I have a theory that all location-based subreddits attract reactionaries because reactionaries commonly think of their location as their identity, and most other people don't.
I was on :reddit-logo: for years before I considered joining my city, province and country subs, it literally never occurred to me.
I was on :reddit-logo: for years before I considered joining my city, province and country subs, it literally never occurred to me.
Same. Location subs also attract people gravitating towards politics in the region (so even more reactionaries, typically), or people concerned with the 'property values' or 'morals' of the region (so NIMBYs)
Particularly the suburbs. So many people call themselves "from X city" when they live in the Jackson-Davis Hills Meadows Heights gated community 7 miles out of town.
A lot of them are probably Astro turfed by whatever ghoulish organization wants to extract resources from that particular community, along with the usual pigshit stuff
There is a disconnect between people who think of their location as their identity and those who don't but I feel you are unfairly categorising one side as reactionary
I have a theory that all location-based subreddits attract reactionaries because reactionaries commonly think of their location as their identity, and most other people don’t.
god, I hope that's it. I don't want this shit to be representative of even 2% of all people.
Something like 40% of Canadians voted for either the Conservatives (fascist) or People's Party (openly fascist) in the recent federal election. It is way, way higher than 2%.
I have a theory that all location-based subreddits attract reactionaries because reactionaries commonly think of their location as their identity, and most other people don't.
I was on :reddit-logo: for years before I considered joining my city, province and country subs, it literally never occurred to me.
Same. Location subs also attract people gravitating towards politics in the region (so even more reactionaries, typically), or people concerned with the 'property values' or 'morals' of the region (so NIMBYs)
Plus I'm pretty sure most major city subreddits are also used by people who live 50+ miles away, too.
Particularly the suburbs. So many people call themselves "from X city" when they live in the Jackson-Davis Hills Meadows Heights gated community 7 miles out of town.
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A lot of them are probably Astro turfed by whatever ghoulish organization wants to extract resources from that particular community, along with the usual pigshit stuff
Wasn't one of the city subs outed as being astro trufed during the lockdown protests thing?
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There is a disconnect between people who think of their location as their identity and those who don't but I feel you are unfairly categorising one side as reactionary
I didn't categorize connecting your location to your identity as reactionary.
god, I hope that's it. I don't want this shit to be representative of even 2% of all people.
Something like 40% of Canadians voted for either the Conservatives (fascist) or People's Party (openly fascist) in the recent federal election. It is way, way higher than 2%.
yeah, good point.