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by nromiun 2208 days ago
Because I have seen multiple times that any political post or comment right of the far left getting banned?

And reddit isn't connected to real life and "mainstream" in any way. In fact they can give Twitter a run for their money based on how disconnected from reality they are.
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CM30 2208 days ago
Yeah, this 100%. If you went by what Reddit and Twitter thought was going to happen in recent votes and elections, you'd think that Sanders would be the Democratic nominee in 2016, that Trump was not going to be president, that Britain would vote to remain in the EU and that Jeremy Corbyn would lead the Labour Party to victory over Boris Johnson and the Conservatives.

The fact that all those predictions turned out to be wrong indicates that at least a sizeable percentage of the population is further to the right politically than the majority of Reddit or Twitter seemingly is.

You may not always get banned for having the opposite opinion on topics like those (though it definitely happens in quite a few subreddits), but the point is, the prevailing consensus on those sites is certainly a lot further left than the mainstream as shown by election resultls.

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_emacsomancer_ 2208 days ago
> Because I have seen multiple times that any political post or comment right of the far left getting banned?

Try posting anything that is mildly critical of Biden from a slightly further left position on r/politics and see how well you fare.

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nromiun 2208 days ago
My original point was that Reddit is nothing but a toxic echo chamber. So I think you are agreeing with me?
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_emacsomancer_ 2208 days ago
I think in the big political (and even many of the non-political) subreddits, there is tolerance only for a very narrow band of centrist Dem opinions, and anything outside that band to the left or the right is heavily downvoted.
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flippinburgers 2208 days ago
Is that the way that centrist democrats express themselves because the language and attitude comes across as extremely caustic. I considered myself a democrat for the vast majority of my life but now I no longer know what I am if that is the bar that is being set.
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