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[–]madcow-5 24 insightful - 4 fun24 insightful - 3 fun25 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Reddit is so overtly pure propaganda, it blows my mind people still use it.

[–]AnarchySpeach 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Because it didn't happen overnight. It died so slowly that most people didn't realize it.

Woke up one day to multiple bans. Pun not intended.

First they came for them, and I did not speak out because I was not one of them... and so the poem goes. Sad fact of life. A lot of people won't realize there's a problem until it affects them.

[–]insta 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It died so slowly that most people didn't realize it.

I think you misjudge how many people just go along to get along. I swear that progressives tomorrow could introduce legislation to have the death penalty for hate crimes and the majority of people would simply nod their head and go along because "well, I don't want to be associated with the bad guys!"

[–]AnarchySpeach 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's more a consequence of collective indifference that society has been constructed to reward. 20 vote for the penalty, 10 vote against it, and 70 don't care enough to vote because they've been programmed to think it'll never happen to them.

how many people just go along to get along.

tbh I went the same route until all of my reddit accounts started to get banned for random reasons. Eventually it clicked for me that things have changed, but there wasn't some neon sign blinking on the front page of reddit to tell me the fun times were over. Someone told me about websites that showed removed reddit comments and that was when I noticed the huge amounts of normal content being removed. I agree with you on one thing, it was disturbing how many people didn't care when I sent them a link. They'd look at it, mention it to another user or mod, get scared by a mod threatening to ban them, and pretend they saw nothing. Their ability to care ended the second someone in power told them to stop looking at it.

as fucked up as it is, it definitely shows that public schools are doing what they were intended to do: create the perfect citizen lacking all concepts of critical thinking.