can't stop thinking about how i might still be a vaguely-socdem buzzfeed lib if my spanish teacher when i was fourteen hadn't shown us the motorcycle diaries (che guevara movie)
can't stop thinking about how i might still be a vaguely-socdem buzzfeed lib if my spanish teacher when i was fourteen hadn't shown us the motorcycle diaries (che guevara movie)
Yup. I was already left leaning when it happened, but the true, final nail in the coffin was their whole treatment of Tara Reade. IIRC I saw that first surface on some leftist sub first, went around a few other leftist places, then decided to see what politics was doing about it (I had stopped regularly going there a few months back).
Wasn't in Hot, wasn't in Top for Day or Week....
Was in Controversial. Top comment something about her writing some piece that was favorable to Russia or Putin. Truly solidified to me what sort of people many of them were.
best articles are generally always in controversial for that sub. if it's not shitting on trump or praising the dnc superstars, downvotes away!
Agreed. I do still dumpster dive in there from time to time to see how they react to reality (the kente cloth stunt Dems pulled, AOC going after party leadership, anything suggesting that this election was a significant blow to them for not winning seats, etc).
So I guess I just go there for the schadenfreude, really