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Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer by MollyR on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:48PM (#15032395)
It's my fear this locus of control or suppression of voices is part of the reason we have an increase in violent rhetoric.

I learned an important lesson in 2016, my worldviews are not shared in America outside of big cities. It forced me to realize that I didn't even know people disagreed so fiercely because of media conglomerate created echo bubbles.

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Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer by ausvisaissues on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:05PM (#15032496)
Don't for a moment think it is just a city/rural thing (with a bunch of conservative country bumkins).

Many people having non-leftwing ideas simply hide it. Since most workplaces have become politicised and hostile to conservative/right/slightly right of center views, people just hide it. Some people (including me) even engage in fake virtue signalling.

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Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:09PM (#15032519)
> Don't for a moment think it is just a city/rural thing (with a bunch of conservative country bumkins).

Polling (both opinion polling and actual elections) show that it is very strongly an urban-vs-other thing.

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Re:Why We Terminated Daily Stormer by ausvisaissues on Friday August 18, 2017 @08:11AM (#15045408)
I said "just" a rural urban thing. No doubt there are more leftwingers/liberals in cities. But it is not nearly as uniform as your experience would suggest.

Polling also said that Hillary would win the election, and brexit won't happen. People, including me, lie to pollsters.

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