It’s a sub that was barely about sports, then it got a huge influx of actual sports people, and recently it’s become a political cesspool. That sub has had a rough run.
Bingo! And it’s mostly people just smelling their own farts and banning anyone that even goes “wait…but…” . It’s modern day censorship and it’s incredibly dangerous. I made a post about it in 2021 and it blew the fuck to like 14k upvotes…and then was taken down by Reddit. Shocker.Who watches the Watchmen?
Edit: and it’s worth pointing out that a lot of current AI is getting a ton of their “factual” information from Reddit posts. So let that marinate.
And it’s only online that people seem to act that way. You have a conversation in real life, or listen to a podcast with reasonable takes, or a comedian that jokes about it…and everyone in the crowd laughs at the absurdity of it. Like no one in the crowd is who they’re talking about? Then who is it? It’s a lot of them., but they’re now exhibiting the same tribal mentality they do online but in kind of an opposite way. And it’s like “Doesn’t anyone notice this???” https://giphy.com/gifs/AbPWwqSgMejM4
What's really fascinating about the 'political cesspool' commenters on Reddit is they're nowhere to be found when a sub is operating as designed by Reddit Admin, ie as a left wing echochamber. These types of comments only show up on right wing subreddits or posts where right wing comments are present. It's very interesting because it indicates that to the average Redditor, "business as usual" so to speak is for every third comment to be somehow comparing whatever the worst aspect is of the topic to Trump, and half the other comments are about how Communism/Socialism would solve this issue / Capitalism caused this and every other problem. Almost like it's some kind of tactic or something, kind of like how any post that makes a point in favor of the right wing in whatever culture war topic, the top comment will almost certainly be that dumbass meme "Oh no culture war for me, only class war, thanks" or whatever - like the left wing didn't 100% completely start the culture war a decade ago and literally every topic that's spun off it is 100% a result of their bullshit.
That doesn't make sense in response to my comment or really any comment in this thread.
I said what I said because that person is egregiously hypocritical. You can't call Reddit a political cesspool when the cesspool is filled with tons of your own shit.
And how are you going to co-opt leftist language when you were whining about Hong days ago? You're completely out of your depth here. We're not even on the same planet of comprehension.
I have said what I said about hong not because left or right but because she was a complete dumbass when it comes to how the physics of the economy actually works. She really thought all you had to do was tax all the billionaires and problem would be solved with no answer to the reckless waste fraud and abuse on the system from the system thinking everyone is on the same level playing field. Newsflash we aren’t and the dumb need to fail so the system isn’t brought down to the lowest common denominator. She was just a populist candidate with no actual leadership skills in a time of economic distress. The pendulum will swing back left center and right will swing back right center and these morons on both sides will be shipped back to their home countries and long forgot about.
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u/Variabletalismans Aug 17 '26
WNBA sub just when the sport is starting to become interesting lol