Because Reddit is a cesspit generally. It used to be “better” in the sense that it was always right wing but it used to be more right wing libertarian types who, genuinely I think, didn’t care much about oppressing women, forcing religion on people, people being gay, drug use, etc. They just didn’t wanna pay taxes and wanted austerity to the point of zero government- which is moronic. But a common sentiment in the early 2000s- mid 2010s. The Ron Paul types, in a nutshell.
But in recent years, maybe the last decade or so, the libertarian types either left or, more likely, saw that their fantasy no tax world view was stupid and no one else cared about it and they just fell in line with the regular republicans who had been super religious, hating women, LGBTQ, etc. since… well, forever, but especially ramped up in the 60/70s onwards.
And now the site agrees basically 100% on foreign policy and most domestic policy (R and Ds both being neolibs afterall) and the only disagreement they have is smoking weed and how many gay kids are acceptable to throw in a meat grinder. The military funding though? Always more. Cop funding? Always more (Ds will add the “*but tell them to try to be more nice!” while Rs will say “shoot more black people, but do it in a way you can deny it and I can support it.”).
It’s actually, imo, a decent mask-off representation of the US in general. Center right politics on average with a corner for basically just Nazis who don’t identify as such, a less right wing area where executing gays is still bad (but will propose nor back ANY solution to crush the right wingers- so effectively supporting them). Some center left types Bernie bros and then some actual socialists/commies. All 4 of them in the country, on reddit. And all those Bernie bros and further left are called tankies by the centrists and center rightists who call themselves the real left or progressives.
That sub has open genocide denial, denying existence of nazis in Ukraine, parroting propaganda about Russia and most od the other westoid propaganda in general.
Every country sub is cesspit like that
Because Reddit is a cesspit generally. It used to be “better” in the sense that it was always right wing but it used to be more right wing libertarian types who, genuinely I think, didn’t care much about oppressing women, forcing religion on people, people being gay, drug use, etc. They just didn’t wanna pay taxes and wanted austerity to the point of zero government- which is moronic. But a common sentiment in the early 2000s- mid 2010s. The Ron Paul types, in a nutshell.
But in recent years, maybe the last decade or so, the libertarian types either left or, more likely, saw that their fantasy no tax world view was stupid and no one else cared about it and they just fell in line with the regular republicans who had been super religious, hating women, LGBTQ, etc. since… well, forever, but especially ramped up in the 60/70s onwards.
And now the site agrees basically 100% on foreign policy and most domestic policy (R and Ds both being neolibs afterall) and the only disagreement they have is smoking weed and how many gay kids are acceptable to throw in a meat grinder. The military funding though? Always more. Cop funding? Always more (Ds will add the “*but tell them to try to be more nice!” while Rs will say “shoot more black people, but do it in a way you can deny it and I can support it.”).
It’s actually, imo, a decent mask-off representation of the US in general. Center right politics on average with a corner for basically just Nazis who don’t identify as such, a less right wing area where executing gays is still bad (but will propose nor back ANY solution to crush the right wingers- so effectively supporting them). Some center left types Bernie bros and then some actual socialists/commies. All 4 of them in the country, on reddit. And all those Bernie bros and further left are called tankies by the centrists and center rightists who call themselves the real left or progressives.
Holy fuck I hate this country. And reddit.
That sub has open genocide denial, denying existence of nazis in Ukraine, parroting propaganda about Russia and most od the other westoid propaganda in general.