Prior to the conflict, I wasn't a fan of liberals. But at least they were better than conservatives because they didn't want to glass the Middle East, protested against the Iraq war, made fun of right wing bullshit on Fox News, and didn't want to gun down Muslims or Hispanics. Or so I thought.
Liberals have gone full :frothingfash: and are literally regurgitating 1930s Nazi talking points about the Slavs. As I Russian speaker, I stopped going on most subreddits now due to the obscene racism. I've seen shit ranging from "Aktually, Ruzzians are not white or European" to "Lets break Russia up and commit mass ethnic cleansing". It's not even just Russians, I've seen a massive surge in racist posts about Chinese and Indian people since the war started.
Liberals are literally swallowing the most inane nonsense from Ukraine like "Russian orcs shocked at seeing toilets for the first time". And lets not forget the "Russian brainpan too smol to launch nukes so lets nuke them ourselves" posts all over :reddit-logo:
Anyone who even remotely suggests that we shouldn't arm and send 16 year old Ukrainians to be blown up in human wave attacks is called a Kremlin agent.
Amazingly, many right-wingers like Peterson or Candace Owens have better takes on the situation than liberals do. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
My guess is that the CIA has completely infiltrated reddit. As dumb as that sounds. People have pointed out in the past that some of the heads of the reddit staff have CIA ties. The government has identified the next medium for propaganda. They had trouble for a while because only old people are watching TV news, but now they know they just need to control social media. Which is easier than it first seemed, because once they learned they just need to control a social media's moderation, they can actively censor opinion.
It is so blatantly obvious all over reddit. The anti-Russia and anti-China rhetoric is scaling directly with our governments desire to defeat these international rivals.
The average redditor sees reddit as a pure forum of thought sharing. They don't understand how easily they would be manipulated into believing something is public opinion. All it would take is a contracted team of a thousand people, or bots, to influence the views of millions of viewers by boosting posts and having moderators remove counter-perspective posts. Redditors have become zombies and haven't noticed it, because they think all of the discourse on the website is genuine. Sadly, most of it now is as self sustaining thought. It's just that they turn around and repeat what everyone else is saying because it feels good.
To take a look at what posts are "popular" and ask themselves if there is some propaganda at work is too much introspection, and they would have to ask themselves some hard questions.
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why would it sound dumb? their director of policy's previous job was for a documented CIA cutout
EDIT: then I read your third sentence lol. sorry
I say that because trying to explain it to the average person will make you sound like a typical conspiracy theorist. You would basically have to set up a social media experiment to convince many redditors that they are being rather easily duped.
Absolutely not dumb, and more people need to be aware of what the CIA and DoD are doing with social media. Reddit (and every other major social media site) is infiltrated and astroturfed by the national security establishment, and this really needs to be exposed and countered in a more organized way imo.
The generational shift will make TV irrelevant even for old people. When millennials "retire"(:data-laughing:) they'll still be on twitter. In other words the problem is inevitable sorting itself out.