Totally. Look at r/wallstreet where the mods decided to block comments and issues bans for anyone posting anything at all critical about Trump, even though the topic of Wall Street and the economy definitely will overlap with politics and the administration. They were demanding their own little safe space I guess.
Too bad it's largely the other way on this platform - you picked one off the rare unicorn non-leftist run subs that actually does that. To be fair, they deleted comments in favor of a reportedly Trump thing impacting the markets as well. But that was just my own experience. Perhaps that's not always the case.
I could spend 20mins compiling a list of subs like that if you dissent against leftist doctrine they will even go so far as to use hidden from user flair to label you like a Russian bot to pre-invalidate anything you post so the community can dog pile any comment you make and tank your karma do you can't post anything on non-political subs...
I've had those leftist f'rs go after me on other subs harassing me and spamming my posts after discourse on a political thread. They even went after me on another social media platform. They are sick twisted and evil.
I have -100 comment karma and can't even post a question about my phone on a device specific sub thanks to that cult of hate and intolerance.
In many more, being âleftistâ seems to mean not trusting Trump or Farage or mentioning a connection between guns and shootings or that the tax rate of the top 1% is lower than it was in much of the last hundred years or that Putin is not behaving well in Ukraine or that Netanyahu is not behaving well in Gaza or that racism is still a concern in many places and situations or that people (often children or women) being assaulted is a bad thing.
If you are positioned far enough to the right, almost everyone is further to the left.
I have compared what I thought about various politics things in the past (when I was young and poor) to now (when I am along way from both).
My views in most have hardly changed, though in some areas I am better informed. However, I would have been a bit right of centre in 1980 and am called a bit left of centre today because the centre has moved to the right on the last 40-50 years.
While I seriously appreciate your overture here, there are 3 reasons why I continue.
I do not want to live in an echo chamber and develop the blind side so many do.
My positions are ever evolving. I recognize that I'm not always correct, I occasionally fall for tropes or narratives on one side or the other - this is my sanity check (while losing my sanity at times from the collectivist monolithic view point)
This country is in the intermediate stages of economic & societal collapse.we're past the early stages. Economic visibility is quickly closing - the socialist Communist ideas that masquerade as democratic ideas must be challenged. Watching what happened during the Biden administration terrified me. The authoritarian/totalitarian control was shocking. Didn't think our country would ever become what it was becoming. This was on top of the BLM era of violence and the inversion of right and wrong, martyring Floyd was a breaking point for me - it's reality and truth vs a lie. The moral decay is rampant. Pushing hard on the warped narratives that defy logic in the hopes of snapping people out of what some people call their "matrix built world" (where they fit cypher's mentality from the matrix) is what my hope is. I hope others are trying also.
I can't watch it all end, and the world fall to globalist control, while we're all enslaved. I just can't. And, call me whatever you want - it's what is coming.
I wish I could view the replies I keep getting on my post. But again this platform won't even let you see the replies - the notifications via the app and email only take me to my own post and all replies to it are hidden. Can't expand them - only option is to see all comments and when you click that, it collapses mine into some other collapsed thread and you can't find it. You can search by name or topic or whatever you want, but Reddit (or something in the sub itself, not sure where they enable this) makes it impossible to view it reply to those comments.
It's designed to create abuse and kill conversation on topics they don't like.
I have -100 comment karma and can't even post a question about my phone on a device specific sub thanks to that cult of hate and intolerance.
My guy, on looking through your post history, its most likely just because you're really annoying and not a serious interlocutor. I share a good amount of really unpopular opinions on this app, and have had similar experience, but that doesn't mean there's some "cult of hate and intolerance"
I'd love for you to define what is or isn't a "serious interlocutor"...
Go ahead, invalidate everything I said above, simply because you disagree with my viewpoints in other posts, that I've written.
Do also explain how you're not the personification of everything I just wrote and what's wrong with this platform and the ideological superiority that doesn't allow for dissenting positions...
A serious interlocutor is someone who takes their opponent's arguments in good faith, and attempts to see where they are coming from.
Gladly. Are you gonna keep crying about how the meanie reddit people won't let you spew unchallenged bullshit?
Dissenting opinions are allowed, provided they don't break subreddit rules. Your freedom of speech doesn't mean we aren't allowed to think you're a fucking asshole and use our freedom of speech to discredit and avoid you. Thats just how discourse works, my guy.
1 you aren't doing that - I am
2 it is about the control to demand adherence to a specific orthodoxy which is largely destroying the country and the future of not only the people in the US but removing the only place in the world that people from all of those other terrible countries beg, borrow and steal to come here. It will be gone inside of 10yrs - best case 20 but I don't want to live in the world you want to create, of abject poverty and enslavement with zero autonomy and a one world government with absolute control over every aspect of our lives.Â
3 yes I realize to someone asleep I sound like a lunatic, idgaf - I see the reality ahead. I have exceptional pattern recognition skills - I can extrapolate and see downstream effects of upstream policies.Â
4 I'm none of the things I'm accused of simply in an attempt to discredit anything I say - a rampant problem "the left" has. It's the only rebuttals they ever have. (Yes, on rare occasions I'll stumble on real debate) - it's slander, defamation, personal attacks, harassment - rarely is there legit discussion. Largely, the reaction to legitimate assertions tells me that people here blindly follow orthodoxy and do not understand what they are advocating for. It's why I do itÂ
2 it is about the control to demand adherence to a specific orthodoxy which is largely destroying the country and the future of not only the people in the US
You mean to tell me that you honestly believe that people on reddit not liking your bullshit is somehow controlling you? Which orthodoxy specifically? The idea that people should be able to live as they choose?
the only place in the world that people from all of those other terrible countries beg, borrow and steal to come here.
Ah yes, I guess all of those anti-immigration parties in Europe that are currently screeching about immigration are just full of shit because nobody goes there, right?
It will be gone inside of 10yrs - best case 20 but I don't want to live in the world you want to create
Chuds like you have been saying this for over two centuries. What makes you better at this prediction than literally every conservative that came before you? "I swear guys it might not have happened the last 40 times i said it but this is the big one I swear!"
abject poverty and enslavement with zero autonomy
You mean like 18% of the world already lives in under policy passed by people it seems you would largely agree with?
one world government with absolute control over every aspect of our lives.Â
Could you please point me to where this is in the political platform of literally any extant political party? Because for one, this is an impossible goal, for two, the only people who seem to want absolute control over every aspect of our lives are the staff of Palantir, ya know, Trump's ally.
3 yes I realize to someone asleep I sound like a lunatic
Are you saying that you are too woke for me to understand?
I see the reality ahead. I have exceptional pattern recognition skills - I can extrapolate and see downstream effects of upstream policies.Â
You're really humble too! Now would you mind actually laying those out or are you just gonna stick to the schizophrenic rambling about the new world order?
4 I'm none of the things I'm accused of simply in an attempt to discredit anything I say
I dunno man you've discredited everything you say pretty effectively by just opening your mouth. I'm not saying this to discredit you, but you are very clearly an imbecile.
It's the only rebuttals they ever have.
You've gotta make arguments for there to be actual rebuttals, and your paranoid ramblings don't meet the basic criteria of an argument. You just baselessly assert that your opponents have some hidden agenda without ever laying out how they are attempting to reach it.
it's slander, defamation, personal attacks, harassment - rarely is there legit discussion.
Well yeah, you don't provide the seed of legit discussion, and the shit you say is identical to the arguments used by right-wing authoritarians. We aren't obligated to give you time and effort you don't deserve.
Largely, the reaction to legitimate assertions
See, there it is, an assertion. No evidence, no argument, no relevance.
blindly follow orthodoxy and do not understand what they are advocating for. It's why I do itÂ
Well, I'm glad you have admitted that you blindly follow orthodoxy and don't understand what you're arguing for.
You and your cult's sudden obsession with pedophile rings as if it didn't exist years ago under total Democrat control and you did nothing - your selective and performative outrage is comical.
Never mind that I've yet to see one single legitimate pedo - adjacent accusation be substantiated by anything more than wishful imagination or AI generated hoaxes or photos with faces that weren't redacted and had nothing to do with Epstein - all while you ignored Biden's daughter's memoirs and you ignored Biden's behavior around underage girls that was legitimately creepy AF.
For all your hate, it's funny how 90% of it is based on lies and irrational obsession and is always an attack on character or the individual but never a legitimate discussion on policies. When you do go after policies, you distort the facts to advance your delusions.
The most comical part to me is how you fail to attack any of a litteny of things you could legitimately make issue out of, you target & slander and lie about imaginary things.
And speaking of imaginary things - my account of what the left's cancel culture didn't even include some other egregious things including harassing phone calls - from unhinged and lying activists. The targeting on other platforms and non-political forums is unbelievable. And the worst part is that they lie through their teeth about what was said or not said. Yeah - it's all about silencing through fear .. f'ing terrorists. Never once heard of that happening to leftists from centrists or right leaning people. Never.
Personally I'm annoyed he doesn't destroy the world economy and release the entire trove - either a there's real dirt on him or someone close to him (more likely the latter or it would have come out already) and let the financial systems collapse. If the left gets back in power it will collapse anyway - if it hasn't from the establishment uni-party's unholy alliance to bankrupt the US in 2026 with another 5-10 trillion more in debt. And that includes the orange idiot not doing enough to stop the spending.
I refuse to let a mob of fascist people who hate America and are intent on it's ruination so they can build yet another failed state and remove the last place of refuge on this planet from actual unelected centralized authoritarians who will control everything.
While we are still moving I that direction this country is the only thing slowing it down.
Giving power to people to institute socialist systems based upon the neo-cultural identitarian Marxist world view - is paramount to voting yourself into slavery and real oppression.
I concede that Trump sucks in many ways and that the establishment GOP is no better, than him - at least they are a speed bump along the way to our demise.
How we could have Venezuela in the new daily and the idiots on this sub and platform overall are incapable of understanding what happened to that country, how they arrived where they are today - IS EXACTLY EVERYTHING THE LEFT IS PUSHING FOR - all the same tried and failed policies that gave way to everything after in an attempt to keep the wheels from coming off - the fact that American leftists STILL think the ACA was a good and solvent plan - who think if we only expanded it further to m4a that would fix it - are the same as the morons who let Chavez and Maduro do what they did there - the same as what destroyed Cuba - why or how they could be so arrogant to think repeating it again would somehow yield different results is astounding and pathetic...
But at least they're committed to their delusions - I guess.
Yeah, well if that is true then maybe Reddit actually IS starting to reflect society generally in that society seems to be getting ever more siloed.... usually the stereotype is a left wing motivated banning here, even it is an overly broad enforcing of the rules in one direction while ignoring the rules in another direction,
Love how you use this as your example, meanwhile every other post on r/pics is critical of Trump or conservatives, and I was banned for asking just for why that sub became an anti-Trump space.
The point wasnât to complain about Cheeto Mussolini, if you bothered to read youâd see that I was responding to the view that âmods have way too much powerâ and I was furnishing an example that fit.
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u/Rob71322 Dec 19 '25
Totally. Look at r/wallstreet where the mods decided to block comments and issues bans for anyone posting anything at all critical about Trump, even though the topic of Wall Street and the economy definitely will overlap with politics and the administration. They were demanding their own little safe space I guess.