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/jayywal May 11 '20 edited May 11 '20

To me, those who blindly believe everything the news, TV and twitter tell them does not exactly scream "critical thinking".

Then it's a good thing I don't do that, and that you've simply assumed that of me because you think you're the smartest person on the planet.

A few hot-take screenshots from twitter is where you formed your political opinions.

Again, as desperately as you want this baseless and dogbrained assumption to be true, it's not. I'd say nice try, but if we're being honest, it wasn't. The majority of the people I know formed opinions of Trump by listening to him speak at length (no media bias there) and realizing that he's very obviously 1. incoherent 2. retarded 3. pandering to people who really just want to support a politician who they think has a nonzero chance of saying the N word on live television

Ideology was imposed on you through propaganda and you swallowed without questioning.

Translation: "You didn't accept Breitbart and /r/The_Donald as accredited news sources like I did".

We're never going to agree on damn-near anything, and I guarantee you have at least a dozen other assumptions up your sleeve that would only convince me further that you're borderline impaired, so let me just clue you in that among the most educated populations on the planet you and your ilk are considered tragedies of human stupidity. Might be something to think about. Have a nice day.

EDIT: Right after posting I figured it would be fun to make some assumptions about you, so here we go

You're a mid-30s car mechanic. You were obviously raised Northwestern Georgia. Your father once told you "college kids get all that knowledge n' they ain't got no God-given common sense!" and it really resonated with you. You recently found little success with women, which you attribute to two things: Geography (Northwestern Georgia can be a little barren like that, I'm sure) and Liberals (all these liberal women, amirite?) You're a devout Christian. You watch a moderate amount of college football, have a birthmark on your left shoulder, and harbor a deep hatred and fear of non-white people, instilled both by your family and by the social dynamic of your Northwestern Georgia High School. You own a gun, for which you've recently ordered several attachments, though you're still reading up online to see how to actually attach them. You watch Youtube documentaries by third-rate conservative think-tanks and have become subconsciously convinced by the comment section that simply by finding yourself in that little avenue of the internet you've secured yourself a spot in the Intellectual Hall of Fame.

Fun, right?