When you're scrolling through social media please keep in mind that Social Media users, especially Reddit, Twitter, and Bsky are deeply strange freaks and may not be representative of the general population. There are lots of normal people in America too. Admittedly, Id on't know any of them because I haven't touched grass in years, but they exist.

  • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]
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    9 hours ago

    There are likely no more than 1 million commenters on Reddit. 5 years ago, main subs had around 500,000 unique commenters at max, with small minorities of that making up most of that group. Excuse the slate star codex sub link, but someone put it better than I: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/ (possible cw for ableism)

    Do not use social media as a litmus test as power users make most content.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    hexagon
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    12 hours ago

    Come to think of it; Pushing turbo-racist shit on Reddit is itself propaganda. There are definitely bot farms pushing at least some of these posts to convince bazinga white men they gotta get more racist.