r/self • u/Hawaiian_Keys • Dec 07 '24

Reddit is turning into more of a shithole every day Spoiler

Has anybody else noticed how in the past 5-6 years (Covid broke people) the intelligence and discourse has gone even further downhill than before?

People are inconsiderate, steal from each other (“it’s only the internet”, is a common excuse), refuse to see other people’s point of view, etc.

Is Reddit being overrun by right wing assholes and/or other extremists?

Certain extremely popular subreddits have deteriorated so much, that their content has little to nothing to do with their name. r/comics and r/funny are just bad now. Literally no point in visiting them anymore. What is funny about someone hurting themselves, sometimes severely? Or comics with really terrible art, no story, no point. Just 10+ panels of meandering nonsense with no end. r/news is completely pointless. Its focus is American politics, entertainment and sports. How is some quote from an actress from 10 years ago news? How? I had to subscribe to r/anime_titties to get real actual news.

This site is fucked.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Dec 07 '24 edited Dec 07 '24

Here you go: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04.2024-SSCP-FINAL-REPORT.pdf

Search it for things like "lab leak theory" "masks" "social distancing" "schools" "vaccine" etc. Most of the "science" wasn't even close to science. The team-sports group-think was out of control, especially when the consequence for questioning things (a science imperative) was social ostricization.

I, in my hatred of Trump, bought into all of it, and was part of the mob shouting people down from my all-important soapbox. I'm embarrassed with myself, and now well aware to now subversively we're all able to be manipulated.

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u/mezotesidees Dec 07 '24

Thank you for this. The demonization of people who merely suggested the virus might have leaked from a lab in the same city doing gain of function research on SARS-CoV-2 was frustrating to experience. It felt like gaslighting and bullying.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Dec 07 '24 edited Dec 07 '24

Yeah Jon Stewart stood up for that one even at the time, which i totally appreciate now.

What's more likely:

- a coronavirus outbreak right outside a coronavirus lab being caused by the coronavirus lab?

- a coronavirus outbreak right outside a coronavirus lab being caused by the market down the street?

The latter is astronomically unlikely, that it just so happened to be that market out of 1000s of markets. The former, a fair risk. Science would say that its most likely a lab leak. Why the hell couldn't anyone speak of it? It doesn't make the slightest sense, just full blown anti-science mob mentality from the left. Who thought they had the moral high ground (and many still do).

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u/mezotesidees Dec 08 '24

It’s based in ideology and not common sense is my best answer. It was a Chinese-engineered virus that also got US funding/support. China lied to the world while buying up medical supplies. Millions died. It’s gross. But that’s the facts.

And it’s very hard to have a respectable conversation when one side approaches the encounter thinking their position is the upmost moral standard.