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Damn_Underscore
08/07/17 11:02:38 AM
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https://clooudy.com/the-liberals-were-outraged-with-trump_v1372
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Frolex
08/07/17 11:03:06 AM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
the-liherals

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Giant_Aspirin
08/07/17 11:04:13 AM
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LIHERALS strike again
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Giant_Aspirin
08/07/17 11:04:59 AM
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also, it's incredibly humorous to me to see "Conservative" minds speak out against reddit, which is about as open and 'free market' as internet communities can get. don't like a community? pack it up, leave and make your own.
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Romulox28
08/07/17 11:05:56 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
reddit, which is about as open and 'free market' as internet communities can get

is this serious or are you being sarcastic?
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Giant_Aspirin
08/07/17 11:08:25 AM
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Romulox28 posted...
Giant_Aspirin posted...
reddit, which is about as open and 'free market' as internet communities can get

is this serious or are you being sarcastic?


serious. if you're unhappy with how a subreddit/community is being moderated, you can simply leave it and make your own community with whatever rules you want.
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Romulox28
08/07/17 11:14:05 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
Romulox28 posted...
Giant_Aspirin posted...
reddit, which is about as open and 'free market' as internet communities can get

is this serious or are you being sarcastic?


serious. if you're unhappy with how a subreddit/community is being moderated, you can simply leave it and make your own community with whatever rules you want.

reddit is notorious for silencing/removing a lot of subreddits though.

it's not even for illegal stuff, but things that make the site look bad (i.e. jailbait, alt right, fat people hate subs, etc). if you want to see what a REAL "open/free market" version of Reddit is like, check out Voat (which is a massive shithole)
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Mr Sandbag
08/07/17 11:15:26 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
also, it's incredibly humorous to me to see "Conservative" minds speak out against reddit, which is about as open and 'free market' as internet communities can get. don't like a community? pack it up, leave and make your own.


XD
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foreveraIone
08/07/17 11:16:01 AM
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The first one was dirty and illegal you sick bastard
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Giant_Aspirin
08/07/17 11:16:35 AM
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Romulox28 posted...
eddit is notorious for silencing/removing a lot of subreddits though.

it's not even for illegal stuff, but things that make the site look bad (i.e. jailbait, alt right, fat people hate subs, etc). if you want to see what a REAL "open/free market" version of Reddit is like, check out Voat (which is a massive shithole)


the whole 'jailbait' thing i understand -- people were posting a LOT of questionable content on there.

the other two i don't really know the history behind. IMHO, a community centered around making fun of fat people should be allowed to exist, even if it's a shitty thing to do.
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pinky0926
08/07/17 11:16:58 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
also, it's incredibly humorous to me to see "Conservative" minds speak out against reddit, which is about as open and 'free market' as internet communities can get. don't like a community? pack it up, leave and make your own.


Nah, reddit is not that guy. 4chan is closer, but still not that guy (anymore). The closer you get to "free market" communities the closer you get to real fucking cesspits. Reddit is becoming increasingly sanitised, because they want to make money, and hate subs are bad for business.
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Questionmarktarius
08/07/17 11:18:50 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
The closer you get to "free market" communities the closer you get to real fucking cesspits.

True freedom is occasionally seeing and hearing things you don't like, while saying and doing things someone else doesn't like
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tremain07
08/07/17 11:22:54 AM
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Asherlee10 posted...
What's the TL;DR of the link in the OP?

Liberals r teh suxxorz.
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Romulox28
08/07/17 11:23:42 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
pinky0926 posted...
The closer you get to "free market" communities the closer you get to real fucking cesspits.

True freedom is occasionally seeing and hearing things you don't like, while saying and doing things someone else doesn't like

i think it's less "viewpoints that I do not agree with" and more "sexualized photos of preteen girls for adult men to jerk off to"
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Damn_Underscore
08/07/17 11:27:42 AM
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Asherlee10 posted...
What's the TL;DR of the link in the OP?


When liberals are outraged with Trump, they complain on social media echo chambers where everyone already agrees. Their words have no effect, and the only ones who benefit are the social media companies.

This could be applied to many things tho, not just anger at Trump. Like support for Bernie Sanders during the primaries
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Giant_Aspirin
08/07/17 11:41:54 AM
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well damn i guess i learned a few things ITT
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Giant_Aspirin
08/07/17 11:42:22 AM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
Asherlee10 posted...
What's the TL;DR of the link in the OP?


When liberals are outraged with Trump, they complain on social media echo chambers where everyone already agrees. Their words have no effect, and the only ones who benefit are the social media companies.

This could be applied to many things tho, not just anger at Trump. Like support for Bernie Sanders during the primaries


are you at least self-aware enough to recognize that this problem affects your side, too? right-wingers do the exact same thing where they get trapped inside an echo chamber.
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tremain07
08/07/17 11:43:23 AM
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There's a saying that people hate conservatives but people really fucking hate Liberals. That's the society we live in, people would choose death over liberals if they had the choice.
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Questionmarktarius
08/07/17 11:44:14 AM
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Romulox28 posted...
i think it's less "viewpoints that I do not agree with" and more "sexualized photos of preteen girls for adult men to jerk off to"

If it's on par with Houses of the Holy, or even Virgin Killer, it's only "porn" when an adult man jerks off to it.
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Damn_Underscore
08/07/17 11:49:43 AM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
Damn_Underscore posted...
Asherlee10 posted...
What's the TL;DR of the link in the OP?


When liberals are outraged with Trump, they complain on social media echo chambers where everyone already agrees. Their words have no effect, and the only ones who benefit are the social media companies.

This could be applied to many things tho, not just anger at Trump. Like support for Bernie Sanders during the primaries


are you at least self-aware enough to recognize that this problem affects your side, too? right-wingers do the exact same thing where they get trapped inside an echo chamber.


Don't get mad, the video is about liberals

Also isn't it true that older people (who are mostly conservative) are the ones who vote the most and do the most real life political action?
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philsov
08/07/17 12:21:02 PM
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Asherlee10 posted...
While that may not necessarily be wrong, that doesn't encompass the whole of Reddit.


Politics aside, Reddit's default format makes the upvoted things more visible and the downvoted things not, which could potentially influence signal for a given aspect and otherwise just make a huge echochamber for any subreddit.

That's my chief complaint about Reddit, tbh. I much prefer gamefaqs (and 4chan, from an organizational standpoint) because everything is in chronological order and there's a lack of up/down votes.

Reddits main perks are the ability for users to self generate subreddits and being a centralized hub for all sorts of cross pollination.

The topic (and link) are refined clickbait, but it's mostly just harping on the fact that "angry people like to circlejerk, and it makes money"
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pinky0926
08/07/17 12:27:31 PM
#25:


Questionmarktarius posted...

True freedom is occasionally seeing and hearing things you don't like, while saying and doing things someone else doesn't like


You're not wrong, but that's a very romantic way to put it. I think the reality is more like when you have true freedom, it becomes a breeding ground for all kinds of anti-culture.

Romulox28 posted...
Questionmarktarius posted...
pinky0926 posted...
The closer you get to "free market" communities the closer you get to real fucking cesspits.

True freedom is occasionally seeing and hearing things you don't like, while saying and doing things someone else doesn't like

i think it's less "viewpoints that I do not agree with" and more "sexualized photos of preteen girls for adult men to jerk off to"


Not to mention serious discussions over how certain races should be enslaved and eradicated.
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philsov
08/07/17 12:29:17 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
I think the reality is more like when you have true freedom, it becomes a breeding ground for all kinds of anti-culture.


Especially when some of the more.... civilized... discussion is already happening elsewhere, so they self select themselves out of the arena leaving only the anti-culture in that "truly free" space.
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Questionmarktarius
08/07/17 12:35:18 PM
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philsov posted...
pinky0926 posted...
I think the reality is more like when you have true freedom, it becomes a breeding ground for all kinds of anti-culture.


Especially when some of the more.... civilized... discussion is already happening elsewhere, so they self select themselves out of the arena leaving only the anti-culture in that "truly free" space.

Freedom of association is also freedom. Stormfront could have started as a bunch of weather geeks for all we know.
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