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u/alpha_dude_3054 Jan 26 '25
Man Pics really turned into an echo chamber since the US elections…… gave them a few months but had to mute.
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u/DawnCrusader4213 Jan 26 '25
Man Pics really turned into an echo chamber since the US elections
Yes.
The 2016 election to be exact. Reddit default subs have collectively lost their minds.
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u/Status_Peach6969 Jan 26 '25
As a moderate, reddit as a whole has become insufferable. I'm not a Trump fan but I'm not a hater either. But apparently thats not enough for these people and you get attacked constantly if you try and point out obvious lies. In all honesty its so frustrating I find myself leaning more right because I cant stand the attitude
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u/Xumayar Jan 26 '25
I hate it when subreddits that have nothing to do with politics get taken over by the PaaP (politics as a personality) hysterical hivemind.
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u/Dead_HumanCollection Jan 26 '25
That stupid leaning picture from yesterday. People pointed out the picture was obviously tilted and the line was drawn to be intentionally extremely unfavorable and then someone posted the pic edited to be level and with a new line and the lean was extremely marginal.
And then people just start screaming at the person who pointed out the lie.
Like fuck Trump, but he does enough to make himself a buffoon without you guys having to lie/fabricate things. And it makes people with legit issues be taken less seriously.
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u/Status_Peach6969 Jan 26 '25
Oh god that pic. Some people were even say trump isnt that tall. Like why are we picking this battle, hes a tall guy its obvious. Its stupid antics like this I find distasteful
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u/Vallanth627 Jan 26 '25
I'm a hater but just don't want to see any of it anymore. Why ruin my mood with toxic media garbage?
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u/Mental-Amphibian-515 Jan 26 '25
I used to think the real lunatics were some weird fringe group but being on here….. it’s like EVERYONE went off the deep end
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u/inferno1170 Jan 26 '25
This is why the pendulum swings. One side will be super popular, but they can't help themselves and keep pushing, pushing, pushing until people say "Alright, fuck this, I'm voting the other way" and then that side gets popular, and then they start pushing too far as well. There seems to be minor swings and major swings. I think we are about into a major swing, especially with reports of Gen Z being much more conservative than the last couple of gens.
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u/Krynzo Jan 26 '25
As Gen Z member, the idea of a right and left baffles me, and I will avoid falling into that kind of thing with my full power.
When both sides can't stop calling eachother names, and have to keep yelling shit like nazi and woke (whatever either of those mean anymore) you'd think more people would pack their bags, form their own opinions and conclude that both sides are out to get you anyway
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u/mrryanwells Jan 26 '25
“progressive” and “conservative” principles should be recognized as a gas pedal and a break pedal, we’re gonna need both to get anywhere and the terrain often determines which should be prioritized
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u/Kryptosis Jan 26 '25
When both sides can't stop calling eachother names, and have to keep yelling shit like nazi and woke (whatever either of those mean anymore)
This is dangerous when one side is doing literal Nazi salutes.
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u/FullTroddle Jan 26 '25
There it is lol
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u/Kryptosis Jan 27 '25
Sorry to infringe on your safe space! Lets all just laugh at the misery we enable. Do you mind if I rest my hand on your leg? You can put your on mine too.
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u/RarityNouveau Jan 26 '25
Far Right and Far Left have no self awareness. Both are loud idiots that are okay with atrocities if it’s for “their” side. Us quiet majority in the middle are stuck having to hear their BS all the time.
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u/Juror__8 Jan 26 '25
Yes, open insurrection is definitely the same as universal healthcare.
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u/Riotguarder Jan 27 '25
You say that as if a billion dollars of infrastructure wasn’t burned down in riots just months prior all by left leaning people
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u/RarityNouveau Jan 26 '25
My friend, the USA is not the only country in the world.
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u/edylelalo Jan 26 '25
They can't compute it. "Reddit is a US company" is an actual argument I've heard here before.
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u/Xumayar Jan 26 '25
I would say open insurrection is the same as rioting and taking over working class neighborhoods.
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u/Sir-Theordorethe-5th Jan 27 '25
For some reason redditors hate centrists as well
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u/Status_Peach6969 Jan 27 '25
Its so black and white with these people, either with us or against us. I honestly choose against, because fuck no am I supporting someone thats a prick to me
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u/Hrive_morco Jan 27 '25
Being in the middle is definitely the normal persons approach to politics, (At least here in Europe) Which is why Reddit's vocal minorities within their little echochamber subreddits spreading propaganda, Sowing division, and attacking anyone for "wrong think" against the hive mind is beyond extreme and hilarious as an outsider, And you guys only really have two parties haha 😂
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u/Status_Peach6969 Jan 27 '25
I'm even being attacked for my comment because I said I'm in the middle. Someone had the nerve to say that it automatically means I'm on the right. Like what? Its so frustrating, why would I support them if this is how they act
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u/Hrive_morco Jan 27 '25
I mean to us in the old world that is just fucking hilarious 😂 I am sorry your fellow countrymen online are of the two extreme variations, Whilst at the same time don't understand that people vote in politics for the issues that will personally affect them and their families.
I mean I am personally on the left, Well not "America left" as that is still very "right leaning" to us in my own country, But I have family members that vote right, And imagine if I would behave like the guys attacking you to my own family members haha 😂
They sound like football (soccer to you I guess) hooligans to me, They have stopped seeing you as a person and instead see you as a target that it is perfectly fine to attack, As if that was normal. It just proves that muting subreddits like pics is the correct one I guess.
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u/KaptainKlein Trans-formers 😎 Jan 26 '25
I don't get this attitude. I understand being annoyed that your shitposting website is nothing but political babbling, but why does that shift how you interact with actual elections? Whether they're annoying or not doesn't change the views or actions of the actual politicians.
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u/edylelalo Jan 26 '25
It does change, not only social media wise, but if you know that social media and mainstream media are straight up lying about something you lose trust in what they say and their beliefs.
It's the same thing for me when some people started calling Kamala a communist, she's not, and if I followed someone that said that, they lost me right then and there.
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u/Status_Peach6969 Jan 26 '25
Right, so your telling me you've never met an insufferable Trump voter who made you want to vote for Kamala so badly just to kick their teeth in? Well I've encountered that, but its the Kamala supporters usually being arrogant. So its very hard to be on the same side as these people. Online absolutely oozes into my view of the election
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u/KevM689 Jan 26 '25
Yep, registered Dem but voted for Trump.
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u/2796Matt Jan 26 '25
I’m genuinely curious, why?
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u/Firewolf06 𝕶𝖍𝖈𝖚𝖊𝖎𝖔𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖟𝖐𝖍𝖞𝖚𝖜𝖐𝖔𝖉𝖊𝖇𝖚𝖜𝖔𝖟 Jan 26 '25
because they believed a man who has been famous for lying for over 50 years
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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb Jan 26 '25
"I'm a moderate" the line every Republican uses to avoid being ostracized.
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u/Status_Peach6969 Jan 26 '25
See this is the thing, if I say I'm moderate and you immediately label me as republican, guess whats going to happen. Because noone is welcoming me to the democrats let me tell you. They've been insufferable lately. You guys with your smugness and elitism really pissed off the voting base, and its no surprise with people like you spouting comments like this. 7 swing states lost? Only way Trump did that well is if theres a real dislike of the democrats within moderates and independants, you ever think that?
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u/Cowmanthethird Jan 26 '25
No, some people actually just don't buy into the culture war bullshit.
I've voted Dem the last 3 elections, but I still don't believe everything they say about themselves or their opponents. Some people think that because they agree with someone on a few topics, that means they can't be a shitty person somehow, or even just disagree about other topics.
Hell, I firmly believe the reason Trump won is because his supporters can't understand that he doesn't want the same things that they do at all. They assume he does because they're on the 'same side'. Plenty of Harris supporters are in the same boat too, look at the politicians who outed themselves right after the election by throwing the LGBT community under the bus and blaming them for the loss as soon as they weren't good for votes anymore. Those people were not representing the ideals they pretended to for votes.
Right now, the Democrats are significantly less shitty, but I don't agree with ALL of their positions or methods.
In the end, I label myself moderate because I don't want to support the "one side or the other" mentality, and because I'm legally registered independent. I vote Dem right now, but I won't let myself get stuck in the mentality of never changing if the parties change platforms and focus like they have soooo many times before. That's how we've ended up with so many people voting Republican against their own interests, because that's what their daddy did and no more thought went into it that that.
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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb Jan 26 '25
What culture war? Trump pardoned 1500 people who invaded the capital building, are you even paying attention?
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u/Cowmanthethird Jan 27 '25
Did you skip the whole part where I said that I support the Democrats right now? I hate Trump, but that doesn't mean I'm going to denounce every right wing person from now until the end of time, that was the whole point of my post.
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u/Edmundo_KO Jan 26 '25
When one side is defending nazi salutes it's kind of hard to argue you are a moderate
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Jan 26 '25
It's really easy to say you're a moderate when you find the dichotomized rhetoric bullshit. A person can actually have views that don't fit exactly into one of the two boxes the media tells you there are.
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u/o_o_o_f Jan 26 '25
The vast majority of people who identify as conservative or liberal have plenty of views that don’t fit exactly into one of the two boxes. Being a moderate isn’t unique in that regard, that’s just understanding your views and how they fit into broader understandings of either party.
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u/thornolf_bjarnulf Jan 26 '25
They are downvoting every comment. I'm wondering if it's even done by bots, even this whole post i guess ?
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u/Notmydirtyalt Jan 26 '25
gifs turns up in my feed for the first time in years, every day for a solid week and it's just Mars man hailing a cab.
I've legitimately stopped caring at this point, they are not even worth making fun of.
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Trump and Elon lives rent free there.
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u/SharkMilk44 Jan 26 '25
Got banned just for commenting on a different sub.
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u/Status_Peach6969 Jan 26 '25
Theres a way to get round it, which I've done cause I also comment on a sub which is on their ban list. Got to block all their bots and then you can be on both
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u/C_umputer Jan 26 '25
Lmao that's actually pretty clever. Not worth all the effort just to comment in that dumpster fire though
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Jan 26 '25
I wonder if there's a list of these bots somewhere we we could just mass-block them?
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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb Jan 27 '25
You do realize that when this becomes a relevant problem to these subs the bots will just ban anyone who has them blocked right?
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u/Rstuds7 ☣️ Jan 26 '25
i got banned for commenting on a sub I never commented on because their bots are broken. couldn’t even appeal and honestly it’s for the better
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u/freebilly95 Jan 26 '25
I remember one morning waking up to messages from 5 different subs telling me I was banned for simply commenting on a different sub.
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u/Anubis17_76 Jan 26 '25
I disabled all notifs for reddit, its very annoying hoe often it asks for perms
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u/alexdiezg HeadBasher - Always bashin' all 'em 'eads in with a sledgehammer Jan 26 '25
Does Reddit ask for perms or does your phone? For me I've disabled most but not all notifications on Reddit but then on my phone I disabled the app notifications as a whole. Reddit has never asked me for any perms.
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u/-TheArchitect Mod senpai noticed me! Jan 26 '25
Politics in disguise
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u/Cahzaenll Jan 26 '25
That is one shitty disguise.
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u/kaikaikitan321 Jan 26 '25
Not even disguised at this point. The coping was just embarrassing post election
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u/PowerBreakerRed Jan 26 '25
You forgot /r/dankmemes
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u/patiakupipita Jan 26 '25
Yeah this whole comment section is full of pots calling the kettles black, such enlightenments.
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u/dhilzyi Jan 26 '25
election really ruined reddit, first time I experience this sudden change
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u/acathode Jan 26 '25
2016 was even worse, and a real milestone for the site.
Reddit was a whole lot more diverse both in just content in general and what opinions were "allowed", but during and just after the 2016 election the whole site became the target for people with agendas and there was a very obvious conscious effort to hijack the site - which mostly worked.
Obviously, there was a noticeably change to Reddit during this election as well - but it mostly came in the form of a volume increase and not so much the whole site drastically changing in nature.
It was very clear that a lot of people - including political activists, the supermods that control most of the big subs, and Reddit staff themselves - had decided that a repeat of TheDonald was never to be allowed to happen again.
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u/THE_FREEDOM_COBRA Jan 26 '25
I don't remember during 2016 election to have been too bad, I think because the left was sure they were gonna win, it was after that they really wanted to do everything they could to make sure it didn't happen again.
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u/acathode Jan 26 '25
Kinda. The left was quite complaisant, but TheDonald were memeing about their God Emperor and Golden God and so on all over the site.
The left side were not completely inactive, this was when the politics subs really went all out Hillary and we had stuff like ShareBlue and so on. However, overall the Trump camp were running circles around the Hillary camp and completely spamming all of Reddit.
The hype for the Democrats had on Reddit been mostly for Bernie, and when Hillary became the candidate the hype fizzled (and no amount of whining about "Bernie-bros" could change that).
However the real shit hit the fan just after the election and it became clear that Trump had won and that it looked like Trumps superior online presence had played a role in the election result. Just 1-2 days after the election result, when the initial shock had died down, Reddit was absolutely flooded. New subs were being made en masse and then had posts mass upvoted in a clearly coordinated campaign, and from then on it never really went away.
While Reddit has always leaning left/liberal, from that point the site was very much "taken over". It became more and more clear that from one side there were actual political effort coordinated outside of the site to control the narratives, and from the other side the people inside the site with actual power - ie. the Reddit admins and the powermods - decided to remove almost all pretense of being politically neutral and to not allow anything even resembling TheDonald to ever exist on the site again.
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u/randmguyonreddit Jan 26 '25
This place is no better. All I see on here is posts talking about the other sub. Can we just get back to posting funny shit please?
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u/guesswhatihate Jan 26 '25
Those subs are so detached from reality that Trump winning came as a surprise to them.
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u/healzsham Jan 26 '25
What came as a surprise was so many democrats not taking this shit seriously and staying home.
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u/erhue Jan 26 '25
but don't dare call them out on it lol. Their mental gymnastics are insane
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u/Major_Analyst Jan 26 '25
It was so funny seeing literal Texans think the Democrats would've won in a landslide, and then go "Texas is more conservative than I thought"
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u/GovSurveillancePotoo Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25
I remember when you could straight up block subreddits. Mute is bullshit, still shows them with /all
Edit. I only use reddit on my phone and only the browser. Not fucking with any reddit apps
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u/NotBlaine Jan 26 '25
You can, just got to use the old ui
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u/Xumayar Jan 26 '25
Sadly the limit is 100 subreddits, and the Hivemind has assimilated more then 100 subreddits.
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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb Jan 27 '25
Anyone who is using default app and not using old with RES is part of the problem.
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u/5redie8 Jan 26 '25
On the off chance you have an Android this isn't an issue, my Sync blocklist has grown past 50 subs at this point. Although most of it is anime subs that the gooners insist isn't porn
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u/Kaisburg Jan 26 '25
Very brave.
Now, get back to browsing social media and playing video games, you stallion.
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u/Mama_Mega Jan 26 '25
I've just started blocking everyone whose Mars Man Bad posts end up on my feed. In just a few short sessions, I got rid of a shitton of the toxic energy this site's been trying to feed me. For the most part, even what I see from this subreddit is now dank memes instead of circlejerk agendaposts.
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u/Mama_Mega Jan 26 '25
I don't know what's stupider: that this was your takeaway or that you unironically just mocked the phrase "free speech".
Either way, you're clearly among the people I should block to make this app suck less🙄
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u/Survival_R ☣️ Jan 26 '25
Me after muting the asmongold, criticaldrinker and mauler subs (reddit just would not stop recommending them)
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u/edylelalo Jan 26 '25
As if they're actively being pushed like every other sub in popular.
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u/Survival_R ☣️ Jan 26 '25
They are actively being pushed, if you show any interest in something that's a big topic in a sub it's highly likely reddit will push that sub
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u/edylelalo Jan 26 '25
Bro since when? I've never even seen a post from that sub, and I've actually seen some videos from asmon, this is just "my home page isn't 100% left politics"
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u/Survival_R ☣️ Jan 26 '25
For a while every time there was a major drama I'd have asmon and criticaldrinker's subs recommended to me
Especially while asmon had his crash out that got him temp banned
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u/JamusAdurant Jan 26 '25
Most of those have already been muted due to the daily political posts during election year…
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u/grazfest96 Jan 26 '25
I got banned from both subs because I made the grave sin of going against the echo chamber.
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u/Shughost7 Jan 26 '25
Imagine being a slave to rich dudes by always posting trump and elon on a daily basis about the exact same thing every day. I had to unfollow those subs because it was just getting annoying.
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u/tejanaqkilica Jan 26 '25
Me using a third party reddit app: Why are you muting subs? Simply don't subscribe to them.
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u/ismokealotofweed69 Jan 26 '25
To bad that shit doesn't work and reddit will push it to you anyway.
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u/LilMixelle Jan 27 '25
I was banned from Interestingasfuck for participating in a completely unrelated sub... Inner peace is attainable
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u/TheOneCalledThe Jan 26 '25
I remember when those subs were actually for their intended purpose now it’s a cesspool. people across the world don’t care about US politics and the mods just let this sub group of people get out of hand in these subs
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u/scanguy25 Jan 26 '25
I mute all the subs I'm banned from. Which is all of those mentioned. Some of them I didn't even post in.
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u/DWYNZ ☣️ Jan 26 '25
I muted wpt before Biden dropped out of the race last summer, probably the smartest thing I've done in years lol
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u/DingleTheDongle Jan 26 '25
can't we unsub from those?
edit: yeah, i just unsubbed from pics. what's with this meme?
if you don't like a subreddit just don't go?
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u/Ill-Win6427 Jan 26 '25
LOL, dank memes is a right wing circle jerk yourselves...
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u/edylelalo Jan 26 '25
right wing = not left wing like every other sub
we just can't take you guys seriously.
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u/OJoose Jan 26 '25
theres political posts and "joke" racism posts here all the time. guess its only bad when other subreddits do it
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u/ipodblocks360 Jan 27 '25
You could also just leave the Subreddits like I did since I'll know I'll forget about them if I mute them...
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u/Impossibro77 Jan 28 '25
It's gotten unbearable. These people are terminally online seething every 5 seconds.
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u/SoHigh4U ☣️ Jan 28 '25
Thx god i got permabanned there just for pointing out that israel is commiting warcrimes.
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u/Harbaron Jan 26 '25
You know those user manuals old appliances used to come with, this picture should be shown just like that when creating a profile.
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u/FourArmsFiveLegs ☣️ Jan 26 '25
Conservatives when they see their overlords get wrecked
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u/Cahzaenll Jan 26 '25
The same can be said when liberals overlords get wrecked as well.
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u/FourArmsFiveLegs ☣️ Jan 26 '25
That makes as much sense as Trump shitting his diaper when he's got a perfectly gold toilet at home
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u/SirNedKingOfGila Jan 26 '25
They were always like that. "Interesting as fuck" = a phone screen shot of a tweet from some random fuck nobody has ever heard of.
The only thing that may have changed recently is that you no longer like the politics being posted.
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u/cupboard_ Totally not a furry :3 Jan 26 '25
i started to mute those "interesting" subreddits when they became like those twitter accounts by posting not interesting clickbaity stuff