Historically, I’ve perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like

TW: Supporting violence

The students didn’t hurt the bullets, right?

They paid to learn so… You go learn today

Um…good?

And I’m seriously wondering when Reddit got so bad that the hivemind supports calls for violence. Are these humans? Are they bots? Why does reddit allow this conduct?

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    A surprising amount of people want to watch the world burn, as long as they can do it from a balcony.

    “I never thought the leopards would eat my face fire would spread to my building!”

    • stembolts@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Exactly, my theory is they are too narcissistic to realize that fire will spread to their metaphorical balcony… idk. My own theory seems dumb to me, how could they be so shortsighted?

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        My own theory seems dumb to me, how could they be so shortsighted?

        There are countless events in human history where that question could be asked. Thinking long-term about the health of the environment and the species just doesn’t seem to be within human capability.