magnora7's post in /r/conspiracy/: "People are so overwhelmed that no one can actually have a real conversation about what's happening"

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[–]Tarrock 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Also, M7 has lamented that a free speech website ultimately gets hijacked by right wing extremists, who are the loudest voices on it.

It's worth noticing how /pol/'s razor work. A forum left unmoderated will always turn right wing. In order for a forum to be left-wing it has to be heavily censored and moderated(Reddit) since leftist arguments are easily torn apart and debunked. Remember, Reddit used to be right of center before the huge big tech crackdown around 2015 and beyond.

[–]dicknipples 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's worth noticing how /pol/'s razor work. A forum left unmoderated will always turn right wing. In order for a forum to be left-wing it has to be heavily censored and moderated(Reddit) since leftist arguments are easily torn apart and debunked.

Absolutely not the reason for a shift to the right. There is a lot of evidence about the aggressive, highly paid propaganda movement pushing increadibly dumb followers to the right with their simplistic BS. Everyone wants the answers to be easy, black and white, but anyone with a bit of intelligence will understand the significance of thinking about our political decisions rather than going along with the disinformation propaganda. The answers are complicated and the right aggressively push for a self-centered, simplistic rational for following the propaganda, while criticizing the facts, as they're told to do by the propaganda campaigns. The 'left' do not follow each other like that. Indeed they tend to argue more about politics. It can be difficult to unify the left, but they do stand for what's important: human rights, the enviroment, reasonable wages, corporate regulations, healthcare, good education, democracy, etc, etc, which the wealty 1% on the right have been desrtoying through their disinformation campaigns. It's working. Note that we're arguing about facts. This is what the 1% want.

Remember, Reddit used to be right of center before the huge big tech crackdown around 2015 and beyond.

Absolutely false. Perhaps you were in the /r/TheDonald and similar subs in 2015/16, and seeing Cambridge Analytica disinformation at that time in social media, but I've been on Reddit 15 years and have seen similar balances views in /r/Politics and somewhat in /r/Worldnews, though the mods can be a problem for anyone in those subs. It's never been right of center. It started as a place mainly with IT professionals discussing IT-related items and the news, but did not become particularly left or right. Perhaps recently there is a left-lean. Also, many of them love guns and hate women and the average age always seems to be 10-17. In 2007 the average age was early '20s.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

There is a lot of evidence about the aggressive, highly paid propaganda movement pushing increadibly dumb followers to the right with their simplistic BS.

IFIFY:
There is a lot of evidence about the aggressive, highly paid education system and corporate media propaganda movement pushing absolutely insane followers to the ideologically Extreme Woke Left with their hypocritical cult BS.

We didn't change the Overton window. The "Left" did.

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A forum left unmoderated will always turn right wing. In order for a forum to be left-wing

Imaging thinking that "left vs right" is a thing.