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?
Interesting hypothesis, would you mind citing some sources for those claims? I never heard of spez being CIA or any of the other rather huge claims you make.
I agree these claims are a little crazy, but not actually that crazy. Did a little digging and
that the most redditors were in the town where Eglin Air Force base is located
- Reddit claims this themself (now deleted): https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html
- Airforce study on social media manipulation: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644
Ghislaine Maxwell
their CEO made their career in the CIA before coming over to Reddit
No fucking clue on this one
*Sorry its been forever since I looked at these notes. It isn’t the CEO its the Director of Policy, Jessica Ashooh. Thanks for the spot check
https://off-guardian.org/2019/12/09/reddit-hiring-nato-shills-to-control-narrative/