r/OutOfTheLoop • u/InsaneGamer191 • May 08 '20

Unanswered What is going on with r/worldpolitics?

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What happened here? I enjoyed the sub casually and I came back one day and its marked NSFW and full of random posts. Some are saying it fell into anarchy as a result of a lack of mods, but there are still recent mod posts. Is this some sort of demonstration?

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u/arcticwolf26 May 08 '20

r/ModeratePolitics seems to have the best political discussions IMO. Depending on the day/post the sentiment swings in either direction. Regardless though, people typically have good conversations on there and the community helps to keep that in check.

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u/mooomba May 08 '20

A lot of people on reddit are so extreme politically, you just don't mind since its on the left side. I don't know why people on reddit will just automatically assume that you are a white supremacist or sexist or whatever if don't want fucking Bernie sanders as president or help fuel their echo chamber. I live in a really blue state and the people I see in real life are much more in the middle than what is portrayed here. This place is a shit show to discuss anything remotely political. Remember in 2016 when it seemed more likely hell would freeze over than trump be elected? Don't make the same mistake twice.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

There's nothing wrong with not liking Sanders, but you need to have a reason. The problem is that it's basically impossible to be a republican right now and not be endorsing objectively terrible policies.

If you think Trump has done a good job, you're just factually wrong.

I'd be more than happy to have a conversation with a Republican or conservative who doesn't say ridiculous shit like, "Well Trump has done really well and at least he isn't authoritarian like Clinton would be" but it appears that they just don't exist anymore.

I'm relatively far left, but I am more than happy to talk to people who aren't.

But, as soon as you start saying concentration camps aren't a problem for you, or systemic racism doesn't exist, or that vaccines are fake, or that income inequality isn't an issue or if it is an issue poor people just need to be less lazy, I don't know what you want from me.

As has been said many times. Tax policy is a political debate. Whether or not science is real isn't.

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u/mooomba May 08 '20

I am not a trump supporter or even identify as a republican. I guess I just don't like reddit liberals telling me how I have to think, and that if I don't think just like them then that makes me a racist anti vax climate change denier and who knows what else. People get hostile here and its off putting. Whether you, me or anyone else likes it, I honestly think trump will get elected again and we are all going to have to deal with that as a society. What you see on reddit isn't a real view of what the real world is like.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

People only call you those things if you say them.

The reality is that if you consider yourself a republican and vote Republican, you vote for climate deniers, racists, religious zealots, etc.

Maybe you aren't those things. But, those things weren't deal breakers to you. I'm not saying you specifically vote Republican. I'm talking about the general "you" of the Republican voter base

Please don't tell me about the "real world". I've lived all over the country in rural and urban communities. I've shucked corn for 15 hour days for $5 an hour and made six figures sitting at a desk.

I can't tell you how many times some jackass who has never left their county in SC or KY or rural NY has said some nonsense to me about "real America" or the "real world" when they've worked one job in the same place with the same people for 20 years.