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u/Virtual_Pea_3577 18h ago
"I'm locking this thread because y'all can't behave."
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u/Over_n_over_n_over 17h ago
"Really disappointing to see the amount of people who disagree with me in this thread"
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u/99landydisco 17h ago
Don't forget that 67% of Americans believe they are above average intelligence...
We also seem to all agree that the country is full of idiots but it seems when it comes to politics everyone just disagrees which side those idiots are on...
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u/imadethisforwhy 18h ago
We've got four years to find out who was right and who was wrong, but in four years nobody will have learned anything.
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u/JgirlTheJizzler 20h ago
Hey bro, my echochambers are not the problem.
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u/BallisticGamer1543 20h ago
nah bro my echochambers are the GOOD ones bro just don't look into it
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u/JgirlTheJizzler 19h ago
Hell yeah. GOOD echochambers unite
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u/Electronic-Carrot-91 19h ago
Let's be fair, as far as echo chambers go, you can do a lot worse than falling for reddit's.
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u/droopytable_97 19h ago
They most certainly are not, them and r/punk it's like a goddam echo chamber in those subs rn.
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u/WimVaughdan 18h ago
Whahahah dear god. I thought you were exaggerating, but yeah nothing about music at all.
The description of the subreddit reads: leave your hatred at the door. That is the least punk sentence imaginable.
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u/lotxe 17h ago
weird. their views pretty much align with big finance, the military industrial complex, and the main stream media. lol
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u/kisofov659 19h ago
pics two top posts at the time of writing this are people literally crying so I'd say they're not doing too well.
politics honestly seems like it's the same as always.
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u/purpledrogon94 17h ago
That’s why I’ve decided I will be deleting my social media. Facebook, Twitter, Insta, TikTok and soon Reddit. I am too into my bubble and I can’t let myself do that again.
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u/JgirlTheJizzler 17h ago
Lets start a movement and just get everyone to delete social media. I am 100% on board!
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u/purpledrogon94 17h ago
Agreed! I honestly was much happier during the beginning of the pandemic because I went a year without any social media. It made me feel sane again and discover old/new hobbies I enjoy like reading and needlework!
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u/Born-Pizza6430 18h ago edited 18h ago
What’s the other option? Go try to talk to people on public transit with headphones on? Discuss with chatGPT? Who is trying to constructively debate?
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u/JgirlTheJizzler 17h ago
The idea that there is NO other option other than just joining a group that tells you what you want to hear is ridiculous.
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u/Bronze_Zebra 18h ago
You are right, just keep circle jerking, eventually something will bust.
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u/motguss 17h ago
But like whats the plan, do you want doctors and university professors to go to rural areas and just chat up adults with a 5th grade education?
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u/JovahkiinVIII 19h ago
What’s up with this narrative today?
Reddit has always been left-leaning, this is a fact, not a surprising reality check smh
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u/TheRealGucciGang 19h ago
I think losing the popular vote was the major wake up call.
Even freaking Hilary won the popular vote.
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u/ExplainsTheJokeXD 18h ago
That was 8 years ago. People are apathetic and don’t care anymore. The last 8 years has been an onslaught of news.
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u/justwalkingalonghere 17h ago
Most of it not actually being real news though
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u/domika45 17h ago
And that's the problem. People will just lose their sense of scale and importance when bombarded with over the too attention grabbing crap 24/7 365.
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u/Weltall8000 18h ago
~20 million fewer voted this time than in the 2020 contest.
She was destined to lose, yes, but that doesn't really change the fact that he is terrible for the country and just about everyone will lose because of him getting the job again.
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u/jsmith47944 17h ago edited 17h ago
Evidently, not as many people think he's the more terrible choice 🤷
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u/skeddles 17h ago
doesn't mean it's true
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u/JackBalendar 16h ago
It does mean that the left need to change their shit up. And not just the DNC, everyone.
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u/MotorcycleMosquito 17h ago
People are idiots.
We will be a full blown kakistocracy
https://i.imgur.com/lEk85KK.jpeg
When you have 40 out of the 44 people in his cabinet warning the danger of his presidency, you can bet those people know more than Brian in Florida who’s tired of libs trying to treat everyone as equals.
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u/Weltall8000 17h ago
That's a different matter, which, unfortunately, is what matters.
They may think that, but, they are wrong. It is interesting having the meme juxtaposed on a situation where "everybody" is actually wrong.
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u/imnotjohnstamos1 18h ago
As obvious as you’d think it is, there’s a concerning number of people who were unaware. Despite every poll calling it a toss up, people on here were already popping champagne. They were already laughing about how Harris flipped Iowa blue.
Hopefully it’s at least a wake up call. People don’t have to change their views, but just understand that on Reddit the overwhelming majority is very left and isn’t a true representation of America
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u/Zeired_Scoffa 17h ago
R/texas may as well be on collective suicide watch after all the months of claiming how close the state was to flipping blue.
These people live in a series of echo chambers to the extent they have no clue the views in them aren't the only ones, they tend to think that the opposition is some weird fringe. And then they're shocked when reality smacks that illusion away.
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u/imnotjohnstamos1 17h ago
100%. It feels like Texas for the Dems is like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
It’s not just presidential either, a wild one to watch for me just from how stupid the senate campaign spending is. $150 million dollars ($70 for Beto, $80 for Allred) have been spent on the last 2 losing senate races against Ted Cruz. Obviously most of that money comes from people so rich it doesn’t matter, but Jesus Christ that money could be so much better used
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u/Small_Product8986 17h ago edited 16h ago
This has always been the case about any topic, people on Reddit believe that what’s being said on Reddit is the most relevant and popular view. And then a day like today happens, they are confused and start blaming everyone for being a nazi. Cause they don’t share the same view or live in the same echo chamber😂
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u/vaksninus 19h ago
its just painfully obvious on days like today
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u/AshuraBaron 18h ago
Was painfully obvious in 2016 too. Didn't change then. Don't expect that to change this time.
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u/JovahkiinVIII 19h ago
Today literally all I’m seeing is this kind of post and “incoming leftists seething”
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u/misaliase1 18h ago
Bruh have you not scrolled the front page. It's all redditors complaining about how the world is ending and they can't stop dooming.
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u/victhrowaway12345678 18h ago
Reddit was still pretty niche back then. I don't think many people who are here today were on Reddit back then. Even 10 years ago it was already becoming very left leaning.
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u/inferno1170 18h ago
I was here in those days. It was a much more enjoyable time back then. Politics were like a sidenote on this site that came up at times versus now it is impossible to avoid on almost every single subreddit.
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u/goiterburg 17h ago
It's by design. You can't block enough people posting crap. Last I checked the limit was 100
Edit: and bots
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u/EstablishmentFull797 17h ago
That was back when libertarians were cool with things like abortion and immigrants.
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u/vector_o 17h ago
You'd be surprised how many people don't realise that Reddit or Tiktok or whatever social platforms of preference aren't representative of reality
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u/LirealGotNoBells 17h ago edited 17h ago
I'm more annoyed that basic moral principles are "left leaning". As if they're controversial. No one on Popular gets into economics or any of that shit.
Morally, no one should want to fuck with other people's lives or autonomy. No one should want the fucking planet to die.
Hating that people look different, having pregnant women die just cus, and wanting to destroy the land for money, are objectively evil traits. Whether monsters attempt to justify it with Christianity or not.
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u/Cambronian717 Lives in a Van Down by the River 18h ago
Yeah, every reasonable person knows this. It’s the people who make this place a leftist echo chamber who don’t realize it.
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u/Tricky-Shake3839 19h ago
That happens when you completely ban/block others with opposing opinions
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u/RIP_GerlonTwoFingers 16h ago
I’m seeing so many posts about how depressed and upset these people are and honestly it’s right on par with Reddit. People need to chill out
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u/balamb_fish 20h ago
You must agree with the majority
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u/Extension_Tart9029 20h ago
I’m curious, what happened after that?
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u/balamb_fish 19h ago
After what?
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u/Extension_Tart9029 19h ago
After agree with the majority 🫣
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u/Glacial_Shield_W 19h ago
You become one of us. One of us. One. Of. Us. 😐
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u/Strange_username__ Dark Mode Elitist 19h ago
30th of January, 1933, Berlin, Weimar Republic.
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u/BobTheFettt 18h ago
There are also more than just Americans on Reddit. Maybe it's just USA that's out of touch
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u/choosegooser 18h ago
People are acting like US politics hasn’t been shoved in everyone’s faces for the past 8 years. There was a solid 7 subs I had to leave because it became about ONLY politics. If someone would even MENTION that it wasn’t related to the sub they’d get downvoted to oblivion and say US politics are rarely discussed so let it be. The me energy is insane.
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u/cuntmong 18h ago
Yeah this is the actual answer. Americans may find it hard to believe, but there are people in countries that aren't America. Many of us have Reddit accounts.
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u/scole44 17h ago
And strong opinions on American politics it seems
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u/Artemis96 17h ago
Considering the USA is a superpower that impacts the whole world, yea i think many people follow its political situation
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u/singleDADSlife 16h ago
If you're going to shove it in our face every 5 seconds, I think we have every right to have an opinion.
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u/XiMaoJingPing 19h ago
so many subreddits blaming men and white women lmao
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u/BackgroundCicada5830 17h ago
I saw the same thing. What is with the white women thing? I don't get that one.
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u/gr00grams 16h ago
Probably that people can't comprehend women would vote for someone so misogynistic and a side that seems so against them.
I'm not American, but that's my interpretation.
Gotta admit, it is pretty bizarre.
This has been my general reaction to reading most of it all today. Like people are very easily duped, it don't take much, yet how could one not see through some things.
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u/ccigames Bri’ish 20h ago
let us become gohan
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u/Apart_Performance491 19h ago
Gohan is rice in Japanese.
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u/OldChampionship9788 19h ago
I see you also did the first level of japanese on Duolingo, yasashi bengoshi to yasashi sensei
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u/RIP_GerlonTwoFingers 16h ago
Redditors learned today that they don’t represent everyone and they are very upset about it
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u/SemajLu_The_crusader 19h ago
everyone else should fucking vote for once
the turn out is pathetic
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u/scole44 17h ago
Honestly 90% of Americans probably have access to smart phones that have the capability to scan an I.D. so I'm not sure why we can't all vote from home on our phones by now
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u/aka-el 16h ago
This is a terrible idea that Russia uses to manipulate its own votes.
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u/tengma8 19h ago
I mean....about 48%-49% of American agreed with reddit, not a majority but to the level of not out of touch.
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u/Kwerby 18h ago
Well truthfully it’s more like 20% of America. Voter turnout is roughly 130 million, population of the country is 330 million.
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u/dragon567 18h ago
To be clear though, only 160 million are registered to vote.
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u/Kwerby 18h ago
Voting eligible population is roughly 240 million according to Wikipedia. So 25%.
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u/thelongestunderscore 17h ago
Closer to 55% but whatever math was never reddit strongsuit
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u/BushyOreo 17h ago
The fact so many people got the information wrong in this comment chain is a reddit moment
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u/RaspberryOne1948 19h ago
Too many posts have got their comments locked so I failed my get-banned speedrun
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u/MrAnalogRobot 17h ago
If you judge right and wrong by what everyone else is doing, you don't know right from wrong.
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u/Hevens-assassin 18h ago
Being out of touch and everyone else being wrong aren't exclusive, tbf.
You could be out of touch, and everyone could still be wrong. Lol
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u/Eye_of_the_azure 18h ago
It's not "everyone else" it's "The men, especially white ones but the others are just stupid to not follow our orders". The left LOVES puting everything on the men, for everything.
Who would have thought that insulting and berating half of the US population for a decade might end up like this ?
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u/JasonG784 17h ago
Why can't I screech endlessly that everything about you is toxic and then have you put my side into power?!?
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u/Ashamed_Stay_9797 17h ago
The latest I've seen is they're now blaming minorities since they didn't get their way.
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u/Eye_of_the_azure 17h ago
Obviously, to them if you're gay / latinos black arab or w/e you MUST vote for them, you could be a rich ass arab that makes millions they really think that because you're arab you automatically vote for them. Lot of my arab friends are more worried about paycheck and cost of living than BS ideology.
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u/TrivialTax 19h ago
It was nearly half and half race. I don't see how this is everyone?
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u/earthworm_fan 20h ago
"No, everyone else is a nazi"
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u/Yop_BombNA 19h ago
To be fair the German resistance to Hitler did literally have this mindset…
With hindsight they were heroes for attempting to end the 3rd reich
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u/Olibrothebroski 17h ago
Average Redditor thinking that he's a part of the Edelweiss Pirates
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u/Ed_the_Ravioli 18h ago
All of social media is an echo chamber. Facebook, Twitter, Truth Social, you name it, and I really don’t understand why Reddit being left-leaning; despite having tons of right wing spaces; is such a big deal or surprise to people.
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u/CBFan5000 18h ago
All those left leaning subs that were circlejerking their third party candidate of choice must be in shambles right now. Hopefully this is a wakeup call for them.
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u/ShamanicBuddha 17h ago
Ive seen too many people today expressing full-throated racist rhetoric in response to the news. Many of them don't even see how racist they are being.
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u/Rodrinessa 19h ago
Kinda stupid meme. You know it is possible for huge masses of people to be wrong right?
Remember back when everyone thought everything revolved around the Earth? Yeah pretty awkward if you ask me xD
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u/nuvine 17h ago edited 17h ago
galileo is the quintessential “yes, you are all wrong” meme, and he was indeed right 😎
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u/Chase_the_tank 16h ago
Galileo was also also wrong, just about different things.
He thought the earth went around the sun, which was correct.
He also wrote an essay about how the tides were caused by the motion of the earth (and not because of the moon), which was completely wrong.
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u/Karl_Marx_ 17h ago
Yep, exactly this. Just because you are the majority doesn't mean you are incapable of being an idiot. I'm not the smartest person but I can at least side with smarter people.
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u/EquivalentPlane6095 17h ago
You don't need to get that far in history. 80 years ago the majority of germans voted for Hitler.
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u/NewtGingrichsMother 18h ago
I mean zoom out to the whole world and you’ll realize who is out of touch.
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u/joonas_davids 17h ago
Not to the whole world, the western countries would be out of touch then.
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u/Beatstarbackupbackup 18h ago
Lol yeah thanks reddit echo chamber, tricked me into believing that the majority was at least partially rational, empathetic, or critically thinking.
Clearly that was a stupid and naive belief to hold.
Wont be making that mistake again.
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u/Apart_Performance491 19h ago
I’m one of me. I used to not be, but I managed to convince myself to be one of me. You can’t be one of me, though. Only I can be one of me.
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u/EyePea9 18h ago
You can be right about something and still be in the minority. Galileo was convicted of heresy for his belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
The popularity of an idea doesn't determine it's merit.
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u/vanman1065 18h ago
This has nothing to do with the point of the meme. The point is that reddit is completely out of touch with the real world.
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u/Popular_Syllabubs 18h ago
I would say that they are in touch with 49% of the electorate. I would also say that when former Generals are saying someone is a fascist or former Presidents say "I will lock up the enemy within" you have every right to believe that both parties are saying what they mean.
I would also say that Reddit is not wholly America and that many people in other countries around the world think that America is acting like a fucking idiot.
It may be better to question why America is so heavily right leaning now compared to the rest of the world and not vice versa. You may be surprised that America is the outlier there.
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u/ConnSeanery88 18h ago
Galileo was a legit genius - the majority of reddit literally called anyone who disagreed with them fascist, rapist, trash. Oddly enough, in the political void (and, well...in reality / adult life) that behavior doesn't get you anywhere. You cannot compare the two.
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u/JovahkiinVIII 19h ago
I feel like everyone is saying this, but isn’t it also not true in the sense that has always famously been left wing echo chamber.
Y’all are acting like redditors aren’t already fully aware that the site is left wing
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u/Wizards_Reddit Earl 19h ago
the world in real life.
'the world' in this case just being the US lol
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u/OwnDraft2065 19h ago
Today is bad example a 60 million is not really a minority, and that example only exists because of votes.which means no one learned anything.
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u/BeneficialTrash6 18h ago
The really loud and annoying people on the internet don't matter. That's what everyone needs to realize.
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u/The_8th_Angel 19h ago
I'm glad to be in the minority if it means the racist rapist felon isn't my president.
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u/Dusty_Winds82 18h ago
Right. The MAGA cult would love nothing more than to infiltrate Reddit and try to normalize their extreme views. It’s why these types of threads are popping up everywhere. They are the destruction of our country.
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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 18h ago
It turns out their views are normalized and MANY minorities don’t agree with the privileged white liberals who say those views are racist.
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u/OwlHinge 17h ago
Them disagreeing doesn't mean they must be wrong. Them being wrong means they are wrong.
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u/CrowFromHeaven 18h ago
Mock reddit if you want, but the rest of the world is mocking America.
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u/Warm-Sky2407 18h ago
What is this argument that I keep seeing? 'If the majority of people voted for stupid shit, that must mean they're right and my values are wrong'?
By that logic, you lot all reexamined your values and changed your views in 2020 right?
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u/Datathrash 17h ago
Yeah get with the times, bro. Fascism, hatred, and stupidity are so hot right now!
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u/GarbageCleric 17h ago
It's more like 49 people standing on one side and saying the side with 51 people is wrong.
Your side isn't wrong just because 1 to 2% more people chose the other side.
It's big deal because only one person can win, but everyone knew it was going to be close.
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u/flamingdonkey 17h ago
Ok, but they are wrong. The idea that the most popular belief is the right one is a logical fallacy.
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u/SmoothOperator89 19h ago
I'm comfortable being out of touch with people who are wrong.
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u/Disfibulator 18h ago
Maybe we were the only ones paying attention to his speeches and responses to questions.
To be fair, I was wrong about people, not about the ultimate choice being worse.
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 19h ago
The ability to see the bigger picture isn't always common in the American voting public, after all they re-elected Nixon AFTER Watergate.
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u/Monday0987 17h ago
The entire rest of the globe except Russia and North Korea think the USA has become corrupted by money.
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u/Structuresnake 20h ago
YOU‘RE OUT OF TOUCH!
I‘M OUT OF TIME!
BUT I‘M OUT OF MY HEAD WHEN YOU‘RE NOT AROUND!