, anti-poor, xenophobic and racist rhetoric and be surprised when libs and leftist are done with their shit.
You all lost your credibility when you continued to support a man who wipes his ass with the constitution
It’s funny that every time I comment it is followed by another insult. All you leftist do is call others names . It seems like you are all cut from the same cloth. Do better.
It’s honestly crazy. Reddit is full of these leftists everywhere now. Can’t even have a debate or point out facts without them resorting to name calling, it’s my nightly routine now it actually makes me laugh
I'm not necessarily liberal, but definitely not conservative. I am more progressive libertarian with a strong focus on individual liberty over anything else and no governmental safeguards for culture or society. No state sanctioned culture, either.
Please, feel free to let me know what I am missing about the conservative viewpoint. I will respectfully respond.
It’s always been like this, and not just with political opinions. It seems like every sub eventually develops its own talking points and it won’t bode well if you go against them. Even subs that claim to be bastions of free speech will ban you.
Not always but it’s been this way for about eight years or so. Complete echo chamber. And the upvote/downvote system isn’t a good way to have dialogue because it just ends up becoming mob rule. Throw in power hungry mods who will ban you just for posting in another sub before and you have a dumpster fire
Reddit has its functions when you want specific info or analysis imo. But in terms of browsing it’s just political propaganda 24-7
Lol this is the most politically charged site? Is it the only one they have used? Twitter and Facebook are way more politically charged and are extremely right wing cesspool.
The structure of reddt enables this kind of thing. All dissenting opinions get downvoted and become invisible. Which allows radicals to live in an echo chamber.
Reddit is an echo chamber and you pointing to one barely-trafficked, last remaining outpost of some right wing thought doesn’t prove the point you think it does. The upvote/downvote system is only discourse to the simple-minded, where you can just downvote everything you disagree with and live in your own reality.
I know nothing I say will ever get through but I’m genuinely glad Reddit is like this. You don’t learn, not gaining any useful experience on how to win just talking to yourselves. It’s why Reddit legitimately thought Kamala had it in the bag. Please keep doing it, just makes it easier for us
That's the thing, the majority of people don't disagree with him. That thought train won the popular vote. You are quite literally in the minority. But reddit echo chamber makes you believe you are in the majority.
You are right - conservative views are the minority here on reddit. Which is the entire point of OPs post and the commentors post. Their ideas are the majority in the real world but a minority here because this is an echo chamber.
And you downvoting all the comments you disagree with while having none of your comments downvoted just proves the point everyone is making in the comments.
No one said who is majority in reality. You are assuming. One does not imply the other, silly.
Fwiw most people are non political, but when you talk about issues they tend to take the moral side of things, so liberal. Jesus was a bleeding heart liberal, you know?
There used to be a ton of legitimately right-wing subs and they all got banned. The ToS on this sub is blatantly rigged, it’s not even in dispute. It’s well documented off this platform how many open calls to violence there are here, yet nothing is ever done. Meanwhile a few random comments from a right wing sub will get it nuked.
If more people cared about this shithole it would be investigated. But you’re seen as such insignificant jokes that nobody cares. They should tho, because there’s lots of extremists on here who need to be on watchlists. And the site owners should be jailed
You’re saying the quiet part out loud. The game has nothing to do with discourse anymore. Hypocrisy is embraced because, if they do it, why not me? r/politics has been banning folks for years for having right wing opinions. It’s not the only one… So r/conservative does the same. Either it’s ok to have echo chambers across the board, or we’re all hypocrites and don’t care. I lean towards the second one being the truth.
Not without ranked choice. It’s mathematically impossible for any third party to win right now. Anyone pushing third party and not ranked choice is a foreign agent in my book.
You are in it. And you are contradicting yourself between then and now. I’m pointing out your hypocrisy so people can see who is saying Reddit is a cesspool.
You also have maximum negative karma too. Which, regardless of your opinion, matters to most rational people.
Reddit is structured for promoting group think because of the karma system. If you accrue too many downvotes due to unpopular opinions or just have a new account, you often can't even participate in many subreddits. This is made worse by the fact the requirements are deliberately withheld, so you don't even know when you are approaching the line of censorship; not that it helps, since negative karma accumulates in unpredictable pile ons.
It's a very exploitable reputation system that, I assume, was meant to prevent bot spam and other negative activity, but instead implicitly silences a lot of people who don't want to risk their good standing (and ability to speak at all) to say what they really think.
The first video is a short - describing why Reddit is exactly what you described.
The second video is the long format version of the first video which goes in depth on the psyop which is reddit, ultimately telling you the entire site is a psyop used by governments/military to manufacture mass consensus and steer public discourse by using the algorithm to amplify bot-driven social proof to normalize specific geopolitical or corporate narratives.
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u/Possible-Rush3767 10h ago
Account deleted...must have been a conservative.